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Tuesday · 78 answers · 3 debuts

Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-02), then by uses across the whole archive.

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    ANTE

    36D A chip or two to start with

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    ELSE

    71A "What ___?"

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    IDEA

    33D Invention starter

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    OVER

    65A Done

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    OVAL

    59D Ellipsoid

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    OUI

    64D Non's opposite

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    EDAM

    57D Cheese with a red coat

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    EMMA

    28D Austen novel

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    SOLO

    15A Aria, typically

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    LESS

    60D Minus

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    TLC

    7D An attentive doc gives it to a patient

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    OTTER

    69A Web-footed mammal

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    TRAP

    34A Big mouth, slangily

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    AGENT

    12D 15-percenter

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    REED

    45A Oboe or clarinet

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    LAST

    68A In the cellar

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    AUDI

    67A Auto on the autobahn

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    EYED

    31D Gave the once-over

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    BALE

    1D Unit of cotton

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    REUP

    35D Sign on for another tour

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    MAHI

    43A When doubled, a food fish

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    OMEGA

    24A Alpha's opposite

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    TEMP

    3D Short-term worker, for short

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    SALON

    41D Permanent provider

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    SPEEDO

    9D Swimwear brand

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    BITE

    1A Nosh

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    TORTE

    13D Rich cake

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    MISC

    70A Catchall abbreviation

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    PREGO

    16A Ragú rival

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    35
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    INLET

    52D Fjord, e.g.

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    WASH

    29D Get the grime off

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    IMAX

    2D Supersized movie screen format

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    AMEX

    14A Certain charge card, informally

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    ROLLS

    23D Status symbol car, familiarly

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    ACIDS

    55D They turn litmus paper red

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    LAMP

    17A Tiffany creation

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    SPRAT

    9A Jack who could eat no fat

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    PRESENT

    10D Show, in a show-and-tell

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    PRESENT

    22A Here and now

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    ERTE

    61D Art Deco artist

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    ACUTE

    46A Less than 90 degrees

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    AMATI

    32A Cremona craftsman

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    PLED

    37D Said "Not guilty!," e.g.

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    DOIT

    63A "Go ahead!"

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    IDYL

    33A Pastoral poem

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    EELER

    19A Conger catcher

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    ELOPED

    50A Fled to wed

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    OMNIA

    21D ___ vincit amor

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    ESPIED

    5D Spotted

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    GLAND

    62A Producer of sweat and tears, but not blood

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    RAHM debut

    27D Obama adviser Emanuel

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    ADDRESS

    25D Prepare to drive, as a golf ball

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    ADDRESS

    39A Lincoln's famous one was just 272 words

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    GESSO

    66A Painting surface

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    HMS

    38A ___ Pinafore

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    SOFTG

    6D Start of either syllable in "ginger"

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    ODETTE

    26A "Swan Lake" swan

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    CONDOR

    49D Flier with a 10-foot wingspan

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    VIACOM

    51A Nickelodeon's parent company

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    VIGGO debut

    51D "The Road" star Mortensen

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    ENL

    42A Photo blowup: Abbr.

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    RELET

    11D Lease to a new tenant

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    ESTH

    5A Only O.T. book that never mentions God: Abbr.

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    SAXON

    54A Anglo-___

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    INCENSE

    56A Aromatic sticks

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    INCENSE

    44D Make boiling mad

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    EXOTIC

    50D Wonderfully foreign

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    HOSP

    8D Doctor's place: Abbr.

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    PFCS

    18A Ones ranking below cpls.

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    DRAMS

    40D Small amounts

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    CONSOLE

    58A Home entertainment centerpiece

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    CONSOLE

    47D Say "There, there" to, say

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    DELON

    30A French actor Alain

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    REWIND

    27A Put the tape back to the start

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    ACAST

    53D "With ___ of thousands!" (movie ad boast)

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    EXPLOIT

    20A Bit of derring-do

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    EXPLOIT

    4D Take advantage of

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    NCAAS debut

    48A Big tournaments for university teams, informally

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