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Sunday · 138 answers · 20 debuts

Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-03), then by uses across the whole archive.

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    ATE

    43A Had

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    ELI

    5D Film director Roth

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    599
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    ERE

    117A Poetic preposition

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    LSD

    121A Acid

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    245
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    LEE

    39A Marvin of "Cat Ballou"

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    RIO

    90A Vegas casino hotel, with "the"

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    315
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    IAN

    112D Novelist McEwan

    23
    260
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    RHO

    18A Density symbol, in physics

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    NENE

    93D Bird that may nest on volcanic ash

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    BOA

    38D Flapper's wrap

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    168
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    ROT

    24D Flummery

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    AIL

    88A Distress

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    OWL

    74D Symbol of Athena

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    IPAD

    44D 2010 Apple release

    18
    83
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    INRE

    69D On the subject of

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    PIE

    52A Domino's order

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    183
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    MESS

    119A Ugly situation

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    145
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    OREOS

    27A "Dirt cake" ingredients

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    IRENE

    58D Dunne of "My Favorite Wife"

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    CPR

    49D Revivalism?

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    84
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    IVE

    67A "___ had enough"

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    HEE

    77A Tee-___

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    SAL

    12D ___ ammoniac

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    ALONE

    19A By itself

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    191
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    ASKS

    10D Interviews

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    141
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    ILLS

    106D Woes

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    117
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    HAM

    110D Mugger on stage

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    144
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    NON

    6D Tours turndown

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    143
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    NIA

    54A Actress Peeples

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    138
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    RDA

    79A Food label no.

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    138
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    MCS

    1A Roast V.I.P.'s

    13
    79
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    ISLAM

    20A Kaaba visitor's faith

    12
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    YEAH

    47D Triumphant cry

    12
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    OAF

    100D Bungling fool

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    144
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    ING

    7D Having one sharp

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    ADMIT

    22A Say grudgingly

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    73
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    TMC

    113D Station for cinephiles

    9
    40
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    SGT

    40A Friday's rank: Abbr.

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    117
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    LEASE

    98D Car dealer's offering

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    84
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    TAPE

    42D Answering machine insert

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    124
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    WES

    63D Film director Craven

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    113
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    ENDED

    62D Put the kibosh on

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    DRAMA

    116A Histrionics

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    73
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    MARS

    65A Viking's destination

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    72
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    RICH

    46D Rolling in green

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    MESAS

    21D Desert landforms

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    62
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    SORES

    3D Results of chafing

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    50
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    TIERS

    9D Ziggurat features

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    48
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    TASE

    36D Hit with a charge

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    47
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    MOTH

    87A Lover of light

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    45
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    PIANO

    105A Eighty-eight

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    88
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    NODS

    70D Moves a head?

    6
    68
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    UHUH

    72D "Forget it!"

    6
    57
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    WRY

    111D Not straight

    6
    57
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    IOUS

    44A Poor writer's scribblings?

    6
    54
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    DENIM

    4A Overall composition?

    6
    52
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    BOAST

    38A Show no modesty

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    33
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    ELY

    64A Cambridgeshire's ___ Cathedral

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    96
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    NOISE

    78D Babel

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    83
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    ADLER

    14D Onetime Freud collaborator

    5
    59
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    INEZ

    66A Don Juan's mother

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    46
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    TAPS

    9A Military funeral concluder

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    66
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    CAY

    60D Small island

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    OTO

    82D Ear: Prefix

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    LINEN

    61D It's closeted

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    SATYR

    33D Forest flutist

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    SHRED

    103D Iota

    3
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    SAFER

    13D More guarded

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    BIZ

    55D Industry, slangily

    3
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    CREEL

    101D Fishing accoutrement

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    NAUSEA

    93A Novel for which Sartre declined the Nobel Prize

    2
    31
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    HALLE

    115A Berry of "Frankie and Alice"

    2
    30
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    SYNCS

    120A Matches timewise, informally

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    ATODDS

    94D Unable to agree

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    AFRESH

    84A From scratch

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    TREO

    34D Palm phone

    2
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    DAYSPA

    4D Place to get a facial

    2
    14
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    AMIDALA debut

    15D Queen in the "Star Wars" saga

    2
    8
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    MME

    65D Title for de Staël: Abbr.

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    65
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    GTE

    89A Old inits. in telecommunication

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    54
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    EBOLA

    108A "The Hot Zone" topic

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    49
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    IRONORE

    76A Mesabi Range export

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    33
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    CHERI

    53D French sweetie

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    29
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    AWARDS

    37A Kind of ceremony

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    BALES

    99D Farmland rolls

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    SAABS

    13A Cars with floor-mounted ignitions

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    WHIG

    75D Lincoln while in Congress, e.g.

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    ALPHAS

    95D Pack leaders

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    MRMOM

    1D 1983 Michael Keaton comedy

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    STEPPES

    17D Open terrain

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    13
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    BACARDI

    55A Big name in rum

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    RINSO

    51D Bygone Tide rival

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    11
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    DENSEST

    104A Least bright

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    PARCH

    107A Dry out

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    AWAKES

    32D Comes to

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    NOWHERE

    78A Remote place

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    BOWMEN debut

    73A Drawers of war?

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    3
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    OXEYE

    118A Daisy variety

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    ARTDECO

    84D Like the GE Building

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    HORS

    25D ___ de combat

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    HAUT

    83D ___ monde

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    UNARM

    50D Leave weaponless

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    HORSY

    28A Equine-related

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    CHARO

    2D Single-named "Hollywood Squares" regular

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    GMAC

    80D Car financing inits.

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    ISLEY

    97D R&B's ___ Brothers

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    COKES

    114A Fountain drinks

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    SCHOLAR

    40D Bookish type

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    RAIMENT

    56D Wardrobe items

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    METHOD

    8D Manner

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    HOMERS

    59A Round-trippers, in sports lingo

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    ROANOKE

    86D Lost Colony's island

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    ARYANS

    45A Indo-Europeans

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    DIVERGE

    57D Fork

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    PITAPAT

    30D It comes from the heart

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    BOWLER

    73D Striking player

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    FLITE

    26A Top-___ (golf ball brand)

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    5
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    BUTCH

    92D Companion of Rex and Rover

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    SPEEDUP

    29A Gun it

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    GRAHAMS debut

    71D Golden ___ (General Mills product)

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    2
  121. 121
    ROCKPILE

    81D Where prisoners swing picks

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    2
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    ABACO debut

    91A The Bahamas' Great ___ Island

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    BETTERLOCKS debut

    99A "Homeowners get excited when they see me opening their ___ ..."

    0
    1
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    BITUMEN debut

    16D Asphalt ingredient

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    1
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    CANDLEWITHHAIR debut

    60A "... and I write '___' on the box, which seems to reassure him"

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    CHILLEDWITHFEAR debut

    109A "... and when I hand-deliver a package, the recipients are positively ___ - it's very satisfying!"

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    1
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    CHOPPER debut

    53A Whirlybird

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    CRACKYOURPATE debut

    48A "When a man is nervous about shipping breakables, I tell him, '___ carefully, sir' ..."

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    1
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    FIREBOX debut

    85D Locomotive furnace

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    1
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    GROMYKO debut

    41D Soviet foreign affairs minister during the Cuban missile crisis

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    1
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    GROUNDHOWLING debut

    80A "I'm a bit leery of dogs - it's unsettling to enter a yard and hear some ___ at me ..."

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    1
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    KCARS debut

    102D 1980s-'90s Chrysler offerings

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    MARRYINGTHEKALE debut

    23A "I suppose it might seem odd that a reverend like myself would suddenly begin ___ ..."

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    1
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    MOSTPASTORS debut

    31A "... but I've always thought ___ had a more fun job than I do"

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    PLAYSOUT debut

    11D Finishes

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    RAKINGMYMOUNDS debut

    68A "The best part of the job, of course, is when I'm out on the street ___"

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    STAIRRAMP debut

    35A "For an avid philatelist like me, sorting envelopes is thrilling - I might spot a ___!"

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    TRAILMUCK debut

    96A "... but dogs can't spoil how much I enjoy driving around in the ___"

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    1