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Thursday · 74 answers · 2 debuts

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

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    EDEN

    25D It's depicted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

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    ECO

    57D Prefix with warrior

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    370
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    IDEA

    29A "Drawing is putting a line round an ___": Henri Matisse

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    396
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    REAL

    30D Unembellished

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    160
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    ORSO

    10D Roughly

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    145
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    APES

    27A Hired thugs

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    153
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    SEWS

    39D Tailors

    9
    77
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    YELL

    4D Scream and holler

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    76
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    ATOLL

    19A Ocean ring

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    104
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    KAT

    7D "Kitty ___" (Beyoncé song)

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    101
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    YESES

    42A Nods

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    72
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    TART

    53D Sour

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    99
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    HEAT

    43A Passion

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    82
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    MIL

    50A Big lotto prize, for short

    7
    77
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    SITS

    51A Is unused

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    68
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    DAP

    22A Fish by letting the bait fall lightly on the water

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    31
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    AEON

    34A Big stretch?

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    89
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    FRET

    20D Stew

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    77
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    CTR

    55D D.C.'s Kennedy ___

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    65
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    DIM

    56D Dark

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    80
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    VISOR

    24D Dealer's accessory

    5
    24
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    ROC

    11D Bird of myth

    4
    92
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    ALASKA

    45D See 26-/28-Down

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    54
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    ITINA

    52A 1986 rock autobiography

    4
    30
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    TERESA

    33A Mother ___

    3
    73
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    TONTO

    33D TV character who said "Him a beauty. Like mountain with snow - silver-white"

    3
    65
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    VEES

    32D Some necklines

    3
    29
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    AEROSOL

    16A Spray

    3
    27
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    JUAN

    35D Don ___

    3
    18
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    GEORGIA

    60A See 26-/28-Down

    3
    15
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    ALABAMA

    14D See 26-/28-Down

    2
    33
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    STATES

    28D See 26-Down

    2
    29
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    HOTTEA

    43D Throat soother

    2
    21
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    NEVADA

    1D See 26-/28-Down

    2
    18
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    ICERINK

    59A Senators' place

    2
    12
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    RRS

    6D Ones on the right track?: Abbr.

    1
    93
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    NISEI

    47D Second-generation Japanese-American

    1
    25
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    ROREM

    30A 1976 Pulitzer winner for "Air Music"

    1
    22
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    NEWYORK

    1A See 26-/28-Down

    1
    15
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    EPITAPH

    2D "The best is yet to come," for Frank Sinatra

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    14
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    FLORIDA

    8A See 26-/28-Down

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    10
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    EVERLY

    23A ___ Brothers

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    8
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    HDTVSET

    31A Sports bar fixture

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    4
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    FARO

    20A Baccarat alternative

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    42
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    OTOS

    46A Buffalo-hunting Indians

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    42
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    SARG

    51D Pioneering puppeteer Tony

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    21
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    BORA

    26A When doubled, a 19-Across

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    20
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    JOAD

    35A Ma or Pa in a Steinbeck novel

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    20
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    WIDEN

    48D Ream out

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    18
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    LEARY

    9D Doctor whom Nixon called "the most dangerous man in America"

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    17
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    LASCALA

    18A Where "Lucrezia Borgia" premiered

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    16
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    RIAA

    44A Org. that combats illegal file sharing

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    15
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    ODILE

    5D "Swan Lake" swan

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    13
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    MONTANA

    61A See 26-/28-Down

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    12
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    WRITER

    36A Steinbeck, e.g.

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    9
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    EPHEDRA

    15A Banned medicine used to treat asthma

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    8
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    NUTTREE

    58A Pecan, e.g.

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    8
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    RETINUE

    37D Royal attendants

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    8
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    DOLORES

    13D Actual name of Nabokov's Lolita

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    7
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    INACAST

    54A On the mend, say, as one's arm

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    7
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    ISADORE

    12D ___ Freleng, creator of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck

    0
    7
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    BORDER

    26D With 28-Down, theme of this puzzle

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    6
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    NOWNOW

    47A "Easy there!"

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    6
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    CML

    49A Approximate year in which Eric the Red was born

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    5
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    DOB

    21A 5/29/1917, for J.F.K.

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    5
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    FALALA

    8D Syllables following "Strike the harp and join the chorus"

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    4
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    SICILIA

    40D Island in the Mediterraneo

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    4
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    VIOLIST

    17A Pinchas Zukerman, e.g.

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    3
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    WHOOPED

    3D Screamed and hollered

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    3
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    WYOMING debut

    36D See 26-/28-Down

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    3
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    DEDALUS

    56A Stephen of Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man"

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    2
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    ISOLATO

    38D Person who's out of step with society

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    2
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    SUNLESS

    39A Dark

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    2
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    SAMNUNN debut

    41D Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, 1987-95

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    1