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Thursday · 74 answers · 10 debuts

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

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    END

    31A Wind up

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    447
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    EST

    24A "Alea iacta ___": Julius Caesar

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    428
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    ESP

    30D Picking up things?

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    344
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    IDEA

    4D Dome light?

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    OMNI

    40D Big name in luxury hotels

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    ESC

    21D PC key

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    209
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    ORES

    27D Things picked out of the earth

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    244
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    TAO

    62D "The way"

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    ORSO

    68A Approximately

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    145
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    SEEN

    7D Comprehended

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    170
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    TSP

    44A Med. unit

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    154
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    ALONE

    51A "In bad company," per Ambrose Bierce

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    191
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    NOM

    29D Passeport info

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    ISTO

    6A Analogy words

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    LEIS

    58D Hawaiian handouts

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    82
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    IKE

    1D Dollar coin figure before Susan B. Anthony, familiarly

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    181
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    LENA

    16A River to the Arctic Ocean

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    140
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    EBAY

    59D Where Al Yankovic bought a "Dukes of Hazzard" ashtray, in song

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    131
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    NEIN

    15A "Absolut nicht!"

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    81
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    ARGO

    56D Mythical ship with a speaking oak beam

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    148
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    CIO

    22A Half of a 1955 merger, for short

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    51
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    RAS

    38D They may do write-ups, for short

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    84
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    GIS

    54A Ones getting base pay

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    DIAL

    34D Call

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    86
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    STRAP

    42A It might hold you back

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    81
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    NIX

    2D "Ain't gonna happen!"

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    NITRO

    52D "Explosive" roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure

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    SIX

    53A Boxcar

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    52
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    CALF

    22D Roping target

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    43
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    PSIS

    10A Fraternity characters

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    AHME

    43A "Such is life"

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    55
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    ARNO

    67A The Ponte Vecchio spans it

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    143
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    ADOPT

    28D Take in

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    52
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    TYSON

    69A Cicely of "Roots"

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    GAIT

    65A Clip

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    EXCEL

    17A Get an A, say

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    ABUTS

    61A Touches

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    30
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    MEIR

    64A "My Life" autobiographer, 1975

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    INUIT

    1A Snowmen and snowwomen?

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    DOSED

    33A Gave pills, e.g.

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    22
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    LAHR

    32A "If I were king of the forest ..." singer

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    STN

    63D Depot: Abbr.

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    STPETE

    36D Spring break locale, casually

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    TACOMA

    44D City on Commencement Bay

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    FRA

    37D Order member

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    RIT

    49D Gradually slowing, in mus.

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    ONKP

    9D Cleaning a mess in a mess, maybe

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    NAGAT

    66A Trouble

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    TIAS

    8D Mexican kin

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    SENILE

    11D Beyond reason?

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    ICAL

    23D Myth ending

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    13
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    LAWYER

    19D "Compromise is the best and cheapest ___" (saying attributed to Robert Louis Stevenson)

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    11
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    NEDS

    41D "___ Declassified School Survival Guide"

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    USEDTO

    48D Experienced with

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    KINDA

    14A Word akin to "-ish"

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    SLAYER

    45D Assassin

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    LBAR

    57D Angle iron

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    EXTANT

    50D Still around

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    PLINY

    10D Roman writer who originated the phrase "with a grain of salt"

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    TALKER

    5D One may be smooth

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    8
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    INWITH

    6D A part of, as a gang

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    6
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    WYLIE

    25A Poet Elinor

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    6
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    SASHED

    13D Like many windows

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    3
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    SHAGRUGS debut

    39D Hard-to-clean floor covers

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    3
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    CAPITALLETTER debut

    55A Feature replaced in four clues in this puzzle

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    2
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    INKSIN debut

    12D Fills, as black squares

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    2
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    OYSTERBED

    60A Locale for some diving

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    2
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    UNCLOTHE debut

    3D Strip

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    ACTORCHANEY debut

    26A lon

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    FLEESFROMPRISON debut

    35A lams, say

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    1
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    LAKEINSPANISH debut

    20A lago

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    PASTURELAND debut

    47A lamb's place

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    POPSIN debut

    46D Comes calling unexpectedly

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    WEAKLINKS debut

    18A Vulnerable parts

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