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Sunday · 140 answers · 21 debuts

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

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    ORCA

    107D Water hazard?

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    234
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    ISLE

    89A Key

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    DEN

    51A Home in the woods

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    260
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    TIRE

    30A Tucker out

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    INON

    16D ___ a secret

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    IHOP

    38D Links chain

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    110
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    ELSA

    85A "Lohengrin" soprano

    19
    220
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    ACED

    102A Killed, as a test

    18
    152
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    ELON

    63A Southern university whose campus is a botanical garden

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    EAVE

    77D Something a dome lacks

    13
    164
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    RISE

    37A Knoll

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    150
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    ISIS

    100A Goddess with a headdress depicting a throne

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    102
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    CNET

    112D Site for techies

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    47
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    SLO

    69D Pavement caution

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    STEER

    47D Guide

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    132
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    SCOT

    69A Burns, e.g.

    12
    113
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    ELIA

    110D Director Kazan

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    CTRL

    96A ___-Alt-Del

    10
    43
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    ADES

    18D Some punches

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    126
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    HASH

    48A Potpourri

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    74
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    APSO

    62D Lhasa ___

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    55
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    YOSHI debut

    66D Mario's dinosaur sidekick

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    18
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    ONA

    29A ___ moment's notice

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    TORT

    19D Slander or libel

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    CEOS

    73A Ones pictured in corp. reports

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    JETS

    109D They leave trails

    5
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    BUOY

    108D Give a lift

    5
    20
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    HORNS

    13D Brass

    5
    20
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    OLIO

    42D Potpourri

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    157
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    SOON

    56D Frequent answer to "When?"

    4
    90
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    LTR

    45A Paper tray size: Abbr.

    4
    68
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    ORNOT

    121A Remark after an awkward silence

    4
    64
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    AVILA

    88A Walled city of Spain

    4
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    ERASES

    21A Wipes out

    4
    52
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    CIRRI

    105D Wispy clouds

    4
    20
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    NOTAR debut

    67D Like some cigarettes

    4
    8
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    IRANI

    118A Neighbor of a Turkmen

    3
    99
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    WIDE

    2D "Open ___"

    3
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    BOLO

    15D Vaquero's neckwear

    3
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    NIELS

    124A Nobelist Bohr

    3
    26
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    TIMON

    20A Shakespearean nobleman

    3
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    SSTS

    11D Retired boomers

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    SSS

    99A Draft inits.

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    ENOL

    114D Organic compound

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    APIA

    78D Samoan port

    2
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    NITS

    115D Tiny criticisms

    2
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    ERNEST

    34D Repeated film title role for Jim Varney

    2
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    TOS

    58D Set-___

    2
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    OFLATE

    32A Just recently

    2
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    ARTIER

    14D More pretentious

    2
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    OLDPRO

    32D Seasoned hand

    2
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    SEXTET

    123A Hockey team, say

    2
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    GIDEON

    117A Judge in Judges

    2
    9
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    NAYSAYER

    122A Vocal skeptic

    2
    6
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    ORTS

    64A Table scraps

    1
    52
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    AMIN

    3D Cruel Ugandan

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    51
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    TENSES

    72D Tightens (up)

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    31
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    DPS

    87A Quick inning enders, for short

    1
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    CELTS

    80D Welsh, e.g.

    1
    20
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    RENU

    43D Lens solution brand

    1
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    REALMS

    94A Spheres

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    12
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    RONCO

    4D Veg-O-Matic company

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    11
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    HEHS

    65D Dastardly laughs

    1
    9
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    NANNIES

    8D Kid minders

    1
    5
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    WINKAT debut

    24A Reassure that one's joking, in a way

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    2
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    ZANE

    113D Writer Grey

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    ALSORAN

    82A #2 or #3

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    ENATE

    35A Maternally related

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    STELE

    101D Inscribed marker

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    RESOD

    61A Fix, as a fairway

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    AUEL

    62A "The Clan of the Cave Bear" author

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    ILER

    81D Robert of "The Sopranos"

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    THOM

    53A Radiohead frontman Yorke

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    ESKER

    9D Glacial ridge

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    ASININE

    55A Cockamamie

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    SCISSOR

    90D Kind of kick

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    TAVI

    17D Rikki-tikki-___

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    17
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    OSAMA

    31D 2005 biography subtitled "The Making of a Terrorist"

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    AVION

    40D Orly bird?

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    ICC

    104A Former transportation regulation agcy.

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    RELS

    52A Kin: Abbr.

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    RETOOL

    91A Modernize the plant

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    AFOR

    82D "___ Andromeda" (British sci-fi series)

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    OKAPIS

    71D Cousins of giraffes

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    CODEX

    103D Ancient volume

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    HALLO

    49D Fox hunter's cry

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    ODING

    23A Taking too much

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    ZONK

    41D Pass (out)

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    CTEAM

    73D Backups for backups

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    EVERETT

    92D Former surgeon general C. ___ Koop

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    FLATCAR

    76D Part of a freight train

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    FLATTOP

    1D Aircraft carrier

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    VERVE

    98A Gusto

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    OSSE

    31A Bone: Prefix

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    HELICES

    54D Shapes studied by Dr. Watson and his partner

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    LANCER

    27D Cavalry member

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    UNIONIST

    28A Northern sympathizer

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    ARTLOVER

    25A Aesthete

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    ECLASS

    46A Mercedes sedan

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    FLATLY

    68D Way to refuse

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    RAZORSHARP

    39A Like trenchant wit

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    VOLES

    50A Burrowing rodents

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    ALETTE

    120A Doorway jamb

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    ARIETTAS

    7D Short operatic solos

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    CAPEESH debut

    84A "Get it?"

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    CORONADO

    22A Spanish conquistador who searched for the Seven Cities of Gold

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    JANETS

    6A Jackson and Reno

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    KUE

    59D Letter after pee

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    LABILE

    97D Apt to change

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    4
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    LEOVII

    83D 10th-century pope

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    SHARPIE

    93A Trademarked marker

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    COLS

    74A Newspaper units: Abbr.

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    SHARPEIS

    60D Wrinkly-faced dogs

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    SICILY

    95D It's found near the toe of a boot

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    TEARER

    10D Render

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    ALLNATURAL debut

    36D Organic food label

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    ENGINEERED

    5D Planned

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    FLATFEE

    86A Fixed price

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    FLATTERER

    33D Sycophant

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    FLATWARE

    1A Knives, forks and spoons

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    JEWSHARP

    6D Instrument played in the mouth

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    NATURALGAS

    111D Piped fuel

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    OCOTILLO

    119A Cactuslike plant of the Southwest

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    2
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    RELL

    79D Former Connecticut governor Jodi

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    2
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    SHARPTON debut

    106D Al who sought the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination

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    2
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    TRUELIES debut

    116A 1994 Schwarzenegger film

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    2
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    CARDSHARPS debut

    70D Bottom dealers, perhaps

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    1
  128. 128
    FLATEARTHSOCIETY debut

    76A Group that doesn't believe in revolution?

    0
    1
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    FLATTEDNOTE debut

    86D F major has just one

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    1
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    HYPERINFLATION debut

    65A Economic woe

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    1
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    KEEPASHARPLOOKOUT debut

    59A Play sentinel

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    1
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    NATURALBORNCITIZEN debut

    111A Immigrant's opposite

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    1
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    NATURALCAUSES debut

    12D There's no foul play when one passes by these

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    1
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    NATURALHABITAT debut

    12A Where a plant or animal thrives

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    1
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    NATURALLAKE debut

    75A Body of water in a volcanic crater, for one

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    1
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    NATURALSELECTION debut

    75D "The Origin of Species" concept

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    1
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    PENCILSHARPENERS debut

    26A Little shavers at school?

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    1
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    PRETERNATURAL debut

    57A Extraordinary and unexplainable

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    1
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    SHARPOBJECTS debut

    106A Dangers for children and klutzes

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    1
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    SHARPSET debut

    44D Fixed at an acute angle

    0
    1