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Friday · 62 answers · 8 debuts

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

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    ANT

    27A Member of a caste system

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  2. 2
    IRS

    31A Org. whose roots go back to the Civil War

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    246
  3. 3
    AKA

    48D Rap sheet abbr.

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    211
  4. 4
    UFO

    8D Overhead light, perhaps

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    131
  5. 5
    RON

    24A Paul in politics

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    169
  6. 6
    CHE

    39A "Evita" narrator

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    162
  7. 7
    AESOP

    43D Creator of many talking animals

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    127
  8. 8
    RAH

    50D Stadium shout

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    215
  9. 9
    SORE

    46D Cross

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  10. 10
    AVER

    35A Maintain

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    195
  11. 11
    NUN

    6D Poor Clares member

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    95
  12. 12
    AMEND

    40A Change for the better

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    94
  13. 13
    SAFE

    25A Bread box?

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    107
  14. 14
    SCENT

    15D Trail

    4
    66
  15. 15
    ROSIE

    38D Albert's love in "Bye Bye Birdie"

    4
    62
  16. 16
    BRAVO

    41A "I'm very impressed!"

    4
    31
  17. 17
    TULIP

    22A Flower named for its resemblance to a turban

    3
    41
  18. 18
    LOGIC

    17A Branch of mathematics

    3
    38
  19. 19
    STATUE

    18A Man of steel?

    3
    34
  20. 20
    GNC

    7D Seller of supplements

    3
    29
  21. 21
    MISTS

    14D Morning weather phenomena

    3
    21
  22. 22
    ORLON

    10D Woollike acrylic fiber

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    50
  23. 23
    ICHOR

    31D Blood shed on Mount Olympus

    2
    15
  24. 24
    GANDALF debut

    1D Visitor at the beginning of "The Hobbit"

    2
    4
  25. 25
    OSIER

    45A Twig used in wickerwork

    1
    44
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    HARTE

    4D "The Luck of Roaring Camp" writer

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    32
  27. 27
    NIAGARA

    11D River flowing between two Great Lakes

    1
    19
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    WIDOW

    23A Typesetting no-no

    1
    14
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    BALLAD

    41D Irving Berlin's "Always," e.g.

    1
    13
  30. 30
    ADDLED

    20D Slaphappy, say

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    12
  31. 31
    TEACUP

    3D Part of a service

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    12
  32. 32
    MAPLES

    44A Trees sought by leaf peepers

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    10
  33. 33
    SACRILEGE

    28A Stealing from the collection plate, e.g.

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    4
  34. 34
    URIS

    5D "Trinity" novelist

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  35. 35
    NCR

    49D Manufacturer of bar code scanners

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    46
  36. 36
    SCHMO

    26D Nobody

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    46
  37. 37
    TRITON

    13D Largest moon in the solar system with a retrograde orbit

    0
    20
  38. 38
    RHESUS

    32D Popular test animal in medical research

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    18
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    GORES

    21D Sticks

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  40. 40
    MAURA

    44D Actress Tierney

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    12
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    SALIERI

    46A Murderer in P.D.Q. Bach's spoof opera "A Little Nightmare Music"

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    12
  42. 42
    EVERTS

    37D Turns out

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    10
  43. 43
    RUSSIANROULETTE

    47A Game you can't lose twice

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    10
  44. 44
    THROES

    34A Violent upheaval

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    8
  45. 45
    ATAPRICE

    29D How Pyrrhic victories are won

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    6
  46. 46
    EARPIECE

    30D Secret Service agent's accouterment

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    5
  47. 47
    INDICTS

    16A Decides to try

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    4
  48. 48
    SANDRO

    26A Renaissance painter Botticelli

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    4
  49. 49
    VALETED

    36D Did Jeeves's job

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    4
  50. 50
    ODDITIES

    2D Material for the Guinness Book

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    3
  51. 51
    POLLIWOG

    9D It grows older and then croaks

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    3
  52. 52
    SEXISTS

    33D They put half the world down

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    3
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    SPEARHEADED

    52A Initiated, as an undertaking

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    3
  54. 54
    WARRED

    23D Battled

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    3
  55. 55
    MANTUA

    12D Birthplace of Virgil

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    2
  56. 56
    GOTHUNGUPON debut

    1A Couldn't stop obsessing about

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    1
  57. 57
    HEXAPODS debut

    42A Insects

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    1
  58. 58
    MADEARUNFORIT debut

    12A Bolted

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    1
  59. 59
    MANDARINCOLLARS debut

    14A Nehru jackets have them

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    1
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    PAGINATE debut

    19A Add numbers to, say

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    1
  61. 61
    PINIONS debut

    19D Steering system components

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    1
  62. 62
    STOCKCARRACES debut

    51A Nationwide Series events

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    1