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Monday · 78 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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    ALA

    39A Chicken ___ king

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    ALOE

    34D ___ vera

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    496
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    ETNA

    60D Sicilian mount

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    334
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    OAR

    63D It's dipped in the water

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    331
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    LED

    42A Was out front

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    222
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    IDLE

    49A Barely run the engine

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    259
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    OVER

    31D Atop

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    247
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    PSI

    37D Omega preceder

    24
    198
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    OKS

    65D Allows

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    127
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    IRAN

    6D It's bordered by three countries with "-stan" in their names

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    276
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    ILL

    45A Needing hospitalization, say

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    260
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    REDO

    32D Fresh take, informally

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    173
  13. 13
    USES

    12D Avails oneself of

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    193
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    REEL

    68A Film spool

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    184
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    ABU

    9D ___ Dhabi

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    86
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    URDU

    15A Pakistani tongue

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    85
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    EASY

    71A "No sweat!"

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    153
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    GAP

    36A Cumberland ___

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    131
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    PEST

    13D Little brother, to an older sibling, say

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    128
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    GLEE

    59A ___ club (singing group)

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    112
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    YALE

    18D School where the Clintons met

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    DUH

    5D Dolt's response

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    65
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    NEST

    23A Hornets' home

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    242
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    ELIA

    58D Kazan of Hollywood

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    213
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    NILE

    21A River near the Pyramids

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    163
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    LISP

    50D Favor a "th" sound

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    68
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    FAT

    29D Obese

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    116
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    SANER

    69A Having a clearer head

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    93
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    STOOL

    61A Aid for reaching the top shelf, maybe

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    54
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    ALEX

    14A "Jeopardy!" host Trebek

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    125
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    YEAS

    70A Votes that are an anagram of 71-Across

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    71
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    BIEN

    27D "Très ___" ("Very well," in French)

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    28
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    SLYLY

    56D In a wily way

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    28
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    DAME

    1A "There Is Nothin' Like a ___" ("South Pacific" song)

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    69
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    DIEM

    5A Per ___ (expense account amount)

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    54
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    DEAF

    28A Needing sign language, say

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    46
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    CELS

    57A Cartoon frames

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    45
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    EDWIN

    7D Dickens's "The Mystery of ___ Drood"

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    32
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    JADE

    33A Green gem

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    44
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    VIOLA

    66A String quartet member

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    41
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    METES

    3D Doles (out)

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    34
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    COOS

    40D Dove sounds

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    29
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    ALINE

    2D Skirt style

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    ALITO

    62A Samuel on the Supreme Court

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    39
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    JAMB

    33D Either side of a doorway

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    44
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    URGES

    19A Impulses

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    ACTUP

    9A Misbehave

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    TYRO

    46A Beginner

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    33
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    CLI

    41D 151, in old Rome

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    30
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    BOISE

    16A Idaho's capital

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    27
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    DAKAR

    1D Senegal's capital

    1
    22
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    HOSES

    55D Water carriers

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    18
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    DUNK

    67A Dip, as a doughnut

    1
    15
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    RESULT

    24A Outcome

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    12
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    CATSCAN

    40A Hospital diagnostic

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    10
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    MONGOL

    43A Genghis Khan, for one

    1
    10
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    MELODY

    48D Tune

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    9
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    SIXTHS

    53A Wedge fractions in Trivial Pursuit

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    6
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    CORNELL

    10D Institution in Ithaca, N.Y.

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    5
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    DANDELION

    35D Source of some fluff

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    5
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    EISNER

    51A Former Disney head Michael

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    30
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    ANERA

    20A "It's the end of ___"

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    TOSEA

    54D Where navies go

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    EMERALDS

    22D Green gems

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    CAVS

    57D Cleveland b-ball team

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    9
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    NUMBER

    26A The "N" of PIN

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    9
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    KEILLOR

    30A Garrison of "A Prairie Home Companion"

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    7
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    RELIVE

    38A Go over in one's imagination

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    RECUE

    52D Feed the same line

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    6
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    BEDROOM

    47A Place to sleep

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    4
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    GRISTLE

    44D Hard-to-chew piece of meat

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    4
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    TIGERLILY

    11D Perennial whose flowers are typically orange with black dots

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    4
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    KITTYHAWK

    17A Wright flight site

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    3
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    MUKLUK

    8D Eskimo boot

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    3
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    TAGALONG

    25D Follow behind

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    3
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    TEXTURE

    46D Surface quality

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    EXTRUDE debut

    4D Stick out

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    2
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    OCTOPUSSY debut

    64A James Bond film involving a Fabergé egg

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    2