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Sunday · 140 answers · 17 debuts

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

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    TNT

    72A Volatile stuff

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    ACNE

    41A Some red spots

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    EWE

    43D One having a little lamb

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    OLD

    9D Timeworn

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    ONTO

    67D "I'm ___ you!"

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    ANEW

    44D Over

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    TSK

    91A Tiny chastisement

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    AURA

    109D Glow

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    ATOP

    80A Covering

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    DRE

    66D Dr. ___

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    AAA

    111A Its employees might have jumper cables: Abbr.

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    ROT

    62A Blather

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    IPA

    79A Hoppy pub quaff

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    TEES

    110D Morse dashes

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    RCA

    114D Panasonic competitor

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    AMOS

    109A Wally of cookie fame

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    LAO

    37A Language that is mostly monosyllabic

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    ABCS

    44A Early education

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    INC

    81A Forbes competitor

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    CPR

    39A Lifeguard's skill, for short

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    IMS

    4D Modern communications, for short

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    EYRE

    119A Brontë heroine

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    OHO

    75A "Well, looky there!"

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    VET

    58D Examine carefully

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    FOR

    85D Pro

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    AVON

    105A Paperback publisher since 1941

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    ADORN

    20D Prettify

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    ICARE

    48D Empathetic response

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    LAD

    120A Sonny

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    GPS

    11A Rental car add-on

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    USERS

    94D Detox patients

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    TASER

    110A Stunner

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    UTILE

    16D Handy

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    ROARS

    74A Lions' din

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    OVID

    49D "Time, the devourer of all things" writer

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    SOPS

    70D Pacifiers

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    ELIOT

    6D "Silas Marner" author

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    SYS

    13D The "S" of OS: Abbr.

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    AVOID

    96D Skirt

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    HOW

    53A Know-___

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    IOUS

    36D Alternatives to chips, say

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    RUES

    8D Regrets

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    PLOD

    12D Go laboriously

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    TIMID

    83D Retiring

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    DROP

    7A Bit of a trickle

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    TODD

    27A Chuck of NBC News

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    WORE

    32D Dragged (on)

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    PASO

    121A El ___

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    OAST

    98D Hops dryer

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    IVORY

    104D White shade

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    FLEW

    23D Whizzed

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    WELSH

    30D Cymric

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    STASES

    102D Equilibria

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    WOOED

    76A Sweet-talked, maybe

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    SERE

    31A Parched

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    ATO

    90A From ___ Z

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    EES

    115D Certain util. workers

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    OKAPI

    63D Elusive African animal

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    OVATE

    57A Ellipsoidal

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    QATAR

    51D It juts into the Persian Gulf

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    ELFIN

    24A Wee

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    USPS

    84D Mail letters

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    CPL

    113D Mil. team leader

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    NORMAL

    18A Unlikely to surprise

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    ZEUS

    87A God holding a thunderbolt

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    ICANSO

    97D "Just watch me!"

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    ICEWATER

    29A Zero-calorie cooler

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    SSTS

    86A Onetime high fliers

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    ISE

    89A Expert finish?

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    NEEDLE

    118A Part of an applause-o-meter

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    SEPAL

    31D Petal pusher?

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    ALOP

    50D Skewed to one side

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    COIF

    69D Do

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    BOUT

    14A Series of rounds

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    TEENA

    107D Singer ___ Marie

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    MASCARA

    5D Purse item

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    LOFTY

    21A High

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    AVOWED

    108A Swore

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    WIZ

    76D "Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News" musical, with "The"

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    COLTS

    26A Peyton Manning's former teammates

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    DMITRI

    7D Mendeleev who created the periodic table

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    RAMROD

    95D Gunner's tool

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    TRADED

    3D Like stocks

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    ASKUP

    80D Invite to the penthouse suite, say

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    NAOH

    54A Drain cleaner, chemically

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    MANGE

    103D Skin disorder

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    ASSAYS

    122A Analyzes, in a way

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    TURFS

    99A Home territories

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    TYNER

    17D Jazz pianist McCoy ___

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    ROOTLE debut

    28A Grub around

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    CATAPULT debut

    106A Siege weapon

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    AMAIN

    60A At full speed

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    NCR

    35D A.T.M. maker

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    IDEO

    77D Logical start?

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    ERO

    59A Handel's "___ e Leandro"

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    ORY

    40A Suffix with direct

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    OATERS

    63A Movies often with shootouts

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    OID

    25A Suffix with human

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    NITTI

    61D Capone henchman

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    REDYE

    28D Fix the coloring of, say

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    POLICE

    2D Some baton wielders

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    TIRANE

    71A World capital that's home to Zog I Boulevard

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    ARRANT

    64D Unmitigated

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    NOMAR

    112A Shortstop Garciaparra

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    NOTSOHOT

    42D Poor

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    BARITONE

    45D Figaro in "The Barber of Seville," e.g.

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    MITOSIS

    103A Division of biology

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    UPTIME

    1A Working hours

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    NOTAS

    52D Less

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    ODDMAN

    38D One out?

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    TOMATOSOUP

    73D Grilled cheese sandwich go-with

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    ACADS

    60D Insts. of learning

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    FLATLY

    101D One way to deny something

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    RUANDA

    100D Bantu language

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    UNCOIL

    1D Straighten out

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    LEDER

    33A Hosen material

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    LEOII

    21D Pope Agatho's successor

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    DCV

    55A Early seventh-century year

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    GREGS

    116A Golfer Norman and others

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    LOLAS debut

    56A Singer Falana and others

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    STARVES

    92D Goes without nourishment

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    STOWAGE

    88D Hold stuff

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    BOLOGNA

    14D Eponymous Italian city

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    GLIDED debut

    11D Went smoothly

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    ITTOO

    77A Have one's cake and eat ___

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    OUTON

    78D ___ a limb

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    PRODUCES

    117A Fabricates

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    CLASSIFIEDADIOS debut

    22A Sign-off for Spanish spies?

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    COOLIOCUSTOMER debut

    46D "Gangsta's Paradise" buyer?

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    CURIORENTEVENTS debut

    113A Try-before-you-buy opportunities at knickknack stores?

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    DIORAMAQUEEN debut

    47A Champion model maker at the county fair?

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    MULLALLY debut

    19A Megan of "Will & Grace"

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    OFFTHECHARIOTS debut

    15D Like Ben-Hur and company when not racing?

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    PACKRATIOS debut

    68A 20 cigarettes per unit and 10 units per carton, e.g.?

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    PLATEARMOR debut

    10D Heavy-duty protection

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    STUDIOMUFFIN debut

    82A Green room breakfast item?

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    STUMPORATORIO debut

    93A Musical composition about a lumberjack's seat?

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    WEIGHER debut

    32A Scale

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    WILDCARDIO debut

    65A Wacky exercise regimen?

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    WINEANDIODINE debut

    34A Two bottled liquids kept in a cabinet?

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