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Sunday · 140 answers · 13 debuts

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

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    ALE

    110D It may be represented by "XXX" in the funnies

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    OLE

    12D Cry with an accent

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    ERIE

    73D Lake connected to Sandusky Bay

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    510
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    IRS

    29D Return address letters?

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    RED

    87D Cherry, e.g.

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    RAT

    6D The Pied Piper of Hamelin, e.g.

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    EELS

    59A 27-Down predators

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    HER

    44A -

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    IOTA

    52A Shred

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    PAR

    50D Word often seen before 3, 4 or 5, but never 1

    25
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    ION

    114D -

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    ESS

    36D Sigmoid curve

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    TED

    65A -

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    STAY

    76D Modern R&R option

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    PESO

    72A Monterrey cheddar?

    20
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    EMMA

    68D Watson of the Harry Potter films

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    SOD

    74D Roll around in the yard?

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    COT

    71D Retirement spot

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    CHER

    42D -

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    ASST

    69D Part of T.A.: Abbr.

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    DELI

    58D Hero's spot

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    TOM

    63A Sowed one's wild oats

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    ALMA

    83A ___ mater

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    CONE

    11D Traffic director

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    MEL

    109D "The Producers" producer Brooks

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    TUB

    17D Unwieldy boat

    12
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    TIC

    112D One of the X's in XXX

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    SHEA

    94A Where the Mets once met

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    126
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    ELOPE

    115A Act impulsively, as young lovers

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    EMTS

    91A First responders, for short

    10
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    LADY

    56D -

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    AMES

    83D Double agent Aldrich

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    SUIT

    104A -

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    TASTE

    105A Sampling

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    117
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    TOR

    65D Raptors' home: Abbr.

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    115
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    URNS

    5D Fancy flower holders

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    PTAS

    37A Mom-and-pop orgs.

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    PATIO

    77A Chaise scene?

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    50
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    VEE

    18D Victorian leader?

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    SAID

    40A Aforementioned

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    ANOS

    7D Years abroad

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    50
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    IRONS

    25A Chains

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    ADOBE

    24A Acrobat developer

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    CARAT

    60A Diamond unit

    5
    70
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    LIEGE

    33D Feudal vassal

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    ALCOA

    70A Metals giant in the Dow Jones industrial average

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    LATEX

    102A Dominatrix's wear

    5
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    OCTOPI

    27D Ink holders

    5
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    SOTHERE

    26A "Take that!"

    5
    24
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    ADASTRA

    61D Magazine of the National Space Society

    5
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    LENIN

    118A He wrote "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back"

    4
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    OSSIE

    35A Davis of "I'm Not Rappaport"

    4
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    GMT

    93D Intl. standard

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    GRAPE

    89A -

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    PERSE

    108A In itself

    3
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    TOLL

    46D Going rate?

    3
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    ATOI

    47D Yours, in Ypres

    3
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    PROF

    108D Univ. figure

    3
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    SCROD

    41A New England seafood staple

    3
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    SIBS

    45D Participants in some rivalries, briefly

    3
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    TEARS

    38A Salty stream

    3
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    CRIME

    31A -

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    STEERS

    99D Stock units?

    3
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    DUELS

    95A Back-to-back competitions?

    3
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    ONRYE

    90A Sandwich spec

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    ESSEN

    101D -

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    SASE

    107D Author's encl.

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    LEM

    54D Apollo 10's Snoopy, e.g., for short

    2
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    MUIR

    67D Pioneering conservationist

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    OHENRY

    90D Master of literary twists

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    COPY

    30A Offense that's provoked by lurid news

    2
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    CALICO

    1D It may be spotted in a pet store

    2
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    TETRAD

    20D Foursome

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    PLUMP

    77D Well-rounded

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    SLIDE

    62A Water park feature

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    MUS

    88A Base of Asti wine

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    SCAMPI

    92D Sautéed seafood dish

    1
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    ESTOPS

    3D Hinders

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    ARIDE

    103D Hitch ___

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    MASCOT

    8A Costumed animal, perhaps

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    STEELY

    94D Intense, as a gaze

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    MAIMS

    109A Really hurts

    1
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    CRAZY

    14D Screwball character on "The Simpsons"

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    MATILDA

    51D Precocious Roald Dahl heroine

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    RAWDATA

    48D Number-cruncher's numbers

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    WILLA

    43A Author who wrote about frontier life

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    12
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    EURAIL

    97D Kind of pass for an overseas passenger

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    CBSTV

    14A Something media executives keep an eye on?

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    MIGS

    51A Cold war fighters

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    TADPOLE

    20A One on the verge of croaking?

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    CAESURA

    1A Break in poetry

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    LDRS

    34D P.M.'s and such: Abbr.

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    PRIVYTO

    37D In on

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    GRAMP

    93A Pop's pop

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    SOOTIER

    117A More dirty, as Santa's boots

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    SPARETIRES debut

    10D Middle weights?

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    VALENCE debut

    32D Bonding measurement

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    ELKE

    39D Actress Sommer

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    ALSORAN

    19A The hare, notably

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    ELAM

    80D Jack of old westerns

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    USEDTO

    96D Not fazed by

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    DIMS

    82A Darkens

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    BORA

    106D When doubled, island near Tahiti

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    OCASEY

    119A Dramatist Sean

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    ALATE

    55A Winged

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    ALEROS

    2D Last Oldsmobiles

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    AIRDATE

    113A Show time

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    SOONYI

    4D Wife of Woody

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    MATHIS

    8D "Misty" crooner

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    MTARARAT

    86A Biblical resting spot

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    OATBRAN

    64D High-fiber cereal

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    STONIER

    111A More poker-faced

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    AGREESTO

    85D Shakes on

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    IMNEXT

    81D "My turn"

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    LISTED

    98D On the stock exchange

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    RECUE

    21A Prompt again

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    STARSHIP

    45A Vehicle that's out of this world?

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    6
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    ADHEM

    9D Leigh Hunt poem "Abou Ben ___"

    0
    5
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    SPACEMEN

    100A ETs

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    5
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    TABLOID debut

    84A Paparazzi payer

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    5
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    TESSERAE

    13D Mosaic tiles

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    ASYLUMS

    75A Sanitariums

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    ETHANES

    23A Molecules in natural gas

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    EVILQUEEN

    53A Villain in many a fairy tale

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    TERRORIST

    79A Villain in many an action movie

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    BEDEWS

    15D Moistens, in a way

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    SIZER

    28A Egg-sorting device

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    3
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    TIREDLY

    116A Without any oomph

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    BARENTS

    106A ___ Sea, body of water north of Norway

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    BARKEEP debut

    49A Person on tap?

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    ENFOLDS

    120A Swaddles

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    2
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    PROPPLANES debut

    72D Old barnstorming needs

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    2
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    AMSTATION debut

    78D Source of talk, often

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    1
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    BLOWDRY debut

    57A Salon request

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    BQE debut

    49D Hwy. that ends near La Guardia

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    DIMEA debut

    66A ___-dozen

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    LETONTO debut

    22A Allowed aboard

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    SCOREAHIT debut

    16D Make the Billboard charts, say

    0
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    VERYWELL debut

    32A "Fine, have it your way!"

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    WAUL debut

    43D Cry like a feline

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