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

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   ELI

   26A Thornton Wilder, while earning his B.A.

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   SEGA

   32A Knuckles the Echidna's company

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   DEERE

   28A Mower handle?

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   GAL

   7D Square dance partner

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   ATEIN

   41A Put away one's own groceries?

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   PIANO

   47D Source of grand sounds?

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   SEPIA

   33A Crayola color introduced in 1958

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   SINEW

   31D Resilient strength

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    AIDED

    23D Served

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    IMAY

    34A Wishy-washy reply

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    NEWAT

    4D Just starting to learn

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    OSE

    52D Relative of -ish

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    NELL

    43A Nagg's wife in Samuel Beckett's "Endgame"

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    NINER

    49A What Montana was in the '80s

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    ERITREA

    10D 1890-1941 Italian colony

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    ARR

    6D Weather might delay it: Abbr.

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    ESA

    53D Spanish demonstrative

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    ETALII

    20A Roster shortener

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    ARCANE

    25A Impenetrable

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    CHIT

    27A Debt memo

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    JUT

    51D Extrude

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    KEENEN

    54A One of the Wayans brothers

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    DOW

    44A Ziploc bag introducer

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    ALFIE

    14D Caine character who's left wondering

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    ODDEST

    56A As far out as possible

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    STONEAGE

    1A Smelting ended it

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    ALOUETTE

    36D Kindergarten song

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    APOLAR

    12D Like hydra neurons

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    PLANTS

    45A They have their own kingdom

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    RIPOFF

    18A Scam

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    TALKED

    42D Named names, say

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    ELD

    8D Antiquity, in antiquity

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    OLEAN

    19A Pringles Light ingredient

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    ALLIED

    41D Acting as one

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    TELLALIE

    2D Invent something

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    PROPEL

    16A Drive

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    DEFINE

    13D Characterize

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    NIKITA

    50A CW series based on a French film

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    SLENDER

    40D Not unlike a ballet dancer

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    SECADA

    9A Latin pop Grammy winner Jon

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    PINKO

    45D McCarthy-era epithet

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    USSENATE

    55A Wicker seat place?

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    EBONICS

    5D Controversial school language subject

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    STEPINS

    24D Quaint undies

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    TEAROSES

    57A Blooms named for their scent

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    ORDERING

    3D Activity for diners and list makers

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    OLDWORLD

    17A Traditional

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    CEREBRAL

    15A Intellectually stimulating

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    COPACETIC

    11D Ducky

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    SCOOPERS

    1D Ice cream store employees

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    SPREADEAGLE

    9D Like a snow angel maker, at times

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    THISINSTANT

    22D Now

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    GASENGINE

    30D It works via a series of explosions

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    ILLGOT debut

    48A Procured unlawfully, old-style

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    LITOTES

    39D Figure of speech like "not unlike"

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    RINGSIDESEAT

    29A Close match point?

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    YEWTREES debut

    37D Some graveyard flora

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    JOEDANTE debut

    51A "Piranha" director, 1978

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    MADONNAS debut

    35D Paintings often including an infant

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    PARTITAS debut

    21A Bach wrote three for violin

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    SLIDINGSCALE debut

    38A Variable pay schedule

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    SWEEPOUT debut

    46A Whisk clean

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