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Wednesday · 78 answers · 7 debuts

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

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    ERA

    19A Detergent name

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    ARI

    6D D-backs, in box scores

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    IRS

    65D Org. in a 2013 scandal

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    RED

    42A Like the Triple Word Score squares in Scrabble

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    ACT

    23D Comport oneself

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    TOE

    32A ___ clip (bike attachment)

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    ALT

    35A Viejo : Sp. :: ___ : Ger.

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    AMP

    11A Excite, with "up"

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    PEA

    66A Stew tidbit

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    NATO

    39D Grp. whose initials in French are the reverse of its English initials

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    NASA

    20A Org. with launch parties?

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    INANE

    54D Cockamamie

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    ARAL

    26D ___ Sea (greatly shrunken body of water)

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    OWN

    55D Part of B.Y.O.B.

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    AMASS

    6A Pile up

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    MAN

    7D Playing piece

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    ALS

    45D Two of racing's Unsers

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    POT

    49A Lobster catcher

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    LIED

    36D Perjured oneself

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    LGA

    44A Airport alternative to JFK

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    OSSO

    46A ___ buco

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    GAL

    16A Whom a guy do-si-dos with

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    YRS

    69A Abbr. before "truly"

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    WAGE

    58A Scale amount

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    OGLE

    41D Check the figures?

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    ITA

    63D "Give ___ rest!"

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    UKE

    60A HI-strung instrument?

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    BLOC

    24D Soviet ___

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    LOTTO

    22D Game with a multiplier

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    ISR

    2D Acre's locale: Abbr.

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    GIF

    1D Alternative to .jpg

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    HIE

    62D Rush

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    ORNATE

    4D Like Rococo architecture

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    XED

    34D Marked wrong

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    AVES

    56A Many Monopoly properties: Abbr.

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    LAH

    18D "Well, ___-di-dah"

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    SHOOT

    10D "I'm all ears!"

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    EXAM

    33A Reason to cram

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    ADZ

    35D Wood-shaping tool

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    INUIT

    67A Eskimo

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    APLUS

    71A Stellar grade

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    NEMEA

    70A Where Hercules slew a lion

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    GIJOE

    1A Hasbro action figure

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    SPOIL

    9D Give away, as a movie ending

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    EEKS

    5D Cartoon squeals

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    ALIBIS

    8D Cover stories

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    SAVEAS

    48D Computer command under "File"

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    RRS

    30A Some Monopoly properties: Abbr.

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    GAZE

    43A Look at the stars, say

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    RAGTOP

    51D Convertible, in slang

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    MRMAGOO

    27D Toon voiced by Jim Backus

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    ISERE

    14A Grenoble's river

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    EROSE

    38D Jagged, as a leaf's edge

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    TENN

    31A Home of Cherokee Natl. Forest

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    SEVE

    29D Golf's Ballesteros

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    DRILL

    50A Boot camp routine

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    RALPH

    15A One of the "Honeymooners"

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    NEU

    64D Opposite of 35-Across

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    ERWIN

    53D Gen. Rommel, the Desert Fox

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    ABAT

    23A Blind as ___

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    AGFA

    59D Big name in photography, once

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    CLUES

    28A Nancy Drew findings

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    FOYER

    68A Place for a coatrack

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    MARGIN

    12D Place to doodle

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    OCCUPY

    46D Modern protest name

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    AGEONE debut

    11D Time of first steps, often

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    OLIVEOYL

    40D Toon with size 14-AAAAAA shoes

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    SHAKER

    47D Salt or pepper holder

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    BIOLOGY

    21A Dissection class

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    CAVERNS

    57A Virginia's Luray ___

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    POSSUM

    49D Woods critter

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    JEANAUEL

    3D "Earth's Children" author

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    PLAYON debut

    13D Not stop a musical gig

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    CHASEIOOOO debut

    52A Face value?

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    CLEVELANDIOOO debut

    37A Face value?

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    FRANKLINIOO debut

    17A Face value?

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    HAMILTONIO debut

    25A Face value?

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    WASHINGTONI debut

    61A Face value?

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