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Sunday · 140 answers · 6 debuts

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

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    EAR

    97D Shucked item

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    AGE

    49A Basis of some ticket discounts

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    LEE

    80A Wrangler rival

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    SIR

    7D "Dear" one

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    OLD

    70A Over the hill

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    EYE

    13D Size up

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    RHO

    98D Density symbol, in physics

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    RBI

    37A Baseball card stat

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    ASEA

    91D Out of port

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    EURO

    106A French or Italian bread

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    NEW

    95D State-of-the-art

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    LIAR

    76A Untrustworthy sort

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    ERIC

    89D "Spamalot" writer Idle

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    INTO

    39D Krakauer's "___ the Wild"

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    SPAS

    17D They have springs

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    ORATE

    35A Give one's address?

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    NOAH

    102A Patriarch who lived 950 years

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    ADORE

    11D Love

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    CNET

    47A Tech media Web site founded in 1994

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    EXIT

    19A Get off the highway

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    JAB

    3D Hardly a slow poke

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    AWES

    86A Really impresses

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    THOU

    96D Biblical pronoun

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    PASS

    5A Go beyond

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    PHDS

    14A Upper-tier academics

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    YEAR

    56A Sentence unit

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    LASS

    12D Subject of many a Burns ballad

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    SATAN

    45D Old Nick

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    ORCAS

    40A SeaWorld performers

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    EVAN

    71A Former Indiana senator Bayh

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    URNS

    34A Coffee containers

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    THAW

    94D Détente

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    TREES

    23D Fruit growers

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    PILE

    90D Untidy stack

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    KEEL

    101A Beam from one end to the other

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    GRAD

    41A Mortarboard tosser

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    PHASE

    14D Something to grow out of

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    URAL

    26A Caspian Sea feeder

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    MEAT

    51D Entree, often

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    DEF

    1D Cool, in hip-hop slang

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    OWEN

    43A Wilson of Hollywood

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    SEAN

    53D Playwright O'Casey

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    AWRY

    105A Sideways

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    OPTED

    81A Went (for)

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    ANGST

    92A Existential anxiety

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    STALE

    9A Tired

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    CELEB

    32A Star

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    BOAST

    59A Toot one's own horn

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    ELTON

    48A John at a piano

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    NORM

    54A What's expected

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    NOES

    78A "Regrets" and others

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    BALL

    67D Socialite's party

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    TRIES

    84A Makes a go of it

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    URGED

    34D Pressed

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    BEIGE

    79D Soft shade

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    AERIE

    60D Hard-to-reach nest

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    ARARAT

    93A Welcome sight after a flood

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    POOH

    44A "What nonsense!"

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    AVENGE

    64D Get retribution for

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    DABS

    88D Small dollops

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    BEERS

    38D Some drafts

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    BIRDS

    99A Tweeters

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    BINGO

    79A "Exactly right!"

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    MACRO

    51A Computer user's shortcut

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    TODAY

    20A In current times

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    SCUD

    82A Gulf war missile

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    FEUD

    75A Not just a tiff

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    ENDOR

    66D Ewoks' home in "Star Wars"

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    DUES

    31A Periodic payments

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    BERETS

    68D Green ___

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    POOF

    62A [Gone ... instantly!]

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    COPED

    63D Got through difficulties

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    ARGON

    72A Gas in a vacuum tube

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    AMMAN

    60A Where Arab Bank is headquartered

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    THROW

    42D Martial arts move

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    AXELS

    6D Rink jumps

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    OHENRY

    35D Award won by Alice Munro and Stephen King

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    ALCOTT

    30D One of the authors in the game Authors

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    DUNN

    16D Musical duo Brooks & ___

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    WIPED

    73D Erased, as a tape

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    SHOWUP

    21A Put in an appearance

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    ALEUT

    100A Unalaska native

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    READY

    85D Set preceder?

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    MANNA

    25A Food in the Bible

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    IVOR

    2D English war poet Gurney

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    PAROLE

    29D Early release

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    PIECES

    77A Breaking developments?

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    ROREM

    36D Pulitzer-winning composer Ned

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    EVAC

    18A Rescue mission, briefly

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    TOWNS

    10D Stops on a whistle-stop tour

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    MERGER

    83A Company of two?

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    PAPERS

    29A Checkpoint needs

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    DEFEND

    88A Hold the fort, say

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    DISOWNS

    28A Repudiates

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    GINGER

    41D Zesty staple of Asian cuisine

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    STORIES

    9D Made-up alibis

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    BOWOUT

    68A Withdraw

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    COWERED

    57D Recoiled fearfully

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    GAUGED

    65D Guesstimated

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    GURNEY

    50A Patient mover

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    SCARY

    103A Horrorful

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    WEARY

    104A Tired

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    ARTHUR

    86D 1981 comedy or its 2011 remake

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    PONCE

    62D Puerto Rican port

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    SMILES

    21D All ___

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    PETARD

    5D Besieger's bomb

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    THOMAS

    42A "Really useful engine" of children's books

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    DIJON

    1A Mustard variety

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    SWEATY

    82D Betraying nervousness, in a way

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    BALERS

    59D Farm machines

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    TENCENT

    69D Like some stores of years gone by

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    BEARON

    67A Be relevant to

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    SINGININTHERAIN

    45A #1 on the American Film Institute's "Greatest Movie Musicals" list

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    TALONED

    33A Like birds of prey

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    BORDER

    55D Line on a map

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    CAMAY

    32D Procter & Gamble soap

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    CHEWY

    57A Like nougat

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    FADER

    87D Volume control on a soundboard

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    POINTS

    77D Lifts a finger?

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    DETAIN

    28D Hold for questioning

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    DETESTED

    52A Viewed with contempt

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    FOISTED

    87A Palmed off

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    HOOKS

    58D Catchy parts of pop songs

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    HOWNOWBROWNCOW

    15D Elocution phrase

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    MARGARETFARRAR

    61D Classic name in crossword puzzles

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    PARENS

    90A Holders of addl. thoughts

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    MONTHLY

    83D How utility bills are usually paid

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    MOUSSAKA

    74D Eggplant casserole

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    TOPED

    33D Drank to excess

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    WERNERKLEMPERER

    73A German-born Emmy winner of 1960s TV

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    BESTOWS

    55A Confers

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    CARTHAGE

    63A Home of Hannibal

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    MOINES

    27A Des ___, Iowa

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    TUNEFUL

    46D Melodious

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    CASTSTHEFIRSTSTONE debut

    47D Initiates a conflict

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    FORBETTERORFORWORSE debut

    22A Comic strip about the Patterson family

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    FOUNDING debut

    24D Setting up

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    ONCEUPONAHONEYMOON debut

    4D 1942 Cary Grant comedy

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    STORMDRAIN debut

    8D What a gutter may lead to

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    THISTHATANDTHEOTHER debut

    94A Various things

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