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Thursday · 74 answers · 4 debuts

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

  1. 1
    ELI

    62A "The Book of ___" (2010 film)

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    LEO

    16A Barack Obama, for one

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    268
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    ERS

    10D Hosp. units

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    284
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    ELS

    65A Trains in Chicago

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    333
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    ADD

    11A Interject

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    224
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    KNEE

    54D Attack at close range, maybe

    24
    264
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    NES

    59A Gaming inits.

    23
    118
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    NEAR

    35A Around

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    183
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    ERIN

    64A Sons of ___ (ethnic pride group)

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    AKA

    39A Rap sheet abbr.

    19
    211
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    TEST

    67A Trial balloon

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    181
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    DEA

    60D Justice Department div.

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    124
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    NOSE

    30D Bad thing to pick

    15
    188
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    THAI

    8D Spicy cuisine

    15
    130
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    MSN

    19A ___ Search (former name for Bing)

    15
    73
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    LANE

    61A There may be one for "8 items or less"

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    142
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    RISE

    57D Knoll

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    ATTN

    58D Memo abbr.

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    134
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    REACT

    27D Not take it lying down

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    67
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    SNAFU

    48A Total mess

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    58
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    OHARE

    51D Airport named for a naval war hero

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    91
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    NAPS

    25D Drops off, maybe

    9
    74
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    DADA

    31A Baby's word

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    TAC

    21D Washington's Sea-___ Airport

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    90
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    DONE

    13D Ready to serve

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    66
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    IVES

    56D Composer Charles

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    96
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    SPENT

    53D Tuckered out

    5
    75
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    ISLET

    50D Exposed sandbar, maybe

    5
    74
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    CANS

    42A Fires

    5
    39
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    RUTS

    14A Wagon trails have them

    5
    32
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    RUBIK

    2D Father of a 1980s craze

    5
    19
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    SERF

    38D One doing the lord's work

    4
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    BRAN

    1A Kind of muffin

    4
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    SALES

    40A Corporate department

    4
    47
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    ATBAY

    3D Held in check

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    35
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    ENERO

    24A Día de los Santos Reyes month

    3
    137
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    IRANI

    29D Hassan Rowhani, for one

    3
    99
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    NSYNC

    4D Popular quintet that included two former Mouseketeers

    3
    52
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    FAME

    22A "A fickle food," to Emily Dickinson

    3
    32
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    ABBY

    17A Women's soccer star Wambach

    3
    30
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    SASE

    44A Junk mail encl., sometimes

    2
    77
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    EXE

    47D Program file suffix

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    60
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    ABSENT

    66A Out

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    31
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    AXIOMS

    49A "Time is money" and others

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    17
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    TITANS

    18A Oceanus and Hyperion

    2
    17
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    BRAGS

    1D Crows

    2
    11
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    SLADE

    41A Band with the 1984 hit "My Oh My"

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    11
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    DAKAR

    28D Westernmost city on the African mainland

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    22
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    SUPERB

    46D Top-notch

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    BEATLE

    5A Apple grower?

    1
    15
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    PLANO

    36A Texas city that's headquarters for J. C. Penney

    1
    15
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    FELLAS

    22D Guys

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    8
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    ATTU

    7D Aleutian island

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    43
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    ERESTU

    63A 1974 foreign-language hit

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    ANDEAN

    34D Like vicuñas

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    MINIS

    52D Some BMW vehicles

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    18
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    ARTHUR

    15A Boy who pulls the sword from the stone in "The Sword in the Stone"

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    17
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    DOST

    31D Biblical verb

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    17
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    ERIQ

    6D La Salle of "Coming to America"

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    14
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    PIRATESHIP

    55A Pennsylvania ballplayer's joint?

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    9
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    DEVITO

    60A The Penguin's player in "Batman Returns"

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    7
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    GIANTSQUID

    20A California ballplayer's pound?

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    6
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    KWON

    54A Tae ___ do

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    6
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    SKYCAM

    23A Stadium recorder

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    5
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    DESMOINES

    12D Where Ronald Reagan worked as a sports announcer

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    4
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    OLINS

    37A Actors Ken and Lena

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    4
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    DIAGNOSIS

    33D Result of an exam

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    3
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    SPATOUT

    43D Said quickly

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    3
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    ALLISWELL

    32D "No problems here"

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    2
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    ALMARSALA debut

    11D One way to prepare pollo

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    2
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    BATSMAN

    5D Cricket player

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    2
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    CARDINALSIN debut

    26A Missouri ballplayer's connection?

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    1
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    LUNDEN debut

    9D Joan who once co-hosted "Good Morning America"

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    1
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    TIGERSTRIPE debut

    45A Michigan ballplayer's rubbish

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    1