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Friday · 72 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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    ELSE

    48A Alternative indicator

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    ICE

    32A *Water cooler

    40
    391
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    RNA

    52A Microscopic messenger

    29
    322
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    ENDS

    31D ___ of the earth

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    303
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    TON

    4D Big load

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    209
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    HAS

    47A Outwits

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    175
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    DES

    61D Paris's Avenue ___ Champs-Élysées

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    154
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    SRS

    10D '14s in '14, e.g.

    14
    209
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    AROSE

    64A Came (from)

    14
    154
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    KEY

    19A *Basketball area

    13
    123
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    PASS

    23A Not run, maybe

    11
    97
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    EMIL

    57D ___ Zátopek, four-time Olympic track gold medalist

    10
    131
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    SALAD

    37D Table leaves?

    10
    101
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    PURE

    22A *100%

    9
    55
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    VAT

    59A Cousin of a cistern

    7
    101
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    RUSE

    36A Bit of flimflam

    7
    77
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    OLDS

    58D Delta 88, e.g., informally

    6
    103
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    TRITE

    21D Like "Have a nice day," for example

    6
    73
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    REGAL

    16A Big name in movie theaters

    6
    64
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    UNDER

    43A *Submerged

    6
    58
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    IDEST

    51D Words of explanation

    5
    88
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    SOARS

    24D Takes off

    5
    29
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    GELS

    34D Gets set

    4
    61
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    PIES

    9D Circlegraph shapes

    4
    58
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    ANKH

    5D Symbol of life

    4
    50
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    ETERNE

    49A Ageless, in an earlier age

    4
    43
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    VEIL

    30A Symbol of modesty

    4
    35
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    ODIOUS

    28A Abhorrent

    4
    16
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    OWED

    55A *Had charges

    3
    60
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    OREIDA

    50A Portmanteau food brand

    3
    44
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    TEMPT

    11D Lead on

    2
    31
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    EATERY

    49D Grill, e.g.

    2
    25
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    ROANS

    7D Stable colors

    2
    23
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    SICS

    54A Sets (on)

    2
    22
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    TOYED

    60A Messed (with)

    2
    22
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    PERSONA

    42D Image

    2
    16
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    HONEST

    20A Unlike Iago

    1
    42
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    TSR

    25A Co. that introduced Dungeons & Dragons

    1
    23
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    LEU

    63D Money of Romania

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    17
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    KLEENEX

    14D Product that might be used with a blessing

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    15
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    NODOZ

    53D Cramming aid

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    14
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    UNUSED

    29D Left over

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    12
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    RESTSON

    46D Uses for support

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    10
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    TYNAN

    33A British critic Kenneth who created "Oh! Calcutta!"

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    10
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    ISEEYOU

    41D Cry in hide-and-seek

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    6
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    AGOUTIS

    12D Relatives of guinea pigs

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    5
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    ONSERVE

    8D Even or close to even, in a tennis set

    1
    5
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    SHOOTAT debut

    39D Target, in a way

    1
    3
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    DEBS

    38A Third-place candidate in the 1920 presidential election who ran his campaign from jail

    0
    36
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    DESOTO

    56A Pizarro contemporary

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    34
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    SMOTE

    18A Struck, as by God

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    34
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    STARK

    10A Bare

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    RATRACE

    13D Grind

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    TNUTS

    66A Wood fasteners

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    JACKPOT

    1D Something good to hit

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    9
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    RATTAN

    26A Cane material

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    9
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    ENCARTA

    45D Wikipedia precursor

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    8
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    INORDERTO

    65A So that one might

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    ESNES

    35D Feudal thralls

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    CRANKCASE

    17A What gets the shaft?

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    6
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    ALLBUT

    27D Nearly

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    5
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    LAZYSUSAN

    67A Revolutionary invention for restaurants?

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    5
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    STAYSIN

    3D What an agoraphobe does

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    5
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    UNREADY

    2D Asleep, say

    0
    5
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    DRIVERS

    44D Those who should follow the advice in the sounded-out answers to the five starred clues

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    3
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    ANTONIONI

    15A Director Michelangelo

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    2
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    DICOTS debut

    6D Daisies and the like, botanically

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    1
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    GENTLESEX debut

    34A Women, old-fashionedly

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    1
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    JUSTADROP debut

    1A "Not much at all for me, please"

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    1
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    MODELLERS debut

    62A Many British mathematicians

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    1
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    SWISSALPS debut

    39A Skiing mecca

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    1
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    WARWORN debut

    40D Like Europe in 1945

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