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Saturday · 70 answers · 13 debuts

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

  1. 1
    ALA

    50A Much like

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    513
  2. 2
    GAS

    22A Fun time

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    218
  3. 3
    OIL

    18A Choice for a portrait

    27
    282
  4. 4
    LOT

    34D Development site

    25
    189
  5. 5
    STE

    55A Suzanne, e.g.: Abbr.

    20
    274
  6. 6
    BEE

    12A Plant visitor

    18
    184
  7. 7
    ACED

    28D Made no mistakes on

    18
    152
  8. 8
    HEN

    11D Incubator

    16
    188
  9. 9
    PENS

    27D Desk set

    13
    84
  10. 10
    SCOT

    10D Cock-a-leekie eater

    12
    113
  11. 11
    MOE

    26D Dispenser of Duff Beer

    11
    149
  12. 12
    AHEAD

    28A On track to win

    10
    81
  13. 13
    YOU

    51D "Revolution" or "Hound Dog" starter

    9
    83
  14. 14
    GEN

    53A X or Y lead-in

    7
    74
  15. 15
    MEW

    44A Persian language unit?

    7
    71
  16. 16
    PISA

    49A Hometown of the mathematician Fibonacci

    6
    86
  17. 17
    MAMBA

    25A Serpent with a Zulu name

    6
    31
  18. 18
    ESTES

    45D Business fraudster Billie Sol ___

    4
    125
  19. 19
    AVI

    5D Prefix with culture

    4
    37
  20. 20
    RUSES

    3D Dodges

    4
    13
  21. 21
    ERLE

    14D Man's name that sounds noble

    3
    198
  22. 22
    PERP

    49D One may be fingered

    3
    40
  23. 23
    WAKE

    21A Aftermath

    3
    34
  24. 24
    KLEIN

    48A Psychoanalyst Melanie

    3
    30
  25. 25
    AQABA

    2D Great Rift Valley port

    2
    30
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    BICS

    4D Some 27-Down

    2
    23
  27. 27
    KITES

    38A Sky boxes?

    2
    23
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    LEDS

    24A Display options, briefly

    2
    19
  29. 29
    MISDO

    44D Screw up

    1
    25
  30. 30
    KOLN

    48D Severinsbrücke's city

    1
    22
  31. 31
    ZEKE

    47A "The Wizard of Oz" farmhand

    1
    20
  32. 32
    RANDOM

    6D Like some inspections

    1
    15
  33. 33
    WAYNE

    46D General who won 1794's Battle of Fallen Timbers

    1
    15
  34. 34
    BEFOG

    1D Muddle

    1
    12
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    DRAFT

    20A What you may open the door for

    1
    12
  36. 36
    FLUID

    43D Subject to change

    1
    11
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    MADONNA

    23D "___ With the Long Neck" (Parmigianino painting)

    1
    11
  38. 38
    LALAKER

    24D Pro athlete in purple and gold

    1
    8
  39. 39
    OBES

    19A U.K. honours

    1
    6
  40. 40
    UNIFY

    9D Come together

    1
    6
  41. 41
    ALARMBELL debut

    7D Danger dinger

    1
    4
  42. 42
    MOMMY

    23A Toddler coddler

    1
    4
  43. 43
    ERIKSATIE debut

    13D Composer of several "Gnossiennes"

    1
    3
  44. 44
    OLIVEGARDEN debut

    54A Uno's alternative

    1
    3
  45. 45
    RRR

    16A Elementary education, briefly

    0
    37
  46. 46
    ZAGS

    47D Navigates a switchback, in part

    0
    13
  47. 47
    MANAGE

    41D Handle

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    12
  48. 48
    DOCENT

    39A Exhibit explainer

    0
    10
  49. 49
    JAX

    52D Port named after a U.S. president, informally

    0
    10
  50. 50
    MADCAP

    26A Zany

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    10
  51. 51
    MARLENE

    25D Cary's "Blonde Venus" co-star

    0
    9
  52. 52
    WEDIDIT

    21D Cooperation exclamation

    0
    9
  53. 53
    DESERVE

    37D Warrant

    0
    6
  54. 54
    EXMET

    40A Strawberry, for one

    0
    6
  55. 55
    MANA

    42A Tom Clancy's "Every ___ Tiger"

    0
    5
  56. 56
    FSTAR

    43A Polaris or Procyon

    0
    4
  57. 57
    LEADSIN

    35A Gets to a seat, say

    0
    4
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    BETAMAX debut

    8D Old Sony format

    0
    3
  59. 59
    HAMOMELET

    29D No breakfast for a vegan

    0
    3
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    BARBARABUSH

    1A Her 1994 memoir has the chapter "Desert Storm"

    0
    2
  61. 61
    CARROLL debut

    33A He wrote of a "vorpal blade"

    0
    2
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    ERICAKANE debut

    30D TV antiheroine for 41 years

    0
    2
  63. 63
    YOURMAJESTY

    51A Words accompanying a low bow

    0
    2
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    BROADCAST debut

    12D Sent out in waves?

    0
    1
  65. 65
    EMILNOLDE debut

    36A Member of the German Expressionist group Die Brücke

    0
    1
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    EQUIVALENCE debut

    15A What watts and volt-amperes have

    0
    1
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    EXFOLIATE debut

    31A Use pumice on, perhaps

    0
    1
  68. 68
    FASCINATION debut

    17A High interest?

    0
    1
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    FLEXTIMER debut

    32D One whose shifts shift

    0
    1
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    UNDEREXPOSE debut

    56A Light insufficiently

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    1