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Thursday · 72 answers · 4 debuts

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

  1. 1
    RAE

    11D "The Facts of Life" actress

    28
    278
  2. 2
    EELS

    55D Reef dwellers

    27
    198
  3. 3
    OPEN

    14D Public

    26
    217
  4. 4
    LES

    18A Louis Malle's "___ Amants"

    22
    270
  5. 5
    OER

    27D Key preposition?

    22
    248
  6. 6
    SKI

    58D Kind of trail

    21
    180
  7. 7
    NOS

    59D Rejections

    21
    156
  8. 8
    REEL

    29D Line holder

    19
    184
  9. 9
    EMMA

    32D Title character from the village of Highbury, 1815

    19
    173
  10. 10
    REPO

    8D "___ Man"

    18
    146
  11. 11
    SEND

    24D Elate

    12
    133
  12. 12
    LOB

    56A Highball?

    8
    87
  13. 13
    NAV

    36D Part of U.S.N.A.: Abbr.

    8
    32
  14. 14
    TERSE

    53D Breviloquent

    7
    142
  15. 15
    UVEA

    45A Eye part

    7
    95
  16. 16
    POOR

    26A D

    7
    67
  17. 17
    ESTD

    37A Foundation stone abbr.

    6
    70
  18. 18
    III

    39D Certain grandson

    4
    126
  19. 19
    DET

    22D SFO opponent in the 2012 World Series

    3
    52
  20. 20
    ONCD

    21A Like much music, starting in the late 1980s

    3
    26
  21. 21
    MEANIE

    38A Dirty dog

    3
    25
  22. 22
    BOARS

    1A Swine

    3
    20
  23. 23
    AEROBE

    28A Mycobacterium, e.g.

    3
    18
  24. 24
    STEPIN

    31A Start to break up a fight, say

    3
    18
  25. 25
    ICBM

    50A Subj. of 1991's Start treaty

    2
    51
  26. 26
    DENEB

    30A One of the vertices of the Summer Triangle

    2
    34
  27. 27
    AYEAYE

    57A Approval of an order

    2
    26
  28. 28
    NECTAR

    20A Fruit juice

    2
    24
  29. 29
    REDTAPE

    4D Bureaucracy

    2
    23
  30. 30
    BRAND

    12D Leave a lasting mark on

    2
    20
  31. 31
    TORPOR

    60A Lassitude

    2
    15
  32. 32
    BRUNEI

    12A Country that calls itself the "Abode of Peace"

    2
    10
  33. 33
    OUTACT debut

    2D Best on stage, say

    2
    4
  34. 34
    BODE

    51D Foreshadow

    1
    42
  35. 35
    DPS

    46A Diamond stats

    1
    21
  36. 36
    TSTRAP

    52A Women's shoe style

    1
    21
  37. 37
    DONG

    30D Vietnamese currency

    1
    12
  38. 38
    PAYOLA

    47D Radio activity?

    1
    11
  39. 39
    DRAPED

    46D Hung

    1
    8
  40. 40
    KEELOVER

    61A Faint

    1
    3
  41. 41
    AGT

    49A Operative: Abbr.

    0
    60
  42. 42
    EDD

    7D Teacher's advanced deg.

    0
    47
  43. 43
    ANENT

    3D Re

    0
    43
  44. 44
    DRT

    25A 2000 Richard Gere title role

    0
    27
  45. 45
    INESSE

    63A Not hypothetical

    0
    27
  46. 46
    ESPO

    32A Boston legend Phil, to fans

    0
    23
  47. 47
    KTS

    23A Gold units: Abbr.

    0
    23
  48. 48
    AVANTI

    17A Stylish 1960s luxury coupe

    0
    19
  49. 49
    SERENADE

    58A Play to the balcony?

    0
    16
  50. 50
    SPERM

    48D ___ whale

    0
    15
  51. 51
    RYN

    35A Rembrandt van ___

    0
    13
  52. 52
    ANSELM

    62A 11th-century founder of Scholasticism

    0
    12
  53. 53
    OCH

    19A Scottish exclamation

    0
    11
  54. 54
    NAGEL

    41A Conrad of the silents

    0
    10
  55. 55
    MARGIN

    44A Noted part of a book?

    0
    9
  56. 56
    NEEDA

    64A "___ lift?"

    0
    9
  57. 57
    RHE

    54A Line score inits.

    0
    9
  58. 58
    GETATAN

    42D Sunbathe

    0
    7
  59. 59
    OPEDPAGE

    16A Essay locale

    0
    7
  60. 60
    ENCLAVE

    40D Vatican City vis-à-vis Rome

    0
    6
  61. 61
    RATEDX

    15A Like only one Best Picture in Academy Award history (1969)

    0
    6
  62. 62
    CORDELIA

    13A Shakespeare character who says "Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave / My heart into my mouth"

    0
    5
  63. 63
    EASYONE

    43D "Piece of cake!"

    0
    5
  64. 64
    BLACKOPS

    9D 2010 installment in the Call of Duty series

    0
    4
  65. 65
    EIGHTBIT

    10D Like some primitive game graphics

    0
    3
  66. 66
    FRESCAS

    6D Some diet drinks

    0
    3
  67. 67
    PARTHREE

    34D Not too hard a golf hole

    0
    3
  68. 68
    SIXIRON

    5D Mashie niblick

    0
    3
  69. 69
    BRAVER debut

    1D Like the Cowardly Lion at the end of "The Wizard of Oz"

    0
    2
  70. 70
    FERBER

    6A "Giant" novelist, 1952

    0
    2
  71. 71
    SEAGREEN debut

    33D Teal relative

    0
    2
  72. 72
    COLORBYNUMBER debut

    13D Kid's art activity ... or something seen four times in this puzzle's solution?

    0
    1