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Thursday · 74 answers · 2 debuts

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

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    ONE

    10D In dire need of gas, say

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    612
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    IRA

    37D Grp. in a 1919-21 war of independence

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    448
  3. 3
    EPEE

    63A Summer Olympics event

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    343
  4. 4
    OGRE

    61A Unlikely mate for a princess

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    284
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    STAN

    53A Ollie's partner in comedy

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    228
  6. 6
    TOE

    52A Stocking stuffer

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    293
  7. 7
    ATT

    23A Long-distance inits.

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    ESTEE

    62A Big name in cosmetics

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    185
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    GRE

    58D M.A. hopeful's hurdle

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    119
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    OATS

    25A Feel one's ___ (be frisky)

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    133
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    SANE

    53D Ready to stand trial, in a way

    14
    153
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    APOP

    44D How individual firecrackers are priced?

    13
    107
  13. 13
    ATMS

    26D Bread producers

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    119
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    NIKE

    54D Sponsor of Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods

    11
    67
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    LGA

    6D JFK alternative

    10
    70
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    NERF

    9D Hasbro brand

    10
    68
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    INNS

    38D Tolkien's Prancing Pony and others

    9
    144
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    SLEET

    51D Hard fall

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    94
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    CLAN

    5A Blood group?

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    86
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    RESIN

    59A Frankincense or myrrh

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    84
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    STOOL

    24A Something slipped under the counter?

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    54
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    OGLE

    15A Inspect the figures?

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    200
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    LORI

    36D Petty around Hollywood

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    68
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    PADRE

    50D Tony Gwynn, notably

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    53
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    AURORA

    39A Skylights?

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    45
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    LUIS

    47A Baseball Hall-of-Famer Aparicio

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    44
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    SUNS

    1A Stars

    5
    32
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    NOLTE

    9A Oscar nominee for "Affliction"

    4
    75
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    LURK

    60A Read but not comment, in Internet lingo

    4
    24
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    NEEDTO

    8D Must

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    18
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    SAS

    41A Multinational carrier

    3
    116
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    RECAP

    19A Wrap up

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    NIE

    56D Never: Ger.

    3
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    IVANA

    55A One of Donald's exes

    3
    55
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    ESSENCE

    22D Core

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    43
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    COHN

    5D Singer Marc with the 1991 hit "Walking in Memphis"

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    34
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    WILL

    18D Plans to

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    27
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    UNMET

    2D Like overly optimistic goals, typically

    3
    23
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    LEIGH

    49D O'Hara portrayer

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    16
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    STN

    30A Place with a waiting room: Abbr.

    2
    56
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    UNC

    40A A.C.C. school

    2
    46
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    NEURO

    3D Intro to biology?

    2
    42
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    WHET

    64A Stimulate

    2
    38
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    SOPHS

    1D 10 students, for short?

    2
    14
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    ELHI

    46A Comprehensive, in edspeak

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    86
  46. 46
    ELMORE

    34A Literary Leonard

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    13
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    SPARETIRE

    30D Gut

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    10
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    INASNIT

    38A Ticked off

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    9
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    ATFAULT

    28D Guilty

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    7
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    ALLCAPS

    7D Indicator of stress

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    6
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    TRATTORIA

    12D Vino spot

    1
    6
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    ATTY

    26A Fiction's Atticus Finch, e.g.: Abbr.

    0
    69
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    ILA

    29D Pier grp.

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    37
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    ENORM

    16A Huge, in verse

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    25
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    TMS

    33A Some intellectual property, for short

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    20
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    NODEAL

    54A Negotiator's refusal

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    17
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    OFME

    25D "All ___" (Steve Martin/Lily Tomlin comedy)

    0
    13
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    SCHOOL

    4D Teach

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    11
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    HEROIN

    20A "Smack"

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    8
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    CDEF

    21A B's tail?

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    7
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    ONEC

    14A Draft status for someone in the Public Health Service

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    6
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    PULPS

    48A Dime novels and such

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    6
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    KUDROW

    45D "Friends" co-star

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    3
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    NORTHEAST

    32D 45 degrees

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    3
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    QUAYLE

    43D Bush successor

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    3
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    EMPTYNETS

    13D Fisherman's bane and hockey player's boon

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    2
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    LLAFPOSITION

    27A Plan B, literally

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    2
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    LOCATIONS

    11D Spots

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    2
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    PMUHWHALE

    17A Singer in the sea, literally

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    2
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    RETRAUQSNEAK

    42A Gridiron maneuver, literally

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    2
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    USINGUP

    40D Exhausting

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    2
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    YGGIPRIDE

    57A Little kid's lift, literally

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    2
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    PROLIFE debut

    35A One side of a hot-button social issue

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    1
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    TRUELOVES debut

    31D Soul mates

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    1