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Wednesday · 78 answers · 6 debuts

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

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    ERAS

    44A Key periods

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    TAR

    21D Driveway topper

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    351
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    ENOS

    57D Book of Mormon prophet

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    287
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    OTTO

    7D "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" lyricist Harbach

    22
    273
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    MIA

    34A Rapper with the 2008 hit "Paper Planes"

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    209
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    TKO

    45A M.M.A. decision

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    123
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    RAY

    40D Flat fish

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    128
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    INC

    41A Company's end?

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    126
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    ESTA

    30A This: Sp.

    15
    154
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    OFT

    37A Frequent, in odes

    15
    113
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    RITA

    17A Memorable 2005 Gulf hurricane

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    138
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    TAXI

    16A Where business is picking up?

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    DEED

    68A Something good for a scout, say

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    ORDER

    29D "Atten-TION!," e.g.

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    ORR

    39D "Catch-22" character who "hasn't got brains enough to be unhappy"

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    235
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    TBAR

    35A It can give you a lift

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    ASHEN

    22A Whitish

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    128
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    ROTC

    10D Big source of coll. scholarships

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    INNER

    65A Central

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    AETNA

    18A Prudential rival

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    UTILE

    59A Functional

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    EVAN

    13A Actress ___ Rachel Wood

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    ROTH

    14A Singer David Lee ___

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    64
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    JET

    1D Black

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    69
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    LOIN

    6D Choice cut

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    69
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    DORM

    50A Quad part

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    59
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    TYPO

    46A Bad character?

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    51
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    EMINEM

    48D Rapper with the autobiography "The Way I Am"

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    36
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    BBQ

    63D Summer event, briefly ... or a phonetic hint to 19-, 26-, 47- and 53-Across

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    29
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    EINE

    55D Article in Arnsberg

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    119
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    COS

    62D Trig. function

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    MASK

    69A Trick-or-treater's wear

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    33
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    QBS

    27D Play callers, for short

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    29
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    FAA

    28D Drone regulator, in brief

    4
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    UVA

    2D Cavalier's sch.

    4
    67
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    MES

    64D Año part

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    48
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    CLOTH

    15A Dust collector

    4
    20
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    STUMP

    42A Totally puzzle

    4
    20
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    UPSET

    52A Jets' victory over the Colts in Super Bowl III, famously

    3
    66
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    SHAQ

    12D Longtime teammate of 67-Across

    3
    49
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    ICBM

    61A Warhead carrier, for short

    2
    51
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    KOBE

    67A Longtime teammate of 12-Down

    2
    32
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    BROIL

    36A Lie in the hot sun

    2
    25
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    ALCOTT

    33D Literary giant from Concord, Mass.

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    ONATIP

    20D How the police might investigate someone

    2
    8
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    ELOI

    66A The Time Traveler's hosts

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    ONER

    51D British pound, informally

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    ATNO

    11D 53 for I, e.g.

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    UTNE

    54D ___ Reader

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    BLOT

    5A Printout problem

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    48
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    ZOLA

    56D Dreyfus Affair chronicler

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    39
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    KANT

    25A Philosopher who asked "What is enlightenment?"

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    32
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    ATMOST

    22D Not more than

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    JRS

    47D Yearbook sect.

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    ISADORA

    38A Dancer Duncan

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    UNICEF

    4D Trick-or-treater's cause

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    QUIK

    58D Classic Nestlé drink

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    UPDIKE

    49D John who won two Pulitzers for fiction

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    7
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    HEATUP

    24D Intensify

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    6
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    CAHN

    15D "High Hopes" lyricist Sammy

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    36
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    BRRR

    5D "It's f-f-freezing!"

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    18
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    QUID

    53D British pound, informally

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    18
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    ESQS

    70A Ones working on a case-by-case basis?: Abbr.

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    15
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    FRAS

    9A Some brothers

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    JAX

    3D Florida port, briefly

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    NONU

    60A Lower-class, in Leeds

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    BASQUE

    36D Like the sport of jai alai

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    5
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    TINKLE

    32D Cat collar sound

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    5
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    MODELED

    43D Patterned (after)

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    SOITIS debut

    31D "You're right about that"

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    4
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    THANKU

    8D 1998 Alanis Morissette hit with a slangy misspelling

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    4
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    FLEETER

    9D Swifter

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    2
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    JUJU

    1A Tribal symbol of luck

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    2
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    SHIFTY debut

    23D Deceitful

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    2
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    CORNONTHECOQ debut

    19A French chicken dish garnished with kernels?

    0
    1
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    JERRYQUILT debut

    47A What Ben stitched for his business partner?

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    1
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    QUEENSIZEQED debut

    53A Royal ending to a mathematical proof?

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    1
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    THEFAQFOUR debut

    26A Quartet on an online help page?

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