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Sunday · 136 answers · 12 debuts

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

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    ORE

    90A Good source of iron?

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    ORAL

    123A Kind of cavity

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    NSA

    31A Org. implementing the Protect America Act

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    233
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    ETS

    30A "Guardians of the Galaxy" title characters, informally

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    ALT

    11D Not the main rte.

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    225
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    ATLAS

    64A Rockefeller Center statue

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    195
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    TIARA

    14D Sparkly topper

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    152
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    ACER

    8D Taiwanese computer giant

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    137
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    SLR

    120D Olympus OM-2, e.g.

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    129
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    SOSO

    65D Middlin'

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    154
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    IHOP

    111D 2007 purchaser of Applebee's

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    ABEL

    4D Biblical brother

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    194
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    ARAL

    113D Asia's ___ Sea

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    ERODE

    54A Undermine

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    175
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    NERO

    112D Nephew of Caligula

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    243
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    ABUT

    87A Go cheek-to-cheek with

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    135
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    HTTP

    16A Web starter

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    69
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    ELENA

    104D Justice Kagan

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    177
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    SANE

    43A Clear-minded

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    153
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    AESOP

    77A Writer painted by Velàzquez

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    127
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    AUTO

    82D Prefix with correct

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    165
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    OBIT

    81D Dead reckoning?

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    142
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    ENSUE

    66A Go after

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    101
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    HERA

    118A Goddess of marriage

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    116
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    RBIS

    114A Stats for Aaron and Gehrig

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    83
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    THOU

    18D G

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    NAST

    41D Earliest-born member of the Cartoon Hall of Fame

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    OLLIE

    37A Skateboard jump

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    OHHI

    22A "Fancy meeting you here!"

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    AREAS

    51A Fields

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    SPAN

    106A Team of oxen

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    SHES

    42D "___ Mine, All Mine" (1920s tune)

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    TIES

    36A Relationships

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    ITOO

    40D Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes"

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    58
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    ERECT

    13D Build

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    ROSE

    55A Prop on "The Bachelor"

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    ASAMI

    32D "Ditto"

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    MII

    53A Early-millennium year

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    TAI

    121D ___ chi

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    OILER

    91A Exxon Valdez, e.g.

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    78
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    HUH

    107A "Say what?"

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    60
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    TIPS

    89D Bar jarful

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    55
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    SPEND

    99A Be profligate, say

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    47
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    LISA

    47D ___ Leslie, three-time W.N.B.A. M.V.P.

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    106
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    ALGA

    58D Bit of seaweed

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    EELY

    29D Hard to grasp

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    58
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    PINT

    19D Pub order

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    49
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    RECUR

    109D Come back

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    39
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    GALL

    33A Audacity

    6
    37
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    REFI

    27A New home loan deal, in short

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    ISAAC

    57A ___ Watts, English hymnist who wrote "Joy to the World"

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    134
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    LEON

    25A Spanish province

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    EMERY

    74D It might be at your fingertips

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    STREP

    102A Throat problem

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    TEETH

    85D Baby ___

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    COPE

    48D Get by

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    RILED

    103D All worked up

    5
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    COURT

    56A What a bachelor might do

    5
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    ROY

    12D The natural in "The Natural"

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    MASSE

    1D Pool stroke

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    JIM

    7D Parsons of "The Big Bang Theory"

    4
    40
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    ROTINI

    5D Corkscrew-shaped pasta

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    ERGS

    76D Work units

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    ASKED

    110D Posed

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    THEO

    17D Vincent van Gogh's brother

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    FLORA

    108D Trees and shrubs

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    RAVEN

    73D Lustrous black

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    PERP

    78D One picked out of a lineup, informally

    3
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    POLL

    126A Take in some views?

    3
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    LIKE

    34D Valley girl's filler

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    PESCI

    105D Oscar-winning actor whose name is Italian for "fishes"

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    LOINS

    39A Private parts

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    CALORIE

    21A Small thing to burn

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    STOIC

    98A Unflinching

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    TESH

    100A Radio host John

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    ARGOT

    88A Lingo

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    NEURO

    45D Intro to science?

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    CHILE

    72D It has almost 4,000 miles of coastline

    2
    21
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    SUNOCO

    61D Brand with a red arrow through its logo

    2
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    TENSER

    50D Like overtime periods vis-à-vis regulation play

    2
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    TITLES

    116A Deeds

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    IMARETS

    9A Ottoman inns

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    INAWHILE

    111A Not now

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    FRA

    108A Brother

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    OVI

    122D Egg: Prefix

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    JAWS

    80D Classic movie shot on Martha's Vineyard

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    SMEW

    115D Duck that nests in tree hollows

    1
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    COWS

    83D Sights at 127-Across

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    NEUTRAL

    96D No one can drive in this

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    CAGER

    59D Cav or Mav

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    SMARM

    68D Some smug comments

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    SACHS

    43D Goldman's banking partner

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    ANACT

    2D Put on ___

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    IDENT

    49D Driver's lic., e.g.

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    TANEY

    35A Chief justice during the Civil War

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    HORDES

    62A Swarms

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    STETHO

    52D Prefix with -scope

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    GENY debut

    97A Millennials, informally

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    JOANOFARC

    80A Historic figure with a reputation at stake?

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    EERO

    38D Architect Saarinen

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    ROGET

    84A Shelfmate of Bartlett's, maybe

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    TRAC

    117D Gillette brand name

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    AROOM

    44D "___ of One's Own" (Woolf essay)

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    EGGON

    69A Encourage

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    ALIASES

    6D George Orwell and George Eliot

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    SCALIA

    26A Rehnquist's successor on the high bench

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    SHIELD

    101D Protect

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    WHOME

    75A "Wait, you can't possibly think ...?"

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    CHIVE

    86A Onion relative

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    ENABLES

    95D Activates, in computer lingo

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    HAMAS

    3D Gaza group

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    RODHAM

    79A Pre-Bill Hillary

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    SERIN

    15D Relative of a canary

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    ACTH

    93D Pituitary gland output, briefly

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    ENCLAVE

    124A Vatican City, vis-à-vis Rome

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    DAIRIES

    127A Some farms

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    NEGOTIATE

    24D Haggle

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    CRIEDOUT

    28A Exclaimed

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    MAHARAJA

    1A Bygone potentate

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    DEPRAVE

    94D Corrupt

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    NOGOODNIK debut

    70D Bum

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    SHOFAR

    63D Synagogue instrument

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    SMOOTHS

    67A Irons, say

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    TENACRE

    71A Like a good-sized estate, maybe

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    ICEFALL

    9D Flowing glacial feature

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    MAXILLA

    10D Mandible's counterpart

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    WILDCARD debut

    128A Unpredictable one

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    ANABOLIC debut

    20A Kind of steroid

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    1
  129. 129
    EVALARUE debut

    125A "CSI: Miami" actress

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    1
  130. 130
    HOLDYOURHEADHIGH debut

    16D "Don't be ashamed"

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    LESSTALKMOREROCK debut

    119A Common slogan for a music radio station

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    1
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    OPENSHOTS debut

    60A Uncontested basketball attempts

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    1
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    SALTLAKECITYUTAH debut

    46A The Crossroads of the West

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  134. 134
    SAMETIMENEXTYEAR debut

    23A 1975 Tony-nominated play about an extended affair

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    1
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    TEARDOWNTHISWALL debut

    36D Reagan's challenge to Gorbachev

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    1
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    WITHARMSWIDEOPEN debut

    92A Warm way to welcome someone

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