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Monday · 78 answers · 5 debuts

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

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    ERA

    55D Long presidential term, perhaps

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    ERE

    42D Before, poetically

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    TEN

    60D Number of Canadian provinces

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    NET

    65A Court divider

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    376
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    ACNE

    28D Teenager's bane

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    233
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    ISLE

    40A ___ of Capri

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    ACT

    4D Play a role

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    302
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    OPS

    35A Photo ___ (campaign events)

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    179
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    TOE

    2D Little piggy, in a children's rhyme

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    293
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    INN

    21D Bed-and-breakfast, e.g.

    27
    258
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    SPY

    1D James Bond, for one

    27
    177
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    RAN

    3D Sprinted

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    PSI

    59D Trident-shaped letter

    24
    198
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    DYE

    46D Easter egg need

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    162
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    PLEA

    52D Entreaty

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    154
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    SPEC

    51A Not commissioned, after "on"

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    YEA

    10D Word before "verily" in the Bible

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    192
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    AGED

    45D Elderly

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    148
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    MAT

    11A Place ___ (part of a table setting)

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    145
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    NINE

    19D Number of heads of the Hydra, in myth

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    SENT

    51D Mailed

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    190
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    RAGE

    50A Anger

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    ISTO

    22A Colon, in analogies

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    PAIR

    39D 10-10 or Q-Q

    13
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    SOL

    56D The sun

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    174
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    ABATE

    12D Lessen

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    ELKS

    6D ___ Club (civic group)

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    TENOR

    13D Kind of sax

    10
    107
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    ICY

    54D Treacherous, as winter roads

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    MOW

    58D Cut, as grass

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    IRK

    41A Annoy

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    YRS

    61D Soph. and jr.

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    STRAP

    1A Pocketbook part

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    SEMIS

    37D Round after the quarters

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    RISK

    20A Jeopardize

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    POSER

    64A Brainteaser

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    42
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    UHS

    29D Sounds of hesitation

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    29
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    ENJOY

    6A Waiter's last word after serving food

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    24
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    YENTA

    17A Busybody

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    NOOK

    7D Reading place ... or reading device

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    LOIRE

    15A France's longest river

    4
    53
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    PLATE

    36D Part of a table setting

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    33
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    IRES

    40D Angers

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    PATTI

    23D Rocker Smith

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    48
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    ORI

    9D "Either he goes ___ go!"

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    OBE

    16A Award bestowed by a queen: Abbr.

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    EMPTY

    57A What "E" means on a gas gauge

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    YALTA

    66A Crimean conference site

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    CRONE

    63A Witch

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    YESYES

    49A "Of course you're right"

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    STAMEN

    27D Flower's pollen holder

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    PLUME

    39A Grand feather

    2
    20
  53. 53
    TWINS

    67A Minnesota baseball team ... or what 18-, 30-, 44- and 53-Across all are

    2
    14
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    EARLE

    42A Country singer Steve

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    53
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    UVULA

    32D Throat dangler

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    34
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    TECS

    38A Gumshoes, in old crime fiction

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    33
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    IZE

    62A Verb-forming suffix

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    31
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    PHARAOH

    5D Pyramid schemer?

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    22
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    PACMAN

    23A Classic video game with ghosts

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    20
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    PRIAM

    43A Trojan king during the Trojan War

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    POACH

    14A Hunt illegally

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    THIGH

    33A Femur's locale

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    13
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    SAUNTER

    27A Mosey

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    8
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    MTGS

    26D Boardroom events: Abbr.

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    5
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    PRECEPT

    43D General rule

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    MAIZE

    48D Indian corn

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    JIF

    8D Competitor of Skippy and Peter Pan

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    ASHER

    24D "My Name Is ___ Lev"

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    IRVIN

    47D Football Hall-of-Famer Michael

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    IVANS

    34A Two Romanov czars

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    IMAGERY

    47A Descriptive language

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    VINDIESEL

    53A "The Fast and the Furious" co-star

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    3
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    KILROY

    31D "___ was here" (W.W. II catchphrase)

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    ASHTONKUTCHER debut

    30A "Two and a Half Men" co-star starting in 2011

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    1
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    CHICKMAGNET debut

    25D Sexy guy

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    1
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    KOFIANNAN debut

    18A Ban Ki-moon's predecessor at the U.N.

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    1
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    MARIOANDRETTI debut

    44A Sporting champion with a drive for success?

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    1
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    MONSTROSITY debut

    11D Freak of nature

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    1