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Sunday · 140 answers · 16 debuts

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

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    ORE

    49A Heavy metal band?

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    ERE

    123A Before

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    ISEE

    95A "Now it makes sense!"

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    ANA

    55D California's Santa ___ River

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    LIE

    16D Rough position?

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    ESS

    65D Sigmoid shape

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    TED

    121A ___ Conference

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    ABET

    113A Assist, as an outlaw

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    SETS

    125A Gets fixed

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    ITO

    94A Figure skater Midori

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    GEE

    47A Word before "I didn't know that!"

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    URN

    91A Reception vessel

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    DEL

    117D Atl. Coast state

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    SLAT

    120A Part of an Adirondack chair

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    OREOS

    38A Cookies with a "Golden" variety

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    TORE

    35A Sped

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    HEE

    4D Titter sound

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    BAN

    10D Test ___

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    SUR

    26A Big ___

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    HERO

    14D Superman, e.g.

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    RHEA

    50D Flightless bird

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    ONLY

    83A Just

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    PINE

    119A Material for many a ski lodge

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    YESNO

    68D Kind of question

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    RILE

    6D Incense

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    MDS

    128A Rx signers

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    HIM

    54D "For ___" (store sign around Father's Day)

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    ITOO

    111A Langston Hughes poem

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    TOTEM

    108D Sacred symbol

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    JLO

    127A "Maid in Manhattan" star, informally

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    LOP

    33D Cut (off)

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    OBOES

    82D Cousins of clarinets

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    USAGE

    71A Strunk and White topic

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    BEG

    122A Command to Fido

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    PEE

    37D April second?

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    TABLE

    32A Word with coffee or water

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    ALOU

    100D Baseball family name

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    OHARA

    21A Mitchell heroine

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    AFTER

    100A In the style of

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    RETIE

    41A Knot again

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    VOL

    43A Remote button with "+" and "-"

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    CHO

    59A John who played Harold in the "Harold & Kumar" films

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    ARMANI

    30D ___ Exchange

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    ESTD

    46A Founded, on city signs

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    VIP

    64D One given the velvet rope treatment, for short

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    MATT

    81D Stone who co-created "South Park"

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    TONES

    24A Chimes, e.g.

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    COBS

    74D Kernel keepers

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    SIPS

    92A Some samples

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    ERASES

    5D Backspaces, say

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    TSOS

    129A General ___ chicken

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    NATS

    109A D.C. club

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    UMS

    40A Audible pauses

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    EBON

    114A Colored like ink in "Love's Labour's Lost"

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    IRR

    31A Not standard: Abbr.

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    ISA

    63D "Life ___ Highway"

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    RAGA

    110A Indian music

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    SIEGE

    53D Battle of the Alamo, e.g.

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    SES

    126A Parisian possessive

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    RIFLE

    105A Rummage (through)

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    SATED

    107A No longer hungry

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    PERP

    42A Miranda warning receiver, informally

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    RAHS

    101D Pompom wielder's cries

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    EPSON

    36A Canon competitor

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    NEMESIS

    69A Greek goddess of vengeance

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    GLO

    97A Mop & ___

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    INTL

    77A Part of I.M.F.: Abbr.

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    IGO

    118D -

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    NUS

    51A Some fraternity men

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    LBJ

    116D ___ Library (Austin, Tex., attraction)

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    TTYL

    104A "Bye for now," in textspeak

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    GUIDE

    47D Virgil, for Dante

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    SLANTS

    99D Angles

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    TRADES

    13D Subjects of apprenticeships

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    LEGEND

    62D Map part

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    ENSLER

    7D Eve who wrote "The Vagina Monologues"

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    ENGR

    124A Tech grad: Abbr.

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    RIT

    39A Slowing, in music: Abbr.

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    INAPET

    103D Sulking

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    GEORG

    45D Physicist Ohm

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    DETROIT

    18D Historic filer for bankruptcy in 2013

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    LOCUS

    44D Center of activity

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    GOBIG

    8A Shoot for the moon

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    BELABOR

    88A Overstress

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    DEADEYES

    89D Straight shooters?

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    DRDOOM

    89A Foe of Mr. Fantastic in the comics

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    ERNE

    34A Bird that's also the name of an Irish river

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    GSA

    45A Govt. construction overseer

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    HOWE

    112A William ___, British general in the Revolutionary War

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    IREST

    11D Beginning of an attorney's ending

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    ARIETTA

    25A Short thing for a diva

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    PIERCE

    73A "M*A*S*H" role

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    SELDOM

    27A Rarely

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    ELLERY

    48D Queen of mystery

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    SEADOG

    29A Long John Silver, for one

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    DRIVEL

    28D Blather

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    RETIREE

    22A One calling it quits

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    ARTISTS

    17D Ones in the oil field?

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    LPN

    56D I.C.U. worker

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    SAVEME

    75A Cry from a damsel in distress

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    MANMADE

    70A Like Lake Mead or Lake Powell

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    USHERIN

    20A Herald, as a new year

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    USNAVY

    52D Org. with the motto "Not for self but for country"

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    QUEUE

    67D Get in line

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    STEWARD

    96D Sommelier

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    TAXICAB

    102A Whistleblower's target?

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    FOODS

    106D Things found in a pyramid

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    AERI

    76D Prefix with -form

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    QUERY

    67A Ask

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    YEARNED

    19D Was lovesick, say

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    BETHERE

    1A "Everyone who's anyone is attending!"

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    TINSTAR

    98A Frontier sheriff's badge

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    BRAYED

    86A Laughed harshly

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    BUSSTOP

    1D Dot on a transit map

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    PRITHEE

    93D Please, to a Puritan

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    AGEGAPS

    72A They're of no concern to cougars

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    DIARISTS

    87D Anaïs Nin and Franz Kafka, notably

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    THURBER

    3D Cartoonist who wrote the caption "Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?"

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    INPERIL

    66A Jeopardized

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    YOLATENGO

    85D Indie band whose name means, literally, "I have it"

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    FRAILEST

    58D Most feeble

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    GASEOUS

    12D Like four of the eight planets

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    HALFFULL debut

    54A Proverbial matter of perspective

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    IRRITABLE debut

    77D Crabby

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    SHOULDISTAY

    115A Song by the Clash on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list

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    SQUEALS

    23A Is a rat

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    BUTTRESS debut

    86D Brace

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    ESQUARE debut

    2D -

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    ETIGER debut

    15D -

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    FEMPTY debut

    57D -

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    GOTONTO debut

    8D Mounted

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    ISITLIVE debut

    60A Question asked in classic 1970s ads

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    LOGCABINS debut

    84D Little houses on the prairie

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    MOBSTERS debut

    90D Family members

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    NANNYGOAT debut

    78D Female with a beard

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    OHOME debut

    9D -

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    RLIFE debut

    80D -

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    THELADY debut

    13A Much-anthologized Frank R. Stockton short story

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    TMEMOREX debut

    61D -

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    YOURMONEY debut

    79A Stickup line

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