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

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   ANT

   18A Hill worker

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   ASIA

   3D Where the "tiger cub economies" are

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   ERIC

   7D "True Blood" vampire Northman

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   EDYS

   39D Nestlé brand

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   AGAR

   50D Culture medium

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   PEP

   6D Energy

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   RISE

   2D Stand

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   GAP

   42A Dental problem

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    APOP

    44D Per

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    SASH

    48D Military band

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    BOT

    19A Google worker

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    LOCO

    51D Nuts

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    DEAR

    46D Honey or sugar

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    COST

    4D Add up to

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    DIN

    41A Racket

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    JET

    53D Blacker than black

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    PETE

    15D Colleague of Don on "Mad Men"

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    RONA

    8D First name in gossip

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    ACORN

    24D Tough nut to crack

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    OWLS

    10D Knot : toads :: parliament : ___

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    SIREN

    27D Frequent demonstrator of the Doppler effect

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    IDIOTS

    33D Nuts

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    INGE

    47D William who wrote "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs"

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    TRAMP

    14D Galumph

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    UNEARTH

    35A Disinter

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    HYPE

    49D Something not to be believed?

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    HOPED

    38D Wished

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    DATEBAR debut

    11D Relative of a Fig Newton

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    GARP

    32A Robin Williams title role

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    LAPAZ

    28D Setting for Steinbeck's "The Pearl"

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    URANO

    26D Prefix meaning "heavens"

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    PHONES

    12D Line items?

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    SHOGI

    22D So-called Japanese chess

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    SHALLWE

    48A "Ready to go?"

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    TRAWLS

    37D Tries to catch shrimp, say

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    MELISMA

    20A Musical phrase in which a single syllable is sung over several notes

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    IFAT

    9D "___ first ..."

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    HOMO

    31A Group of people

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    ENSE

    5D First word in Massachu­setts' motto

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    ICHAT

    21D Apple messaging software

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    BBGUN

    25D Certain shooter

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    EDITION

    39A Hardcover or paperback

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    MIMEO

    23D Photocopy predecessor

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    CATSEYE

    17A Certain shooter

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    IMAGER

    33A Radiologist, often

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    BUSLANE

    25A Part of some city streets

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    ROSEATE

    16A Pink

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    BRIARS

    30A Rabbit homes, maybe

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    NHRA

    45D Dragsters' org.

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    PSYCHIC

    29A "I know what you're thinking" thinker

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    RAYONS

    13D Some old-fashioned hosiery

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    YOUANDI

    43A We

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    NONZERO

    40A Positive or negative

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    SPARETHEROD

    55A Be lenient

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    THISISSPINALTAP debut

    14A Classic 1984 film in which most of the dialogue was ad-libbed

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    GRACEPERIOD

    1A Time of forgiveness

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    MINUETS debut

    34D Dances in 3/4 time

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    GRISTLY debut

    1D Like some low-grade beef

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    PRISONEROFWAR debut

    12A Jean-Paul Sartre or Winston Churchill, once

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    REGLUED debut

    36D Fixed, as a model airplane

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    STEPHENJAYGOULD debut

    52A Evolutionary biologist who wrote "The Panda's Thumb"

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    STORAGESPACES debut

    54A Trunks, e.g.

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