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Thursday · 74 answers · 5 debuts

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

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    ERA

    23A Big factor in the Cy Young Award

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    ALE

    21A Product of a zymurgist

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    YES

    61D Thumbs-up response

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    365
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    ERIE

    48D See 39-Down

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    510
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    IRA

    59D 401(k) alternative

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    LSD

    60D Trip cause

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    IDEA

    8D Something talked about in a TED talk

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    EWE

    36D Female that sounds like you?

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    UNO

    2D Discarding card game

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    EROS

    65A "The Garden of ___," Oscar Wilde poem

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    ALAS

    16A "Sorry to say ..."

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    EPIC

    6A Huger than huge

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    ETCH

    23D Chisel, maybe

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    NOS

    58D Thumbs-down responses

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    AIDE

    15A Hospital worker

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    EARN

    50A Rake in

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    MAN

    31D "That's incredible!"

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    HERE

    63A "___, boy!"

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    ROLE

    24D Part

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    GEESE

    64A Simpletons

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    PIT

    7D Commodity-trading card game

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    MED

    51A ___ school

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    PSY

    1D Singer recognized as the "King of YouTube" in 2012

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    MAP

    10D X setting, maybe

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    MAAM

    25A Title with an apostrophe in the middle

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    NEAP

    18D ___ tide

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    SINAI

    43A New York's Mount ___ Hospital

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    TCM

    52A Setting for many old films

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    LENO

    62A Former late-night luminary

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    CLEAR

    32A E.M.T.'s cry

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    SNAIL

    14A Slow pacesetter

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    HEAP

    34A Jalopy

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    MTA

    22A Grand Central org.

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    LEONE

    19D Sierra ___

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    MAZE

    10A Way-out challenge?

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    ESSAYS

    13D Optional ACT components

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    49
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    NAMES

    20A Celebs

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    EATSAT

    6D Really rankles

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    ASITIS

    49A Currently

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    SIEGE

    55A Genghis Khan tactic

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    NOB

    53A Bean

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    YUAN

    66A Banknote featuring Mao

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    LAKE

    39D With 48-Down, setting for Toledo

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    DATES

    33A Some like them hot

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    BLEU

    54D French flag hue

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    YARDS

    67A Down measurements

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    KELP

    37A Marine growth rich in iodine

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    GAEA

    56D Earth, to the ancient Greeks

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    ALUMNA

    11D Graduate of Mount Holyoke, e.g.

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    CREWS

    41A "Posses"

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    HASTEN

    47D Accelerate

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    ESCHER

    45D Tessellating artist

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    PICA

    4D 12-point type

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    RUING

    42D Sorry about

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    PUMPS

    1A Many Manolo Blahniks

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    SYNERGY

    43D Hoped-for collaboration result

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    SLAMMER

    5D Pen

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    LAPCAT

    30D Pet that likes to be petted

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    CELLMATE

    9D 5-Down cohabitant

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    PIED

    40D Like a calico

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    BATTLE

    44D Clash

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    HEINE

    35A "Die Lorelei" poet

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    MAUNAKEA

    3D Highest Hawaiian peak

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    ZANTAC

    12D Tagamet competitor

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    CIMINO

    46D Michael who directed "The Deer Hunter"

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    MODISTE

    26D Couturier

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    RISKIT

    28D Take a chance

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    ENAMELER

    38D Cloisonné artisan

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    MORNAY debut

    27A Sauce made with roux, milk and cheese

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    3
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    HESSOSHY

    35D 1980 hit with the lyric "That sweet little boy who caught my eye"

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    BECAUSETHEYTAKE debut

    44A Part 3 of the quip

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    THINGSLITERALLY debut

    57A End of the quip

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    TOKLEPTOMANIACS debut

    29A Part 2 of the quip

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    YOUCANTTELLPUNS debut

    17A Start of a quip about wordplay

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