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Thursday · 70 answers · 8 debuts

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

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    ELSE

    4D "Anything ___?"

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    AHA

    22A "I see it now!"

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    379
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    TREE

    51D Every family has one

    25
    309
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    IOTA

    48D Not one ___

    25
    243
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    IDOL

    42A Taylor Swift, for one

    23
    293
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    DATA

    41A Grist for a statistician

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    157
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    IOWA

    11D Name repeated in ___ City, ___

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    130
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    DIANA

    23D Mythical huntress

    10
    71
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    HINT

    52D Bit to go on?

    10
    63
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    NAPE

    54D What a collar may cover

    9
    115
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    TOIL

    34A *Work hard

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    90
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    GNAW

    12D Badly bother, with "at"

    9
    85
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    TACIT

    33D Understood

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    75
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    SLAM

    31D Big pan?

    8
    101
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    TSE

    55D K'ung Fu-___ (Confucius)

    6
    228
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    TSETSE

    61A Fly in a jungle

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    113
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    AMS

    8D Morns

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    86
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    CAMP

    1D Overly theatrical, maybe

    6
    61
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    GUT

    44A *Undermine, as a government program

    6
    55
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    MOB

    56D Approach en masse

    4
    77
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    SERF

    43A Underling of yore

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    71
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    ORNOT

    24D "... unless I'm wrong"

    4
    64
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    VEST

    3D One of three pieces

    4
    52
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    PILAF

    30D Rice ___

    4
    36
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    BDAY

    7D Present time, informally

    4
    26
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    NSYNC

    6D "Girlfriend" group, 2002

    3
    52
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    HIES

    26A Rushes

    3
    34
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    ENOL

    38A Alkene derivative

    2
    87
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    SRAS

    49D Some doñas: Abbr.

    2
    57
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    ISMS

    48A *Plural suffix with organ

    2
    53
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    CLAW

    20A Fight tooth and nail

    2
    52
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    ADIA

    2D 1998 Sarah McLachlan hit

    2
    42
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    DITCH

    9D Intentionally lose

    2
    28
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    PONY

    50D Little horse on the prairie?

    2
    28
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    MORASS

    40D Bog

    2
    18
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    RANATAB

    35A Deferred payment, say

    2
    7
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    ASSAD

    22D Syrian V.I.P.

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    48
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    DRED

    32D Historic Scott

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    41
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    CAPS

    28A *Features of some front teeth

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    37
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    BESOT

    47D Stupefy

    1
    27
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    AOLER

    29D Many an early Internet adopter

    1
    18
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    CAVERN

    1A Location containing 10-Downs and 25-Downs

    1
    12
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    VANILLA

    36A Ordinary

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    10
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    ENVELOP

    27D Go around

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    6
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    ADMITONE

    15A What a ticket may do

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    5
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    USAID

    45D Humanitarian org.

    1
    5
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    BADSIGN

    7A Red sky at morning, to a sailor

    1
    3
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    PAPERTHIN debut

    50A Like walls in a cheap motel, it seems

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    3
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    NEY

    13D Actor Richard of "Mrs. Miniver"

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    27
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    ICUS

    53D Where cc's may be delivered

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    14
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    OPENUP

    59A Lose one's reserve

    0
    10
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    ACTIII

    15D Part of many plays, but not "Waiting for Godot"

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    9
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    ROBT

    46A ___ Morris, signature on the Declaration of Independence

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    7
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    DOSO

    23A "I can only ___ much"

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    6
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    MCCI

    21A Start of the 13th century

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    6
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    ADELES

    14A Astaire and Adkins

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    5
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    EASEDBY

    60A Gently slipped past

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    4
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    ICHABOD

    19D Schoolmaster in a Washington Irving tale

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    4
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    TORIAMOS

    55A Singer with the 1994 double-platinum album "Under the Pink"

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    4
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    REARMOST

    5D Like the aft sails

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    3
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    SIRICA

    57A Judge John who was Time's 1973 Man of the Year

    0
    3
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    STALACTITE

    10D 1-Across sight

    0
    3
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    STATIONS

    58A Times Square and Columbus Circle, in New York City

    0
    3
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    STALAGMITE debut

    25D 1-Across sight

    0
    2
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    CASTAWAY debut

    17A One sending a message in a bottle, maybe

    0
    1
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    COMEDYTEAM debut

    39A Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca, e.g.

    0
    1
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    DIRTSTAINS debut

    32A They're often found on baseball uniforms

    0
    1
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    MISSAY debut

    16A Pronounce "nuclear" as "nucular," e.g.

    0
    1
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    NYSTRIPS debut

    37D Steakhouse offerings, for short

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    1
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    PATERNITY debut

    18A Kind of test

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    1