← Fill Atlas

Wednesday · 74 answers · 7 debuts

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

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    USE

    31A Helpfulness

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    EPEE

    28D Sport played on a piste

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    343
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    NOR

    8D Negative connector

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    332
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    EAST

    22A China and environs, with "the"

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    285
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    ATLAS

    48A Brother of Prometheus

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    195
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    OPAL

    34D Aunt in the "Judy Moody" book series

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    253
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    OUI

    33A Cannes confirmation

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    131
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    DRS

    9D Advanced deg. holders

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    116
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    PIE

    56D Messy missile

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    183
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    ETTU

    37A Dying rebuke

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    191
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    DATA

    10A Crunched material

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    157
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    OTTER

    40D Web-footed creature

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    165
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    ASOF

    48D Since

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    AUTO

    30D Road runner

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    165
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    UMP

    55D Chest protector wearer

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    96
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    NEATO

    18D "Boss!"

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    127
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    THOR

    49D Red-bearded god

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    99
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    IKE

    36A Name on a collectible campaign button

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    181
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    OOZE

    57A Slimy mud

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    116
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    NANO

    59A Prefix meaning "billionth"

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    DUH

    21D Response to an obvious statement

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    65
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    AGEE

    24D Miracle Mets player Tommie

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    GPS

    43D Savior of lost souls, for short?

    10
    96
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    ONICE

    34A "I merely went skating at Rockefeller Center, and now I'm ___!"

    10
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    OLEO

    2D Fleischmann's offering

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    SAME

    19A Corresponding

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    107
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    GNAW

    62A What rats may do to baseboards

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    85
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    POL

    39A Inside-the-Beltway expert

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    99
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    TAME

    12D Spiritless

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    IVAN

    51D Novelist Turgenev

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    135
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    WRAP

    32A Stop shooting

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    64
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    OLAV

    14A Name shared by five Norwegian kings

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    98
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    AJAX

    7D Sophocles play set during the Trojan War

    6
    62
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    MISC

    23D Category for leftovers: Abbr.

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    36
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    NOSY

    35D Curious to a fault

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    71
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    COLE

    1A King of rhyme

    5
    53
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    COBB

    1D Kind of salad

    5
    25
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    AXES

    13D Plane dividers

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    IMAX

    16A It's big in movies

    4
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    OSSIE

    40A Actor Davis of "Get on the Bus"

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    48
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    NENA

    52D Singer of "99 Luftballons"

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    30
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    ASTA

    47A The Charleses' pet

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    185
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    ELAND

    5A Antelope with twisty horns

    3
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    PEERS

    61A Looks searchingly

    3
    47
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    FRED

    60A Former CBS News chief Friendly

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    40
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    MAUVE

    23A Shade similar to lilac

    3
    22
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    LAHR

    3D Bert of "The Wizard of Oz"

    2
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    DATES

    21A Fruits at an oasis

    2
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    GROW

    53D Mushroom

    2
    37
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    MINER

    58A Person who picks his work?

    2
    27
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    EVIDENT

    4D Unmistakable

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    10
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    UTNE

    50D Magazine founder Eric

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    80
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    COED

    29D Open to everyone, in a way

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    60
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    SAKI

    27D H. H. Munro's pen name

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    45
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    MAJOR

    15A Lowest field rank

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    41
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    SHIV

    54A Pen knife?

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    34
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    ESTERS

    45D Aromatic compounds in wine

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    32
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    BUILT

    26D Assembled

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    RATHER

    44D To some extent

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    EMDASH

    5D Linear punctuation mark

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    11
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    CANTO

    29A Epic poem segment

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    31
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    APPLY

    46A Put in one's name (for)

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    14
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    SCARING

    41D Unnerving

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    AMATEURISH

    11D Ineptly done

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    4
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    DISAVOW

    10D Claim no knowledge of

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    BEHINDBARS

    17A "I merely agreed to serve beer at some pubs, and now I'm ___!"

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    3
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    BORDEAUX debut

    20A Where the biennial Vinexpo is held

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    2
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    UPTHERIVER

    55A "I merely paddled my canoe against a current, and now I'm ___!"

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    2
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    DOINGASTRETCH debut

    42A "I merely went to my yoga class, and now I'm ___!"

    0
    1
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    INITIALIZE debut

    25D Format, as a disk

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    1
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    INTHEBIGHOUSE debut

    25A "I merely bought myself a McMansion, and now I'm ___!"

    0
    1
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    LABUTE debut

    6D Film director Neil

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    1
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    UNPAVED debut

    38D Just dirt, say

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    1
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    UTTERING debut

    50A Giving voice to

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    1