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Wednesday · 78 answers · 3 debuts

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

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    ERA

    61D Long time

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    791
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    SET

    41A Adjust, as a watch

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    402
  3. 3
    ELI

    43D ___ Whitney

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    599
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    ARE

    66A "What ___ the odds?!"

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    533
  5. 5
    ORE

    19A Bauxite or galena

    48
    581
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    USE

    59A Avail oneself of

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    356
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    AREA

    21A What pi may be used to find

    46
    631
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    ART

    21D "___ washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life": Picasso

    40
    384
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    NOR

    8D "Neither snow ___ rain ..."

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    332
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    EDIT

    27D Work with 31-Down

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    302
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    SAD

    45D Down

    31
    236
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    ATTA

    55D The U.N.'s Kofi ___ Annan

    28
    156
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    IRAN

    57D Persia, nowadays

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    276
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    ARES

    34D God whose name is a homophone of a zodiac sign

    21
    271
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    SKI

    11A Take to the hills?

    21
    180
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    ABC

    62D Epitome of simplicity

    20
    153
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    ALOHA

    15A HI hi

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    194
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    HAS

    24D Owns

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    175
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    SEER

    56D Forward-looking person?

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    170
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    THO

    9D However, in brief

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    109
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    AID

    38A Avail

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    167
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    TOM

    16A QB Brady

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    144
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    SAL

    10D "My Gal ___" (song classic)

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    221
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    AGREE

    39A Concur

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    154
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    ARF

    34A Sound from a terrier

    14
    153
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    ASKS

    58D Requests, with "for"

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    141
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    RANT

    30A Tirade

    14
    133
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    ULTRA

    7D Very, very

    14
    92
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    PDF

    28D File name ending in Adobe Acrobat

    14
    41
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    LIT

    33D Put a match to

    13
    166
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    EKED

    4D Barely obtained, with "out"

    13
    86
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    REESE

    44D Witherspoon of "Legally Blonde"

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    153
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    SILO

    45A Barn neighbor

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    127
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    GIN

    40D Cotton ___

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    108
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    RELY

    35D Count (on)

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    114
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    FED

    36D Made dinner for

    10
    105
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    DOC

    60D File name ending in Word

    10
    102
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    RAID

    52A F.B.I. action

    9
    95
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    KOREA

    12D Land partitioned in 1945

    9
    77
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    RICE

    26D Source of about 20% of the calories consumed by humanity

    8
    100
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    EARNS

    68A Grosses

    8
    81
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    ARUBA

    47D Dutch Caribbean island

    8
    76
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    STEAK

    65A What might get an A1 application?

    8
    60
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    BEG

    63A Beseech

    8
    59
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    STORM

    11D Hurricane, e.g.

    8
    59
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    SGTS

    1D Pepper and others: Abbr.

    7
    69
  47. 47
    REPEL

    26A Drive away

    7
    50
  48. 48
    TASE

    54D Shock, in a way

    7
    47
  49. 49
    LASER

    48D Surgical beam

    6
    71
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    CACTI

    67A Some Arizona flora

    6
    65
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    IMEAN

    13D "That is to say ..."

    6
    60
  52. 52
    TRADE

    23D Commerce

    5
    84
  53. 53
    ORBIT

    64A Go around in circles

    5
    64
  54. 54
    EENSY

    46A Itty-bitty

    5
    30
  55. 55
    LOCI

    5D Focal points

    4
    64
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    LIEGE

    49D Feudal lord

    4
    48
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    PEAK

    2D Maximum

    4
    40
  58. 58
    SPIEL

    1A Infomercial presentation, e.g.

    4
    37
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    CANON

    32D Group of established works

    4
    30
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    SCIFI

    37A Genre of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation"

    3
    35
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    LAHTI

    51D Christine of "Chicago Hope"

    2
    41
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    GETIT

    50D Question sometimes accompanied by an elbow jab

    2
    37
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    OVULE

    18D Future seed

    2
    32
  64. 64
    MSS

    31D Some submissions: Abbr.

    1
    68
  65. 65
    ELICIT

    29D Draw out

    1
    39
  66. 66
    ICKY

    3D Gross

    1
    28
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    EASTASIA

    53A Superstate in "1984"

    1
    11
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    ALLATINGLE

    47A In eager anticipation

    1
    4
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    GECKO

    14A Scaly wall-scaler

    0
    18
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    UNSAFE

    25D Hazardous

    0
    9
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    PUNTS

    6A Many fourth-down plays

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    7
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    SKYDIVER

    20A Fall guy?

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    4
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    UMATHURMAN

    22A Female lead in "Gattaca" and "Kill Bill"

    0
    4
  74. 74
    MIDDLECLASS

    31A Bourgeoisie ... or a description of each group of circled letters?

    0
    3
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    CENTERFIELD

    42A Baseball position ... or a description of each group of circled letters?

    0
    2
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    PANEM debut

    6D "The Hunger Games" nation

    0
    2
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    DEATHEATERS debut

    60A Followers of Lord Voldemort

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    1
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    TAKECONTROL debut

    17A Seize the reins

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    1