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Sunday · 140 answers · 7 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

    117D The Depression, for one

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    ALE

    5D Keg contents

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    OLE

    90A Encouraging word

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    EMO

    50A Brooding music genre

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    LEO

    75D Astral lion

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    EVE

    10D Time for last-minute planning

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    ANA

    56A Palindromic girl

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    ALAS

    82D "___ the day!" (cry repeated in Shakespeare)

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    ENOS

    37D 1961 space chimp

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    ALAMO

    64A Historic siege site

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    AGES

    7D Forever

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    URL

    35D Virtual address

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    HON

    91D Sugar

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    SIC

    26A Attack order

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    HOP

    112A Short flight

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    AROSE

    121A Cropped up

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    SCAT

    39D Improvise, in a way

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    CUE

    84A Prompt

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    TESSA

    104D Actress Thompson of "Creed"

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    TOTAL

    48D Smash up

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    APART

    42D Isolated

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    APNEA

    7A Sleep lab study

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    MAD

    114D Whacked

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    OOZE

    28A Trickle

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    SIAM

    97A Asian territory in Risk

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    INCAS

    71D Residents of 3-Down

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    OOPS

    109A "My bad!"

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    DEW

    123A Morning condensate

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    EASES

    93A Soothes

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    ROI

    36D Père d'un prince

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    TRON

    53A Sci-fi film with a 2010 sequel

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    SONAR

    43D Echolocator

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    ASPEN

    42A Quaker of note?

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    PRESS

    73D Lean on

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    FIB

    16A Small invention

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    TAPAS

    125A Cantina appetizers

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    WHEN

    32D A question of time

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    ECOLI

    55D Ground beef contaminant

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    WAN

    92D Goth-looking, in a way

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    SEMIS

    99A Round after the quarters

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    UNCLE

    49D "You win!"

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    LAIN

    87A Reclined

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    RHONE

    106D River along Avignon

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    PIANO

    44D Softly

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    SNAIL

    58D Mobile home resident?

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    LOX

    118D Smoked deli purchase

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    CHAD

    108A Fallout from the 2000 election?

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    HELL

    91A Fire place?

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    LEGAL

    68D De jure

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    LIMP

    70A Unsteady gait

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    AIDED

    13D Not fully independent

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    ADDLE

    67D Flummox

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    BRED

    40A Brought up

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    FOP

    119D Popinjay

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    BANS

    12A Some school edicts

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    TROLL

    46D "Three Billy Goats Gruff" villain

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    CHASM

    95D It's hard to get across

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    BOSSY

    103D Domineering

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    NRA

    14D Piece corps, briefly?

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    ROM

    54D CD-___

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    TROY

    65A Legendary siege site

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    DABS

    1D Applies gingerly

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    OCTAL

    45A In base 8

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    LETBE

    22D Don't bother

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    MOAN

    85D Ghostly sound

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    TONY

    124A Chichi

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    LIZ

    4D Oft-married Taylor

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    DEMOS

    69D Showroom models

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    FOES

    111D Anti bodies?

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    BASIS

    27A Rationale

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    RANSOM

    60A Illicit sum

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    AEROBE

    11D Oxygen-dependent bacterium

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    PLED

    113D Petitioned

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    MIKE

    76A Karaoke bar sight

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    EQUIP

    2D Outfit

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    DEFER

    110A Put off

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    MARLO

    85A Actress Thomas

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    PLAID

    8D Like lumberjack jackets

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    EMINOR

    77A Key of Brahms's Symphony No. 4

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    OLDPRO

    29D Veteran

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    AIRPLANE

    21A Runway model?

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    LOONIE

    122A Canadian smacker

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    WONTDO

    33D Is unacceptable

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    DITTO

    57A "

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    LAREDO

    59D Rio Grande city

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    ATTS

    30A "The Good Wife" figures: Abbr.

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    BEY

    18D Queen ___ (pop music nickname)

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    GOREN

    102D Bridge whiz

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    PASA

    89D "Qué ___?"

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    BLADE

    74A Cutting edge

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    ONERUN

    41A Narrow lead in baseball

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    TIDBIT

    96D Morsel

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    SYBIL

    61D "Downton Abbey" daughter

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    WASAT

    92A Attended

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    YOUIN

    107D "Wanna play?"

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    PTUI

    47A Sound near a spittoon

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    FASTBREAK

    16D Violation of Yom Kippur?

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    IDARESAY

    25A "It seems to me ..."

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    NOTSOBAD

    9D O.K.

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    AQUILA

    19A Eagle constellation

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    POINTGUARD

    51A Tip of an épée?

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    LONI

    62A Anderson of "WKRP"

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    AZO

    115D Kind of dye

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    REAPS

    54A Brings in

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    MOUSE

    72D Trackpad alternative

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    MORALE

    100D Something to boost

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    THINK

    53D "Use your head!"

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    OHMAN

    63D "Jeez!"

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    SPRAIN

    15D Almost dislocate

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    GLOVE

    20A Signature Michael Jackson wear

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    HOWLS

    38A Screams bloody murder

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    NAMEDROP

    88D Say "When I met the Dalai Lama last year," say

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    ALLOCATE

    86D Apportion

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    DECLAW

    1A Make less dangerous, in a way

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    MARSBARS

    114A Nougaty treats

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    MAGDA

    81A One of the Gabor sisters

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    ALECTO

    94A One of the Furies

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    ITSPAT

    98D 1994 bomb based on an "S.N.L." character

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    BAIZE

    12D Card table cloth

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    CUZCO

    3D World Heritage Site in the Andes

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    EXPEND

    126A Go through

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    INASLUMP

    17D Batting .200, maybe

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    FREETHROW

    79D Rug dealer's special?

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    GOTEVEN

    83D Settled the score

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    OILSUP debut

    80D Prepares for a Mr. Universe competition, say

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    POWWOW

    31A Confer

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    ATOMIZES

    120A Reduces to smithereens

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    BUZZERBEATER

    23A Fly swatter?

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    GIMBAL debut

    52D Stabilizer of a ship's compass

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    MAKEIT

    78D Achieve success

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    SHOTCLOCK

    58A Busted timer?

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    BAWLOUT

    24D Give a tongue-lashing

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    NOLOOKPASS

    88A Acrophobe's term for a route through the mountains?

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    VOTARY

    105A Devotee

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    WARBOW

    6D Archer's battle weapon

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    BALLHANDLER debut

    66A Desi Arnaz?

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    DOUBLEDRIBBLE debut

    34A Drool from both sides of the mouth?

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    FIELDGOAL debut

    79A Winning an Oscar for "Norma Rae"?

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    NOTHINGBUTNET debut

    101A Lament from an unlucky shrimper?

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    PERSONALFOUL debut

    116A Writing "30 and single" when it's really "50 and married," e.g.?

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