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

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   STAR

   47D Common newspaper name

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   ENDS

   6D Modern synonym for 5-Down

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   GEL

   29D Set

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   SENT

   41A Enraptured

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   HAM

   28D Croque-monsieur ingredient

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   ANGLE

   25D Point of view

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   MII

   21A Early second-millennium year

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   UVEA

   8D Pigmented layer

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    SCENE

    40A "And ... ___!"

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    SANTA

    24A Stocking stuffer

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    SNARE

    22A Brushed instrument

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    AMFM

    36A Band options

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    ISLAND

    10D Christmas or Easter, for example

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    HEWS

    48D Chops

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    AMPSUP

    36D Charges

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    LOUT

    23A Vulgarian

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    HPS

    44A Some PCs

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    MONETS

    18A "The Magpie" and "Grainstack"

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    MOPERS

    39D Ones with a lot of down time?

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    DYAD

    26A Brace

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    STAGED

    13D Like heists and operas

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    TAMARA

    12D Good name for a girl who procrastinates?

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    DELLS

    9D Some PCs

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    HARDEN

    48A Set

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    LOVESEAT

    15A Couples' soft spot?

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    STJUDE

    1A Patron for the desperate

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    FRONDS

    38D Fans of pharaohs?

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    MARON debut

    42A Comedian Marc who recorded a memorable podcast with President Obama

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    WIENIE

    52A Twerp

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    MARINA

    37D Berth site

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    NOSEE

    43D Long time follower?

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    SEDGES

    54A Rush relatives

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    SCHMALTZ

    1D Bathos

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    ADASH

    20A Not much, in recipes

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    JUDGE

    45A Bench warmer?

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    LINGERIE

    33D Department store department

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    PASSERS

    53A QBs, at times

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    SCALAWAG

    19A Bounder

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    ONELLAMA

    17A A priest, not a beast

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    JANIE

    45D Who's "got a gun" in a 1989 Aerosmith hit

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    SUFIS

    24D Eastern mystics

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    DETENTES

    34D Global warming periods?

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    NUDISTS

    7A Ones seeking maximum exposure?

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    SEAWAY

    11D Main passage

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    PROPOSAL

    46A Tender

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    THEODORE

    2D Presidential first name

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    CHENIN

    14A ___ blanc (wine variety)

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    HEAVED

    16A Threw

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    JEANAUEL

    3D "The Land of Painted Caves" author, 2011

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    MICHELLEWIE

    35A 2014 U.S. Women's Open winner

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    ENGIRT

    50A Surrounded, old-style

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    MAGICCHARMS debut

    21D Mojos

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    RESURGED

    31D Came back strong

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    AWEDDING debut

    32D 1978 Robert Altman comedy with Desi Arnaz Jr. and Carol Burnett

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    DIETH debut

    5D "And how ___ the wise man? as the fool": Ecclesiastes 2:16

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    LOSINGTHEPLOT debut

    15D Getting totally confused, idiomatically

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    NONCITIZENS debut

    7D Aliens

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    SINESTRO debut

    49A Green Lantern's archenemy

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    TREEHUGGING debut

    27A Extremely green

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    UNDREAMT debut

    51A Yet to be imagined

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    UNVESTED debut

    4D Not yet available, as a stock

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    ZELDAFITZGERALD debut

    30A "Save Me the Waltz" novelist, 1932

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