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Wednesday · 77 answers · 7 debuts

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

  1. 1
    ALI

    6D Muhammad's successor, to Shiites

    49
    518
  2. 2
    ADE

    62D Summer cooler

    35
    277
  3. 3
    SOS

    24A "Help!"

    34
    251
  4. 4
    ESAU

    40D Missing name in the tongue twister "I saw ___ sawing wood ..."

    31
    245
  5. 5
    ALT

    51A Keyboard abbr.

    29
    225
  6. 6
    ATLAS

    51D Where legends appear

    25
    195
  7. 7
    SLR

    11D Canon offering, for short

    23
    129
  8. 8
    PELE

    38A One-named athlete whose real first name is Edson

    21
    115
  9. 9
    ITO

    54A Simpson's trial judge

    20
    240
  10. 10
    SAN

    11A ___ Marino

    19
    182
  11. 11
    IOS

    44A Hand-held platform

    19
    94
  12. 12
    SOFA

    59D Resting place

    14
    116
  13. 13
    ISM

    48D Belief system

    13
    145
  14. 14
    INFO

    8D Skinny

    13
    91
  15. 15
    UFOS

    26D Sci-fi craft

    13
    88
  16. 16
    TENSE

    67A Present, e.g.

    12
    114
  17. 17
    ONLY

    45A Just

    11
    116
  18. 18
    ANITA

    6A "West Side Story" woman

    9
    140
  19. 19
    TGIF

    9D Happy end-of-week cry

    9
    98
  20. 20
    SMORE

    49A Snack with a chewy center

    9
    42
  21. 21
    TAME

    33A Civilize

    8
    88
  22. 22
    CLAN

    57D Family

    8
    86
  23. 23
    ITSON

    28D "Them's fightin' words!"

    8
    31
  24. 24
    WES

    17D Guitarist Borland

    7
    113
  25. 25
    NASAL

    68A Like the sounds "m" and "n"

    7
    73
  26. 26
    INTRO

    2D It's just for starters

    5
    82
  27. 27
    METRO

    35D Subway

    5
    58
  28. 28
    TROLL

    53D See 39-Down

    5
    40
  29. 29
    ISOMER

    39A Chemical cousin

    5
    26
  30. 30
    ARARAT

    46A Old Testament peak

    4
    87
  31. 31
    STIES

    3D Dumps

    4
    52
  32. 32
    STIRS

    18A Shows signs of waking

    3
    54
  33. 33
    MUSE

    50A Become absorbed in thought

    3
    50
  34. 34
    SOFIA

    22A Eastern European capital

    3
    39
  35. 35
    IMF

    54D Org. providing loans

    3
    38
  36. 36
    DRAIN

    47A Free of fluid

    3
    28
  37. 37
    LISPS

    1D Imitates Sylvester the Cat

    3
    22
  38. 38
    POLIO

    63A Vaccine target

    3
    20
  39. 39
    INTERNET

    39D With 53-Down, blogger's bugbear

    3
    15
  40. 40
    PREACH

    20A Speak the gospel

    3
    10
  41. 41
    EASELS

    37A Oil holders, maybe

    2
    35
  42. 42
    ETALIA

    16D And others

    2
    28
  43. 43
    EARTAG

    43D Livestock attachment

    2
    10
  44. 44
    RRS

    23A Employers of dispatchers and brakemen: Abbr.

    1
    93
  45. 45
    LEILA

    52D "The Pearl Fishers" priestess

    1
    32
  46. 46
    LIFER

    29A Big house party?

    1
    17
  47. 47
    ZORA

    4D Novelist ___ Neale Hurston

    1
    12
  48. 48
    TRACI

    55A Actress Lords

    1
    11
  49. 49
    BATTEN

    42A Secure, with "down"

    1
    6
  50. 50
    ALARMBELL

    12D It might stop a break-in

    1
    4
  51. 51
    RUMORMILLS

    30D Where legends are born?

    1
    3
  52. 52
    MANZANILLA debut

    60A Variety of sherry whose name means "little apple"

    1
    2
  53. 53
    TEARSTAIN debut

    33D Sign of a crying jag

    1
    2
  54. 54
    OLLA

    41A Ceramic jar

    0
    88
  55. 55
    AIRE

    56D Suffix with high numbers

    0
    76
  56. 56
    GSA

    32D Fed. management agency

    0
    68
  57. 57
    HOI

    21D ___ polloi

    0
    52
  58. 58
    NEZ

    66A Pince-___

    0
    46
  59. 59
    ORU

    36A Tulsa sch.

    0
    35
  60. 60
    PBA

    38D Grp. of pinheads?

    0
    26
  61. 61
    AOUT

    25A Month in l'été

    0
    21
  62. 62
    LISZT

    1A "Dante Symphony" composer

    0
    18
  63. 63
    CLIME

    27A Region, weatherwise

    0
    11
  64. 64
    OFALL

    65A Phrase often following a superlative

    0
    8
  65. 65
    TOSCALE

    5D Proportional

    0
    7
  66. 66
    MUSTER

    58A Drum up

    0
    6
  67. 67
    ZZZ

    61D [Snore]

    0
    5
  68. 68
    ALTAMONTE

    34D ___ Springs, Fla.

    0
    4
  69. 69
    KITBAG

    31A Purchase at an Army-Navy store

    0
    4
  70. 70
    FITZGERALD

    64A Vocalist known for the 1944 song whose title (and first line) appears in the circled squares

    0
    3
  71. 71
    INTOO

    14A ___ deep

    0
    2
  72. 72
    NOTREALLY

    13D "Just kidding"

    0
    2
  73. 73
    ONEUPON debut

    45D Having an advantage over

    0
    2
  74. 74
    AFLICKER debut

    10D Not steady, as a light

    0
    1
  75. 75
    INFILTRATE debut

    19A Enter surreptitiously, as an organization

    0
    1
  76. 76
    LONGFELLOW debut

    15A Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the circled squares

    0
    1
  77. 77
    NONSTEROID debut

    7D Like hormones synthesized from amino acids

    0
    1