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Sunday · 140 answers · 17 debuts

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

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    EST

    123A Winter D.C. hrs.

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    ASH

    116A Volcano output

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    EDEN

    49D Locale painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling

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    LEE

    111D Actor ___ J. Cobb of "12 Angry Men"

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    RIO

    39A 2016 Olympics site

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    ESP

    114D You thinking what I'm thinking?

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    NOR

    42A Word repeated in the postal creed

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    OLD

    112D So last month

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    ENO

    63D Brian of ambient music

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    ESE

    22A Austin-to-Houston dir.

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    TREE

    106D Olive or avocado

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    OSHA

    8D Factory watchdog grp.

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    PEA

    120A Word with sweet or sugar

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    ESS

    55D Something starting something?

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    ABC

    98D "World News Tonight" airer

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    SOB

    92A [I'm devastated!]

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    RUE

    53A Certainly not wish to repeat

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    DOH

    36D Play-___

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    ERIC

    70D One of the Trumps

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    EDS

    28A Figs. in an author's acknowledgments section

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    SAC

    6D ___ fly

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    RIM

    40A What swish shots miss

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    MOI

    84A Question posed with feigned shock

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    WHO

    21A Question from an owl?

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    YEP

    43D "Sure thing"

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    87
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    KOI

    88D Colorful pond swimmer

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    60
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    CDS

    4A Casualties of streaming services

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    PEP

    7D Oomph

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    126
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    HAHA

    97D "So funny!"

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    UGLI

    38A Unattractive fruit

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    ARIAL

    76A Popular sans-serif font

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    RAW

    81A Unfiltered

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    TUT

    105A "Shame on you!"

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    YODA

    19D Sage swamp-dweller of film

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    EBAY

    50A "The meaning of life" once sold on it for $3.26

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    HEIR

    52D Junior, often

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    HUT

    16A Navajo hogan, e.g.

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    VISA

    101D Aid for one going places?

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    PSY

    122A "Gangnam Style" singer

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    EVADE

    54A Get by

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    WED

    82D Put together

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    ANTSY

    102D On edge

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    LGA

    119A Letters on some baggage to N.Y.C.

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    ITOO

    31A Hughes poem that mentions "the darker brother"

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    KIT

    34D Handy take-along

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    SAVE

    48D Goalie's goal

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    TORSO

    86D Where the heart is

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    SUB

    13A Swap (out)

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    MAG

    69D E.W. or S.I.

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    AWW

    110D "How precious is that!"

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    33
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    ITSON

    66D "Challenge accepted!"

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    UHOH

    14D "That is ... not looking good"

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    EATAT

    103D Worry

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    CUT

    115A Share

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    YIN

    107A Dark force

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    SCRAP

    29D Discard

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    SINS

    58A Sermon topics

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    LOX

    93A Deli supply

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    ORCS

    95A Marauding group in Tolkien's "The Two Towers"

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    51
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    ASSESS

    118A Size up

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    CLOSE

    96D "You're almost there"

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    XII

    25D The witching hour

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    PRY

    56A "I don't mean to ___ ..."

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    SALAMI

    61D Deli supply

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    HANG

    68D Chill, with "out"

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    FLAP

    104D Kerfuffle

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    WITH

    71D "I'm ___ Her," 2016 political slogan

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    RIGID

    33D Inflexible

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    FREEWIFI debut

    37D Modern airport amenity

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    ASSISI

    60A Birthplace of multiple saints

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    TOKE

    86A Joint action

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    KOA

    91A R.V. camper's org.

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    WEANS

    62A Slowly disengages (from)

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    TPS

    1A Pranks with a roll, briefly

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    RILEY

    27D Pat ___, three-time N.B.A. Coach of the Year

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    SAGUARO

    58D Image on the Arizona license plate

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    ISMS

    77A Schools of thought

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    FLAB

    104A Exerciser's target

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    SCOUR

    9D Search far and wide

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    CROAT

    4D Certain Balkanite

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    DWI

    12D Something that gets MADD mad

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    THESIS

    17D Argument you may start in school

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    SWATS

    13D Smacks hard

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    ANDORRA

    108A European country slightly larger than Malta

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    DUNST

    46D Actress Kirsten

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    ESCHEW

    20A Forgo

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    POSTED

    7A Updated one's blog

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    EEN

    11D Dark time, in poetry

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    YPRES

    43A W.W. I battle locale

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    TODOS

    90D Kerfuffles

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    GUEST

    99D Talk show interviewee

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    LINENS

    64A Department store department

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    SEEMTO

    113A Appear that way

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    AFFECT

    73A Touch

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    LIFTS

    64D Offerings to hitchhikers

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    WIVES

    59A Muhammad had 13

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    BRINGS

    85A Ushers in

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    LOCALHERO

    109A Sandwich for a dieter?

    1
    3
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    AMERICANGOTHIC debut

    65A An airline now serves a Minute Maid beverage?

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    BOZO

    15D Numbskull

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    TREATY

    17A Part of NATO

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    AUF

    30A "___ Wiedersehen!"

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    AVANTI

    78A "Onward!," in Italy

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    WEASEL

    117A Slippery sort

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    OOM

    89D ___-pah

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    EVINCE

    47D Display clearly

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    XGAMES

    94D Event for snocrossers

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    DENSER

    5D Not as bright

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    ANSON

    80D Actor Williams of "Happy Days"

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    TOYOU

    72A End of many a toast

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    COMICS

    67D Common newspaper feature not seen in The New York Times

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    GITMO

    83A U.S. detainment site in Cuba, informally

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    HONCHO

    23A Chief

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    MERINO

    41D Soft wool source

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    TIEDON

    57A Like bibs and aprons

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    BBOY

    85D Guy into hip-hop

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    WETTED

    121A Made damp

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    WISED

    51D Caught on, with "up"

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    CROPCIRCLE

    74D Work of extraterrestrials? - not!

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    BLISTERPACK

    32A Troupe of lesser-known actors?

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    MEWLED

    69A Whined like a baby

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    TOPED

    90A Drank to excess

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    IMEANTHAT debut

    77D "No joke!"

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    PHOENIXAZ debut

    24A Actor Joaquin's complete bio?

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    2
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    PUSHUPBRA

    2D Curve-enhancing undergarment

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    2
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    WHEREAS

    26A Start of a legalese paragraph

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    WHIPUP

    51A Throw together

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    CHASING debut

    96A Game of tag, basically

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    CHICKENCOOPS debut

    87A Some apartments for scaredy-cats?

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    1
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    GRATEDCHEESE debut

    44A Schmaltz in kids' films?

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    1
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    MOVINGASIDE debut

    100A Record half that stirs emotions?

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    1
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    REDFISH debut

    35A Reef-dwelling snapper

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    1
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    RUNWAYS debut

    45D Parts of airports and fashion shows

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    STEELGRAYS debut

    3D Metallic shades

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    TAKESDRUGS debut

    75D Pops some pills, say

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    1
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    THEFENCES debut

    10D Home run territory, in lingo

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    1
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    THEPOPO debut

    18D Cops, in slang

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    1
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    THEWB debut

    1D Channel that aired "Felicity" and "Smallville"

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    1
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    TIMELOCKS debut

    57D Devices preventing off-hour openings of vaults

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    1
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    VIPLINES debut

    79D Shortcuts into clubs

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    1