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Monday · 78 answers · 7 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

    23D A pitching ace has a low one, in brief

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    EAR

    21A Big feature on a donkey

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    ALI

    34D With 27-Down, foe of the Forty Thieves

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    AGE

    5D See 6-Down

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    ESP

    48A Psychic power, informally

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    ETAL

    31A List-ending abbr.

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    AIR

    15A Tire filler

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    EMIT

    16A Give off

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    TREE

    20A Oak or elm

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    ANO

    30A Year: Sp.

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    NEON

    62A Gas in commercial signs

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    SLED

    69A Toboggan, e.g.

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    ROT

    57A Decay

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    USER

    2D Pusher's customer

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    ABEL

    60D Brother of Cain

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    ANNA

    43A Woman in "The King and I"

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    IDEAL

    52D Perfect

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    SEEN

    29D Observed

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    EPI

    65D Commercial lead-in to Pen

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    EASY

    25D Like a Monday crossword puzzle, relatively speaking

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    CAP

    64D Item of apparel often worn backward

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    EIN

    8D German "a"

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    MESA

    26D Western plateau

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    ERMA

    37D Funny Bombeck

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    SIAM

    36D Setting for "The King and I"

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    AREAS

    32A Regions

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    NAG

    67A Complain, complain, complain

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    DDAY

    38D June 6, 1944

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    GPS

    70A Route displayer on a dashboard, for short

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    MASS

    10A The "m" of e = mc^2

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    LAND

    59D Word that fills both blanks in "This ___ is your ___"

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    RIDE

    3D Carnival attraction

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    BLAH

    58A Yawn-inducing

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    DEF

    7A Dictionary offering: Abbr.

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    HYDE

    61D Jekyll's alter ego

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    BABA

    27D See 34-Down

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    USED

    35A Like some textbooks

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    NICE

    19A "___ going!"

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    KANE

    66A 1941 film "citizen"

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    ASIAGO

    14A Italian cheese

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    DREGS

    54D Bottom-of-the-bottle stuff

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    WACO

    18D City between Dallas and Austin

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    NACL

    46A Salt, chemically

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    XII

    44A 12, on a grandfather clock

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    ASI

    34A "___ Lay Dying"

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    LEONE

    53D Sierra ___ (African country)

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    EBBED

    55D Flowed back

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    BILL

    41D New York City mayor de Blasio

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    DAIRY

    7D Grocery section with milk and yogurt

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    DART

    1D Something thrown at a bull's-eye

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    MAY

    50A June preceder

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    BBS

    27A Toy gun pellets

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    HAREM

    4D ___ pants (baggy wear)

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    SITCOM

    49D "30 Rock" or "3rd Rock From the Sun"

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    SICEM

    12D Cry to an attack dog

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    BRYN

    28D ___ Mawr College

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    ELOI

    48D "The Time Machine" race

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    AMITY

    11D Friendliness

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    OPENED

    68A Laid down the first card

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    MODERN

    6D With 5-Down, present time

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    AWN

    47D Barley beard

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    STERE

    13D One cubic meter

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    OSAMA

    45A ___ bin Laden, 2011 Navy SEALs target

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    MIDDLE

    71A Word with finger or America

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    NESTER

    22A Empty ___ (parent whose children have all moved away)

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    DURHAM

    1A Twin city of Raleigh

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    ICEICEBABY

    63A 1990 hit that samples the bass line from Queen/Bowie's "Under Pressure"

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    ABANDONED

    33D Left behind

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    ODEONS

    56A Classical music halls

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    WONKS

    51D Policy experts

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    FRENETIC

    9D Crazily fast

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    KOPF debut

    42D Head: Ger.

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    BYEBYEBLACKBIRD debut

    39A 1920s standard with the lyric "Sugar's sweet, so is she"

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    EXCISING debut

    40D Removing surgically

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    MENSCLUBS debut

    10D "Old boys' network" meeting places

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    MERCYMERCYME debut

    24A 1971 hit for Marvin Gaye subtitled "The Ecology"

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    REDREDWINE debut

    17A 1988 #1 hit for UB40

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    WILDWILDLIFE debut

    51A 1986 hit for Talking Heads

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