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Saturday · 70 answers · 9 debuts

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

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    ELSE

    17A Programming keyword

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    SAD

    39A Tearing up, say

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    STIR

    27D Ruckus

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    ITEM

    46D Paragraph in the newspaper, say

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    INN

    42A Tolkien's Prancing Pony, for one

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    TREE

    3D Word with family or Christmas

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    PSI

    6D Wave function denoter in quantum mechanics

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    ARK

    24D What had a double standard in the Bible?

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    RUE

    33D Regret

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    DYE

    41D Red ___

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    WEE

    15D Like Tom Thumb

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    DATA

    49D Subject of a cellphone cap

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    SOAR

    26A Go through the roof

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    ARMY

    40D Red ___

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    OTT

    20A To whom Durocher was referring when he said "Nice guys finish last"

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    SAME

    26D Uniform

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    SPRY

    44A Opposite of doddery

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    JEER

    37A "Are you blind, ump?," e.g.

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    48
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    ALIKE

    1D Uniform

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    40
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    APHID

    34A Insect that's born pregnant

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    TRAY

    21D What someone may be holding while waiting

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    ONEDGE

    19D Wired

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    48
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    MOES

    18A Longtime TV tavern

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    36
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    PARS

    43A 3, 4, 5 and occasionally more

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    MARC

    28D Fashion designer Ecko

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    SEEME

    54A Repeated lyric in the Who's "Tommy"

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    54
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    SLIME

    44D Snail trail

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    38
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    FLIT

    50D Move like a fairy

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    PRUNE

    43D Cut back

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    WEIRD

    45A Quite off

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    SNOTS debut

    16A Little monsters

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    8
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    LEER

    48D Look the wrong way?

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    EFT

    22A Little wriggler

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    LUG

    52D Palooka

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    PIPE

    4D Main, say

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    SHAD

    23D Kind of roe

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    HAJI

    29D Traveler to a certain 27-Across

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    22
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    GHOST

    12D Popular word game

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    HADAT

    38D Rushed

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    29
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    TVSET

    13D Soap box?

    2
    27
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    WOLF

    14D Bolt (down)

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    22
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    ALTPOP debut

    1A Genre akin to indie rock

    2
    7
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    SPATE

    39D Rush

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    MANNA

    28A It's described as fine and flakelike in Exodus

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    LILO

    8D Disney's "___ & Stitch"

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    SHRINE

    27A Where bows may be made

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    HOMEEC

    38A Course on courses, for short

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    BLOKE

    7A Fellow

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    THENERVE

    31D "How dare they!"

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    OLDFLAME

    47A Lover of history?

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    GYRATE

    55A Twist and turn

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    FIGURE

    35A 8, e.g.

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    5
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    HOTTAKE debut

    29A Piece of glib journalism often written under a tight deadline

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    5
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    DRAMEDY debut

    32A Theatrical hybrid

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    3
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    WOOKIEES

    15A Sci-fi natives of the planet Kashyyyk

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    3
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    VAS

    51D Biological duct

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    LOTI

    2D "There's not a ___ can do"

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    SAVANT

    23A Wise one

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    ONETOONE

    9D Corresponding exactly

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    EME

    11D Suffix in linguistics

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    IMSORRY

    36D "Apologies"

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    VIEFOR

    25D Try to win

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    OARSMAN

    5D Sculler

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    OPENWIDE

    30D Request at the dentist's

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    5
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    BEINS

    7D Some Vietnam War protests

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    2
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    ADVENTURETIME debut

    53A Award-winning Cartoon Network series with Finn the Human and Jake the Dog

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    1
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    GLORIASTEINEM debut

    12A Co-organizer of the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality

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    1
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    KEGSTAND debut

    10D Frat party stunt

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    1
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    VIRTUALREALITY debut

    51A Field in which a helmet and gloves are often worn

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    WHITEPRIVILEGE debut

    14A Modern topic in race relations

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