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Wednesday · 78 answers · 4 debuts

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

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    END

    64D Terminus

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  2. 2
    EEL

    57A California's ___ River

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    487
  3. 3
    ICE

    27A Medium for some sculptures

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    391
  4. 4
    EASE

    16A Reduce, as anxiety

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    334
  5. 5
    LEO

    31A Soccer's Messi, informally

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    268
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    ONCE

    8D Number of times Howard Hughes's Spruce Goose flew

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    326
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    TOE

    3D Gout target, often

    29
    293
  8. 8
    SASS

    5D Get fresh with

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    202
  9. 9
    EROS

    59A One taking a bow in Greek art

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    321
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    EDU

    48A School email suffix

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    194
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    EMU

    23A Bird on Australia's coat of arms

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    295
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    IDOL

    6A Immunity ___ ("Survivor" object)

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    293
  13. 13
    EDGE

    24A Beat by a whisker

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    293
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    ELF

    24D One with pointy ears and shoes

    21
    197
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    SODA

    41D Coke or Pepsi

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    163
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    GEE

    10D "Hmm, I don't know about that"

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    200
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    IPA

    6D Hoppy brew, briefly

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    80
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    ABE

    32A Half a sawbuck

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    274
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    RES

    65D In medias ___

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    279
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    ERIC

    58D Holder of the Obama cabinet

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    251
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    INANE

    68A Cockamamie

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    192
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    OMG

    51A Texter's "Yikes!"

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    86
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    WAR

    63D Word in 12/8/41 headlines

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    149
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    PEST

    69A Pain in the you-know-what

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    128
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    SEND

    70A Make rhapsodic

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    133
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    MRI

    18D Radiology exam, briefly

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    126
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    DEED

    25D "___ I Do" (1926 jazz standard)

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    110
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    EMIL

    19A Disney's "___ and the Detectives"

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    131
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    BUS

    44D Transportation to school

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    100
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    AMC

    1D "The Walking Dead" channel

    9
    79
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    PDAS

    53A Forerunners of smartphones, for short

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    47
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    ESAI

    67A Morales of "La Bamba"

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    128
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    ALB

    37D Garment in a vestry

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    82
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    KID

    62D What Rick called Ilsa

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    67
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    HEAR

    21A Catch wind of

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    61
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    PONE

    15A Dixie bread

    7
    55
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    RECON

    22D Scout's job, briefly

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    53
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    ANTES

    1A Feeds the kitty

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    92
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    ELSIE

    4D Cow on milk cartons

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    89
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    EMERGE

    46D Come out of one's cocoon

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    64
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    SOT

    60D Dipsomaniac

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    152
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    ISR

    20A Mossad's land: Abbr.

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    142
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    SNOB

    43A Wine ___ (oenophile, often)

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    105
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    EGGO

    66A Breakfast brand

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    92
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    PED

    54A ___ Xing

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    39
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    FETA

    35A Cheese in moussaka

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    GLAD

    10A Trash bag brand

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    NOH

    2D Japanese drama style

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    61
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    AURAL

    36D Hearing-related

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    58
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    MOOLA

    14A Bread

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    43
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    GED

    52D Goal for some H.S. dropouts

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    34
  52. 52
    ESTEEM

    33D Think the world of

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    64
  53. 53
    OMELET

    49A Dish often served with home fries

    3
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    CARDS

    71A What hands are composed of

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    19
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    BINET

    40D Alfred of I.Q. testing

    2
    25
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    BOSE

    56D Big name in audio systems

    2
    24
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    TABU

    55A "Forbidden" fragrance in old ads

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    44
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    LEHAR

    9D "The Merry Widow" composer

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    24
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    ASIMOV

    12D "I, Robot" author

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    20
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    DAWNS

    30D Times to crow

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    20
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    DELUXE

    13D Highest-quality

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    BOPEEP

    45D Flock loser of rhyme

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    15
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    CARVE

    34A Sculpt

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    14
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    PYE

    47A Onetime English poet laureate Henry James ___

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    13
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    TASES

    50D Subdues with a shock

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    13
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    PLANA

    53D Primary strategy

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    24
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    BEHAN

    45A "Borstal Boy" author

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    IES

    38D Certain plural ending

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    AMESIOWA

    37A Midwest university town

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    CAMEUP

    28D Was mentioned, as in conversation

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    LAMEBRAINED

    11D None too smart

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    TRIBUTES

    42A Outpouring after a celebrity's passing, say

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    3
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    CHESSMATCH

    17A Where a queen can beat a king

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    2
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    GOTOTHEDOGS

    26D Completely fall apart

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    2
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    REDBOX debut

    29A Big name in DVD rental

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    2
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    SOCKDRAWER debut

    61A Where two pair beats three of a kind

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    2
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    DOTHEBESTYOUCAN debut

    7D Give 100%

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    DOUBLESTENNIS debut

    39A Where an ace can beat a pair

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    1