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Wednesday · 76 answers · 5 debuts

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

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    EAR

    39D Listen here!

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    485
  2. 2
    EON

    64D Time it takes for paint to dry, seemingly

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    TEN

    65D X

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    ANN

    70A Massachusetts' Cape ___

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    ELM

    22A One throwing shade?

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    240
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    RNA

    31D Genetic stuff

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    SRI

    27A Title for Gandhi

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    238
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    EDU

    35D End of a freshman's new email address

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    LSAT

    61D Aspiring D.A.'s exam

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    SEMI

    15D Prefix with final or formal

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    178
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    ADELE

    11D "Skyfall" singer, 2012

    22
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    OED

    58A 21,728-pg. work that is constantly updated

    22
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    TEES

    18D Pro shop purchases

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    OLES

    34A Corrida cheers

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    DES

    26A ___ Plaines, Ill.

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    IBET

    13A Cynical rejoinder

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    PHI

    5D Golden ratio symbol

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    EENIE

    37A Start of a selecting rhyme

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    48
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    OUT

    6D Unconscious

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    LID

    63D Hat, informally

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    SLOE

    67A Blackthorn fruit

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    EZRA

    28A Book after II Chronicles

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    CRU

    9D French vineyard

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    49
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    BUT

    30D Good-news-to-bad-news transition

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    44
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    OBESE

    2D Portly plus

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    LILAC

    25D State flower of New Hampshire

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    HMO

    50A Affordable Care Act option, briefly

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    111
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    GLUE

    59A Sticker component

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    48
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    REAM

    29D Paper purchase

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    113
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    IONIA

    56D Ancient region where the style of an architectural column originated

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    CUTE

    44A Like cat videos, typically

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    41
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    ECLAT

    8A Brilliance

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    113
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    SLAW

    46A Side dish at a barbecue

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    STEIN

    4D "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" author

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    STAIN

    66A Wine may leave one

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    44
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    SHOAL

    60A Boating hazard

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    ARP

    48A Dada pioneer

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    III

    38D XXX divided by X

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    BRIO

    30A Vivacity

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    48
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    OSSIE

    20A Davis of "Jungle Fever"

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    48
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    KROC

    24D McDonald's founder Ray

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    24
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    YADDA

    69A When said three times, blah blah blah

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    12
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    MEIR

    45A Golda of Israel

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    GMAN

    21A Fed

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    TAMER

    43A Less feral

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    POW

    5A On-screen word in a "Batman" episode

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    HUES

    14A Shades

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    WEDGE

    7D It provides more loft than a 9-iron

    3
    25
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    BRIDE

    16A Figurine on many a wedding cake

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    24
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    HELLA

    54D Very, in slang

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    8
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    PEPSI

    3D Drink with a Wild Cherry variety

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    GERM

    42D ___ warfare

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    JANE

    19D TV's "___ the Virgin"

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    SETAT

    36D Assail

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    TERMS

    12D Robert Byrd served nearly nine of these in the Senate

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    MEHTA

    51D Zubin formerly of the New York Philharmonic

    2
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    PUSH

    49D Encourage

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    MOPS

    1A Hairdressers' challenges

    2
    23
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    LINEDANCE

    10D The Cha Cha Slide, for one

    2
    8
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    OPEL

    33D Volkswagen competitor

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    MILO

    1D Otis's feline pal

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    KANT

    71A Philosopher Immanuel

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    CUTS

    53D Shares of profits

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    WALT

    47D Poet Whitman

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    EBENEZER

    8D Name in "A Christmas Carol"

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    ORANGINA

    41D Fizzy citrus beverage

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    RIAA

    68A Org. certifying albums as gold or platinum

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    SHIRK

    55D Avoid, as work

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    HOTSY

    50D ___-totsy

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    KAGAN

    57D Justice who joined the bench in 2010

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    IAMSODEAD

    32D "OMG, my parents are gonna ground me forever!"

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    EINEKLEINE debut

    23A *With 52-Across, 1787 Mozart composition

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    LEPETITDEJEUNER debut

    17A *Breakfast, in Burgundy

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    1
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    NACHTMUSIK debut

    52A See 23-Across

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    THELITTLETHINGS debut

    62A They're what really count, so it's said ... or a hint to the multilingual answers to the starred clues

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    UNAPOCADEGRACIA debut

    40A *Repeated lyric in "La Bamba"

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