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Monday · 78 answers · 3 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

    41A Counterpart to "if," in computer science

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  2. 2
    DNA

    24A Crucial biological molecule

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    260
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    SIR

    46A Lancelot's title

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    271
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    EMIT

    4D Give off, as rays

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    262
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    ARENA

    6D Place of gladiatorial battle

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    334
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    EPIC

    8D Three-hour-plus movie, maybe

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    235
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    REP

    61D Member of Cong.

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    192
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    ETCH

    10A Mark permanently

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    174
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    AKA

    52A Letters before a pseudonym

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    REPO

    15A Seized car, for short

    18
    146
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    ERIC

    18A Guitarist Clapton

    17
    251
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    RENT

    37D $250, for Mediterranean Avenue, even with a hotel on it

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    190
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    PRO

    53A Golf teacher

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    214
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    SAO

    23A ___ Paulo, Brazil

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    EGGS

    65A Things in an Easter basket

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    116
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    ORBS

    60A Spheres

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    107
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    AMT

    49A Qty.

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    92
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    NON

    31A Opposite of oui

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    143
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    VIE

    28A Compete (for)

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    101
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    PERU

    7D Lima's land

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    161
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    LATE

    59D Running behind schedule

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    125
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    THOU

    16A You, in the Bible

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    72
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    APES

    6A Gorillas

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    ETHER

    10D Heavens, poetically

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    111
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    DYES

    68A Supplies for Easter 65-Across

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    100
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    LLAMA

    14A Ogden Nash's "two-l" beast

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    96
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    ATALL

    66A In the slightest

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    77
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    TESTY

    51D Irritable

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    77
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    IDED

    30D Picked out of a lineup, informally

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    48
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    NEAT

    64A In apple-pie order

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    SAIL

    43D Go yachting

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    93
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    COW

    12D Dairy animal

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    61
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    PATIO

    3D Place between a house and a backyard

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    50
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    APEX

    47A Highest point

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    YORE

    35D Times long, long ago

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    SPRY

    67A Agile for one's age

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    ABETS

    42A Aids in crime

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    MESSY

    69A Antonym of 64-Across

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    WAGE

    58D Salary

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    50
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    ONS

    60D Walk-___ (unrecruited athletes)

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    90
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    ABYSS

    52D Bottomless pit

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    65
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    OPTIC

    17A ___ nerve (retina attachment)

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    60
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    TRAY

    62A Holder of a cafeteria meal

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    59
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    HUN

    13D Attila, for one

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    54
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    TRAIT

    36A Characteristic

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    54
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    PITAS

    53D Breads served with hummus

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    35
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    ALPHA

    2D Start or end of the Greek spelling of "Athena"

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    PAPER

    1A The Times or the Daily News, e.g.

    5
    36
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    FITS

    29A ___ and starts

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    SHAKE

    40D Ice cream drink

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    21
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    VEST

    28D Item under a suit jacket

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    52
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    KNEEL

    21D Prepare to be knighted

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    41
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    LUST

    22D One of the seven deadly sins

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    41
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    HEWN

    19A Chopped

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    32
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    PLOWS

    1D Snow clearers

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    ORGY

    57D Unrestrained revelry

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    POISE

    26D Graceful bearing

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    NUNS

    38A Convent residents

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    32
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    EUROPA

    25A Figure in Greek myth after whom a continent is named

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    ANTED

    27D Threw some chips in the pot

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    REELS

    54D Staggers

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    GNASH

    32D Grind, as the teeth

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    29
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    FEDEX

    29D Company that bought Kinko's

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    15
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    AMALGAM

    45D Blend

    2
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    RUBIO

    33D Florida senator Marco

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    8
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    LODES

    39A Rich ore sources

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    24
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    ODDLY

    55D "Strangely enough ..."

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    ENERGYBAR

    34D Snack for an athlete

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    SOCKET

    9D Holder of an eye or a light bulb

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    PELTED

    48D Bombarded, as with snowballs

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    REDHANDED debut

    44A In the very act

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    GATED

    63A Like some wealthy neighborhoods

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    HOGTIE

    50A Truss up

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    GREENEYED

    32A Extremely jealous

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    RACEDIN

    5D Entered quickly

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    2
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    THEDONALD

    11D Ex of Marla and Ivana, informally

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    2
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    WHITEKNUCKLED debut

    20A Visibly tense

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    YELLOWBELLIED debut

    56A Deplorably cowardly

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