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Tuesday · 74 answers · 6 debuts

Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-03), then by uses across the whole archive.

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    ERA

    28A Geologist's division

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    EAR

    26D Body part that some people wiggle

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    EON

    33A Geologist's division

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    ISEE

    66A "That makes sense"

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    OAT

    53A Cracklin' ___ Bran

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    DEE

    13D Actor Billy ___ Williams

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    ERIN

    62A Burnett of CNN

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    AKA

    56A Lead-in to an alias

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    ADDS

    1A Tacks on

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    EDS

    12D Mag. staffers

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    HUE

    23A Color tone

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    ORO

    41D Medalla de ___ (first-place award in Mexico)

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    OMIT

    5A Not include

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    NERO

    34A Claudius's successor

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    LEND

    65A Offer mortgages

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    SNO

    27D ___ Balls (snack food)

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    TESS

    8D "___ of the D'Urbervilles"

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    ERROR

    39D Blunder

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    NCAA

    24A Org. for the Big East, Big South and Big 12

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    BAN

    37D Test ___ (treaty subject)

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    IMAGE

    36D Picture

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    PSA

    61D Smokey Bear was in an early one, for short

    13
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    MAA

    43A Goat's bleat

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    RESTS

    45A Stops playing

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    ANODE

    16A + end on an electrolytic cell

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    SOP

    60D Soak up

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    105
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    SWAP

    4D Exchange

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    THIS

    59D "___ is the life!"

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    PASTA

    67A Trattoria course

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    SONS

    69A George Foreman Jr., George Foreman III, George Foreman IV, etc.

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    ANGER

    21D Ire

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    LEGS

    68A Staying power, informally

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    FORE

    15A Duffer's warning

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    VOTE

    40A Yea or nay

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    ALGA

    17A Birdbath organism

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    SKEE

    38A ___-Ball

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    NELL

    58D "Little" Dickens girl

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    SATIE

    31A "Gymnopédies" composer Erik

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    HDTV

    63A It'll give you a clear picture

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    SPIKE

    60A Sharp increase

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    NIECES

    25A Family tree members

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    VWS

    40D Bugs on the road?

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    DRIB

    35A Small amount

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    FROS

    18A Bushy dos

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    HOPED

    9A Had fingers crossed

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    APACHES

    1D Army fliers since 1984

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    PROW

    14A Front of a freighter

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    IRONAGE

    7D Period in Europe starting around 1100 B.C.

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    SOANDSO

    46D Scoundrel

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    ININK

    22D Unerasably, say

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    OSLIN

    64A K. T. of country music

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    SONTAG

    54A Susan who wrote "In America"

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    TAKETEN

    47D Break during rehearsal, say

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    ASHTREE

    44D Source of wood for baseball bats

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    6
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    HAGGIS

    9D Sheep dish popular in Scotland

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    HILO

    55A U.S. city whose name looks oxymoronic

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    HOS

    30D Sounds from the Jolly Green Giant

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    ELANDS

    52D African antelopes

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    GALENA

    50D Main ore of lead

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    PORSCHE

    11D Boxster maker

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    OFFICE

    5D Setting for "Dilbert"

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    DRLAURA

    2D Advice-giver on SiriusXM

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    ONONEKNEE

    10D Preparing to propose, by tradition

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    GORSE

    19A Vegetation along a British golf course

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    TONSILS

    42D Painful things to have removed

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    IDENTIKIT

    32D Aid in producing a suspect's picture

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    MORGAN

    6D New York's ___ Library

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    3
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    STARVES

    48D Doesn't eat for a long while

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    3
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    WIPING debut

    51D Erasing, as a hard drive

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    3
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    SILENTPARTNER debut

    57A Nonactive member of a firm ... or what G, H and W each have in 20-, 29- and 49-Across?

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    CAMPAIGNSIGNS debut

    20A Yard displays at election time

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    DOGMEAT debut

    3D Serving in Asia that's taboo in the West

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    GENGHISKHAN debut

    29A Mongol Empire founder

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    WRONGANSWER debut

    49A "Nope, guess again"

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