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Thursday · 78 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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    ANTE

    66A A penny is a small one

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    ANT

    61D Army ___

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    ICE

    63D Winter coat

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    NSA

    55A Org. whose symbol is an eagle atop a key

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    BRA

    30A It's measured in cups

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    ANNE

    39A Mother of the Virgin Mary

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    TEND

    38D Watch over

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    122
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    TEEN

    36A Many a bar mitzvah attendee

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    192
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    PER

    64D Each

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    EDNA

    41D Novelist Ferber

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    245
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    ECON

    68A Future C.P.A.'s study

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    BRIE

    23D Cocktail party spread

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    95
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    MSN

    3D ___ Explorer (browser)

    15
    73
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    UTES

    59A Pac-12 team

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    149
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    PIN

    48A Campaign freebie

    12
    103
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    IRULE

    28A "Yay, me!"

    12
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    LENA

    29D Actress Headey

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    SEX

    9D Congress

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    SIAM

    21D Neighbor of India and China in Risk

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    INTEL

    53D Big name in microprocessors

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    ODIE

    15A Cartoon dog

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    BAT

    60D Take some swings

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    128
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    HIT

    62D Success in the game 60-Across ... or a hint to interpreting the circled squares

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    EEO

    46A Fair-hiring inits.

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    SPAM

    43D Filter target

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    TAX

    18D Duty

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    MIC

    1D Word after hot or open

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    62
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    ESTER

    70A Fragrant compound

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    115
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    COG

    31A Minor but essential part

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    BAWL

    35D Turn on the waterworks

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    39
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    IBSEN

    14A "Ghosts" playwright

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    55
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    KEANU

    20A Reeves of "The Matrix"

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    32
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    MAMBA

    1A Venomous African snake

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    31
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    ALBA

    10A Duchess of ___ (Goya subject)

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    BOOR

    16A Trollish sort

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    LILT

    22D Cheerful tune

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    59
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    MIRA

    65A Red giant in the constellation Cetus

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    TSOS

    58D Chinese menu possessive

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    VOICE

    67A Express

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    NEWS

    40D Google heading

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    INUIT

    57A Language from which "kayak" comes

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    SUSHI

    21A Kind of bar

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    MIX

    8D Potpourri

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    BEAK

    4D Schnozz

    3
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    ZOOM

    19A Go fast

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    OPTIN

    33D Join voluntarily

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    LBJ

    22A ___ Ranch (onetime "Texas White House")

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    TTYL

    69A "Gotta go," in textspeak

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    SUSAN

    51D Lazy ___

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    HOHUM

    56A Run-of-the-mill

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    CLOWN

    49A Scary figure in Stephen King's "It"

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  52. 52
    XBOX

    26D Gaming debut of 2001

    2
    19
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    ROOMBA

    34A Round floor cleaner

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    12
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    JAMS

    6A Quandaries

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    CUL

    54D ___-de-sac

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    RXS

    34D Just what the doctor ordered, for short?

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    LIKESO

    32A "In this way"

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    PROXY

    27D Agent

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    WITTY

    52D Good at repartee

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    ADEUX

    7D For two

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    LOOSECANNON

    11D Unpredictable sort

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    ABO

    2D Blood letters

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    EXOTIC

    47D Pet store category

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    ABZUG

    10D Bella of 1970s politics

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    BOOHOO

    12D "Oh, cry me a river!"

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    ACHIEVE

    45D Pull off

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    ANNEXES

    5D Wings

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    ARMING

    13D Giving heat?

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    BASTES

    42A Butters up?

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    EXHUME

    46D Unearth

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    YAWNED

    44A Opened one's mouth but didn't speak?

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    BATTLESHIP

    60A It's four units long in a popular board game (with the game's other pieces hinted at by the circled letters)

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    JUKEBOXHERO

    24D Foreigner song with the lyric "With that one guitar / He'll come alive"

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    CONANTHEXX debut

    17A 1984 Schwarzenegger sequel

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    JOHNX debut

    6D Pope before Leo VI

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    PTXXX debut

    37A Chrysler model discontinued in 2010

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    XXXSANDWICH debut

    50A Grinder

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    XXXXXPIGEON debut

    25A Early form of airmail?

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