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Sunday · 140 answers · 11 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

    45A It may pop on a plane

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    AGE

    108D Add years

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    TNT

    61D Mining supply

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    ANA

    16D CNN commentator Navarro

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    ERS

    66D Busy hosp. areas

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    ETON

    77D Cricket rival of Harrow

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    ALL

    55D With 57-Down, very nearly

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    TAR

    79D Material once set afire and put in a catapult

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    ENOS

    113A "The Dukes of Hazzard" spinoff

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    PAR

    31D It's to be expected

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    ABS

    16A Things that people like to have ripped?

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    ENE

    107D Des Moines-to-Dubuque dir.

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    YEN

    86D It sank after W.W. II

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    ALIT

    25D Came down

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    HAT

    82A Broadbrim, e.g.

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    ABCS

    12A Basics

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    SETH

    49D Genesis brother

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    LEA

    10D Pastoral locale

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    TESS

    103D 1979 Roman Polanski film

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    RAD

    56A "Totally awesome!"

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    RDA

    46A Dietary std.

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    FOE

    72A Antagonist

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    EMUS

    23A Sources of lean meat

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    ROLE

    110A Part

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    HERO

    27D Long lunch?

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    SEX

    18D Determination in a prenatal exam

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    TERI

    67A Actress Hatcher

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    OOO

    105D Win on "Hollywood Squares"

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    AMORAL

    53D Unconcerned with right and wrong

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    OSSO

    73D ___ buco

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    HAL

    84A Protagonist in David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest"

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    ALF

    9D Landon who lost in a landslide

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    BUT

    57D See 55-Down

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    ARS

    5D Start of MGM's motto

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    SLIT

    62A Buttonhole, e.g.

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    COW

    114A Intimidate

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    CLEF

    1D Score marking

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    LLC

    104D Inc. relative

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    CENT

    92D Lincoln's place

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    SPRY

    49A Light on one's feet

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    VERA

    40D Woman's name that means "truth"

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    INT

    65D It decreases a QB's rating: Abbr.

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    LEAR

    39D King who said "Nothing will come of nothing"

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    HEY

    28A "Yo!"

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    SPEAR

    94A Weapon seen on the Kenyan flag

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    CHAD

    1A Neighbor of Sudan

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    MAID

    115A One of eight in "The 12 Days of Christmas"

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    IRONED

    91D Wrinkle-free, say

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    DELIS

    54D Parts of supermarkets

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    ANKA

    38D Paul who sang "Lonely Boy"

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    HAY

    42D Loft filler

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    PASO

    76D El ___

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    MEEK

    51A Submissive

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    SHAKE

    37D Lose

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    GSPOT

    58D Topic at the Kinsey Institute

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    LEDE

    19A First sentence of a news story

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    SEDER

    22D Holiday meal

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    PLOW

    102D Go forcefully (through)

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    HEMI

    2D Powerful engine, for short

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    BEEF

    57A Bit of food ... or feud?

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    CTA

    83A Inits. for getting around the Loop

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    ASTA

    98D Old movie dog

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    QUIT

    87D Go cold turkey

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    FERAL

    96D Wild

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    TUTTI

    61A ___-frutti

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    SILAS

    70A George Eliot's "___ Marner"

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    VOW

    106D "I shall return," e.g.

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    TEMPT

    101A "Don't ___ me"

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    DEFY

    8D Brave

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    BOOP

    13D Betty ___

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    TURF

    79A Territory

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    MALONE

    51D Sam who ran the bar on "Cheers"

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    SOCKS

    70D Knee-highs, e.g.

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    DRUB

    100D Give a beating

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    GILT

    71A Finely decorated

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    DEV

    100A Actor Patel of "Lion"

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    GAUNT

    68A All skin and bones

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    MODELT

    36D Seminal symbol of mass production

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    DEWS

    117A Certain soft drinks, informally

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    AMIDALA

    5A Queen in the "Star Wars" movies

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    ICESHOW

    85D Entertainment with camels, maybe

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    OPEL

    78A Automaker sold by G.M. in 2017

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    ARMADA

    52A Fleet

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    GESSO

    80A White undercoat

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    KAI

    47A China's Chiang ___-shek

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    FEELS

    72D Doesn't know for a fact, say

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    RAREBIT

    35D Cheesy dish

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    REEKS

    95A Big stinks

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    ONZE

    33D Eleven: Fr.

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    SIREE

    48A Yes or no follower

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    ARSENIO

    11D Big name in 1980s-'90s TV talk

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    IVIED

    7D Like Wrigley Field's walls

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    TIPTOP

    67D Best of the best

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    ALBANY

    12D State capital that's the setting of "Ironweed"

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    ELAPSED

    29A Went by

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    RONIN

    32A 1998 De Niro thriller

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    FILTH

    26A Grime

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    UTTERED

    88D Said

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    DESTROY

    4D Wipe off the map

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    OMNIVORE

    81D Human, typically, diet-wise

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    SIMI

    99D ___ Valley

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    ALSORAN

    38A One who's in it but doesn't win it

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    MELBA

    59A Peach ___

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    RELEASE

    63D Free

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    STEPPE

    74A Much of Mongolia

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    WDS

    109D Sentence fragments: Abbr.

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    GROK

    80D Grasp, informally

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    GABLE

    58A Part of a house

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    RAZED

    32D Leveled

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    SEASONS

    97A Units for binge watchers

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    CURS

    14D Mean, lowdown sorts

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    BYRON

    69A "I had a dream, which was not all a dream" poet

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    BYU

    17D The Cougars of the West Coast Conf.

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    HEREIAM

    84D Announcement upon a grand arrival

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    GULF

    64D Chasm

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    SIDEBAR

    15D Court conference

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    TREPID

    30A Fearful

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    FINITO

    96A Done, slangily

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    NEUTRON

    93A Something that's free of charge

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    LOOKATME

    111A Attention hog's cry

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    ADULTSWIM

    3D Nighttime Cartoon Network programming block

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    HASEK

    90D Goaltender Dominik in the Hockey Hall of Fame

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    PERFIDY

    41D Disloyalty

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    REVELER

    20A Party animal

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    BERMS

    34A Highway noise barriers

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    ONGUARD

    112A Vigilant

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    LOUISNYE

    21A Comedian who was a regular on "The Steve Allen Show"

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    PETEBEST

    50D Early Beatle

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    PHEROMONE

    75D Secreted signal

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    BIGGULP debut

    60D 32-ounce purchase at 7-Eleven

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    IRESTMYQUESO debut

    85A Comment from a cook who cools the cheese sauce before serving?

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    KOSHERPICCOLO debut

    89A Woodwind that's O.K. to play?

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    LOVEISINTHEARROW debut

    104A Cupid's catchphrase?

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    1
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    METHINKS debut

    6D Quaint "I believe"

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    MIRANAIR debut

    44D Director of 1991's "Mississippi Masala"

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    NEWYORKMEZZO debut

    43A Certain Lincoln Center soprano?

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    ROLLINGINTHEDEPOT debut

    63A Shooting craps while waiting for one's train?

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    STIFFASABORDEAUX debut

    24A Comparatively strong, like some French wine?

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    1
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    VANITYPHARAOH debut

    40A Egyptian leader obsessed with his appearance?

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    WEEBLES debut

    116A Egg-shaped Hasbro toys introduced in 1971

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