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

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   ELI

   48D Country music's Mike ___

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   EDEN

   40A Successor to Churchill

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   USES

   45D A smartphone has lots of them

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   OTT

   9D N.H.L. Eastern Conference team, on scoreboards

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   ASTER

   7D Bloom that's often white or lavender

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   PHIL

   24A Golfer Mickelson

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   SKIS

   20D Does some runs

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   ENTRE

   41D ___-deux

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    GTO

    21A Something with "three deuces and a four-speed" in a 1964 hit

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    SOUP

    5D Make more powerful, with "up"

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    BOLT

    35D Leave in a hurry

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    PLAIN

    37A With nothing on top

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    CUR

    44A Blackguard

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    FEAR

    30A Chicken characteristic

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    ICEIN

    26D Strand during a storm, maybe

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    WELSH

    53A Like an eisteddfod festival

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    EULER

    41A Noted blind mathematician

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    ZINC

    22A 30, on a table

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    FLOW

    46D Go smoothly

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    STEPH

    43D Curry of the N.B.A.

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    ALIS

    42A Noted boxing family

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    SELFIE

    32A ___ stick

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    IQTESTS

    47A Measures of sharpness

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    CANINES

    3D Foxes, e.g.

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    SORESPOT

    38A Touchy subject

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    ARAMIS

    2D A Musketeer

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    FACES

    1A What a physiognomist studies

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    MAKER

    23A God

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    SUISSE

    38D Neighbor of Allemagne

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    LAERTES

    34D Shakespearean fencer

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    STATUTE

    18A Act

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    USOTOUR

    15A Hope was once its driving force

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    FELIZ

    1D Hernando's "happy"

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    GODEEP

    51A Throw a bomb

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    HIREES

    31D Staff additions

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    SOLANGE debut

    49A One-named singer with the 2016 #1 album "A Seat at the Table"

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    TINGES

    39D Hints

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    PRIMA

    27A ___ facie (legal phrase)

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    JOAD

    8D 1940 Fonda role

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    COLONEL

    36D Fast-food icon, with "the"

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    NORMARAE

    14D Field work

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    WRITER

    29A London or Manchester

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    YESISEE

    52A "You don't have to explain"

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    REARER

    17D Parent, e.g.

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    ERAGON

    13A Christopher Paolini best seller

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    PRIDEPARADE

    24D Annual June celebration

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    PRISS

    27D Stuck-up sort

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    IMIMPRESSED

    19A "Well done!"

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    MAJORCA

    6A Palma's island

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    ROUGHIT

    10D Camp out in the wilderness, say

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    SEMIARID

    25A Dryish

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    ELDUQUE

    33D Nickname for baseball's Orlando Hernández

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    HAID

    31A Charles of "Hill Street Blues"

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    MUSSED

    6D Rumpled

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    SUCRES

    28A Former Ecuadorean "dollars"

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    AREOLAR debut

    12D Pertaining to colored rings

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    CUTTIME

    11D 2/2, in music

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    EGGMCMUFFIN

    4D Croissan'wich alternative

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    FUELERS

    50A Parts of pit crews

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    LANGUOR

    16A Sluggishness

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    SPECIFY

    32D Spell out

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    UNITEDFRONT

    45A Alliance of groups against a common enemy

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    BITSEC debut

    35A Measure of data transfer speed, for short

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    WATERDOG debut

    29D Newfoundland or golden retriever

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