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Wednesday · 81 answers · 6 debuts

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

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    ERA

    3D Word after many a president's name

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    ATE

    32A Made a fast stop?

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    SET

    61A Solidify

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    OLE

    8D "Hurray!"

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    EPEE

    75A Need for a modern pentathlon

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    TRI

    47D Grueling Olympic race, for short

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    SEA

    30A Lead-in to dog or horse

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    EVE

    43A Wall-E's love in "Wall-E"

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    ALL

    37A The works

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    ADD

    1D Do some arithmetic

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    OPT

    60D Elect (to)

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    EELS

    15A Congers, e.g.

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    ESE

    70D Cornell-to-Yale dir.

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    TON

    29D Boatload

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    STYE

    74A Reason to see an ophthalmologist

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    TIA

    42A Madre's hermana

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    AVA

    31D Director DuVernay

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    EMAIL

    20A Texting alternative

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    NEMO

    44A Submarine commander of fiction

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    PRO

    68D One side of a debate

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    CON

    2D One side of a debate

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    HAN

    69D Solo on the silver screen

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    WHO

    53A Question before a name is repeated

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    NOIR

    64D Genre for "Chinatown" or "The Big Sleep"

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    RAH

    51A "Hurray!"

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    ACELA

    1A ___ Express (Boston-to-Washington connection)

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    IPAS debut

    36D Hoppy brews

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    NOVA

    16A Salmon at a deli

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    STEREO

    56A Standard equipment on most cars

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    LAW

    23A Police, informally

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    ERATO

    28A Lyrist of myth

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    NAPE

    41A Scruff

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    OHARE

    58D Its symbol is ORD

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    MOW

    45D Do some lawn work

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    CLOT

    49A Solidify

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    SERENE

    50A Tranquil

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    DRONE

    76A High-tech package delivery method

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    TAROT

    57D Deck with 78 cards

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    LASE

    4D Zap, in a way

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    PUP

    67D Whelp

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    REG

    48A Rule, informally

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    ARRIVE

    24D Achieve great success

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    EVICT

    12D Give the boot

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    RUNE

    72A Tolkien character

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    ORZO

    65A Pasta used in soups and salads

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    EHOW

    59A Website with step-by-step tutorials

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    EXAM

    26A Part of a doctor's visit

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    AVIV

    35A Tel ___

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    OATHS

    13D Vows

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    LIRAS

    73A Turkish money

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    MAX

    18D Upper limit, for short

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    35
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    FEEL

    34D Sense

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    WIRES

    55A Circuitry connectors

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    OHISEE

    54D "Now that makes sense!"

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    TWIT

    19A Birdbrain

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    DRIFTS

    27A Blizzard results

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    ASSAD

    9D Longtime Syrian strongman

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    ANTHEM

    46A It's often played before playing

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    DORAG

    14A Close-fitting head covering

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    WOKS

    71A Asian vessels

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    RIPON

    63A Bad-mouth

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    LIENEE

    38D Mortgagor, e.g.

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    LATISH

    62A A little behind

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    LEDGER

    23D Book that a bookkeeper keeps

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    GINNIE

    40A ___ Mae (bond)

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    BRAVENEWWORLD

    22D *Dystopian novel set in the year 2540

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    STOA

    6A Site of Zeno's teaching

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    IDEO

    10A Prefix with -logical

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    ARIOSE

    52D Melodic

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    LAMEST

    39D Unlikeliest to be bought

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    SEPIAS

    6D Old photo tones

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    APOSTROPHE

    66A Maker's mark?

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    INTUIT

    10D Sense

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    SLOWS

    56D Retards

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    DRYOFF

    33A Towel

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    WAYNEGRETZKY

    25D *Sports legend who was an M.V.P. for eight consecutive seasons

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    ABUNCH debut

    21A Boatloads

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    AGAMEOFINCHES debut

    5D *Baseball, according to some

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    DNASAMPLES debut

    17A Some evidence collected for trials

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    DOWNFEATHERS debut

    11D Warm winter coat contents ... or what is present in the answer to each starred clue?

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    TELLMEANOTHERONE debut

    7D *"A likely story!"

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