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

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   LEE

   46D Gray head?

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   EELS

   36A Meals for seals

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   OTIS

   8D Maker of thousands of cars annually

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   LAP

   16A Spot for Spot

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   OTTER

   7D Whiskered, fish-eating creature

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   SERA

   21A Pomeriggio follower

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   VET

   43A Critically examine

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   SOME

   41D A taste

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    PET

    9D Term of endearment

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    NIN

    24A Novelist who wrote "I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living"

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    BEG

    1D Canine command

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    ESTD

    18A Abbr. on a foundation stone

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    STEEP

    22A High-grade?

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    RAJ

    40A "The Big Bang Theory" character

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    PLAIN

    25A Hamburger order

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    ODIST

    3D William Wordsworth, e.g.

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    CMA

    27D Nashville awards org.

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    JOT

    45D Tiny amount

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    SITU

    39A In ___ (untouched)

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    BMI

    34A Song royalties org.

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    ONTV

    2D Airing

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    REL

    28D Subj. of tax exemption

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    YOS

    14A Sly remarks?

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    LUTZ

    42D Turn on the ice

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    DELETES

    19D Files away?

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    REASON

    28A "Because I said so" is not one

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    PYREX

    37D Material for a baking vessel

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    ALKALIS

    5D Things that cover all the bases?

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    BONITA

    34D Beautiful, in Bogotá

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    PELLA

    25D Big name in windows

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    TILER

    20A Mosaicist

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    SCOTIA

    31A Land north of England, in poetry

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    DEEPEN

    6D Grow, as sympathies

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    TRUES

    33A Aligns

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    HELLENE

    30A Spartan, e.g.

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    POORS

    37A Standard & ___

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    SLALOMS

    21D Doesn't go straight, in a way

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    POLIS

    23D Sparta, e.g.

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    AMATO

    35A Pasquale ___, baritone at the Metropolitan Opera

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    YESMASTER

    14D Toadyish response

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    SARAI

    38D Name changed in Genesis 17:15

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    BOSTONCREAM

    12D Kind of pie that's actually a cake

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    HAIRDYES

    30D Changers of locks

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    PACHINKO

    4D Its player may have a yen for gambling

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    SMOOTHS

    32D Sands

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    TEXASSIZE

    48A Gigantic

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    VSHAPES

    15A Many necklines

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    ANSELMO

    29A Tony ___, official character voice of Donald Duck

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    HOMETHEATER

    47A Setup for a Netflix film, say

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    SYNODAL

    41A Like certain ecclesiastical councils

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    BIGTICKETITEM debut

    12A One taking a lot of credit, maybe?

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    BOOPADOOP debut

    1A Blondie's maiden name in "Blondie"

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    MAJORITYRULES debut

    44A Democratic principle

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    MARIONETTES debut

    13D Howdy Doody and others

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    MORLOCKS debut

    26A Nocturnal predators of fiction

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    PANNEDOUT debut

    17D Was successful in the end

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    RELEASEWAIVER debut

    11D Paper signed before filming begins

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    SALLOWED debut

    32A Turned sickly yellow

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    SENDALETTER debut

    10A Post something

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    SISTERSOULJAH debut

    10D Hip-hop icon born Lisa Williamson

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