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Friday · 68 answers · 10 debuts

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

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    DNA

    19A ___ sample

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    EROS

    28A Life instinct, in psychology

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    TED

    38A ___ Mosby, main role on "How I Met Your Mother"

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    APSE

    41A Niche form of architecture?

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    ALES

    23D They have hops

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    SRS

    9D Students with 300 and 400 classes: Abbr.

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    CAP

    32A Ceiling

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    OPINE

    36A Write a think piece, say

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    TSARS

    14D Bulgaria's Simeon I and Simeon II

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    CARE

    51D Something that people wish you would take when you leave

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    EASES

    58A Simplifies

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    BAS

    52A Some undergrad degs.

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    ITIS

    35A "___ said ..."

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    ALOUD

    53A Not just in one's head, say

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    IRONS

    16A Golfer's collection

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    TIT

    31D "Blue" or "bearded" bird

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    INTER

    13D Bury

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    SPLIT

    10A Skedaddled

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    III

    55D Jr.'s son

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    HOBO

    37A Drifter

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    IDE

    4D Common suffix for 7-Downs

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    IPODS

    45D Devices that introduced the click wheel

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    SNAKE

    43D Backstabber

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    UPSET

    30D Underdog victory

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    OMELET

    26A Diner order that gets filled?

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    TALIA

    44D ___ al Ghul (Batman foe)

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    VITAL

    22A Essential

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    NAPLES

    49A Home of the first known pizza parlor

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    AKON

    20A One-named singer with the 2007 #1 hit "Don't Matter"

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    TORTA

    18A Mexican sandwich

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    STILETTOS

    43A Sharp-looking footwear?

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    EWOK

    6D Ursine sci-fi creature

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    SPEEDOS

    39D Skimpy swimwear

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    LORDE

    12D One-named singer with the 2013 #1 hit "Royals"

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    HEF

    54D Noted mansion man, for short

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    TORRE

    48A "The Yankee Years" memoirist

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    EELERS

    42A Many workers in Japan's Lake Hamana

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    LOCK

    50A Certainty

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    KIDDO

    56A Little buddy

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    INANIMATE

    2D Dead

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    KARATEKID debut

    3D Sobriquet for filmdom's Daniel LaRusso, with "The"

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    HAWAIIANS debut

    54A Kamehameha Day observers

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    RARECOINS debut

    17A Numismatist's collection

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    HILO

    37D Stud poker variation, informally

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    ANION

    7D Atom with an electronic imbalance

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    REUNE

    25D Get back together

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    ALLUDE

    41D Refer (to)

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    KENNY

    8D G in jazz

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    SOWER

    47D One spreading seed

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    CINDER

    21A Building block makeup

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    OLAVI

    46D Norwegian king until 1000

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    POSSESSES

    34D Has hold of

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    ABERRANCE

    33D Deviation

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    CARRERE

    21D Actress Tia of "Wayne's World"

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    EVERSINCE

    57A From that point on

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    FIRESIDES

    59A Cozy curl-up spots

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    LOCALES

    5D Areas

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    TAOISTS

    27D Ones who know the way?

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    WETKISS

    40D Sloppy planting job?

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    COVERBAND debut

    32D Act without originality

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    MAKESAUTURN

    29A Reverses course

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    PRONGS debut

    11D Sticking points

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    SITINON

    10D Audit, as a class

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    NYRANGERS debut

    24A First U.S. team to win the N.H.L. Stanley Cup (1928)

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    ONADOWNER debut

    15A How buzzkills end things

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    SISTERWIVES debut

    39A Some polygamous figures

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    WIKILEAKS debut

    1A Source of embarrassment for some public officials

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    WORDVOMIT debut

    1D Verbal outpouring, in slang

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