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Sunday · 140 answers · 13 debuts

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

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    ALA

    45A In the tradition of

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    ASS

    27A ___-backwards

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    IRA

    48A ___ Aldridge, pioneering Shakespearean actor

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    ADO

    21A Excitement

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    EGO

    108D Freudian area of study

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    LSD

    82A Subj. of "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"

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    OGRE

    103D Fearsome figure

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    ANI

    99A "Star Wars" nickname

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    LIE

    111A Something ratable by number of Pinocchios

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    ADD

    12D Interject

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    ACER

    25D Big name in laptops

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    SLR

    115A Camera with a mirror, in brief

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    DRE

    86D Dr. ___

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    SAGA

    112A Long transmission of folklore, say

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    ACME

    47D Zenith

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    AIL

    106D Suffer

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    SEES

    18D Goes with

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    ESL

    9D Class for some immigrants, for short

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    RCA

    29A Record label for Pink and Pitbull

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    NAH

    107D "Forget about it!"

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    LAO

    101A Philosopher ___-tzu

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    TSP

    32D Baking meas.

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    ICU

    81A Place for R.N.s

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    ELON

    66D Southern university whose team is the Phoenix

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    SAL

    55A Spanish seasoning that's a letter short of its English counterpart

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    AHAS

    3D Good crosswords provide lots of them

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    UTES

    7A Sport-___ (some vehicles)

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    CAP

    11A Contain, as a spewing oil well

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    AHOY

    116A Hail on a bridge

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    OOF

    43A "That's rough!"

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    DRAT

    91D "Nuts!"

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    PASS

    35A "You can skip me"

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    AUNT

    89D One who cries "Uncle!"?

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    OVERT

    74A Open

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    TENOR

    32A Otello, in "Otello"

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    TAOS

    33D Eponymous New Mexico tribe

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    TIED

    33A Even

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    CREE

    44A Some Canadian natives

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    SOSA

    1D Sammy on a 1998 cover of Newsweek

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    ACURA

    72D BMW competitor

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    MIC

    77A Open ___

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    FAT

    84A Unnecessary extra

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    LOP

    4D Chop (off)

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    ARGUE

    96A State a case

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    NCIS

    40D Police procedural beginning in 2003

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    KILO

    28A Smuggler's unit

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    ALOU

    24D Jesus on the diamond

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    DSL

    109D Cable alternative

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    NOSH

    20A Light bite

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    DIANE

    56A Youngest daughter on "Black-ish"

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    TONS

    2D Heaps

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    VEER

    75D Swerve

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    DELETE

    117A Trash

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    LICE

    101D Pet peeves?

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    HALL

    80D Campus building

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    OLDIE

    26A Classic song

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    ROUTE

    22A GPS suggestion

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    AWLS

    78A Strip pokers?

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    NINES

    31D Digits ending many prices

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    WASH

    98D Load of laundry

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    STEWS

    79A Fumes

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    ZETA

    76D Letter that, surprisingly, is not the end of the Greek alphabet

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    HURL

    95A Throw

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    LYON

    46D City on the Rhône

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    CLASP

    57A Hold tightly

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    MEWS

    68D Litter sounds

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    YALL

    100A Pronoun in Dixie

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    DICED

    71D Chopped up

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    SIEGE

    110A Battle of Leningrad, e.g.

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    AFLAC

    104A Fortune 500 company with an avian symbol

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    CANADA

    11D Geographically largest member of NATO

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    MOOLAH

    93A Dinero

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    AMAL

    67D ___ Clooney, Barbara Walters's "most fascinating person" of 2014

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    TOK

    8D "TiK ___" (Kesha hit)

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    LOGE

    39D Stadium section

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    SETAT

    79D Assail

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    HADES

    114A Underworld

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    BRASS

    14A Military bigwigs

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    SYNCS

    60D Matches up

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    HEHE

    83A "lol" alternative

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    RADNER

    85A Gilda of "Saturday Night Live"

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    ZOOMS

    76A Skyrockets

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    PHISH

    35D Do email scamming

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    UNCORK

    7D Open, as a bottle of wine

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    ULNAE

    97D Things near funny bones

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    BLEW

    65D Huffed and puffed

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    CLINE

    52D Ernest who wrote "Ready Player One"

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    MAFIA

    93D Underworld

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    NASCAR

    113A Charlotte Motor Speedway org.

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    AURAE

    36D Radiant emanations

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    LIAISE

    34A Act as a go-between

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    LOCKE

    5D John who wrote "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding"

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    CLIOS

    52A Ad biz awards

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    AUDIS

    16D Autobahn autos

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    IDTAGS

    49A Lost baggage helpers

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    STIPE

    17D Michael of R.E.M.

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    CRYPT

    57D Classic horror film locale

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    VANESSA

    58D Actress/singer Hudgens

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    AMONGST

    67A Surrounded by

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    IMALONE

    62A "Nobody's here but me"

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    SMALLWORLD

    37D "Huh, you know him, too?!"

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    HENNAS

    80A Some skin art

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    MERCS

    73A Old Ford vehicles, for short

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    BLURS

    61D Makes fuzzy

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    WNYC

    54A Producer of public radio's "Radiolab"

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    LIMESODA debut

    70A Effervescent citrus beverage

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    ANAT

    102D Med. school course

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    OILED

    94D Three sheets to the wind

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    LANK

    53D Tall and thin

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    ANIN

    51D Have ___ with

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    VENOM

    58A Dangerous injection

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    PHASER

    88D Sci-fi stunner

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    WELDS

    54D Joins

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    LUPE

    69A "Little Latin ___ Lu" (1960s hit)

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    STALLS

    1A Temporarily stops running

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    BROCADE

    14D Upholsterer's fabric

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    NAYSAY

    90D Contradict

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    HELICES

    83D Spirals

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    OOHOOH

    19A "Pick me!"

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    ANNODOMINI

    45D Words before a year

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    POTAGE

    87D Thick soup

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    SHERIFF

    10D Foe of Robin Hood

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    ROLLIE

    15D Certain expensive watch, in slang

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    TIDINGS

    42D News

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    HELSINKI

    59A Capital city with more than 300 islands

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    RIDA

    92A Rap artist Flo ___

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    BRIN

    61A Sergey of Google

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    HUMPTY debut

    41A Fall guy?

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    POPULAROPINION

    13D In view?

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    UNCLIPS debut

    30A Lets off the hook?

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    FURIOSA debut

    84D Charlize Theron's role in 2015's "Mad Max" reboot

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    1
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    KUKLAFRANANDE debut

    38A Puppet show trio

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    LASTONESTANDING debut

    105A Survivor of an all-out brawl ... or a hint to 23-, 38-, 64- and 87-Across

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    1
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    MAMMARYGLAND debut

    63D Nursing facility?

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    1
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    PETERPAULANDY debut

    87A Folk trio

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    1
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    SHRINKYDINKS debut

    6D Arts-and-crafts kit trendy in the 1970s-'80s

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    1
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    SNAPCRACKLEANDP debut

    23A Breakfast trio

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    1
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    TAKETOTHEHILLS debut

    50D Flee

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    1
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    WAITITI debut

    98A Director Taika ___

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    WYNKENBLYNKENANDD debut

    64A Sailing trio

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