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Thursday · 78 answers · 5 debuts

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

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    EVE

    23A *Firework that doesn't work

    34
    373
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    TIE

    67D Word with tongue or twist

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    284
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    IDEA

    2D "You have no ___"

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    396
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    EDIT

    14A Twist someone's words, say?

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    302
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    ISLE

    62D It may be surrounded by beaches

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    316
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    ELLA

    70A She: Sp.

    23
    262
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    NEAR

    63D Approximately

    20
    183
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    LIL

    33A Short, for short

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    166
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    DESI

    21A Lucy's bandleader husband

    18
    139
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    TALE

    61D Whodunit, e.g.

    17
    178
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    USSR

    10A American ally in W.W. II

    17
    171
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    SOAR

    64A Opposite of plummet

    15
    125
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    IBM

    57A *Shakespearean prince

    13
    106
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    UMP

    10D First, second or third person

    13
    96
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    DENS

    49A Places to hibernate

    11
    125
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    SPAR

    38D Not fight seriously

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    188
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    NERF

    32A Soft ball material

    10
    68
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    TOTS

    58A Adds (up)

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    65
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    OLEO

    40D Margarine

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    264
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    ERECT

    46A Upright

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    150
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    PEEP

    43A Slightest protest

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    59
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    PURE

    68A Unadulterated

    9
    55
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    PDAS

    19A Old PalmPilot products, in brief

    9
    47
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    PEER

    73A Look (into)

    8
    116
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    REX

    65D Alternative to Bowser

    8
    111
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    ALOU

    28D Surname of three baseball brothers

    7
    153
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    STYX

    71A Band with the top 10 hits "Lady" and "Babe"

    7
    111
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    ICET

    22D Rapper with the 1999 album "The Seventh Deadly Sin"

    7
    110
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    ALLAH

    15A God, to many

    7
    89
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    RICH

    3D Worth a great deal

    7
    65
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    TEEUP

    35D Prepare to drive

    7
    30
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    ELIOT

    34A Poet who wrote "Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity"

    6
    131
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    ELSIE

    69A Woman's name that sounds like two letters of the alphabet

    6
    89
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    ABOUT

    54D Approximately

    6
    52
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    PINT

    56A *Resistance units

    6
    49
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    CROP

    27D Trim

    5
    69
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    ROSES

    13D What Moses supposes his toeses are, in an old verse

    5
    57
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    FETA

    37D Greek salad ingredient

    4
    84
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    TNUT

    45D Flush fastener

    4
    64
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    ERIES

    41A Western New York Iroquois

    4
    49
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    TONAL

    47D Like the Vietnamese language

    4
    49
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    YACHT

    5A Vessel that's 1% full?

    4
    37
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    NOIRE

    31D Like la nuit

    4
    36
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    CTA

    48A Windy City rail org.

    4
    35
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    FEST

    1D Ending with song or slug

    3
    44
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    ZAIRE

    25D Where Ali won his 1974 world heavyweight title

    3
    41
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    FIRS

    1A Christmastime purchases

    3
    29
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    STREEP

    52D 17-time Best Actress nominee

    3
    27
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    UBOLT

    44A *Military vehicles

    3
    26
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    LISPS

    53D Targets for speech therapists

    3
    22
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    SXSW

    59D Annual Austin media event, informally

    3
    15
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    OMOO

    39A 1847 novel partly set on a whaler

    2
    98
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    LIMB

    29D Arm

    2
    53
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    HADES

    8D He was accompanied by the guard dog Cerberus

    2
    36
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    SLAVS

    12D Major European ethnic group

    2
    28
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    SEWED

    72A Participated in a bee

    2
    24
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    STONES

    50D Old Beatles rival, with "the"

    2
    23
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    STRIFE

    4D Conflict

    2
    11
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    MARTIN

    60A Short, for one

    2
    9
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    CLOD

    7D Lump

    1
    50
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    MILO

    16A ___ Minderbinder, lieutenant in "Catch-22"

    1
    41
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    TAHINI

    20A Sauce for falafels

    1
    15
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    FUTZ

    24A *Crafts site

    1
    8
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    ENURE

    18D Harden

    0
    35
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    STELE

    55D Many an ancient tombstone

    0
    34
  66. 66
    ALC

    6D Wine label abbr.

    0
    7
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    SUCCESS

    26A Something said to smell sweet

    0
    7
  68. 68
    BLOODYMARY

    30D Vodka and tomato juice cocktail

    0
    6
  69. 69
    SECRETCODE

    17A What the answers to the six starred clues follow, as hinted at by 66-Across

    0
    5
  70. 70
    YATITTLE

    5D First N.F.L. player on the cover of Sports Illustrated

    0
    5
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    ALBERTAN

    28A Neighbor of a Montanan

    0
    4
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    THESUN debut

    9D Biggest-selling newspaper in England

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    3
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    TOFFS

    36A *Contemptuous smile

    0
    3
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    NEXTPLEASE debut

    66A Cry from behind a counter

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    2
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    SCRIMPED

    42D Economized

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    2
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    EUROSTAR debut

    51A Chunnel train

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    1
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    LAYOUTS debut

    53A Page designs

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    1
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    SIDEEFFECT debut

    11D Unintended consequence

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    1