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Sunday · 136 answers · 14 debuts

Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-03), then by uses across the whole archive.

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    ALE

    37A What's brewing?

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    ALA

    10D Reminiscent of

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    ASS

    99D Intensifying word add-on

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    ALI

    69D Foe of Frazier

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    USE

    42A Play with

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    AREA

    19A What a line doesn't have

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    RNA

    25D Genetics initials

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    AMI

    83A "Who ___?"

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    PRE

    5D School opening?

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    ALAMO

    26A Where the frontiersman Bowie died

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    ESPN

    32A Postgame shower?

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    NANA

    97D Mom's mom

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    ATON

    107A Oodles

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    CEL

    101D Disney collectible

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    ERGO

    106A Hence

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    APR

    48D Car ad no.

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    SATE

    94A Leave gratified

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    DESK

    57A Metro ___

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    RENE

    20A Lévesque of Quebec

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    AROMA

    35D Nose

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    ROLE

    15D Part

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    ALTAR

    67A Hitching spot

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    SNOW

    110A It falls quietly

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    NYSE

    33A The Big Board, briefly

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    TINA

    34A Funny Fey

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    DORA

    111A "Swiper, no swiping!" speaker of children's TV

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    IMAM

    23A ___ Reza shrine (Iranian holy site)

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    LASS

    82A Miss

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    INNER

    50D Not superficial

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    ESTER

    105A Compound imparting a fruity smell

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    TOW

    102D Request to Triple A

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    STORE

    54A Place for a browser

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    RESIN

    72D Sticky stuff

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    GASH

    76D Nasty wound

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    INHD

    92A Having a crisp picture, say

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    DREW

    93D Tied

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    DINO

    56A T. rex, e.g.

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    SEEK

    46D Look for

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    RASPS

    74D Talks hoarsely

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    TALES

    36D Gathering around a campfire?

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    AGORA

    98A Lead-in to phobia

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    FDA

    14D Pharma watchdog

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    WON

    90D Korean money

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    APBS

    62D Blue alerts, in brief

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    SNOOT

    75A Stuck-up person

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    DONOR

    22A ___ card (wallet item)

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    LOOM

    91A Item smashed by the original Luddites

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    PREY

    66A Potential dinner

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    DID

    88A Pulled off

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    LADEN

    27A Burdened (with)

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    GOTTA

    95A Must, informally

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    PSAS

    5A Antismoking spots, e.g.

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    ALANIS

    45A Singer Morissette

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    LUTES

    104A Plucked instruments

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    ACTV

    62A When Macbeth delivers the "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" soliloquy

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    BAJA

    103A ___ California

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    NAMED

    41D Called

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    CLONE

    60D Lookalike

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    WAND

    90A T.S.A. agent's tool

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    GALORE

    76A Aplenty

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    SPEWS

    108A Shoots out

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    VICAR

    65D Certain cleric

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    ANTOINE

    7D ___ Lavoisier a.k.a. the Father of Modern Chemistry

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    KILN

    39D Oven

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    AIMAT

    53D Try to hit

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    WART

    1A Flaw, metaphorically

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    SIRES

    55D Stable parents

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    WAIL

    1D Sound from a banshee

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    JONES

    52D Crave, with "for"

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    DETOX

    56D Thoro cleansing

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    GORY

    95D Like a lot of zombie movies

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    TRADES

    85D Some winds for seafarers

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    KRONE

    18D Norwegian money

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    STRIVE

    89A Make an effort

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    READYSETGO

    3D Running start?

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    YOINK debut

    29A Snatcher's exclamation

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    RIME

    43A Winter coat

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    DIALS

    88D Speedometers, typically

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    LOMAN

    96A "Death of a Salesman" salesman

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    BRUTE

    81A Ruffian

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    SOFTG

    55A First character in Genesis

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    ANISETTE

    53A Liqueur akin to sambuca

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    DULL

    30A Yawn-inducing

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    ARMLET

    35A Jewelry worn above the elbow

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    LANTERN

    82D Camper's light

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    BRITISH

    81D Like people who take lifts

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    MATTES

    86D Non-shiny finishes

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    SCYLLA

    13D Charybdis's counterpart, in Greek myth

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    SHYLY

    109A Without much confidence

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    WOOSH

    44A Sound of something rushing by

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    EXTERNALLY debut

    24A Former supporter of seabirds?

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    ILIAC

    21A Pelvis-related

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    SPLASH

    80A Brilliant debut

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    TAMEST

    4D Like kiddie rides among all amusement park rides

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    TOOBAD

    87D "Sucks to be you"

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    SEEING

    8D Romantically involved with

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    DEMME

    49A Director Jonathan

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    DINK

    9D Light tennis shot

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    JUDEA

    52A Pontius Pilate's province

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    MANHATTAN

    86A Result of wearing a fedora at the beach?

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    PIGPEN

    51A Hog's home

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    SHUTE

    75D "On the Beach" novelist Nevil

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    DAWGS

    9A Cleveland Browns' defense, informally

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    NEARBEER

    28D Serving during Prohibition

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    THATSALL

    61D "There's nothing else"

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    ITEMONE

    50A Agenda starter

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    MUMPS

    38D One target of a childhood vaccine

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    TRAVESTY

    78D Crime against good taste

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    EPITHETS

    59D "The Great" and "The Terrible"

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    FANDANGO

    79D Dance mentioned in Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"

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    PROPAGANDA

    40A Prosecutor who's sympathetic to the defendants in a witch trial?

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    WEDTO

    44D United with

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    FROCK

    14A Dress

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    MUTABLE

    47A Not fixed

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    PERPETRATE

    84A What a dog groomer might charge?

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    ROMATOMATO

    70D Egg-shaped item from a garden

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    THANX

    78A Informal expression of gratitude

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    WILDROSE

    11D Iowa's state flower

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    BOBCATS

    77A Ohio University team

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    DUFFY

    49D Carol Ann ___, U.K. poet laureate starting in 2009

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    FATIMAS

    79A Namesakes of Muhammad's daughter

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    GALUMPH

    12D Move clumsily

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    HARDR debut

    68A Rating that's on the cusp of NC-17

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    LEGATION

    31D Diplomatic office below an embassy

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    TABLEDHOTE

    64D Meal with a set menu

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    ARMANISUIT debut

    2D Italian designer menswear since the 1970s

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    COMPLAINTS debut

    17D Some calls to the police

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    CROPPINGUP debut

    63D Arising

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    DISCONTENT debut

    100A Result of accidentally throwing a Frisbee into a campground?

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    DRAMAMAJOR debut

    71D Performer in a campus production, often

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    MISTAKING debut

    38A Spray the monarch to keep him cool?

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    ONASADNOTE debut

    16D "This isn't very pleasant, but ..."

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    POMEGRANATE debut

    40D Apple devoured by an elderly relative?

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    1
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    PRAIRIES debut

    73A Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, with "the"

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    REINFORCEMENT debut

    58A Bridle strap utilized only on sidewalk surfaces?

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    1
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    SEXYTIME debut

    6D Amorous play, in modern lingo

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