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Wednesday · 76 answers · 6 debuts

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

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    ATE

    22A Had for dinner

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    LEE

    41D Spike who directed "BlacKkKlansman"

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    AGO

    6D "Million Years ___" (Adele song)

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    EPA

    70A Green-minded org.

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    ASAP

    9D "Now!"

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    ALL

    35A Tide alternative

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    KNEE

    26D Place to bounce a baby

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    OUR

    28D "___ House," 1970 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young hit

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    ELAN

    30D Panache

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    AAA

    43A Battery size

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    ROT

    57A Go bad

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    REDO

    27A Overhaul

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    ALEC

    44D Smart fellow?

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    ELSA

    21D Jewelry designer Peretti

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    MAE

    36A "Ghost" psychic Oda ___ Brown

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    ALES

    60D Hoppy mediums?

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    USSR

    32A Land in a Beatles song

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    EAU

    65D What's found in the French rivière?

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    SALT

    53A What Lot's wife became

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    YEP

    13D "Indeedy"

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    CLAM

    31D Quahog or geoduck

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    AMY

    42A Grant with the 1991 #1 hit "Baby Baby"

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    ONME

    45A "This round's ___"

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    OXO

    45D Tic-tac-toe loser

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    LOAF

    4A Loll

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    FAR

    62D With 63-Down, distant

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    SWAP

    34D Trade

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    PACE

    59D Tempo

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    ECOLI

    54A Common bacterium

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    EBBS

    49A Recedes

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    SEAM

    33D Where clothes often rip

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    OFF

    63D See 62-Down

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    VCR

    24D Obsolescent TV attachment

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    JABS

    37D Nasty comments

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    PARK

    25A Use a lot?

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    ORDEAL

    63A Harrowing experience

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    DUES

    69A Money to belong

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    GAT

    15D Gang pistol, in old slang

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    DEVIL

    23A Blue ___ (Duke mascot)

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    LACED

    4D Intertwined

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    STERNA

    52D Chest bones

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    ALFRED

    3D Bruce Wayne's butler

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    BFA

    1A Deg. for a museum worker

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    BRIDGE

    50D Subject of a New York Times column until 2015

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    LORDE

    55D Feminist writer Audre

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    IKEAS

    56D Giant furniture stores

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    OUTRE

    5D Eccentric

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    PEWS

    8D Places for parishioners

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    FIERCE

    66A Sasha ___, Beyoncé's alter ego

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    FESSES

    68A Owns (up to)

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    OTTERS

    47D Bewhiskered mammals

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    SCRIPT

    10D Libretto, for example

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    BOXCAR

    1D Freight train part

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    PASSBY

    8A Elapse

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    RATPACK

    58A Group in the original "Ocean's 11" movie

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    CARTER

    19A U.S. president with a Nobel Peace Prize

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    JMBARRIE

    38D Pan creator

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    RESPIRE

    20A Take a breath

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    WARMUP

    18A Have hot cocoa on a winter day, say

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    FIXATE

    2D Dwell (on)

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    OILGAUGE

    14A Dashboard part

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    SAMRAIMI

    11D "Spider-Man" director, 2002

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    BONEUP

    51D Study, informally

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    FERRIC

    7D Irony?

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    OKFINE

    61A "Sure, that works"

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    RADARGUN

    67A Speedster's undoing

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    BLUEROAN

    12D Horse with evenly mixed black-and-white hairs

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    CYCLADES

    39D Island group in the Aegean Sea

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    ECKERD

    48D ___ College, liberal arts school in St. Petersburg, Fla.

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    ESCALE

    16A Musical run with four sharps

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    AALINE debut

    40A Any one of the 12 steps?

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    BBCOMPLEX debut

    46A Group of buildings housing a King?

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    CCSECTION debut

    29A Area below "To:" in an email?

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    EEREADER debut

    64A Lover of Cummings's poetry?

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    JJCREW debut

    37A Ones on set with 2009's "Star Trek" director?

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    XXFACTOR debut

    17A Part played by women and girls?

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