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Thursday · 72 answers · 8 debuts

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

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    TOE

    4D Use it for kicks

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    ENO

    52A "Here Come the Warm Jets" musician

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    285
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    ADA

    19A Lovelace of computing fame

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    270
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    SLY

    32D Furtive

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    ORB

    29A The moon, e.g.

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    195
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    ANON

    10D In short order

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    275
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    TAT

    11D Bit of ink

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    174
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    MAC

    22A Non-PC?

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    DOS

    31A Two, to Teo

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    BRO

    40A "Duuuude!"

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    TLC

    59D Spa offering, briefly

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    146
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    NADA

    51A Zippo

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    145
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    LIT

    57D Burning

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    ELBA

    5D Italy's third-largest island, after Sicily and Sardinia

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    VET

    42A One doing cat scans?

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    116
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    RIDE

    48A Lift

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    SAND

    54D Smooth

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    ASSAM

    27A Indian state known for its tea

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    63
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    VAT

    42D Acid holder

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    101
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    REPS

    23A Is an agent for, informally

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    GEN

    55A Lead-in to X, Y or Z

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    NACRE

    49A Mother-of-pearl

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    59
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    NOTED

    49D "Gotcha"

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    40
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    JOB

    33D LinkedIn listing

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    48
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    SAHARA

    1D Name that comes from Arabic for "desert"

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    53
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    EMBER

    50D Old flame?

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    44
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    MOB

    21D Swarm

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    BARE

    53D Like Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard

    4
    67
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    MODEL

    9D Lead-in to T, A or X

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    42
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    GLASS

    41A Flute, e.g.

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    37
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    SPOOL

    25A One end of a kite string

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    ABODES

    2D Dwellings

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    IDEATE

    46D Imagine

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    47
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    FOLIO

    30A Book leaf

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    25
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    RESTED

    62A Back from a vacation, say

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    FJORD

    30D Oslo setting

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    ALLINONE

    35D Multipurpose

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    BEND

    26A Genuflect, e.g.

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    31
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    ANECDOTE

    14D Opening of many a speech

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    MOORS

    28D Ties up, in a way

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    15
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    NEWYORK

    8D Publishing debut of 1851, with "The"

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    DOTIME

    18A Get cell service?

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    PURRS

    6D Engine sounds

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    12
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    ONFIRE

    60A Burning

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    TANNED

    47D Back from a vacation, say

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    MALCOLM

    34A Who said "If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary"

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    ONARUN

    16A Having win after win

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    MATCHA debut

    9A Variety of green tea

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    4
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    NERDCRED debut

    63A Acceptance from fellow brainiacs, in slang

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    3
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    SAUTEPAN

    1A Vessel for frying food

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    3
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    IMBATMAN debut

    58A Classic declaration in Gotham City

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    2
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    JJWATT debut

    33A N.F.L. star who was a Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year in 2017

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    2
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    ATEMPO

    7D At the original speed, in music

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    TROMPE

    43D ___ l'oeil (illusion)

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    DIDIT

    44A "Finished!"

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    ABSOLUTE

    15A Word with power or zero

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    OPENLATE

    61A Not closing before 10 or 11 p.m.

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    SADCASE

    24D Pathetic one

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    DAGMAR

    45D One-named 1950s TV sex symbol

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    GOFLAT

    56A Lose fizz

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    SECTION

    39D Representative sample of a larger group

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    CLEARY

    38A Children's author Beverly

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    GOODBYE

    37A Accept the sudden loss of, as an opportunity

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    HOMEBREW

    17A Beer you make yourself

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    LEADOFFS

    36D First ones to bat

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    BOTTOMS

    53A Butts

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    CRIMELAB

    12D What might have a large collection of prints

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    MCGREGOR

    34D Mixed martial arts champion Conor ___

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    2
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    ARMYMEN debut

    20A Some West Point grads

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    BOWDOIN debut

    26D College in Brunswick, Me.

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    HUMANITY debut

    13D What Gandhi once likened to an ocean

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    USMAPS debut

    3D Many graphics on election night

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