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Friday · 68 answers · 3 debuts

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

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    ATARI

    35D Creator of the game Centipede

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    OIL

    3D Word with baron or basin

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    ETAS

    34A Station predictions, for short

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    CIA

    22A Org. with many operations

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    REAL

    38D Veritable

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    STOP

    40A "You're killing me!"

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    LEA

    58D Verdant setting

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    EONS

    41A Countless centuries

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    LAT

    2D GPS fig.

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    BAM

    7D Comic book sound effect

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    RISE

    9D Uptick

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    ASIAN

    42A Like cinnamon trees

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    SLAB

    33A Thick cut

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    TEASE

    31D Ride

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    ANITA

    28A Santa ___ Derby

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    SID

    50A Caesar born in 1922

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    LOBE

    26D Place for a stud

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    IRK

    59D Nettle

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    MESSY

    12D Difficult to sort out

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    SHA

    1D Nonsense song syllable

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    AVIATE

    15A Handle a chopper, say

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    OWIE

    52D Scrape, to a tot

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    CASTS

    22D Play groups

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    SOT

    46A Bar fixture

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    SECTS

    46D Certain branches

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    AVATAR

    8D Gamer's likeness

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    UTERO

    11D In ___ (gestating)

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    SDS

    56D Campus activist org. revived in 2006

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    NOTSO

    6D "Au contraire!"

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    TEARS

    21A Jags

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    DESSERT

    62A Napoleon, for one

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    SPRIT

    32A Sail extender

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    STEAKS

    64A Outback offerings

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    SASE

    54D Ed.'s convenience

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    SYNOD

    36D Church conclave

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    SPEEDS

    63A Exceeds the limit

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    INPUT

    23D Two cents' worth

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    YESYES

    19A "O.K., I get it!"

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    QTS

    60D Parts of pecks: Abbr.

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    GRAY

    4D Neutral hue

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    OXLIP

    47D Wildflower of the primrose family

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    TIPPI

    29D Hedren of Hitchcock's "The Birds"

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    GONDOLA

    25A Part of a cable network?

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    BARNUM

    7A Hit 1980 musical with the song "Join the Circus"

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    RICARDO

    43A Family name of classic TV

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    HAIRBOW

    13A Accessory for Minnie Mouse

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    AIRPORTCODE debut

    24D JFK, for one

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    SOFARSOGOOD debut

    20D "No issues yet"

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    LOY

    27A "The Great Ziegfeld" co-star, 1936

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    RICES

    49D Reduces to small bits

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    REPRO

    45A Dupe

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    EXCON

    51A Resident of a halfway house

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    ALLEGRO

    48A Slower than vivace

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    MASSES

    18A "Huddled" group in an inscription on the Statue of Liberty

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    SLOGAN

    1A Commercial line

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    DROIDS

    53A "Star Wars" figures

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    TIDIED

    61A Straightened (up)

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    ATLANTAN

    16A Many a Falcons or Hawks fan

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    CLOWNS

    55A Ones with big shoes to fill

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    EFFORTS

    30A Struggles

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    WAYNESWORLD

    14D 1992 comedy based on a long-running "S.N.L." sketch

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    ABNEGATE

    5D Renounce

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    SOCIALIQ

    57A Measure of people skills

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    CANNED

    44D Let go

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    NEDFLANDERS

    17D "Hi-diddly-ho!" speaker on TV

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    PARODIST

    39D Writer of satirical works

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    TUPPERWAREPARTY

    37A Gathering where burping is encouraged

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    NASALSTRIPS debut

    10D Things used on bridges to ease congestion

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