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Monday · 78 answers · 3 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

    22A Ginger ___ (soft drink)

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    ALA

    14A Lead-in to carte or mode

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    TSA

    42A Inits. on an airport uniform

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    EDIT

    21D Revise copy

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    SIS

    4D Bro's sibling

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    RAN

    69A Was in charge of

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    ABLE

    57D Up to the task

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    STEP

    33D "Watch your ____!"

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    REP

    64D Sen.'s counterpart

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    MIA

    50A Farrow of "Hannah and Her Sisters"

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    ALAMO

    2D Mission where Davy Crockett was killed

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    STAY

    32D Obedience school command

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    EVEN

    70A In a dead heat

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    ABE

    72A First Republican prez

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    THE

    66A "What ___?!" (cry of surprise)

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    INANE

    54D Harebrained

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    PAN

    60A Bit of cookware

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    RIPE

    47D Like thumped watermelons making a deep sound

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    IMAC

    26D Big name in desktops

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    IOWA

    12D Sioux City's state

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    CAL

    1A Baseball's record-setting Ripken

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    LAVA

    67A Volcanic flow

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    EKES

    43A ___ out a living (barely gets by)

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    RISE

    31D Move skyward

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    FRO

    63D Jimi Hendrix's do, informally

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    SLO

    9D ___-mo (replay option)

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    AMIE

    20A French girlfriend

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    EXIT

    37A Sign by a fire escape

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    EXEC

    61A Biz bigwig

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    BAT

    17A Flier that may carry rabies

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    ASHEN

    57A White-faced

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    ABIT

    10A Not much

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    YTD

    65D Paycheck stub abbr.

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    ORALB

    6D Big name in toothbrushes

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    LIU

    28A Lucy of 2000's "Charlie's Angels"

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    RARER

    7D Pinker in the middle, say

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    TYKE

    13D Young 'un

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    SLAV

    58D Czech or Croat

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    EER

    8D Always, in poetry

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    SCENE

    56D Big public display

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    REHAB

    55D 2007's Record of the Year by Amy Winehouse

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    SPICE

    52D Pizazz

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    COKE

    34D Soft drink choice

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    TROY

    16A Helen of ___ (mythical beauty)

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    HAVE

    59D "Girls Just Want to ___ Fun"

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    ALGAE

    23A Seaweed, e.g.

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    ZAG

    36D Make a sharp turn back

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    BRAG

    11D Toot one's own horn

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    CSPAN

    5D Network for political junkies

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    LADEN

    53D Filled with cargo

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    CABAL

    1D Group of schemers

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    ZAC

    36A Actor Efron of "High School Musical"

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    ATHLETE

    10D Olympics competitor

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    WAGS

    19D Goes back and forth, as a tail

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    HIJAB

    35D Muslim woman's head cover

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    SUNK

    49D Like ships on the ocean floor

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    SURECAN

    44D "I'm up for doing the job!"

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    OUCH

    25D "That's gotta hurt!"

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    ISRAEL

    15A Tel Aviv's land

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    OPENED

    71A No longer shrink-wrapped

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    SUMP

    41D Kind of pump

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    JUG

    45A Moonshine container

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    RECENT

    68A From not long ago

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    SCOTCH

    33A Put the kibosh on

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    EXTRAEXTRA

    30D Start of a newsboy's cry

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    JULY

    40D Bastille Day's month

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    LONDONBRIDGE

    24A Something falling down, in a children's song

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    TOV

    38A "Mazel ___!"

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    SURREY

    46A Carriage named for an English county

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    SCORES

    4A Catches a touchdown pass, e.g.

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    PERUSAL

    48A Careful reading

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    DUCKS

    27D Teals and mallards

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    LATINLOVER

    3D Don Juan sort

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    BLACKFRIDAY

    62A What follows Thanksgiving

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    HIJACKS

    39A Commandeers ... or a friendly hello to the people starting 18-, 24-, 51- and 62-Across?

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    RUBYSLIPPERS debut

    51A Dorothy's footwear in "The Wizard of Oz"

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    MUSTERS debut

    29A Summons, as strength

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    SPARROWHAWK debut

    18A Small bird of prey

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