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Wednesday · 78 answers · 2 debuts

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

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    IRA

    10D Lyricist Gershwin

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    OAR

    31D Tool sometimes used with two hands

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    ATM

    58A Balance shower, for short

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    ERASE

    56D Clear the boards

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    ORES

    21A Miner matters

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    SEC

    67A 1/3,600 of an hr.

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    TED

    24A ___ Talks

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    OED

    39D Ref. that added "cruciverbalist" (a person who does crosswords) in 2006

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    ELF

    22D Part of Santa's workshop

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    ALOHA

    14A Island greeting

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    EGAD

    45A "Yipes!"

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    BEE

    47D Pollinator

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    TEL

    55A Business card abbr.

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    UFO

    6D 1950s Project Blue Book subject, for short

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    RIPE

    33A Red, perhaps

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    PGA

    38D Org. whose members are teed off?

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    UGH

    6A "That is really unpleasant," tersely

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    REESE

    68A Pokey or Pee Wee of Major League Baseball

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    EMOJI

    52D Bit of graphic language?

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    ARIEL

    16A Animated singer of "Part of Your World"

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    PIT

    34D Orchestra's place

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    LIED

    48A Told a 29-Across

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    ITOO

    44A Opening of a classic Langston Hughes poem

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    CHIA

    4D ___ Pet

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    TEEM

    59A Overflow (with)

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    ICY

    65D Supercool?

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    MAG

    37D GQ or O

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    FIB

    29A Little untruth

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    NNE

    32D Boise-to-Missoula dir.

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    ECOLI

    35D Unpleasant strain?

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    NAOMI

    62A ___ Osaka, 2018 U.S. Open tennis champion

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    FRY

    15A Word with small or fish

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    ILOSE

    2D "You got me this game"

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    ALIVE

    13D Not yet out of the game

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    CARAT

    1D Diamond unit

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    EDY

    70A Eponymous ice cream maker

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    ASIAGO

    20A Cheese from cow's milk

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    TREK

    61D Long trip

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    MON

    63D Fellow in Jamaica

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    LONER

    57D Introverted sort

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    TEMPO

    36A It's kept by a metronome

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    SIGMA

    9A Rho follower

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    KONA

    30A Coffee grown on the Big Island

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    HYDRA

    8D Multiheaded monster of myth

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    KFC

    30D One of the Yum! brands

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    NUB

    46A Pencil after lots of crosswords, maybe?

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    SKIER

    71A One going downhill in a hurry?

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    PROS

    28A They play for pay

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    ETAIL

    51D Amazon's biz

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    TOMEI

    55D Actress Marisa

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    ELTORO

    60A Una corrida figure

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    SLING

    69A Cast replacement

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    MENUS

    12D Maître d's handful

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    GROOM

    7D Figure on top of some cakes

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    BANDS

    50D America, Asia and Europe (but not Africa)

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    HANGAR

    5D Plane storage site

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    CREED

    43A Balboa's film foe

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    JESSE

    53D Williams of "Grey's Anatomy"

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    PATENT

    28D Entrepreneur's protection

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    GINSU

    11D Kind of knife in old infomercials

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    SUV

    23A Ride associated with low m.p.g.'s

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    ISITI

    26D Famous query in Matthew 26

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    UMPED

    54D Worked behind the plate

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    EELERS

    49D Conger catchers

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    OBEYED

    27D Followed instructions

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    HONORS

    18D "May I do the ___?"

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    CINCH

    1A Shoo-in

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    SPIDERMAN

    64A Movie that really should have featured Sigourney Weaver?

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    NOBID

    3D Like a contract awarded without competition

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    ADULTING

    41D Doing grown-up tasks, in modern lingo

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    BEETLEJUICE debut

    50A Movie that really should have featured Vin Diesel?

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    ROBINHOOD debut

    17A Movie that really should have featured Anne Archer?

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    YANNI

    19A Greek-born New Age musician

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    DIJON

    66A Town where Grey Poupon originated

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    ANIMALHOUSE

    25A Movie that really should have featured Nicolas Cage?

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    SAYSHITO

    9D Greets informally

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    VOICED

    42D Performed, as in an animated film

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    FANTASTICVOYAGE

    40A Movie that really should have featured Tom Cruise?

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