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Sunday · 134 answers · 12 debuts

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

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    EAR

    53A Musician's skill

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    IRE

    104D Pique

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    IRA

    9D Writer/critic ___ Madison III

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    ART

    83A Skill

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    ACRE

    101D Land parcel

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    EDIT

    79A Polish up, in a way

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    ENO

    44A Brian with the album "Before and After Science"

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    EROS

    78D Psyche's beloved

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    OAT

    70A ___ milk

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    AMEN

    29A "Right on!"

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    ARM

    84A Part of a "fence" in the game Red Rover

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    ALIT

    99A Set down

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    ACTS

    97A Plays charades, say

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    AIM

    38A Intent

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    TEEN

    82D Typical summer intern

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    ERIN

    59D Ireland, to poets

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    EDAM

    88D Choice of cheese

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    OTOH

    98A Tweeter's "Then again ..."

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    OBI

    76A Kabuki sash

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    DES

    103D ___ Moines

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    NOTE

    27A Make mention of

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    BIT

    13D Pinch

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    LEA

    4D Grazing land

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    ICES

    32A Treats, as a sprain

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    LIT

    69A On fire

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    LASSO

    43D Rodeo ring?

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    MAIN

    30D Principal

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    85
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    SALE

    51D Bargain hunter's delight

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    RAMS

    47D Members of the flock

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    RICE

    28A N.F.L. star ejected from 102-Across

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    100
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    ETHOS

    55D Standard of living?

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    CPAS

    62D Tax pros, for short

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    76
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    HULU

    58D Amazon Prime competitor

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    EBBS

    3D Retreats

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    90
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    GENT

    77A Bloke

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    MALTA

    57D Country south of Sicily

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    EMILE

    107A Durkheim who helped found the field of sociology

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    85
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    ONEL

    40A Student taking Torts or Property

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    TWAS

    61A "Love, when we met, ___ like two planets meeting": Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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    ATHOS

    101A A Musketeer

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    58
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    LILY

    8D Bell-shaped flower

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    39
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    MESSI

    86D FIFA star ejected from 65-Across

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    18
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    ONEAL

    48A N.B.A. star ejected from 105-Across

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    140
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    INTRO

    20A Opening

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    82
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    ROSY

    92A Pollyannaish

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    79
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    RUTH

    64A M.L.B. star ejected from 87-Across

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    51
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    STELMO

    1A Patron of the high seas

    5
    25
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    DANTE

    35D Poet who invented the terza rima rhyme scheme

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    NECK

    23D Head turner?

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    LOIRE

    36D Bay of Biscay feeder

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    BASIC

    31A Rudimentary

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    OCTAL

    48D Of base 8

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    LEAPS

    96A Some flaws in logic

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    STATIC

    12D Unchanging

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    CABAL

    67D Revolutionary group

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    TRUCE

    16D Armistice

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    BELLA

    46D Politico Abzug

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    FANTA

    100A Fruity soda brand

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    DARNS

    95A Mends, in a way

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    LETITGO

    42D "Move on already!"

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    MOUTH

    66D Entrance to a cave

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    MALI

    26D It gained independence from France in 1960

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    MARIE

    57A Meursault's love in Camus's "The Stranger"

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    SOFIA

    94D Director Coppola

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    MAB

    106D Literary fairy queen

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    ASTERS

    111A Butterfly-attracting flowers

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    CENSE

    56A Burn a perfume stick in

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    MONAE debut

    30A Actress/singer Janelle

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    11
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    NYY

    37A The Bronx Bombers, on scoreboards

    3
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    STOIC

    15D Poker-faced

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    TROUT

    60D "Rainbow" fish

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    SOLES

    17D They may hit the ground running

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    BONGO

    68A Drum held between the knees

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    LYNX

    43A Snowshoe hare predator

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    BUSTS

    13A Some marble works

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    SEEMLY

    18D Respectable

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    INAFEW

    39A Soon

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    NEWHIRE

    49D One getting onboarded

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    OHWAIT

    80A "Actually, come to think of it ..."

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    GTE

    54A Onetime Sprint competitor

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    AUTOS

    72A Aries and Taurus

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    BANTU

    68D Language family that includes Xhosa and Zulu

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    REPOS

    24A Bank takebacks, for short

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    DIALS

    110A Array in a cockpit

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    CAJUN

    71A English dialect in which "food shopping" is "makin' groceries"

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    SOFTG

    51A Sound heard in Georgia?

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    ENACTED

    50D Made into law

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    REAREND

    109A Hit from behind

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    BEFOG

    31D Discombobulate

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    COMFY

    25A Snug as a bug in a rug

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    COWLS

    71D Monastery garb

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    RETOLD

    85D Like oral history

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    FATHER

    91D Church title

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    RECUSAL

    73A Result of a judicial conflict of interest

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    SHAPELY

    1D Well-formed

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    COGNATE

    10D Hebrew "shalom" to Arabic "salaam," e.g.

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    KUROSAWA

    11D "Seven Samurai" director

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    CITYHALL

    74D Metonym for local government

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    CLICKS

    7A Metric in digital journalism

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    EGGHUNT

    41D Easter activity

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    OTOMI

    93D People of south-central Mexico

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    LOWRISES debut

    75D They're only a few stories

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    CILIA

    67A Anatomical lashes

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    ORYX

    52D Margaret Atwood's "___ and Crake"

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    BRAIN

    21D Genius

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    ROPED

    92D Partitioned, with "off"

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    GAYLE

    34D King of morning TV

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    TATARS

    90D Russian ethnic group

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    SEARED

    108A Browned at high heat

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    ABRIDGE

    45A Shorten

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    AIROUT

    19A Make less stuffy

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    FURLS

    63A Rolls up

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    CALYX

    62A Sepals of a flower

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    HINTSAT

    81D Suggests

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    ORLONS

    6D 1960s group with a fabric-related name, with "the"

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    BEANBALL

    21A Reason for an ejection in the M.L.B.

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    MALCOLMX

    5D Organization of Afro-American Unity founder

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    SEBERG

    112A Actress Jean who played Joan of Arc in "Saint Joan"

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    SHEBEAR

    18A Den mother

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    FOER

    100D Author Jonathan Safran ___

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    3
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    FLAGRANTFOUL

    22A Reason for an ejection in the N.B.A.

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    GAYPAREE

    77D Noted Belle Epoque locale

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    TALISA

    89D ___ Stark, Oona Chaplin's "Game of Thrones" role

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    2
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    TENONE

    2D "Receiving poorly," in CB lingo

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    UNFRIEND debut

    14D Drop from one's Facebook circle

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    2
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    AHCOMPLEX debut

    65A Belief in one's role as a savior

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    1
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    ARCHING debut

    84D Forming an upward curve

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    1
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    ARMCHILI debut

    105A Stew that's decidedly not very spicy

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    1
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    CAFFEINEFIX debut

    7D Joe can provide it

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    FIJIISLANDS debut

    63D They're located between Samoa and Vanuatu

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    1
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    HELMETHIT debut

    58A Reason for an ejection in the N.F.L.

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    1
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    ILLEGALSLIDETACKLE debut

    33A Reason for an ejection in FIFA

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    1
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    POFADMISSION debut

    102A Entry fee

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    1
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    THETWILLSETYOUFREE debut

    87A Seeming opposite of "Ignorance is bliss"

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