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Wednesday · 82 answers · 6 debuts

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

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    OGRE

    39D Horrid sort

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    284
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    IDEA

    22A Patent preceder

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    396
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    TSAR

    50D "The Tale of ___ Saltan" (Rimsky-Korsakov opera)

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    341
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    UNO

    30A Pizza chain

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    241
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    RAE

    51A Singer Carly ___ Jepsen

    28
    278
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    ENDS

    63D Butts

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    303
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    ACTS

    6A Isn't a bystander

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    214
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    MAE

    48A Big name in mortgages?

    18
    181
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    SEED

    72A Acorn, essentially

    17
    141
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    BRIE

    69A Spread in a spread

    17
    95
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    AISLE

    15A Preferred seating request

    16
    140
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    ORBS

    60D Space balls

    14
    107
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    OSCAR

    3D Award for Washington and Lee

    13
    145
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    AREAS

    13D Arts and hard sciences, e.g.

    10
    147
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    OAF

    31A Stumblebum

    10
    144
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    USO

    30D Grp. that gets the show on the road

    10
    115
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    CARE

    47A ___ package

    10
    87
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    TWOS

    33A Rare craps throws

    10
    80
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    ITD

    25A "___ be my pleasure!"

    10
    54
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    OHNO

    45A "Here comes trouble!"

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    149
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    ROTC

    66A Org. for students in uniform

    9
    97
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    TACIT

    18A Understood

    9
    75
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    HOME

    19A Ithaca, to Odysseus

    9
    64
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    PDAS

    68A Blackberrys, e.g., for short

    9
    47
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    NEAT

    37D Well-organized

    8
    224
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    SLIT

    4D Pupil of a lizard, e.g.

    8
    104
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    TOME

    8D "Personally ..."

    8
    92
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    STUB

    11D Bit of theater detritus

    8
    60
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    BEER

    44D Ballpark purchase

    7
    101
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    STASH

    52A Hide away

    7
    63
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    ESTD

    65D Abbr. on a brewery sign

    6
    70
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    APHID

    6D Garden pest

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    59
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    SWEAT

    9D Worry about, informally

    6
    36
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    SELES

    12D Tennis Hall-of-Famer with a palindromic name

    5
    79
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    NOTES

    28D Studying aid

    5
    59
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    FCC

    32D Recipient of media complaints, for short

    5
    52
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    IBEAM

    23A Girder type

    5
    51
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    MACH

    38D Eponymous physicist Ernst

    5
    33
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    SEESTO

    73A Deals with

    5
    30
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    FEET

    64D "Dogs"

    4
    57
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    UTERO

    17A In ___ (developing)

    4
    51
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    PLOW

    16A Get ready for planting

    4
    46
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    TOMS

    33D Some turkeys

    4
    41
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    ROUE

    62D Dissolute man

    3
    75
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    PELT

    71A Bombard

    3
    69
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    RIATA

    2D Vaquero's item

    3
    67
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    SATYR

    55A Mythical figure known for ribaldry

    3
    58
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    SHAQ

    49D N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer with four rap albums, informally

    3
    49
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    THEY

    54A Place to go to swim, informally

    3
    48
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    RULER

    20A Odysseus, to Ithaca

    3
    34
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    SSS

    29A Draft org.

    2
    167
  52. 52
    ERTE

    61D Art Deco notable

    2
    165
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    DAR

    24A Lineage-based women's grp.

    2
    73
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    TOILE

    26D Pictorial fabric

    2
    43
  55. 55
    DATED

    1D Like the slang "da bomb" and "tubular, man!"

    2
    39
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    ETUDES

    70A 27 Chopin works

    2
    26
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    LEAGUE

    46A Distance for Captain Nemo

    2
    13
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    CBGB

    41A Legendary Manhattan music club

    2
    11
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    SETSIN

    5D Becomes established

    2
    11
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    CLOD

    7D Dummkopf

    1
    50
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    ASSAD

    10A Longtime Syrian leader

    1
    48
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    ALLAN

    57A Writer Edgar ___ Poe

    1
    43
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    DROSS

    1A Metallic waste

    1
    37
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    ODED

    74A Indulged to excess, with "on"

    1
    31
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    SLICED

    53D Like some golf shots and most bread

    1
    9
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    KRONER

    67A Danish money

    1
    7
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    GRAYSCALE debut

    43D It varies from black to white

    1
    3
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    SEACREST debut

    49A TV host Ryan

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    2
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    ETATS

    21A Les ___-Unis

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    SUEY

    40D Chop ___

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    18
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    ALEPPO

    56D City under siege from 2012 to '16

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    17
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    DORMS

    14D Sides of some quads

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    12
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    VERSO

    59D Page 2, 4 or 6, generally

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    12
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    TNG

    27A "Star Trek: ___" (syndicated series of the '80s-'90s)

    0
    11
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    VALES

    59A Places where streams flow

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    11
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    INMOST

    36A Like Mercury among all the planets

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    8
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    NUKES

    58D "No ___" (bumper sticker)

    0
    8
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    AURIGA

    10D The Charioteer constellation

    0
    3
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    BARTENDED debut

    42D Made the rounds, say?

    0
    1
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    OBLIQUEREFERENCE debut

    60A Indirect comment ... or a hint to this puzzle's circled letters

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    1
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    ONEALLTIE debut

    35D 1-1

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    1
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    WHATABORE debut

    34D [Yawn!]

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    1