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Thursday · 74 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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    ERR

    52A Miss the mark

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    ARI

    2D Shapiro of public radio

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    ETAL

    30D List shortcut

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    TEA

    14D Spill the ___ (dish out gossip)

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    NEE

    50A Formerly

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    INS

    36A Helpful people to know

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    AFAR

    57A A long way off

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    ETRE

    28A To be, overseas

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    SEC

    41A Triple ___

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    OED

    51A Its second ed. contains about 59 million words

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    SARA

    6D 1986 #1 Starship hit with the lyric "I'll never find another girl like you"

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    TEES

    29D Souvenir shop purchases

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    NIT

    42A Collegiate basketball competition, for short

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    CSI

    13D Hit CBS series with three spinoffs

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    RCA

    47A Label owned by Sony Music

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    ACDC

    45A Kind of switch

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    ALUM

    58D Many a university donor, informally

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    TENSE

    29A Tighten (up)

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    TACO

    9D Food truck offering, maybe

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    SLOT

    63A 8:00-9:00 p.m. in prime time, e.g.

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    AGILE

    35D Light on one's feet

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    NILE

    62A River draining 11 countries

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    DEC

    3D World AIDS Day mo.

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    MIRE

    56D Swampland, e.g.

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    EMMY

    68A Primetime ___

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    MAV

    1D Western Conference player, informally

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    CLIP

    31A Money holder

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    MAORI

    61A Source of the word "kiwi"

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    NOFEE

    67A Like many A.T.M.s

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    WANE

    66A Go down, in a way

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    ALOES

    5D Soothing succulents

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    SKIM

    53A 1% alternative

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    HIE

    23A Run, old-style

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    ORANGE

    49D Like butterscotch

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    AMFM

    55A Like many radios

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    RETINA

    20D Holder of many cones

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    REMY

    59D "Ratatouille" rat

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    ARR

    12D Sheet music abbr.

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    VEIN

    18D Line on a leaf

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    TATAMI

    34A Japanese floor mat

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    SXSW

    53D Annual Austin festival, for short

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    KOLA

    54D ___ nut

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    ETHNIC

    21D Like some cuisines

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    PRICE

    33D Information on a ticket

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    ATTRACT

    8A Draw

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    PASTS

    24A Skeletons in the closet, so to speak

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    HESHE

    7D Third-person pronoun

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    HRE

    44A It ended during the Napoleonic Wars: Abbr.

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    AMIN

    55D Dictator deposed in 1979

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    INFER

    64A Deduce

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    LOESS

    48A Good earth

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    ASIDES

    8D Parenthesized comments

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    DEMOTE

    46D Knock down

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    GLUM

    65A Down in the dumps

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    RIOTACT

    11D It may be read to the rowdy

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    AREOLAE

    15A Colorful circles

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    XOXO

    60A Common sign-off

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    THORPE

    32A Swimmer Ian who won three gold medals in the 2000 Olympics

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    SPICES

    27D Jazzes (up)

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    MADDASH

    1A Happening after doors open on Black Friday

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    FACEOFF

    39D 1997 movie starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage

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    REFIS

    20A Some mortgage adjustments, in brief

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    ISRAELI

    43A Like Natalie Portman, by birth

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    TIMERS

    26D Some board game equipment

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    REDFLAG

    37A Warning sign

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    TOTUP

    10D Figure, as a sum

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    FROSTNIXON

    22D 2008 movie starring Michael Sheen and Frank Langella

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    DOTTIER

    4D More eccentric

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    SAOIRSE

    16A Ronan of "Lady Bird"

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    DRROMANO

    38D "ER" role for Paul McCrane

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    SLASHERFILM

    25D Movie with graphic violence ... or what 17-Across, 22-Down or 39-Down each is?

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    LEADFREE debut

    40D Like many pipes nowadays

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    TEASEDOUT debut

    19A Elicited with difficulty

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    VICTORVICTORIA debut

    17A 1982 movie starring Julie Andrews

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