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Tuesday · 76 answers · 5 debuts

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

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    EAR

    34A Locale of the anvil and stirrup

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    EVE

    60A Good name for a girl born on December 24?

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    EAST

    68A Whence the Three Wise Men, with "the"

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    285
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    ARAB

    38D Spirited steed

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    228
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    ELAN

    26D Spirit

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    DRS

    43A A.M.A. members

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    PEN

    20A Slammer

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    AWE

    59A Slack-jawed emotion

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    REDS

    36A Cincinnati sluggers

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    IVE

    27A "___ seen worse"

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    GOT

    53A TV show set in Westeros, for short

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    89
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    EVADE

    48A Avoid the clutches of

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    ALLA

    16A ___ breve

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  14. 14
    BAD

    62D Reprimand to a dog

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    109
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    NHL

    29A Sports org. that plays in the winter

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    SUB

    7D Periscope site

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    65
  17. 17
    LENS

    65A Focusing aid

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    129
  18. 18
    USUAL

    15A What's standard, with "the"

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    77
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    OUNCE

    55D Unit of measure with the same Latin origin as "inch"

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    65
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    ALPHA

    9D Leader of Athens?

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    RAJ

    35D British rule over India, once

    5
    68
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    VHS

    4D Bygone kind of tape

    5
    25
  23. 23
    OHOH

    14A "I got it! I got it!"

    4
    64
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    CAY

    8D Low island

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    43
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    EDGED

    69A Defeated by a hair

    4
    43
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    MEWS

    17A Litter noises

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    32
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    TIERED

    24D Like wedding cakes, typically

    4
    28
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    CCTV

    1A Means of surveillance, for short

    4
    7
  29. 29
    SYD

    33D Guitarist Barrett

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    78
  30. 30
    LUG

    63D Big galoot

    3
    61
  31. 31
    AJA

    64D Best-selling Steely Dan album

    3
    40
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    AXED

    70A Fired

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  33. 33
    ADMEN

    30A Co-workers of TV's Don Draper

    2
    37
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    JETE

    67A Ballet leap

    2
    34
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    VERSE

    39D Part of a biblical citation

    2
    33
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    TWEED

    56D Jacket material

    2
    25
  37. 37
    CASCA

    5A Co-conspirator with Brutus and Cassius

    2
    20
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    OONA

    19D Actress Chaplin of 53-Across

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    ECTO

    49D Outside: Prefix

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    LADE

    40A Fill with cargo

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    53
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    AEC

    50A Early nuclear org.

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    48
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    JAWS

    10D Thriller set around Amity Island

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    39
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    CAUSE

    66A Something to believe in

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    33
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    VIDEO

    21D YouTube upload

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    33
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    ELEVATE

    46D Put on a pedestal

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    30
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    JOSH

    10A Banter jokingly

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    21
  47. 47
    VIS

    21A Word before and after "à"

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    19
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    SPREES

    32A Spending jags

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    KLEENEX

    45D Something that may be used before a blessing

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    15
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    CLAUSE

    51D A dependent one might start with "that"

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    14
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    CUBIC

    5D Like the numbers 8, 27 and 64

    1
    14
  52. 52
    HOSTED

    22A Had people over for dinner, say

    1
    8
  53. 53
    ROYALNAVY debut

    37A Its motto, translated from Latin, is "If you wish for peace, prepare for war"

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    2
  54. 54
    ANAT

    64A Surgeons' subj.

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  55. 55
    ROLLE

    52A Esther of "Good Times"

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    21
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    INSITU

    57A Untouched, as an artifact

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  57. 57
    IEST

    58D Superlative ending with grass or glass

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  58. 58
    DELETED

    47D Struck out

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    11
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    AVONLEA

    41D Home of Anne of Green Gables

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    8
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    QUAID

    28A Actor Dennis or Randy

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    8
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    CHEERUP

    2D "Come on, things aren't so bad"

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    7
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    DRYROT

    31D Problem in an old wooden building

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    7
  63. 63
    OLDTIME

    11D Quaint

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  64. 64
    JERKED

    44A Messed with, with "around"

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    5
  65. 65
    SLEEVED

    12D Like LPs and some dresses

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    5
  66. 66
    ASASON

    6D How one's much-loved nephew might be treated

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    4
  67. 67
    CHELSEA

    25D Posh neighborhood of London or New York

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    4
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    DATSUNS

    42D Old Nissan autos

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    4
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    HARDENS

    13D Coagulates

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    4
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    TOWNCAR

    3D Limousine

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    4
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    ARCTICOCEAN

    23A Habitat for a walrus

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    3
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    BLUEONBLUE

    61A 1963 Bobby Vinton hit ... or a hint to both halves of 18-, 23-, 37- and 54-Across

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    2
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    BABYPOWDER debut

    18A Bottom coat?

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    1
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    COBALTSTEEL debut

    54A Drill bit alloy

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    1
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    COMPAQS debut

    1D Pioneering personal computers

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    1
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    LEGIBLE debut

    40D Unlike most physicians' handwriting, stereotypically

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