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Thursday · 78 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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    ELSE

    23A "What ___?"

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    OGRE

    22A Mythical meanie

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    ROE

    44D ___ deer

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    AMI

    31A Words repeated in "___ right, or ___ right?"

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    OPT

    25D Go (for)

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    AGRA

    5A The Taj City

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    SPOT

    1D Difficult situation

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    EDGE

    62D Sharp part

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    ASIS

    56A Unaltered

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    EMMA

    60D Heiress of Hartfield, in an 1816 novel

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    SMOG

    68A Result of atmospheric inversion

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    MAE

    9D Wild West?

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    BRO

    64D Stereotypical frat member

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    ANNA

    67A Palindromic woman

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    OMIT

    17A Drop

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    NEMO

    2D "Little ___ in Slumberland" (early comic)

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    TRUE

    49D Level

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    AMID

    65A In the thick of

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    HTTP

    19D Address starter

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    ALIAS

    16A Smith, sometimes

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    ALTA

    8D Ski area in the Wasatch Mountains

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    PERU

    14A Home to a majority of the world's alpacas

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    LIES

    55A Calumnies

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    YALE

    71A Where Bill and Hillary Clinton met

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    NILE

    36D Shade of green

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    NOEL

    46D Holiday song

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    STENO

    69A Old kind of pool

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    ASTER

    13D Purple perennial

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    SALAD

    40A Introductory course?

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    ISAY

    30D Opiner's opener

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    IMUP

    27D Repeated cry after "Stop shaking me!"

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    STUD

    37D Drywall support

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    FLU

    47A ___ shot

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    RITE

    7D It's a tradition

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    SAIL

    15A Spinnaker or spanker

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    VASE

    33D Waterford offering

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    ROFL

    35D "2 funny!!!"

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    NICE

    28D Deserving, to Santa

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    SPEAR

    43A Gladiatorial accessory

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    NOTES

    48A A, B and C, but not X, Y and Z

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    LIEGE

    11D Feudal superior

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    PHAT

    58D Totally dope, in dated slang

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    MUCH

    38A ... A small amount

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    HAMS

    26D Overly theatrical sorts

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    HIPPO

    29A Whale's closest living land relative

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    ELAL

    21D Carrier that operates only six days a week

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    RIFLE

    54D M-1, for one

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    SNUB

    1A Fail to invite, maybe

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    THEY

    70A Bridge scorecard heading

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    VIOL

    61D Popular Renaissance instrument

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    BASRA

    12D City whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS

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    HINTAT

    26A Suggest gently

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    LOVES

    32A Delights in

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    MILER

    66A One in it for the long run?

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    HELPS

    29D Chips in

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    TURNS

    34A They're taken in chess

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    BALMS

    52D Comforts

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    GAUZE

    6D Part of a medical kit

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    LEFTBEHIND

    63A ... Surgeon's goal

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    TOSNEEZEAT debut

    20A ... A matter worth considering

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    URIS

    3D "QB VII" author, 1970

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    MELBA

    9A ___ toast

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    SPYON

    45A Watch surreptitiously

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    ROILED

    50A Bubbled, as a cauldron

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    USEIT

    53D Opening of a fitness motto

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    BURGER

    52A ... Dud

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    LYNNE

    55D Jeff of the Electric Light Orchestra

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    MINH

    59D Ho Chi ___ City

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    ASBESTOS

    5D Widely banned building material

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    TOIT

    42A ... "Piece of cake!"

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    BUTNET

    4D ... "Swish"

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    DORISDAY

    41D Singer who played the title role in "Calamity Jane"

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    HANGSTEN

    39D Does a surfing trick

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    BUTTHEBEST debut

    18A When prefixed with 72-Across, what a friend wishes for you

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    ELBOWOUT debut

    10D Displace by force

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    ISEASY debut

    51D ... "Keep at it!"

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    TOWEAR debut

    24A ... Plaint upon going through one's closet

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    UPMYSLEEVE debut

    57A ... Magician's claim

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