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Monday · 78 answers · 4 debuts

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

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    ERA

    11D Distinctive stretch of time

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  2. 2
    ELI

    55A Cotton gin inventor Whitney

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    599
  3. 3
    ODE

    4D Beethoven's "___ to Joy"

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    523
  4. 4
    EEL

    57D Long-bodied fish

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    487
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    SEE

    13D "Get it?"

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    430
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    ADO

    46D Hullabaloo

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    477
  7. 7
    OGRE

    42A Fearsome figure of folklore

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    284
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    AIR

    43A Flat tire's need

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    304
  9. 9
    ONES

    54D Change for a five, say

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    295
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    PTA

    8D School grp. for moms and dads

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    240
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    EGOS

    26A Rational selves, to Freud

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    210
  12. 12
    OWE

    20A Be obligated to

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    208
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    AAA

    58D High bond rating

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    ACME

    41A High point

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    210
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    RNS

    56D Many I.C.U. workers

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    BRO

    61D Male buddy

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    LAP

    28A Place to set a baby or a napkin

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    TOM

    48A Piper's son who stole a pig in a nursery rhyme

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    144
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    ALPS

    6A Mountains seen in "The Sound of Music"

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    133
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    EWES

    36A ___ milk (source of Roquefort cheese)

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    134
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    SORE

    63A Painful to the touch

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    PEST

    30D Boll weevil, to a cotton farmer

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    128
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    URGE

    16A Impulse

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    MOE

    23A Curly and Shemp's fellow Stooge

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    149
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    EXES

    66A Sean Penn and Guy Ritchie, to Madonna

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    130
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    DOSE

    19D Spoonful of medicine, e.g.

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    88
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    EVADE

    14A Manage to dodge

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    MOOR

    53A Othello, e.g.

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    AMES

    29D City that's home to Iowa State

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    NEAT

    62A All tidied up

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    224
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    USS

    22D Letters on some American naval vessels

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    FAST

    37D Observe Ramadan

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    HUGE

    10D Colossal

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    40
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    HMO

    52A Grp. of medical providers

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    SLAV

    65A Many an Eastern European

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    99
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    ABETS

    46A Helps with a heist

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    75
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    YAP

    39A High cry at doggie day care

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    75
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    MBAS

    35A Degs. for entrepreneurs

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    MGM

    12D Film studio with a roaring lion

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    ANDY

    49A Tennis great Roddick

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    93
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    BITE

    15A "I'll ___" ("Try me")

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    TRACE

    64A Vestige

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    62
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    LIARS

    31A Nigerian princes offering you money, probably

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    40
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    NGO

    34A Assn. like Oxfam or Doctors Without Borders

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    46
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    LABOR

    1A Process of childbirth

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    HEMS

    10A Adjusts lengthwise, as a skirt

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    POX

    59D Disease that causes a skin rash

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    27
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    SORTS

    67A Puts into categories

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    42
  49. 49
    EBBED

    60A Flowed out, as the tide

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    37
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    HDTV

    52D Modern viewing for couch potatoes

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    35
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    LEGOS

    1D Kids' construction bricks

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    27
  52. 52
    SIDES

    51D French fries and coleslaw, often

    4
    25
  53. 53
    YAMS

    45D Candied Thanksgiving servings

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  54. 54
    CREST

    40A High point

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  55. 55
    SELECT

    47D Opt for

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    ECTO

    38D Prefix with plasm

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    GOAPE

    27D Flip out

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    BURN

    21A Set on fire

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    30
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    SERIES

    33D World ___ of Poker

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    30
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    ABBR

    6D Shortened word, for short

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    26
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    FEIGN

    37A Pretend

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    REDBARON

    5D W.W. I fighter pilot who is Snoopy's fantasy opponent

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    7
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    MYGOD

    35D "Sheesh!"

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    6
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    AVOWAL

    2D Statement of affirmation

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    DASHES

    50A Morse code O's have three of them

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    GORED

    17A Hurt in the bullring

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    LONESOME

    32A Craving companionship

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    SERMONS

    9D Church talks

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    10
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    SAMBAS

    24A Syncopated Latin dances

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    CABARETS

    40D Businesses like the Kit Kat Klub in a hit musical

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    6
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    BOARDGAME

    18A Scrabble or Monopoly

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    5
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    OFNOUSE

    42D Pointless

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    BAREMINIMUM

    3D Smallest possible amount

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    2
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    STUDYFOR

    44A Prepare to take, as a test

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    2
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    BAGGED debut

    25D Ready to take home, as groceries

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    1
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    LIONELBARRYMORE debut

    7D Classic actor who played Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life"

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    1
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    LOWERTHEBAR debut

    28D Reduce one's standards, as illustrated, respectively, in 3-, 5-, 7-, 40- and 28-Down

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    1
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    READSUPON debut

    56A Learns about through books

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    1