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Thursday · 78 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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    ERA

    37D Ruth's was 2.28

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    ETA

    53A Traveler's text message, maybe

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    571
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    IRE

    60D Red state

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    ADS

    62A Buses and taxis have them nowadays

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    ECO

    20D Prefix with tourism

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    ETSY

    12D Place for unique gifts

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    EVE

    45D Palindromic response to "Madam, I'm Adam"

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    OVER

    15D Finished

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    ETTA

    39D Singer James

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    EPIC

    45A For the ages

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    TED

    9D ___ Conference

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    245
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    CCS

    1A Loops in, in a way

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    98
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    AER

    32D ___ Lingus

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    ORG

    16A ___ chart

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    108
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    RIPE

    18D As good as it's going to get?

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    106
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    STS

    68A People profiled in hagiographies: Abbr.

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    191
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    OATH

    55A Swear words

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    EAVE

    14A Home's edge

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    HAHA

    50D "Fooled you!"

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    LAG

    59D Video game annoyance

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    116
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    ERMA

    53D Humorist Bombeck

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    147
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    TOAD

    54D Super Mario Bros. character with a mushroom head

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    TIES

    40D Popular Father's Day gifts

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    84
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    AUDI

    34A Onetime "Truth in engineering" sloganeer

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    111
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    STAGE

    8A Theater

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    68
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    EXPO

    28A Fair

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    LIU

    65A Brooklyn-based sch.

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    79
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    NAY

    22A "___, do not think I flatter": Hamlet

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    119
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    ADAGE

    66A Saying

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    HIDE

    25D Stash

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    EINE

    29A "___ Nacht in Venedig" (operetta)

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    119
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    FRET

    44A Something found on a neck

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    HAI

    13A Japanese affirmative

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    TROU

    64A Pants, in slang

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    36
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    COS

    61D Counterpart of sin

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    YAY

    33D "Woo-hoo!"

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    GOYA

    11D Noted painter of scenes of the Napoleonic Wars

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    SALTS

    43A Stows (away)

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    FIEF

    21A Where the lord's work is done?

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    NOIDEA

    35A "Haven't the foggiest!"

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    32
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    NINTH

    35D Like I Samuel among the books of the Old Testament

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    HERB

    4A Marjoram, for one

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    VEST

    67A Confer, as power

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    BEEF

    7D Complaint

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    HDTV

    56D Good resolution provider

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    HEIDI

    4D Classic children's heroine once played in film by Shirley Temple

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    FATE

    44D Kismet

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    OCELOT

    15A Relative of a jaguarundi

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    NICER

    30D Less deserving of coal in one's stocking

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    OWNED

    19A Had

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    SEUSS

    24D Children's author who wrote "There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"

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    36
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    LETIN

    57A Admitted

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    RVS

    6D Campers

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    PETALS

    46D Sources of attar

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    ALEUT

    52D Dweller on the Bering Sea

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    EAN

    5D Suffix with Euclid

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    30
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    IDIDIT

    47D "Go me!"

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    HATHA

    49A Kind of yoga

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    CHOOSE

    1D Tap

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    BELAY

    31A "___ that order!" ("Star Trek" command)

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    10
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    MALALA

    63A "I Am ___" (2013 best-selling autobiography)

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    10
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    CENSUS

    48D Count

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    EINK

    42A Text-displaying technology for Kindles and Nooks

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    4
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    MEIN

    27D German possessive

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    PRIMA

    26A First: Lat.

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    RGS

    36D Some offensive linemen, for short

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    ALANALDA

    10D Co-star of 2019's "Marriage Story"

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    ARISTOTLE

    34D Pioneer in syllogistic logic

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    GRATIS

    41A On the house

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    CARWAX

    2D Substance applied with a chamois

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    VALHALLA

    38D Locale in Wagner's "Das Rheingold"

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    ROLLTHEDICE

    58A Take a chance ... or a hint to the letters in the shaded squares

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    SIGNUP

    3D Enlist

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    INSERVIDAYS debut

    17A Times when teachers go to school but students don't

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    1
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    REVERSECTIONARY debut

    36A Reference that arranges words by concept rather than alphabetically

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    1
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    SAUCISH debut

    23A Vessel for dipping at a dinner table

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    1
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    SCIFIBOOK debut

    8D Many an Arthur C. Clarke work

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    SHAVEDE debut

    51A Cousin of a sno-cone

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