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Sunday · 138 answers · 18 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

    75A ___ candy

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    OREO

    10D Black pie crust component

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    IDLE

    107A Sit at a red light, say

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    AND

    90A Not to mention

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    ELS

    92A Shapes made by thumbs and index fingers

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    APE

    42D Copy

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    REN

    60D Kylo ___, "Star Wars" antagonist

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    TIS

    38A Quaint contraction

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    PEA

    53A ___ shoots (salad ingredient)

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    ONUS

    112A Responsibility

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    ITCH

    1D Hankering

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    CPA

    108D Helper during taxing times?

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    NANA

    18D Gram

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    NASA

    110A Org. behind the New Horizons project

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    LAS

    64D Each verse of "Deck the Halls" has 32 of them

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    ENG

    81A Part of O.E.D.: Abbr.

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    REAP

    51A Take in

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    TORE

    20A Rent

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    LEIA

    88D Mother of 60-Down

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    DEER

    91A Forest ranger

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    KIA

    97A Sportage maker

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    INFO

    1A "For more ___ ..."

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    AONE

    29D Top of the line

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    POT

    31A Washington, D.C., legalized it in 2014

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    ROB

    84A Hold up

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    ECIG

    43D Vaper's device, informally

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    RAG

    77D Sensationalist newspaper

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    GALA

    82D Big to-do

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    CUP

    49A Baking measure

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    UNE

    59D What one is in Paris?

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    FREE

    21A Like tap water in a restaurant

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    PEAR

    31D Fruit with an obovate shape

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    AMES

    115A City north of Des Moines

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    SPAM

    5A Some unwanted mail

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    FEE

    36A Charge for admission

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    TOIL

    19A Work up a sweat

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    AMC

    47A "The Walking Dead" channel

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    YEOH

    100D Michelle of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"

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    EMOTE

    96D Put on a show

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    MAGI

    69D "We Three Kings" subjects

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    AEIOU

    15D Group seen in gathering clouds?

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    ILSA

    101D With 37-Across, Ingrid Bergman's role in "Casablanca"

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    ARABS

    14D Many Omanis

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    FIN

    54A One of five for a dolphin

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    ARYA

    7D Killer of the Night King on "Game of Thrones"

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    BEAR

    86D Put up with

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    POPE

    111A One whose job prospects go up in smoke?

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    FIAT

    3D Order

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    MEA

    8D "Throw ___ bone"

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    IONIC

    39D Kind of column seen on the Jefferson Memorial

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    AREOLA

    22A Iris part

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    LEWD

    25A Blue

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    DONT

    9A Terse bit of advice

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    SNOOT

    56A Proboscis, informally

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    NOHO

    2D Manhattan neighborhood west of the East Village

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    DOGE

    116A Resident of the Palazzo Ducale

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    FUSE

    105D Join

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    LEONE

    72D Sierra ___

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    PREY

    79A Food chain link

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    LOEB

    28D Singer Lisa

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    CACAO

    35D Raw material for Cadbury

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    STYNE

    40D "Funny Girl" composer Jule

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    WHOM

    102D Tricky pronoun to use

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    MYBAD

    73D "Whoops, sorry about that!"

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    AISHA

    66D Host Tyler of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"

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    KNEAD

    97D Work with one's hands

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    ORK

    76A Planet where the cry "Shazbot!" is said to have originated

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    ALCOVE

    33A Recess

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    MYST

    99D Classic computer game set on an abandoned island

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    AGARS

    33D Media for scientists

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    OAKY

    30A Barrel-flavored, as wine

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    BIDS

    63D Raises one's paddle, say

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    POBOY

    6D Sandwich often served with remoulade sauce

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    THAD

    98A ___ Cochran, Mississippi senator from 1978 to 2018

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    ARRID

    71D Deodorant brand

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    BOGS

    50D Some wetlands

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    LUMEN

    34D Unit of brightness

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    INFUN

    95D Just for laughs

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    ONLATE

    83D Like "Saturday Night Live"

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    TIDEPOD

    89D Item in a toxic internet "challenge"

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    ELOI

    17D Wellsian race of the future

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    PEROT

    45A Two-time third-party presidential candidate

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    OENO

    103D Wine opener?

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    SUPER

    48A Beyond great

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    DYAD

    114A Set of two

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    LUND

    37A See 101-Down

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    POPTART

    52D Snack with a recommended microwave time of just three seconds

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    ELIDED

    93A Glossed over

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    DCAREA

    91D Region around the Beltway, informally

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    GUANO

    82A Organic fertilizer

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    LOAVES

    24D Objects in one of Jesus' miracles

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    HOTCOCOA

    27A Après-ski drink

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    QUALM

    70A Misgiving

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    FLEABAG

    36D Popular Amazon Prime dramedy from Britain

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    IMYOURS

    61D Candy heart phrase

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    YENFOR

    106A Want badly

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    BEMUSED

    65A Puzzled

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    DOESKIN debut

    55A Supple leather

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    THENEA debut

    113A Biggest U.S. union, familiarly

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    TRIPE

    98D Poppycock

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    UNMAN

    67D Dishearten

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    DFLAT

    9D Key of Debussy's "Clair de Lune"

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    SMORES

    80A Treats prepared on an open fire

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    TORRES

    57D ___ Strait, separator of Australia and Papua New Guinea

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    DIECAST

    94A Like some toy cars

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    EARTHDAY

    81D Observance first celebrated in 1970

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    HARTS

    85A Male 91-Acrosses

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    EASEDUP

    46D Relaxed

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    FRUG

    104D '60s dance craze that evolved from the Chicken

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    HARMED

    13D Hurt

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    BRAINY

    50A Cerebral

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    DAU

    55D Abbr. in a genealogical tree

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    RAILON

    26A Chew out

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    RESCIND

    87D Pull back

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    INWARDS

    74A Where meditators look

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    PREREQ

    45D Trig, for calc, e.g.

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    STICKEMUP

    5D "Reach for the sky!"

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    CROESUS

    32A Wealthy king of legend

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    KNEEHOLES

    78D Openings under desks

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    FLORENZ

    54D Theater impresario Ziegfeld

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    HAAGEN

    13A Half of an ice cream brand with a fake Danish name

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    LUNABAR

    44D Nutritional snack from Clif

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    SOCUTE debut

    109A Exclamation from a cheek pincher

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    AUSTRIAGERMANY debut

    66A Sort by urgency of need [Europe]

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    BRAZILARGENTINA debut

    86A T-shirt size [South America]

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    BULGARIAGREECE debut

    58A What subjects and verbs must do [Europe]

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    CHADLIBYA debut

    23A Wing it [Africa]

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    CHILEPERU debut

    108A Biblical outcast [South America]

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    GOLDSTRIKE debut

    16D Discovery that might cause a rush

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    GUATEMALABELIZE debut

    41A Record company [Central America]

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    LAOSCAMBODIA debut

    28A Complete rip-off [Asia]

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    MYANMARCHINA debut

    99A First month of the year without a U.S. federal holiday [Asia]

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    NEWSCLIP debut

    11D Lead-in to many a joke on "The Daily Show"

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    OLDCOOT debut

    4D Cranky codger

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    POBLANO debut

    62A Ancho pepper, before drying

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    SWORDDANCE debut

    68D Scottish tradition before battle

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    TEDCRUZ debut

    12D Senator who once served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review

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    WROTEOFF debut

    102A Dismissed out of hand

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