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Thursday · 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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    EST

    64A Playful suffix with "best"

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    428
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    ONO

    51D Singer whose name sounds like a cry of horror

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    326
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    LEE

    4D "BlacKkKlansman" director, 2018

    40
    360
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    ISEE

    58A "Gotcha!"

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    360
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    ROE

    55A Rich source of omega-3 fatty acids

    33
    283
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    TEA

    35D Bagged leaves?

    30
    374
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    OAT

    34A ___ milk

    28
    290
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    HER

    33A One of L.B.J.'s presidential dogs

    27
    237
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    YET

    59D Until now

    27
    201
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    ASSET

    53A Good trait

    25
    188
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    IAN

    38D Actor McKellen

    23
    260
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    PRE

    26D Canada's Grand-___ National Historic Site

    21
    175
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    REDO

    54D Overhaul

    20
    173
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    IPA

    28D Alternative to a pilsner

    20
    80
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    EDNA

    48A ___ Lewis, "The Taste of Country Cooking" writer

    19
    245
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    RENT

    18A Let (out)

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    190
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    TAB

    10A Something that might be kept in a bar

    16
    167
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    UGH

    25D "Bleah!"

    16
    128
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    MBA

    39D New corp. hire, maybe

    16
    122
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    BAE

    60D Modern term of endearment

    16
    51
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    OCD

    19A Condition for Jack Nicholson's character in "As Good as It Gets," in brief

    16
    45
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    AID

    36A Pitch in

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    167
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    RIM

    37A Lip

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    140
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    IDES

    8D Day in ancient Rome

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    170
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    ELIE

    6A Nobelist Wiesel

    14
    160
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    CEDE

    14A Turn over

    13
    152
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    TOSS

    65A Egg ___

    12
    139
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    PEI

    43D J.F.K. Library architect

    11
    121
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    ELKS

    57D Cougars' prey

    11
    103
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    THEE

    15A You, long ago

    10
    91
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    OPEDS

    32A Pieces that can go left or right

    10
    49
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    ARGO

    1D Ship that Athena helped build, in myth

    9
    148
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    ERNST

    5D Physicist Mach who lent his name to a measure of speed

    9
    101
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    RODEO

    40A Metaphor for experience

    9
    93
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    TOW

    23D Lug

    8
    88
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    RARER

    13A Like O negative vis-à-vis O positive

    8
    72
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    YESES

    66A Three of the last seven words in Joyce's "Ulysses"

    8
    72
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    SEAM

    61A Mine layer

    7
    89
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    AMPLE

    1A Bountiful

    7
    59
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    EER

    9D Suffix with rocket

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    212
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    OWIE

    56D Boo-boo

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    53
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    LASIK

    63A Fix for shortsightedness

    5
    18
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    MARC

    2D Podcaster Maron

    4
    84
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    UPTO

    25A Before

    4
    76
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    NOH

    17D Japanese theater

    4
    61
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    SOLOS

    20A Arias, usually

    3
    49
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    ATEIT

    24D Faceplanted, say

    3
    43
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    REDEEM

    40D Cash in

    3
    25
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    HADES

    31D Land down under?

    2
    36
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    ORIOLES

    41D Team named after its official state bird

    2
    32
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    FINER

    21A Less coarse

    2
    18
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    TRIALS

    15D Pre-Olympic events

    2
    13
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    TROLLS

    47D Online troublemakers

    2
    12
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    NEWLY

    52D Just

    2
    11
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    TYPEAB

    42A Alternative to O

    2
    11
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    BETRAY

    12D Sell out

    2
    9
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    AENEID

    11D Classic work famously translated by John Dryden

    1
    34
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    IRONIC

    50A 1996 hit with the lyric "It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife"

    1
    27
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    UNSEAT

    46D Vote out

    1
    20
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    LOSSES

    45D Sports column

    1
    12
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    RONDOS

    49A Sonata closers

    1
    12
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    BRAISE

    44D Prepare, as a pot roast

    1
    11
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    ECOLAW

    6D Measure opposed to strip mining, e.g.

    1
    7
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    ARABIA

    24A Oil-rich region

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    38
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    ROONE

    54A TV executive Arledge

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    24
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    EDEL

    62A Biographer Leon

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    23
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    ATTHAT

    22A All things considered

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    REDCROSS

    37D Organization with three Nobel Peace Prizes ... or what "corrects" the answer to each of the starred clues

    0
    13
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    TOOHOT

    30D Scalding

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    11
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    LESOTHO

    7D Landlocked African country

    0
    10
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    PREDATOR

    3D Tyrannosaurus rex, for one

    0
    8
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    GROWTH

    29A Entrepreneur's goal

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    7
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    THENBA

    10D Jazz group

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    5
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    FREDDY

    21D Singer Fender with a 1975 hit that went to #1 on both the pop and country charts

    0
    4
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    BLUEHEART debut

    44A *Military medal

    0
    1
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    GREENNOSER debut

    16A *Sycophant

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    1
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    WHITELADY debut

    27A *Classic gin-and-grenadine cocktail

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    1
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    YELLOWBOWL debut

    59A *Annual Florida football game

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    1