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Sunday · 140 answers · 8 debuts

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

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    OLE

    40D Accented cheer

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    ETS

    120A College entrance exam org.

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    IDEA

    76A Theory

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    ERS

    30A Verbal stumbles

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    AMI

    29A Beau, to Brigitte

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    302
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    EDGE

    54A Barely beat

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    293
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    OUI

    117A Non's opposite

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    131
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    ALEC

    7D Smart ___

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    ELSA

    50D "Frozen" queen

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    220
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    RYE

    61D New York city with a marina

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    RNS

    121A Hosp. V.I.P.s

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    ADAM

    13D Writer Serwer of The Atlantic

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    265
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    DESI

    39A One of the Arnazes

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    TALC

    78D After-bath application

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    145
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    SUN

    25A Icarus's downfall

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    101
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    SAO

    48D ___ Paulo, Brazil

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    171
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    AID

    81D Hoped-for response to an SOS

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    167
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    OTTER

    77A Sea ___

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    165
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    ROTI

    72D Flat, round bread cooked on a griddle

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    58
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    IDES

    67D Fateful date

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    170
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    CDS

    102A Successors to LPs

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    147
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    RAH

    9D Sound from a cheering crowd

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    ISM

    62D Suffix with tour or Tory

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    RITA

    58A Moreno with an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony

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    AAS

    15A Smallish batteries

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    IDA

    20A ___ B. Wells, civil rights pioneer

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    SLO

    21A ___-mo

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    REIN

    111D Curb, with "in"

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    UTA

    114D The Jazz, on scoreboards

    11
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    SALE

    92A Event that's a bit off?

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    NYSE

    97A It gives Ford an "F": Abbr.

    10
    113
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    AYN

    59D Writer Rand

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    98
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    AROAR

    2D Loud, as the surf

    10
    88
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    RELO

    33D Move, in Realtor jargon

    9
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    TAC

    116A Washington's Sea-___ Airport

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    PTAS

    46D Education support grps.

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    ATEIN

    70A Dined at home

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    AIMS

    55A Goals

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    PATH

    49D Sea route, e.g.

    8
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    VAC

    12A Little sucker?

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    43
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    LIRA

    80A Piece paid by Pisans for a piece of pizza, previously

    7
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    LICE

    36A Little suckers

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    37
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    AOC

    75D Noted congresswoman from the Bronx, familiarly

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    NOUN

    107D Verb preceder

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    MITT

    31A Baseball catcher

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    74
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    PORT

    68D What's left at sea

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    FENCE

    1D Compete in one leg of a modern pentathlon

    6
    33
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    ALPHA

    56A Silverback gorilla, e.g.

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    82
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    AREOLA

    115A Colored ring

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    CYST

    79D Anatomical sac

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    39
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    KAL

    64D ___-El (Superman's birth name)

    5
    38
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    WWI

    65D Conflict during which the Lusitania was sunk: Abbr.

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    34
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    ORNOT

    40A "... but it's up to you"

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    64
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    MASSE

    90A En ___ (as a whole)

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    TONED

    99A Buff

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    ALUMNI

    16D They're listed by degrees

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    27
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    TUSH

    38D Fanny

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    26
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    BESS

    37D First lady between Eleanor and Mamie

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    NEALE

    122A Author Zora ___ Hurston

    3
    58
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    SONIC

    17D ___ boom

    3
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    NSYNC

    34A Boy band with two members who previously starred on "The Mickey Mouse Club"

    3
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    AENEAS

    123A Son of Aphrodite

    3
    39
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    ERODED

    18A Like a seacoast after a storm, maybe

    3
    35
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    DELLA

    103D ___ Street, Perry Mason's secretary

    3
    33
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    INKED

    91A Having tattoos

    3
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    ANTICS

    93D Slapstick silliness

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    SLOANE

    19A Ferris Bueller's girlfriend

    3
    22
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    TUPAC

    45A Rap's Shakur

    3
    21
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    WRATH

    32A Ire

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    SOWHAT

    92D "Who cares?"

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    STAYS

    104D Strong ropes used to support masts

    2
    49
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    TNOTE

    99D U.S. govt. bond

    2
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    ODOM

    73A "Hamilton" actor Leslie ___ Jr.

    2
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    PALIN

    100A First Alaskan on a major U.S. party ticket

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    NOODLE

    22A S as in soup?

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    ARROZ

    7A Spanish rice

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    REDHEADS

    41D Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy, for two

    2
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    RIMSHOT

    44D "Ba-dum-tss"

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    5
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    INRI

    87A Crucifix inscription

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    NCOS

    101A E-4, E-5 and E-6, in the U.S. Navy, in brief

    1
    52
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    INDIRA

    106A One of the Gandhis

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    ONAPAR

    10D Even

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    PRELL

    43A Famously green shampoo

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    22
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    OUTLAW

    118A Ban ... or bandit

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    ZENITH

    11D Pinnacle

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    STRUTS

    51A Parades

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    ASSAYS

    15D Attempts

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    ISSARAE

    91D "Awkward Black Girl" creator and star

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    PAPAYAS

    57D Tropical yellow fruits

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    YOMAMA

    98D Start of a playground joke

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    SKISLOPE

    48A *Winter vacation destination

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    BEERHAT

    37A Headgear for a tailgater

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    TIMESINK

    52D Endless YouTube viewing, e.g.

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    4
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    IRAE

    110D "Dies ___" (hymn)

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    ITSA

    62A "___ trap!"

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    WEARY

    65A Tired

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    ICHAT

    24D Bygone Apple messaging app

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    EDENIC

    6D Perfect

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    ADDL

    4D Not incl.

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    COOLS

    3D Chills

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    OMRI

    85D Ahab's father in the Bible

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    FACADE

    1A Front

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    GRILL

    88A Relentlessly question

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    SMIT

    19D Struck, old-style

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    HOTRODS

    60A Drag racing vehicles

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    OHI

    112A "___ get it now!"

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    PLAQUE

    96D Award to be hung

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    SANCTA

    82A Safe places

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    LARSON

    95D Gary who created "The Far Side"

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    LOVETRIANGLE

    36D *Rick, Ilsa and Victor had one in "Casablanca"

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    LEOV

    47A Pope after Benedict IV

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    MAINLY

    119A By and large

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    CALENDAR

    14D Event planner's need

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    DELIMIT

    5D Set the boundaries of

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    NOGOAREA

    42D Restricted zone

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    NWT

    105A Part of Canada above Alta. and Sask.

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    SKIMPY

    63A Meager

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    ANALYSE

    74A Break down, to a Brit

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    CULPRIT

    94A The butler, stereotypically

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    CYTO

    79A Prefix with -plasm

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    NSEW

    101D Compass letters

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    RAINFALL

    86D Desert's lack

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    SHIPSHAPE

    66A In perfect order ... or, as two words, what's formed by applying the answers for the five starred clues to the circled letters

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    STORYARC

    84A *Multi-episode narrative

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    WARIER

    71A More skeptical

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    CREDITOR

    83D Lien holder, e.g.

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    VICK

    12D ___ Chemical Company, onetime maker of VapoRub

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    CKONE debut

    102D Unisex fragrance

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    LUPIN

    89D Hogwarts professor who was secretly a werewolf

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    2
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    MECHANICAL

    23A Kind of drawing

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    PICKME

    28A Words after "Ooh, ooh!"

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    STEPKIDS

    27D Members of a blended family

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    STPIERRE

    53D French island off the coast of Newfoundland

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    CALLINSICK debut

    26A Skip work for health reasons

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    DWIS debut

    108D Bad things on motorists' records, for short

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    1
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    ENTRENCH debut

    69D Dig in

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    FISHMARKET debut

    109A Where to get a mullet trimmed

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    ROCKWELL debut

    8D Painter of the "Four Freedoms" series, 1943

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    1
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    SECURITYLINE debut

    35D *Airport logjam

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    TOWNSQUARE debut

    113A *Civic center

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