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Monday · 78 answers · 3 debuts

Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-02), then by uses across the whole archive.

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    ARE

    14A "We ___ the World"

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    OLE

    48A Cry in a soccer stadium

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    ERIE

    53A Great Lake with the shortest name

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    OMEN

    7D Eclipse or a black cat, some say

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    TIL

    17A Up to, informally

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    IRIS

    2D Part of the eye

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    KNEE

    36A Pants part that might need patching

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    NES

    66D Super ___ (1990s game console)

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    UCLA

    56D Sch. whose home football games used to include a live bear on the field

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    ARC

    23A Rainbow's shape

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    AKA

    67A Letters before an assumed name

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    ALOHA

    9D Hi in HI

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    ROD

    6D Towel holder

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    IKEA

    62D International furniture chain

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    SEED

    49A Watermelon part that's spit out

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    ANAL

    59A Overly fussy, say

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    INANE

    39A Silly

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    DATA

    1D Facts and figures

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    AISLE

    33D Seating request on an airplane

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    REC

    70A ___ center

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    LAVA

    60D Molten flow

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    ALIAS

    28D Assumed name

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    RASTA

    72A Believer in Jah, informally

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    DIS

    1A Criticize, in slang

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    USB

    56A Kind of connection port on a PC

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    BOT

    10D Spam spewer

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    AROMA

    15A Nice smell

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    SNEER

    34D Mocking smile

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    LAD

    35A Chap

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    YAK

    73A Pack animal of Tibet

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    LMAO

    27D "Hilarious!," in a text

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    NODE

    40D Lymph ___

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    SYNC

    13D Align, informally

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    MBAS

    31A Degs. for C.E.O.s

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    YOGA

    11D Some quiet exercise

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    BAND

    58D Extracurricular activity for a musician

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    EER

    21D Always, to a poet

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    ABYSS

    9A Bottomless pit

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    LANCE

    29D Knight's weapon

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    SPUR

    12D Appendage on a cowboy's boot

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    DUAL

    26A Two-part

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    NGO

    65D Amnesty International, e.g., in brief

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    ANDOR

    71A Choice words?

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    GOOD

    46A Rating between excellent and fair

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    SOYA

    42D Tofu bean

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    ASLEEP

    20A ___ at the wheel

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    MERGE

    30D Join the flow of traffic

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    SWINE

    45D Hogs

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    BETSY

    24A "Heavens to ___!"

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    CDROM

    4A Something computers cannot write to or erase

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    SHUN

    57D Avoid

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    LOOPY

    16A Like some handwriting ... or tipplers

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    LESMIZ

    61A Hit Broadway musical set partly in Paris, for short

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    YSER

    25D Belgian river to the North Sea

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    RRS

    41A Monopoly properties you can't put houses on, in brief

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    MASADA

    8D Ancient fortification overlooking the Dead Sea

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    NAOH

    22A Lye, chemically

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    RAGER

    54D Wild party, in slang

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    ALYRAISMAN debut

    28A Captain of the 2012 and 2016 U.S. women's Olympic gymnastics teams

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    CHANGELANES debut

    64A What you might do to pass on an Interstate ... or a phonetic hint to the starts of 18-, 28- and 50-Across

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    NOOSE

    43A End of a lasso

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    LUNGE

    68A Sudden forward thrust

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    WTS

    52D Lbs. and ozs.

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    ACTORS

    44A Screen ___ Guild

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    OPULENT

    47D Luxurious

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    HEALER

    51D Doctor, ideally

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    DIALIN

    37A Join a conference call, say

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    HOUND

    19D Elvis's "___ Dog"

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    INDONESIA

    38D World's largest island nation

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    AUNTY

    55A Mommy's sister

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    BLOODYMARY

    32D Cocktail with tomato juice

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    ZACK

    63D "The Suite Life of ___ & Cody" (bygone teen sitcom)

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    CARETAKER

    4D One tending a house during the owner's absence

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    DROPSIN

    5D Stops by

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    SELLBYDATE

    3D Stamp on a milk carton

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    EVENI

    69A "___ could've told you that!"

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    RODESHOTGUN

    18A Traveled in the front passenger seat

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    WHEYPOWDER debut

    50A Main ingredient in a protein shake, maybe

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