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Sunday · 140 answers · 12 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

    117D "Roses ___ red ..."

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    EPEE

    111A Heavier alternative to a foil

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    EASE

    73A With the greatest of ___

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    NSA

    77A Govt. org. with a forerunner known as the Black Chamber

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    NOR

    72A Logical connector

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    OSLO

    125A Capital near the North Sea

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    EWE

    58D Palindromic farm animal

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    GAS

    124A Really good time

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    AMI

    7D "___ the only one?"

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    INS

    5D Walk-___

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    SPY

    35D Only Stratego piece with a letter on it

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    TIN

    37D Sardine container

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    UBER

    27A Company whose business is picking up?

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    ARLO

    112A Guthrie who performed at Woodstock

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    EYES

    105D They can be batted and rolled

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    REST

    43A One "R" in R&R

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    YETI

    53A Elusive legend

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    ACTS

    86D Takes steps

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    ELAN

    51D Gusto

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    ROT

    118D Nonsense

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    ERIN

    51A "___ Brockovich"

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    MAR

    123A Tarnish

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    USES

    30A Depletes, with "up"

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    PEN

    36A Signature item

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    ABE

    119A Longtime Japanese P.M. who stepped down in 2020

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    AKIN

    121A Comparable (to)

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    YEA

    63D It helps in passing

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    SUE

    38A Apt name for a lawyer

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    SAC

    100A Anatomical pouch

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    ORG

    15A Doctors Without Borders, e.g.: Abbr.

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    YEP

    11D "You betcha!"

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    SAL

    90D "Blueberries for ___" (kid-lit classic)

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    TONI

    37A Singer Watson, a.k.a. Tones and I, with the 2019 hit "Dance Monkey"

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    BAM

    21A Startling sound

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    AYE

    66A Response to an order

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    UTES

    120A "Runnin'" team of N.C.A.A. Division I college basketball

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    HAM

    113D Attention hog, maybe

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    DISC

    74A ___ golf

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    NYT

    29A Big Apple media inits.

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    MAO

    115D Portrait seen on renminbi bills

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    ASSES

    61D Stubborn sorts

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    YESNO

    107D Like binary questions

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    SALAD

    90A Follower of word or potato

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    IDOS

    85D Promises, promises!

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    LEAF

    81A Dinner table expander

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    ATS

    97A Symbols in Twitter handles

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    SPIN

    52A Quick drive

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    BTU

    109A A/C spec

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    OSAKA

    68D Japan's street food mecca

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    AOK

    64A Hunky-dory

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    SOIL

    28A Seedy area?

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    APRIL

    106D When high school seniors often visit the colleges that accepted them

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    SLEEP

    44D Give extra consideration, with "on"

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    BMW

    12A Maker of the X6 and Z4

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    TURN

    33D Chance to go

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    EELY

    62A Hard to handle, in a way

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    NYU

    71A Alma mater for Spike Lee and Donald Glover, for short

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    RACY

    8A Off-color

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    ALIBABA

    91D Legendary password stealer

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    ORELSE

    2D End of a threat

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    CRAM

    20A Quickly learn one's lesson?

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    KLEE

    26A Swiss painter Paul

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    LAPS

    79A Race units

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    MPG

    116D Car sticker fig.

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    WATTS

    108D Volt-amperes

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    GMS

    17D Sports team V.I.P.s

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    OAST

    83A Hops-drying oven

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    BOSC

    31D Common baking pear

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    CURE

    34D Preserve, in a way

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    TATER

    45D Idaho, e.g., in dialect

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    ANKH

    32D Sacred cross in ancient Egypt

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    ASEC

    93A "Gimme ___"

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    KFC

    54A Business for Sanders supporters?

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    ALLEGE

    101D Declare

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    SCATS

    70D Gets lost

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    WMD

    14D Subject of intl. treaties

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    LUG

    114D Galoot

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    ASPER

    9D "___ your request ..."

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    CFOS

    20D Corporate money managers, for short

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    VANES

    104D They go wherever the wind blows

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    RASPY

    46A Hoarse

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    CLOSET

    102D Where hangers hang

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    SHALL

    59D "We ___ Overcome"

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    RARA

    87D ___ avis

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    HADES

    4D The land down under?

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    UEY

    89D Dangerous move on a busy highway

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    FORD

    76D Eponym of the Detroit Lions field

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    BRAY

    88D Coarse farm sound

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    RATTRAP

    16D Squalid digs

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    BUMRAP

    39A False accusation, informally

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    WELL

    108A "I mean ..."

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    AMATEUR

    78D Any Olympian, once

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    FAJITA

    96D Build-your-own Tex-Mex dish

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    KURT

    65D Rocker Cobain

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    ALOTOF

    95A Numerous

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    JAYS

    110A Members of the crow family

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    LATKES

    57A Holiday dish served with sour cream or applesauce

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    SWEARS

    80D Drops an f-bomb, say

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    PROTEGE

    122A Disciple

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    SPEAKS

    98D Does a dog trick

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    CRAYON

    47D Color marker

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    MADLIB

    13D Bit of fill-in-the-blanks fun

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    CHORUS

    10D Feature of a classical Greek drama

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    COYEST

    56D Least forward

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    INKMARK

    25D Result of a breast pocket mishap, maybe

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    SCAREDY

    94A ___-cat

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    FANTASYSERIES debut

    55D One may be nominated for a Hugo Award

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    TILER

    50D Subcontractor in a bathroom remodel

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    BRAIN

    12D "The ___ -- is wider than the Sky" (start of an Emily Dickinson poem)

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    BUR

    6D Prickly covering of a seed

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    PEPYS

    69D Diarist who documented the Great Plague of London

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    SOPUP

    42D Absorb, as sauce with bread

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    HUNK

    41D Studmuffin

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    USGA

    60A Links grp.

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    SHEEDY

    28D Ally of the Brat Pack

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    RAFTER

    75A Sloped roof support

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    GETSSET

    126A Prepares (for)

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    TOSHIBA

    1A Onetime Sony rival

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    HAIRLINE

    113A Cutting edge?

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    WISED

    48D Got hip, with "up"

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    ANGRILY

    49D How a door might be slammed

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    ARAY

    99A Like ___ of sunshine

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    FACADES

    82D False fronts

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    RIGBY

    8D Beatles title woman

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    TANKUP

    1D Prepare for a road trip, perhaps

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    FADDIETS

    24A South Beach and Paleo, for two

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    ISHE

    19A "___ Dead?" (Mark Twain play)

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    NUBIANS

    23D Ancient Egyptians

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    WHISKAS

    40A Fancy Feast alternative

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    ARCANUM debut

    18A Deep secret

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    BABYRUTHSNICKERS debut

    31A A young Justice Ginsburg chuckles?

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    CRUNCHNOWANDLATER debut

    47A Do core exercises all day, every day?

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    LIFESAVERSPAYDAY debut

    103A When E.M.T.s bring home the bacon?

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    LOFTIER debut

    92D Higher, as ambitions

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    MARSSMARTIES debut

    115A Some astronomy Ph.D.s?

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    MILKYWAYSTARBURST debut

    84A Supernova in our galaxy?

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    NERDSRINGPOP debut

    22A Bookworms call dad?

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    OBEYERS debut

    15D Compliant sorts

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    SCREENWRITERS debut

    3D Nora Ephron and Sofia Coppola, for two

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    WHOPPERSSPREE debut

    67A Burger King bingefest?

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