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Thursday · 78 answers · 4 debuts

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

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    EST

    53A The "e" of "i.e."

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    ETAL

    17A Stand-in for the unnamed

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    ELS

    23D Chicago conveyances

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    EYE

    1D ___ of Ra, symbolic depiction in Egyptian art

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    EELS

    69A Some creatures in the ocean's "midnight zone"

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    ABS

    63D They're used in a crunch

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    ASK

    47D Pose

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    OHIO

    55D Where I-70 meets I-71

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    NASA

    62A Org. known for counting backward

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    TOM

    25D Waits on an album release?

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    NINA

    16A NPR's ___ Totenberg

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    ATEAM

    42A Starting lineup

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    ECIG

    1A Vaping device, informally

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    MOE

    45D Rapper Kool ___ Dee

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    GOT

    59D Snookered

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    TERI

    56D Polo on TV

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    ALFA

    39A ___ Romeo

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    OATES

    61D National Book Award winner for "Them," 1970

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    AIDA

    8D Operatic daughter of the king Amonasro

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    OMITS

    38D Excludes

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    UMNO

    64A "Yeah ... I don't think so"

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    OGLE

    31D It's not a good look

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    REAM

    34D Chew (out)

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    CAFE

    36D Spot of espresso?

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    BUM

    43A Dispirit, with "out"

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    CEASE

    22A End

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    ALGORE

    27A 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner

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    NOHO

    35A N.Y.C. nabe near N.Y.U.

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    CRIB

    66A Mobile home?

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    CARR

    26D Late media columnist David

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    LCD

    5D Flat-screen option, for short

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    GOATEE

    7D Facial feature named for an animal

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    KYOTO

    54A Home to the golden pavilion known as Kinkaku-ji

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    HEATS

    30D Begins to get exciting, with "up"

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    PEET

    67A Actress Amanda

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    TROD

    20A Walked

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    ATONCE

    50D Immediately

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    DRUM

    10A Successfully solicit, with "up"

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    NASSAU

    9D World capital on the island of New Providence

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    GALORE

    4D In large numbers

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    HIREE

    65A Fresh blood

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    YUMA

    14A Arizona city near the California border

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    DNC

    10D Blues org.?

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    DEEDS

    18A Monopoly cards

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    BARI

    37D Italian home to the Basilica of St. Nicholas

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    ORTEGA

    29A Brand of taco kits and sauces

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    RIALTO

    49A Noted Venetian bridge

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    SOWN

    57A Planted

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    LOGAN

    5A ___ Roy, patriarch on HBO's "Succession"

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    MOATS

    32A Castle defenses

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    DOUG

    58A ___ Jones, former Alabama senator

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    CROATIA

    15A Where Dalmatia is

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    IMARETS

    3D Turkish inns

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    ORECK

    6D Rival of Hoover

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    DOGIE

    21D Prairie stray

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    GENX

    28D Cohort before millennials, for short

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    THEGOAT debut

    60A Best ever, in sports slang

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    COATOFARMS debut

    46A Heraldic symbol

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    LEB

    24A It has a cedar tree on its flag: Abbr.

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    IRREG

    33A Bargain bin abbr.

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    UTENSIL

    44D Part of a place setting

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    THRESH

    51A Separate seed from

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    CODY

    19A Buffalo Bill's surname

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    RIOLOBO

    11D 1970 John Wayne film

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    RHYTHM

    48D Beat

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    MOILS

    68A Works hard, old-style

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    FORTUNE

    41D Magazine with an annual Investor's Guide

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    UNDEROATH

    12D Sworn

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    ACTEDUP

    39D Misbehaved

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    CEREALBOX

    36A Life preserver? ... or a hint to six squares in this puzzle

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    MAYBESO

    13D "It's possible"

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    THEROCK

    25A World's highest-paid actor in 2021, familiarly

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    CUTTHROAT

    2D Dog-eat-dog

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    FITTOATEE

    52A Be perfectly sized

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    FOGEL

    52D Economics Nobelist Robert

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    LOATHSOME

    40D Repulsive

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    BLOATWARE debut

    43D Extraneous computer programs that slow down a system

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    HOUSEBOATS debut

    30A Mobile homes of a sort

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