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Friday · 68 answers · 9 debuts

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

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    ETA

    42A Travel guess, for short

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    ARI

    37A Shapiro of NPR

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    378
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    ANI

    21A Darth Vader's childhood nickname

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    238
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    ENO

    46A "Ambient 1: Music for Airports" musician

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    285
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    AMEN

    1A Enthusiastic assent

    27
    296
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    SIT

    15D Model (for)

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    172
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    NEED

    58A What air is not for an anaerobe

    24
    214
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    STP

    8D 500 letters?

    23
    172
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    ORB

    28A Pluto, e.g.

    22
    195
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    INRE

    52D Concerning

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    251
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    ARID

    10D Like Mars

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    222
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    TADA

    9D "I did it!"

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    138
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    ARIAL

    16A Classic neo-grotesque typeface

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    49
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    GOO

    24A Sticky stuff

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    121
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    ELKS

    49D Lodge group

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    103
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    MASS

    5A Certain service

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    PESTO

    29D Sauce whose name derives from "pound" in Italian

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    86
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    EYED

    59A Looked at suspiciously

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    125
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    DIN

    51D Loud bugling, e.g.

    7
    109
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    WAN

    54D Appearing ill or exhausted, say

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    85
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    ITEMS

    57A Cart contents

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    79
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    CREPE

    23D Main component in the Chinese street food jianbing

    6
    51
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    ZION

    33D The Promised Land

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    41
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    EROTIC

    3D Like shunga woodblock prints

    5
    51
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    AERIE

    44D Home with a view

    4
    147
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    HEIDI

    26D Children's classic originally written in German

    4
    35
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    PAEAN

    43A Joyous song

    4
    33
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    NOBEL

    38A John B. Goodenough is the oldest person ever to get one (at age 97)

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    30
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    SLYDOG

    13D Sneaky sort

    4
    6
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    NEWS

    4D What breaks as it first comes out

    3
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    NAKED

    45D Unembellished, as the truth

    3
    28
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    FLAM

    48D Bit of deception

    3
    10
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    MINAJ

    5D "The Pinkprint" rapper

    3
    10
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    TAMPS

    9A Packs (down)

    3
    8
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    NICHE

    25A Hardly mainstream

    2
    47
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    ENTICE

    40D Tempt

    2
    23
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    KODAK

    55A Kind of moment worth recording

    2
    17
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    EXGI

    27D Nov. 11 honoree

    2
    15
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    ALIENRACE

    56A Xenomorphs, e.g.

    2
    7
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    PANG

    29A Sudden sensation

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    31
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    JONI

    36A Singer Mitchell

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    27
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    JOYCE

    22A Author who wrote "The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit"

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    16
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    TOFFEE

    47A Candy cooked until it reaches the hard-crack stage

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    10
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    AGGRO

    6D Belligerent, slangily

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    9
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    LOOTED

    41D Took inventory?

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    9
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    DINGY

    18A Gloomy and drab

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    8
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    SSHAPE

    31D Double curve

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    5
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    QUORA

    32D Crowdsourced Q&A site

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    3
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    AFGHAN

    1D Throw on the couch

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    JETSKI

    36D Zippy resort rental

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    11
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    SPILL

    53A Tell all

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    BENGAY

    39D Joint application?

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    GOTOPOT

    35D Fall apart

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    WADDED

    20A Like a spitball

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    3
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    WEBERN

    20D Composer Anton who used the 12-tone technique

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    3
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    BONAFIDE

    34D Honest-to-goodness

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    2
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    GODIHOPENOT

    35A "Heaven forbid!"

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    2
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    MORONI

    2D Angel said to have visited Joseph Smith

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    2
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    PAGEONE

    12D It's just the beginning of the story

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    2
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    BIGSURPRISE debut

    34A "What a shocker"

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    1
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    EXSQUEEZEME debut

    30A Cutesy "I beg your pardon?"

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    1
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    FORESIGHT debut

    14A Important leadership skill

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    1
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    GROWINGUP debut

    17A "Losing some illusions ... perhaps to acquire others," per Virginia Woolf

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    1
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    HEADINTO debut

    50A Approach

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    1
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    HOTSTART debut

    19A Cause of an early lead, maybe

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    1
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    MINDGAME debut

    11D Psychological trick

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    1
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    SHUTYOURPIEHOLE debut

    7D "Put a sock in it!"

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    1
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    WORKINGIT debut

    54A Strutting one's stuff

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    1