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Thursday · 78 answers · 5 debuts

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

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    IRA

    61D Glass who shared the first-ever Pulitzer in Audio Journalism

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    EON

    27D Time period, or an anagram of one?

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    IDLE

    63A Lay off

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    OVA

    36A Egg cells

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    OMEN

    40A A rainbow is said to be a good one

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    OVER

    30D "Back to you"

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    ASK

    41A Beseech

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    OPAL

    40D Birthstone after sapphire

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    ODDS

    68A Right-hand page numbers, typically

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    LIL

    19A Rapper ___ Nas X

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    NOD

    4D Signal agreement

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    OMAN

    67A One of two sultanates in the United Nations

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    ISLA

    14A Actress Fisher of "Wedding Crashers"

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    LAO

    62D Language in which most words are monosyllabic

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    PDA

    20A Kissing on the subway, e.g., for short

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    URDU

    55D Language of Pakistan's Daily Khabrain

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    SANE

    31D Compos mentis

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    LACE

    62A Some frills

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    POLE

    20D + or - thing

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    AVID

    16A Like fans who hold season tickets, typically

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    ROSA

    33D Detective Diaz on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine"

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    WIT

    58A Funny one

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    HALO

    9A Mark of divinity

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    SPAN

    1A Go over

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    SEAS

    42A Word with high or seven

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    SPAT

    44D Tiff

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    LORE

    11D Romulus, Remus and the founding of Rome, e.g.

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    ELMS

    7D Classic boulevard liners

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    KIT

    25A Baby fox

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    TGIF

    54D End-of-week exclamation

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    HAH

    59A "Funny one!"

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    MOM

    49A ___ jeans

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    ONYX

    12D Jet-black gem

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    AXON

    15A Brain connection

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    CAD

    39D Sleazeball

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    ZERO

    64A Net emissions target

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    CAMO

    13A A G.I. may be seen in it

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    SCENE

    38A Last word in an improv show

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    BLAB

    32D Spill the beans

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    MEEK

    5A Like the eventual inheritors of the earth, in Matthew

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    AXES

    10D x, y and sometimes z

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    THEM

    57D "How do you like ___ apples?"

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    BASIC

    45A No-frills

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    ASPIRE

    43A Reach for the stars

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    SCOOP

    42D Inside info

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    MONK

    23D Brother

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    SMITE

    18D Strike down

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    KOBE

    34A N.B.A. legend nicknamed "Black Mamba"

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    BRUNEI

    32A One of two sultanates in the United Nations

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    GOLD

    56D Top prize

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    ESCROW

    6D Funds might be held in this

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    TODOS

    28A Items on a checklist

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    LOCK

    37A U-shaped bike accessory

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    MATZO

    50D ___ ball

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    KAYAK

    8D Boat going back and forth?

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    ANTACID

    52D Tums, for one

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    BEATNIK

    35D One reading Kerouac or Ginsberg, say

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    FUDD

    66A "Wabbit" hunter Elmer

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    BOLOTIE

    26A Bit of Western neckwear

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    DUSTPAN

    47A Things might get swept up in it

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    ANTHEMS

    53D Country songs?

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    SAMESEX

    21A Like some relationships

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    ANIM

    65A Lively, in music: Abbr.

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    IMBUED

    46D Filled (with)

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    SEWNON

    48D Like scouting patches

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    TUGBOAT

    54A Water tower?

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    PAVILION

    2D World's fair sight

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    SCALLION

    1D Garden item frequently added to cream cheese

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    AMILLIONBUCKS

    3D Great thing to feel like

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    CROWDNOISE

    17D Cheers, boos and such

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    GROUPTHINK

    60A Intellectual conformity ... or a hint to interpreting 17-, 22- and 51-Across

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    HATETO

    9D Would really rather not

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    MICROWATT

    5D Little bit of power

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    CROWCROWCROWMYSTERY debut

    17A Genre for Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle

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    DOMINANTHAND debut

    29D Cup holder, usually

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    HIKESUP debut

    24D Boosts, redundantly

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    LIONLIONLIONMONTH debut

    22A June

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    PENALANTANTANT debut

    51A Early 19th-century Australia, for one

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