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Wednesday · 78 answers · 2 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

    29A Projection from the fashionably late

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    ELI

    19A Name in price lists?

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    ELSE

    7D Otherwise

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    NSA

    54A Surveillance org.

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    ATM

    12D Where bills get passed, for short

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    SASS

    33A Fresh talk

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    EMU

    40A Cousin of a cassowary

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    ORB

    57D 56-Down, e.g.

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    ABC

    55D Start of a kindergarten ditty

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    PESO

    53D Philippine currency

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    USER

    59A One who may need credentials

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    DOE

    8D Mommie deer-est?

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    BRIE

    20A Larson who won Best Actress for 2015's "Room"

    17
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    LAB

    4D Place to conduct forensics

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    SUN

    56D Good picnic forecast

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    NOSE

    62A A moose has a big one

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    ULTRA

    44A Super-super-

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    TESSA

    42A Actress Thompson of "Sorry to Bother You"

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    CEDE

    61A Give up

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    BIO

    30A Short life?

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    TAS

    25D Some Ph.D. students

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    IPAS

    37A Some tap offerings, in brief

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    26
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    SESH

    56A Short meeting?

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    APART

    15A Broken up

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    STONE

    49D Gem

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    ASSES

    26A Burros

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    HALO

    14A Ring light?

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    ING

    37D Gerund suffix

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    ABHOR

    55A Really hate

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    BLUR

    24D "It was all a ___"

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    RUT

    32A Groove

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    NAV

    41A Like some of the mil.

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    AVIA

    13A Oregon-based shoe company

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    OCHRE

    51D Earthy hue

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    ERSE

    17A Gaelic language

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    RAMA

    60A Avatar of Vishnu

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    CCED

    5A Kept in the loop, in a way

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    ASTIR

    52A Up

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    BASIC

    20D Meat-and-potatoes

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    GOATEE

    21D Colonel Sanders feature

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    32
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    SPELL

    9D Something you need to do to solve crosswords

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    AVOWS

    15D Swears

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    SPCA

    9A Org. originally founded to protect carriage horses

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    BRET

    63A "Less Than Zero" writer ___ Easton Ellis

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    POLL

    1A Word with straw or exit

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    35
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    NUMB

    16A Atingle, maybe

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    34
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    TINEAR

    45D Lack of musical skill

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    PANERA

    1D Big bakery/cafe chain

    3
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    ARISES

    43D Emerges

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    REBUS

    23D "U R A Q-T!," e.g.

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    YESM

    35D Quaint response of agreement

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    BLEND

    58A A little of this, a little of that

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    ARBYS

    28D Fast-food chain with a cowboy hat in its logo

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    RESUME

    46D Take up again

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    SKULK

    33D Move furtively

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    LIMITS

    3D Caps

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    DEY

    39A Susan of "L.A. Law"

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    GALAS

    27A Black-tie affairs

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    CHERI

    5D French beloved

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    ARAFAT

    47D Oslo Accords figure

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    PICK

    53A Guitarist's accessory

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    OVULES

    2D Seeds-to-be

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    AMUCK

    36D "Duck ___" (classic Warner Bros. cartoon short)

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    VENOM

    18A The hate in hate mail

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    THIRD

    42D Left base?

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    OEUF

    57A French breakfast item that sounds like a response to a gut punch

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    GOLAN

    21A ___ Heights

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    PARABLE

    38D Bit of preachy prose

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    PANACEAS

    10D Universal solutions

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    CRONUTS

    11D Pastries with a portmanteau name

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    GRISHAM

    48A John who wrote "The Pelican Brief"

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    RETRAIN

    22A Instruct for a new job, say

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    CARING

    6D What sharing is, per a rhyming expression

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    LAVISHED

    34D Showered, as with gifts

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    OKDEAR

    31D "Whatever you say, hon"

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    ROCKIER

    50A More up-and-down, as a relationship

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    2
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    BOWLCUT debut

    24A Unfashionable unisex hairstyle

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    LUCKYBREAKS debut

    34A Fortunate circumstances … or a punny hint to the shaded letters

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