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Wednesday · 78 answers · 3 debuts

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

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    ORAL

    12D ___ motor skills (baby's development)

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    LED

    27D Captained

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    IDEA

    14A Brainchild

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    ONCE

    67A Start of a fairy tale

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    STAR

    19A Symbol seen on more than 30% of the world's flags

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    ELK

    6D Sight at Rocky Mountain National Park

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    SAP

    45D Chump

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    AURA

    16A Atmospheric glow

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    TEND

    3D Oversee, as a flock

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    STYE

    46A Eye affliction

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    USER

    62D Operator

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    EDNA

    61D ___ Mode, "no capes" advocate in "The Incredibles"

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    TAT

    39A Bit of ink

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    IRON

    60D It makes up about a third of our planet's mass

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    UDON

    2D Noodles often served in broth

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    PEDI

    41D Spa treatment, informally

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    NONE

    69A What the fourth little piggy had

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    IGLOO

    33D Home with a dome

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    ADIEU

    59A "Toodles," but more formally

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    AGOG

    7D Excited

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    ATMS

    24D Paper pushers?

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    SCOT

    47A Voter on a failed 2014 independence referendum

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    EENY

    56D Tiny, informally

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    EXEC

    18D C.T.O. or C.F.O.

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    SEAS

    23A Word after high or seven

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    LGBT

    58D Orientation inits.

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    ALF

    42A Landon who lost in a landslide to F.D.R.

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    EARTH

    31D "Mostly harmless" place, per "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

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    TEAL

    55A Blue-green shade

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    SANER

    53D More even-keeled

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    DIRE

    54A Life-or-death

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    VAL

    57A Florida politico Demings

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    PARE

    13D Trim

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    MOAT

    36A Barrier in certain zoo enclosures

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    MIDI

    1D Skirt covering the knees

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    MUTT

    1A Many a rescue

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    TETRIS

    32A Shapes up

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    PAY

    5D Insert a token, say

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    GUS

    21A Person you might see in August?

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    YAY

    66D "Huzzah!"

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    ARTSY

    71A Like many theater camp productions

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    DIEGO

    38A Dora the Explorer's cousin

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    OBAMA

    29D "A Promised Land" author, 2020

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    REND

    63A Rip

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    ALGAE

    15A Buildup of tanks?

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    GRAB

    51D Get, as a quick lunch

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    PEARL

    5A Bit of wisdom

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    PILAF

    26A Rice option

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    DEBRA

    68A Actress Messing

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    UMASS

    43A Sch. with campuses in Amherst and Lowell

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    HOPES

    52A Partner of dreams

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    TROD

    55D Walked (on)

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    EBON

    35A Black, in verse

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    MOLE

    22A Whac-A-___

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    STROP

    40A Leather band used to sharpen razors

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    INDEX

    20A Catalog

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    SHOTS

    25D They can be parting

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    SETUP

    28D Sting operation, e.g.

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    BOOP

    10A Playful sound while tapping someone's nose

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    TOYED

    37D Messed (with)

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    GNAR

    72A Shred the ___ (skiing slang for conquering difficult terrain)

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    NEVADA

    49D One side of the Hoover Dam

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    RRS

    65D B&O and others

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    DYER

    70A Batik worker

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    SOFTG

    34D Giant head?

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    PACMAN

    48A Ghost in the machine

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    SMOLDER

    44D Burn like embers

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    NOTACHANCE

    30D "No way!"

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    BASMATI

    10D Rice option

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    RANUP

    8D Accumulated, as charges

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    HEDGEHOG

    50A See 28-Across

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    ANGRYBIRDS

    64A Knock me down with a feather

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    TAKESIN

    4D Adopts

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    DONKEYKONG

    17A Barrel of monkeys

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    LEGSIT

    9D Goes by foot, informally

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    OUTOFREACH debut

    11D Unobtainable

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    SEEDING debut

    47D Playoff ranking

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    SONICTHE debut

    28A With 50-Across, blue streak

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