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Thursday · 76 answers · 12 debuts

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

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    EAR

    34D Where the smallest bones in the body are found

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    ARE

    10D Word often abbreviated to its middle letter in texts

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    USE

    22A Function

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    RIO

    44A Capital of Brazil until 1960, informally

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    IDO

    57A Affirming words

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    NTH

    30D Last in a series

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    TAU

    38A Fraternity letter

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    ARENA

    16A Olympics venue

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    OSHA

    68A Org. endorsing P.P.E. for workers

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    ION

    36D Tiny particle

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    ARC

    5D Shortest path connecting two points on a sphere

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    UAE

    33A Mideast federation since 1971, in brief

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    ACED

    5A Served flawlessly?

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    SLAT

    1A Stick under the bed?

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    EAU

    31D Mer makeup

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    TOT

    37D Wee 'un

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    ITT

    26D Member of TV's Addams Family

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    ZOO

    41A Where wild animals are most likely to see you

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    ANISE

    12D Sambuca flavoring

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    FAD

    28D It comes and goes

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    ASHES

    67A Word before and after "to," in a religious phrase

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    NOSH

    59D Quick bite

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    ZIT

    43D Mighty Patch target

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    TALES

    13D Padded accounts?

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    48
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    EDSEL

    7D Henry Ford's sole heir

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    ZEE

    62D Last in a series

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    ADIOS

    51D Señor's send-off

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    WONT

    45A Refuses to

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    40
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    GOBI

    48A Desert home to the legendary Mongolian death worm

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    CAAN

    6D Surname of father/son actors James and Scott

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    NOSIR

    60A Polite refusal

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    CIRCA

    50D More or less, in time

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    GOOF

    27A Fumble

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    CSA

    64D Farm delivery letters

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    NEWS

    30A ___ crawl

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    ASPER

    3D In keeping with

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    NEMEA

    20A Site of a Herculean task

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    TOOTH

    29A Cog on a wheel

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    SISSY

    55D Best-selling 2019 memoir subtitled "A Coming-of-Gender Story"

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    ISIAH

    54D N.B.A. Hall-of-Famer Thomas

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    30
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    RHYS

    69A Jean who wrote "Wide Sargasso Sea"

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    LAPUP

    2D Really enjoy

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    SILTS

    52D River deposits

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    FIG

    40D Ficus fruit

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    TREYS

    56D Components of a hard six, in craps

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    RUNIN

    58A Surprise encounter

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    REOIL

    18A Lubricate again

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    PAWAT

    9A Play with, as a catnip mouse

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    NUDIST

    53A Subject of a fully exposed image?

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    WIDOWER

    45D Lot in Genesis, e.g.

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    HUZZAH debut

    42A Old-fashioned "Whoopee!"

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    PARANOID debut

    9D Overly suspicious

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    TRYTO

    15D "___ see it from my perspective …"

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    WIDEN

    46A Make broader

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    COZEN

    65A Bamboozle

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    NITWIT

    35A Dunderhead

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    NUNCIO

    47D Papal emissary

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    SCUDS

    1D Moves quickly, as a cloud

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    SPRITZ

    23A Sparkly wine cocktail

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    DUEBY

    19A Words before a deadline

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    BUNKO

    49D Swindle

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    RIZZO

    61A Muppet named after a character in "Midnight Cowboy"

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    SADIRONS

    39D Antique tools for pressing clothes

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    CAUTIOUS

    50A Conservative, in a sense

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    CLOCKWISE

    63A How this puzzle's grid must be rotated in order to read the answers to the starred clues, when written in 17-Across

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    DEEMIT

    8D Consider something to be

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    CASHTRADE debut

    14A Off-the-books business, perhaps

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    1
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    EOONEOON debut

    21D *Longtime Mazda catchphrase

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    1
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    ITSSOEASY debut

    66A 1977 Linda Ronstadt hit

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    1
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    LIONIZES debut

    25A Praises to the heavens

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    SUDAFED debut

    39A Brand of congestion medication

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    THEBIGS debut

    4D Video game franchise starring major-league baseballers

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    1
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    UPPERCASE debut

    17A Shifty type?

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    WEOUZHWZO debut

    11D *Like a household with a stay-at-home parent, maybe

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    WUZWUOZZH debut

    32D *Babe-in-the-woods quality

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    ZOUUHEOU debut

    24D *Annual gathering of superhero fans

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