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Friday · 72 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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    ONE

    43A What I might be

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  2. 2
    ACE

    35A Example of exemplary service

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    493
  3. 3
    EAR

    38D Place to find a hammer and anvil

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    485
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    END

    19A What follows both the living and dead?

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    447
  5. 5
    ETON

    13D Thames town

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    282
  6. 6
    ECHO

    46D Say again

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    312
  7. 7
    ACHE

    56A More than a twinge

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    282
  8. 8
    PTA

    55D Grp. that might get a talking-to by the principal

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    240
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    ELLE

    48D Magazine that debuted in France in 1945 and the U.S. in 1985

    25
    221
  10. 10
    ABS

    9D Core group

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    214
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    TAU

    54D Cross shape

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    169
  12. 12
    ALOT

    7D Buckets

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    INON

    2D Privy to

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    166
  14. 14
    EERIE

    47A How theremin music sounds

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    ELSA

    52D Actress Lanchester

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    220
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    TALE

    10A Account

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    NEMO

    18A Name that means "no one" in Latin

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    156
  18. 18
    TADA

    6A "Aren't I somethin'?!"

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    138
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    INC

    24D First national magazine to feature Steve Jobs on the cover

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    126
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    ALIEN

    26D Zaphod Beeblebrox in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," for one

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    EXIT

    16A Billboard number, maybe

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    151
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    THOR

    58A Defeater of Jörmungandr

    12
    99
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    SUR

    22A Big part of California?

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    97
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    TENOR

    30D Barbershop fixture?

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    107
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    LAND

    3D Meaning of the Persian suffix "-stan"

    10
    69
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    ERATO

    29D Muse of lyric poetry

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    174
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    SPAT

    44D Row

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  28. 28
    AIRS

    42A Runs

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    LIMO

    12D Fancy wheels

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    101
  30. 30
    DORM

    51D Temple building

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    59
  31. 31
    SITES

    34A UNESCO World Heritage listings

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    35
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    USED

    59A Canceled, to a philatelist

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    165
  33. 33
    SAFE

    1D Call upon arriving home, maybe

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    107
  34. 34
    TYPE

    6D Dating preference

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    68
  35. 35
    GRETA

    20A Oscar-nominated director Gerwig

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    58
  36. 36
    LOTTO

    27D Kind of drawing

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    56
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    ALOES

    32A Xeriscape garden plants

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    64
  38. 38
    REID

    49D Joy of MSNBC

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    52
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    MUCH

    45D A good deal

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    22
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    PYLON

    21A Traffic director

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    22
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    AXEL

    11D Quad ___ (2022 record jump achieved by Ilia Malinin)

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    110
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    LTD

    4D Business abbr.

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    99
  43. 43
    DDE

    50A W.W. II hero who retired from the mil. to run for president

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  44. 44
    MILA

    23A Woman's name that becomes a country when its vowels are swapped

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    31
  45. 45
    DOOM

    50D Calamity

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  46. 46
    HITON

    39A Suddenly think of

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    GASPS

    25D Amazed reactions

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  48. 48
    DONORS

    41A Some names on buildings

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  49. 49
    GALLEY

    25A Kitchen variety

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    8
  50. 50
    GAMMA

    60A Like electromagnetic radiation with the shortest wavelength

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    25
  51. 51
    SILLY

    1A "Don't be ___"

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    8
  52. 52
    SMELT

    44A Get metal from, in a way

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  53. 53
    DOING

    41D "Nothing ___"

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    23
  54. 54
    SWANS

    31D Cobs, e.g.

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    23
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    NANCYDREW

    33A Heroine of novels set at Lilac Inn, Shadow Ranch and Red Gate Farm

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    5
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    PETPEEVES

    37A Little buggers

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    3
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    SNOWDAYS

    40A Possible result of a major fall

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    3
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    PLANA

    36A Opening gambit of sorts

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    MACES

    28D Knight clubs

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    MERRY

    15D Preceder of Christmas

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    PUCK

    53A "A Midsummer Night's Dream" character

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    8
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    NAVYSEALS

    33D Highly trained body

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    6
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    ALLIGATORS

    57A Creatures that can regrow a lost tooth up to 50 times

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    2
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    ANATOMYLAB

    14A Class some people are dying to get into?

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    2
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    DATAMINES

    8D Pulls and analyzes online information, e.g.

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    2
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    FONDUEPOTS

    17A Features of some cheesy dinner parties?

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    2
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    MINARETS debut

    28A Towers from which muezzins announce calls to prayer

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    2
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    SLEEPWALKER

    22D One who's out and about?

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    2
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    PLAYPHONETAG debut

    21D Exchange rings?

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    1
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    TALENTPOOL debut

    54A Group cultivated by a recruiter

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    1
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    TENYARDLINE debut

    10D Boundary for "first and goal" plays

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    1
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    YOUGUESSEDIT debut

    5D "Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!"

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