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Wednesday · 74 answers · 6 debuts

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

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    ACE

    21A Something that may be up one's sleeve

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    493
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    ANT

    5D Myrmecologist's specimen

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    401
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    SKA

    59D Rocksteady precursor

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    163
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    ESSO

    63A Phonetic initialism along Canadian roadways

    30
    276
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    ACHE

    52A Tooth trouble

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    282
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    RAE

    51A Novelist Chang-___ Lee

    28
    278
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    ARM

    32A Something up one's sleeve?

    27
    264
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    OPT

    41A X a box, say

    27
    211
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    YET

    9D So far

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    201
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    SAP

    57D Syrupy stuff

    24
    194
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    OSHA

    2D Worker welfare grp.

    24
    192
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    OTOE

    19A Great Plains people

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    EDAM

    55D North Holland cheese town

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    216
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    ACH

    8D Bavarian "Bah!"

    18
    126
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    INRE

    24D As to

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    251
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    SEEN

    60A In the public eye

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    170
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    CIS

    22D Prefix with gender

    16
    48
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    RIOT

    3D Run ___

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    191
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    DELI

    34D Kind of counter in a supermarket

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    152
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    SOAR

    36D Take off

    15
    125
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    SAL

    40A ___ Paradise, narrator of "On the Road"

    14
    221
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    LACE

    15A Some fancywork

    14
    105
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    ASIAN

    14A Like more than half of the earth's population

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    137
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    AFT

    32D Back on a cruise

    12
    144
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    SATE

    20A Leave full

    12
    144
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    ROMA

    26D Canning tomato

    12
    100
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    EBAY

    6A Where to do one's bidding, maybe

    11
    131
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    RAVI

    18D Shankar at Woodstock

    11
    71
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    OXO

    58D Good Grips kitchen brand

    11
    67
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    AROAR

    31A Like cheering audiences

    10
    88
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    WAD

    33A Classroom projectile

    10
    85
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    SKOR

    38D Heath bar shelfmate

    10
    28
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    SEEPS

    13D Oozes

    9
    30
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    THIS

    10A Not that

    8
    68
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    ASSAM

    65A Black tea region

    8
    63
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    HEED

    47D Obey

    6
    61
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    LBS

    45D Scale units: Abbr.

    6
    51
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    CONS

    53D Swindles

    6
    45
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    KENYA

    62A Marathoning powerhouse

    6
    33
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    EARLS

    50A Oxford and Surrey in "Richard III"

    4
    48
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    REUSE

    48D Second rule of waste reduction

    3
    39
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    POSY

    64A Nosegay

    3
    22
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    OPPO

    37D Dirt-digging research, for short

    3
    6
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    AXED

    61A Let go

    2
    77
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    SAWS

    27D Maxims

    2
    45
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    BAGEL

    7D 6-0 set, in tennis lingo

    2
    29
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    CUTUP

    22A Jokester

    2
    12
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    KOSHER

    30A For real

    2
    12
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    RIME

    16A "The ___ of the Ancient Mariner"

    1
    50
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    ELICIT

    6D Draw out

    1
    39
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    UTIL

    56A Con Ed, e.g.: Abbr.

    1
    37
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    HOYA

    54D Georgetown athlete

    1
    27
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    KALEL

    42A Superman's baby name

    1
    17
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    ZORBA

    1A 1964 title role for Anthony Quinn

    1
    17
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    TROUGH

    10D Horse's watering spot

    1
    4
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    IMOUTRAGED

    12D Cry from one who's fuming

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    3
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    WKRP

    25D Radio station on TV

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    22
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    TRUES

    49D Makes even

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    ZAGS

    1D Sharply turns back the other way

    0
    13
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    SITONIT

    27A Rude rejoinder popularized by the Fonz of 1970s TV

    0
    8
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    SHANDY

    46D Lemony quaff

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    5
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    DEWLAP

    43A Flap of skin hanging from a bovine's neck

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    4
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    SAUSAGES

    39D Many links

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    3
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    SOUNDSGOOD

    57A "It's a plan" … and what might be said of 17-, 23-, 35- and 48-Across

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    3
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    TOILETRIES

    29D Travel kit filler

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    3
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    IRRADIATES

    28D Lightens up?

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    2
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    SHOULDI

    46A Fence-sitter's question

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    2
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    WRITESOFPASSAGE

    35A Pens a seafaring tale?

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    2
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    BASECOAT debut

    4D Start of a paint job

    0
    1
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    CIVILWRIGHTS debut

    23A Cordial shipbuilders?

    0
    1
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    GHOSTRIGHT debut

    17A Suddenly cut off all communication with … but do so nicely?

    0
    1
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    HITTHEWALL debut

    11D What a marathoner may do around mile 20

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    1
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    RITEBROTHERS debut

    48A Sacramental friars?

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    1
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    WELLNO debut

    44D "Uh … huh-uh"

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    1