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Thursday · 74 answers · 4 debuts

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

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    AGE

    22A Long, long time

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    USE

    58D Manipulate

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    ETSY

    64A Crafty site

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    ART

    38A Curator's field

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    TEN

    31A Digital number?

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    369
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    OAR

    37A Boating noun and verb

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    IDEA

    21D Inkling

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    396
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    ALT

    44A Subgenre lead-in

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    225
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    EDU

    51A Abbr. after a dot, usually

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    ADD

    23A Say further

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    ENT

    26D Tolkien tree creature

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    NEON

    56D ___ tetra

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    NEED

    4D Desperate straits

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    ILL

    12D Afflicted

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    SODA

    42D Slice, e.g.

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    ESTEE

    17A First name in cosmetics

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    DYE

    13D Do or ___ (hair salon name)

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    162
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    AHAB

    6A Character who nails a doubloon to the Pequod's mast

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    156
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    HOP

    35A Bobby-soxer's dance

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    BAM

    39D Sound of a sock

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    SEND

    61A Something one may regret hitting

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    ONLY

    16A Last remaining

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    PET

    59D Stroke

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    OASES

    46A Sanctuaries

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    COST

    33D Damage, so to speak

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    BETS

    45A Plays the ponies, say

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    65
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    NEAT

    25D Like half of the Odd Couple

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    224
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    LOP

    52A Slice (off)

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    99
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    BALE

    57D What a haymaker makes

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    OPRY

    30D Noted honky-tonk venue, familiarly

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    34
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    SCENE

    1A "A-a-a-and … ___!"

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    ELSIE

    63A Commercial 49-Across

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    MAID

    10A One knocking on many doors

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    HARD

    7D Word with copy or currency

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    APPT

    28D Book it: Abbr.

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    ATRA

    55D Razor brand

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    AWARD

    6D Tony, e.g.

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    HANS

    65A ___ Gruber, archvillain in "Die Hard"

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    45
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    TROY

    62A City of Paris?

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    ELAPSE

    47D Go by

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    64
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    AVIS

    8D Alamo competitor

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    ENTREE

    3D Salad, sometimes, but soup, rarely

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    NEALE

    27A Author Zora ___ Hurston

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    EMMYS

    51D Show 6-Downs

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    35
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    HONEY

    14A Cough drop flavoring

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    MOONS

    10D Bottoms out?

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    DEETS

    66A Finer points, slangily

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    SHEBA

    1D Biblical kingdom on the Arabian peninsula

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    TAPER

    60A Narrow

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    ANTEATER

    11D Forager with tiny hooks on its tongue

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    SOBEIT

    48D "All right then"

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    CAYS

    34D Low islands

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    HAUNTED

    43D Spirit-filled?

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    UPANDATEM

    58A "Get out of bed, sleepyhead!"

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    5
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    INSANE

    24A Off the hook, so to speak

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    WAVE

    15A Surfer's wish

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    PYRES

    53D They're lit at funerals

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    YOLK

    29A Sunny side of breakfast

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    CANDY

    50D The treat in "trick or treat"

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    EYEBALL

    5D Look up and down

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    MOOCOW

    49A Farm animal, in tot-speak

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    COSIGN

    2D Take on a joint liability

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    HILO

    35D Where Miss Aloha Hula is crowned

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    ARISTOTLE

    18A Polymath called "The First Teacher" by medieval scholars

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    TONKA

    19D Maker of small front-end loaders

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    YEAHS

    29D Hearty affirmations

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    BESTILL

    9D "Settle down"

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    EBOND

    40D F.D.R. purchased the first one

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    NEWMATH

    41D Curriculum overhaul triggered by the Sputnik crisis

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    3
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    OTTOMANS

    36D Ones giving you a leg up?

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    2
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    BIRDBIRDSTONE debut

    20A What a multitasker might kill

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    1
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    BITTENSHYSHY debut

    39A Reluctant to relive an experience

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    MANMANMANBABY debut

    54A Top-grossing movie of 1987

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    1
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    PLACEPLACEAT debut

    32A What it's impossible to be in

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