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Saturday · 68 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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    ATE

    12D ___ and ran

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    IRS

    48D Division of the Treasury Dept.

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    RED

    6D Fire-engine ___

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    OPS

    49D Black ___

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    RNA

    44A Molecule that can interfere in gene expression

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    OPEN

    11D Many a tournament

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    ENT

    7D Hearing monitor, for short

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    SNIT

    45D Hissy

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    ELAN

    5D ___ vital (life force, from the French)

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    ERIN

    21A ___ Morgenstern, author of "The Night Circus"

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    EVEN

    19A Balanced

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    RNS

    38A Some vaccine administrators, in brief

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    SEAL

    45A Member of an elite force

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    DEA

    25A Org. that employs Hank on "Breaking Bad"

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    CANOE

    27A Something large often stored upside down

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    LAT

    50D West Coast news inits.

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    UNDO

    23D Command after an accidental deletion

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    ONLY

    41A The low, low price of

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    DOA

    20A Like a proposal in Congress that has zero chance of passing, in brief

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    TILDE

    26D Piña colada topper

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    NACRE

    36A Shiny button material

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    MEDIA

    46A Watercolor, clay and others

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    MARK

    24A Sign … or signature

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    NARNIA

    3D Literary domain of Peter the Magnificent and Susan the Gentle

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    HENRY

    28D One of two Tudor kings

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    IMHERE

    2D Arrival announcement

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    HACK

    43A Handy trick

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    HONK

    33D Loud bird sound

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    SKATER

    40D Expert with figures?

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    MOLE

    46D One whose distance may be measured by the yard?

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    BENIN

    18A Home of the Kingdom of Dahomey, today

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    BEECH

    42D Wood for smoking andouille sausage

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    CORDS

    29D Tangle in an office

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    BANDS

    37A Europe, Asia and America

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    SUMOS

    22A Heavyweight wrestlers

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    BLENDS

    34A Special coffee shop offerings

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    TORTA

    35A Sandwich made with a telera roll

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    MANTA

    24D Kind of ray

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    SYNCS

    22D Aligns

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    COSTS

    27D Goes for

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    RADIAL

    38D Branching out from the center

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    HEGEL

    43D Philosopher who was a major influence on Marx

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    HOSTESS

    33A Party leader?

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    BALKS

    42A Refuses to keep going

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    TREVOR

    9D Comic Noah who wrote the autobiographical "Born a Crime"

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    NCISLA

    39D Longtime police procedural that ended in 2023, informally

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    BYNES

    10D Actress Amanda

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    AMERICANPALEALE

    51A Sierra Nevada offering

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    TIEIN

    4D Marketing link

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    BAABAA

    37D Words sung on the same notes as "twinkle," in a different nursery rhyme

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    SNEAKERS

    15D Athletic items never purchased individually

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    ABNORMAL

    30D Not what you'd expect

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    HINDS

    28A Does

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    CONCUR

    29A See eye to eye

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    ACDELCO

    30A Auto parts brand owned by GM

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    SCHEMES

    8D Rhyming arrangements, e.g.

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    TYNER

    26A Five-time Grammy-winning jazz pianist McCoy ___

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    MARINEBIOLOGIST

    47A Academic who works with many different schools, maybe

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    RIDDANCE

    13D "Good ___!"

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    DECLARES

    32D States

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    PETBED

    1D Place to let sleeping dogs lie

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    TALLINN

    35D Capital on the Gulf of Finland

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    THREADTHENEEDLE

    17A Successfully strike a delicate balance

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    CLANNAME debut

    31D Madiba, for Nelson Mandela

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    DOLOROUS debut

    14D Like a dirge

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    EMAILENCRYPTION debut

    16A Common cybersecurity measure

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    LESSTHANSTELLAR debut

    52A Mediocre at best

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    PINTERESTBOARDS debut

    1A Modern-day scrapbooks, of a sort

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