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Wednesday · 76 answers · 3 debuts

Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-02), then by uses across the whole archive.

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    TRI

    19A Certain grueling race, informally

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    ETC

    42D List follower

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    ELM

    61A Bow-making timber

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    TOE

    16A Word before nail or after steel

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    EURO

    60A Bank note made of pure cotton fiber

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    ACTS

    14A Book before Romans

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    USES

    30D Applications

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    TRE

    33A Quattro preceder

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    ICU

    2D Hosp. area

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    RIA

    52A Coastal inlet

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    TAS

    39A Prof's helpers

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    RSVP

    63A One may ask for a dinner preference

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    POR

    23D "___ favor"

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    SFO

    54D West Coast airport code

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    ARIAL

    45D Common typeface

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    IRAS

    8D Some investments, in brief

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    VISA

    1A Travel requirement, at times

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    RESET

    20A Factory ___

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    SOP

    57D Soak (up)

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    IPOS

    32D Some W.S.J. topics

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    GAL

    58A Jug unit: Abbr.

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    PHIL

    38A Father on "Modern Family"

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    REALM

    46D Ruler's dimensions?

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    IRISES

    43A Van Gogh masterpiece

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    VAT

    1D Acid container, maybe

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    ELISE

    35D Beethoven's "Für ___"

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    SMUT

    21D Blue material

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    IBSEN

    32A "A Doll's House" playwright

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    TROU

    41D Pants, but half off?

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    LICIT

    31A Not forbidden

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    DEAF

    50D Like Beethoven, by his mid-40s

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    SPIES

    37A Secret traders

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    SEISM

    13D Something possibly triggered during a mass extinction event

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    HORNS

    12D Features of many ceratopsians

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    OHS

    11A Sounds of surprise

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    KRIS

    55A Letters that go in both blanks of ___ ___tofferson

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    ADESTE

    53A "___ Fideles"

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    ISUZU

    51A Japanese exporter of diesel engines

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    NITER

    48D Crystalline mineral deposits in some caves

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    MARTYR

    44A One dying for a cause

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    TREVI

    41A Roman fountain name

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    MERGE

    44D Come together

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    SCOTS

    40A Mary, Queen of ___

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    INSERT

    43D Newspaper supplement

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    TUFT

    17A Cluster, as of grass

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    BASALT

    18A Product of volcanic activity

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    FEATS

    6D Guinness records, typically

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    ALBEIT

    5D Notwithstanding

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    ASTEROID

    4D What had a major impact on this puzzle's theme?

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    APLIT

    24D Accelerated H.S. English course

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    RIVET

    34D It helps keep a tight ship tight

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    AUGER

    29A Boring bit

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    OTTOI

    11D "Great" 10th-century emperor

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    IKID

    36A "Joking!"

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    LOAFER

    59A Comfy shoe

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    EGOISM

    27A It's a me problem

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    RBS

    7D Some handoff recipients in football, for short

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    SLIPONS

    22A Moccasins, but not oxfords

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    ECASH

    42A Digital money

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    IRV

    56D Music producer Gotti who worked with Ja Rule and J.Lo

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    AFRICA

    5A Where the 10 countries with the lowest median age are all located

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    ERECTED

    49A Put up

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    EFFORT

    62A "Enthusiasm is the mother of ___": Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    ANNOTATE

    47A Leave a mark on?

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    PANOUT

    28A End up OK

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    TABITHA

    26D Novelist King who wrote "Caretakers" and "One on One"

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    ALARMIST

    24A Voice of doom

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    ANTIGEN

    10D Immune response trigger

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    LEBRON

    15A "King James"

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    LAIKA

    25D First dog on an orbital spaceflight

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    COLLEGES

    9D Boston, Amherst and others

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    THESAURUS

    33D Writer's reference … or what each row of shaded letters is missing?

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    SCAREDOF

    37D Spooked by

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    PRITZKER debut

    38D Annual architecture award

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    SCYTALE debut

    40D Ancient method of encipherment with a message wrapped around a cylinder

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    STFRANCIS debut

    3D Friar known for his patronage of animals

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