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Saturday · 70 answers · 7 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

    17A It's a big deal

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    NSA

    47A Org. that maintains a museum in Annapolis Junction, Md.

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    ESP

    26A Certain pseudoscience, for short

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    ANTS

    25D Carpenters, maybe?

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    ACNE

    23A Possible side effect of using steroids

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    ISLE

    43A Emerald ___

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    STAR

    21A One might get a lead

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    INS

    20A Pop-___ (some visits)

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    TAO

    3D "___: The Watercourse Way" (Alan Watts book)

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    EMT

    8D First responder, for short

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    SAY

    52D "Suppose ..."

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    NAE

    37A "___ man can tether time or tide": Burns

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    MERE

    14D Only

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    ANNA

    4D Fashion designer Sui

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    TATA

    1A "Ciao"

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    AISLE

    25A Long division?

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    WAR

    44A "A symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal," according to John Steinbeck

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    SITE

    56A Spot

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    OFT

    35A "Here hung those lips that I have kiss'd I know not how ___": Hamlet

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    ANG

    28A Director Lee

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    ORBS

    49D Spheres

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    ESSAY

    39D Part of many 34-Down

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    TESTS

    34D Finals, but not semifinals

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    MORE

    48D Glutton's constant desire

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    OOF

    31D "That's rough, buddy"

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    AGILE

    16A Deft

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    RESTS

    38A Some score marks

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    TOTE

    30D Lug

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    RIND

    38D Twist of a screwdriver?

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    RODS

    36A Cells that handle low-light vision

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    COG

    24D Small part of a system

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    ANDSO

    28D "Thus ..."

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    AMPS

    42A P.A. gear

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    TAROT

    19D Fool's deck

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    AMISS

    2D Off

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    ORALS

    6D Exams you don't need a pencil for

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    SIGH

    21D [Aw, jeez!]

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    OWLET

    15D Baby covered in fluffy down

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    PDFS

    27D Many downloads

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    KANE

    7D "Citizen ___"

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    LUIS

    22A Surrealist filmmaker Buñuel

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    BFFS

    41A Ones who tell each other *everything*

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    OOZES

    15A Doesn't come out all at once

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    LUTES

    50A Troubadours' instruments

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    MATEO

    48A California's San ___ County

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    NAPLES

    33D Where pizza is said to have been invented

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    WAFER

    44D Thin slice of silicon at the heart of an integrated circuit

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    CLINT

    46D American soccer icon ___ Dempsey

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    OCCULT

    45A Mystic

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    BYLINE

    5D Author credit

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    PROG

    27A Lead-in to rock

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    SLAYED

    40D Impressed greatly, as at a drag show

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    HIHATS

    9D Drum kit components with pedals

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    HAZYIPA debut

    10D Unfiltered brew

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    DECAL

    12D Sticker on a model, e.g.

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    DYERS

    55A They change colors

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    LOI

    53D Pascal's law?

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    BATONS

    41D They're relayed in a relay

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    NORUSH

    13D "Take your time!"

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    TUTEES

    1D Pupils

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    WRYEST

    18A Most tongue-in-cheek

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    NATIONALANTHEM

    13A Olympic bars?

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    ACUVUE

    42D Big name in contact lenses

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    DAYSOFOURLIVES

    51A Show with an hourglass in its opening title sequence

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    BOKEH debut

    5A Out-of-focus effect in photography, from the Japanese for "blur"

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    HUMANPYRAMID debut

    10A Stunt for three, six or 10 people, typically

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    PAGINGDRFREUD debut

    11D Comment after a revealing moment

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    THATDOGDONTHUNT debut

    29A "Bad plan!," in Southern slang

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    UNMUTES debut

    32D Prepares to speak, in a modern meeting

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    YEARENDBONUS debut

    54A Performance-based paycheck

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