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Friday · 72 answers · 3 debuts

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

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    SAT

    49A Rode the bench

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  2. 2
    EWE

    25A Source of milk for Manchego cheese

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    302
  3. 3
    ENOS

    50A First, and so far only, chimpanzee to orbit Earth

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    287
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    ASSET

    33D Selling point

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    188
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    ARK

    11D Original tablet holder

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    160
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    OHIO

    55D Where Life Savers and pop-top cans were both invented

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    200
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    NENE

    44A World's rarest goose

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    140
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    OER

    63D "Jingle Bells" contraction

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    248
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    SOSO

    28A Comme ci, comme ça

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    154
  10. 10
    LIAR

    12D Makeup artist?

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    177
  11. 11
    DOH

    54A Cry from Homer

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    116
  12. 12
    RATE

    47A Going ___

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    182
  13. 13
    RON

    21A ___ Carter, most-recorded jazz bassist in history

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    169
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    TEAS

    34A Boston Harbor detritus, once

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    103
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    SERA

    43A Antivenoms, e.g.

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    172
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    IGLOO

    42A Northern hemisphere?

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    86
  17. 17
    OTHER

    29D Check box in a survey

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    114
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    THEN

    14D Storyteller's transition

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    79
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    RISES

    31D Stands

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    54
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    UPON

    2D Informed of

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    129
  21. 21
    NOON

    3D Time to draw?

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    103
  22. 22
    RAVI

    1D Sitarist Shankar

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    71
  23. 23
    NILE

    52A Its tributaries have colorful names

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    163
  24. 24
    EAGLE

    27D Boston College athlete

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    98
  25. 25
    EWER

    61D It's got a big mouth

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    146
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    ETHIC

    25D Code of conduct

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  27. 27
    OLDER

    4D "Getting ___ is no problem. You just have to live long enough": Groucho Marx

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    51
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    SHORE

    35D Prop (up)

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    49
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    STYX

    23A Eldest daughter of Oceanus and mother of Nike

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    111
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    MOPE

    60D Brood

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    45
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    APOLLO

    15A God on a mission?

    6
    55
  32. 32
    SWIM

    7D Compete in a freestyle, e.g.

    6
    41
  33. 33
    PECOS

    8D Cowboy Bill

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    22
  34. 34
    MATT

    36A Cartoonist Groening

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    59
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    RECS

    22A Critics' picks, informally

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    15
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    SNORT

    51D Act bullish?

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    50
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    ESSAYS

    20D Bacon bits

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    49
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    DONS

    54D Slips into

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    48
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    ITINA

    32D 1986 rock autobiography

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    30
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    ARENTI

    9D Coy response to a compliment

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    8
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    IBERIA

    30A European airline that was nationalized from 1944 to 2001

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    40
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    XENON

    24D Noble gas used in propelling ion thrusters

    3
    40
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    UNITS

    38A Hands and feet

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    38
  44. 44
    TOKE

    58D Hit, in a way

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    37
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    EPSON

    53D Printer brand

    3
    32
  46. 46
    OCTO

    13D Prefix with -genarian

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  47. 47
    THUD

    59D Fall sound

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    46
  48. 48
    TYRANT

    37D Cruel ruler

    2
    22
  49. 49
    YOOHOO

    46D Drink brand that sounds like a shout

    2
    16
  50. 50
    TROUPE

    66A Moving company?

    2
    15
  51. 51
    ICESKATE

    18A Bit of gear for gliding

    2
    14
  52. 52
    NOSHOW

    64A Stand-up person?

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    11
  53. 53
    SPAMALOT

    7A Musical whose preshow warning about cellphone use says that knights “may drag you onstage and impale you”

    2
    11
  54. 54
    WEIGH

    26D Carefully consider

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    11
  55. 55
    SOURNOTE

    67A Suboptimal ending

    2
    5
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    FOODCOMA

    6D Post-Thanksgiving meal drowsiness, familiarly

    2
    4
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    FLORES

    5D Jardín contents

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    3
  58. 58
    HBCU debut

    56D Howard or Spelman: Abbr.

    2
    2
  59. 59
    VOODOO

    17A Louisiana ___, religion with West African roots

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    14
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    ELMORE

    48D Novelist Leonard

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    13
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    SENDER

    68A Name on an envelope

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    13
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    CHERRY

    45A Symbol found in Pac-Man and on slot machines

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    8
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    OHBOOHOO

    62A [Violin emoji]

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    5
  64. 64
    RUNOFF

    1A Deciding contest

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    5
  65. 65
    WORNDOWN

    40D Spent

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    3
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    DONTTEMPTME

    57A "I want to, but really I shouldn't ..."

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    2
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    INNERDEMONS

    19A Personal struggles personified

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    2
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    NICEWORK

    65A "You did great!"

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    2
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    PATIENTS

    41D Ones in a waiting room

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    WERERICH

    16A Cry after a windfall

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    2
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    HIGHWAYHYPNOSIS debut

    39A Trancelike state during a monotonous drive

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    1
  72. 72
    MESSYBUN debut

    10D Casually chic updo

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