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Thursday · 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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    ALE

    52D One might be pale

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    ARE

    4D Word sometimes texted as its middle letter

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    533
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    EASE

    54D Make smooth

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    334
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    NSA

    61A Hush-hush org.

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    BRA

    13D Nursing ___

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    ADA

    57D ___ Limón, first Latina U.S. poet laureate

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    IRIS

    51D Apt name for a florist or optometrist?

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    EPIC

    24D Like one for the books

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    NES

    29A Metroid console, for short

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    ISLA

    33D Actress Fisher

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    LAO

    39A Language in which "sabaidee" means "hello"

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    154
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    RIG

    15D Fix

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    114
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    ABU

    49A Father of, in Arabic

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    BAE

    3D Romantic partner, casually

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    51
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    ALPS

    2D Range for many ibex

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    ALMA

    7D ___ mater

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    CAB

    1A Zin alternative

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    129
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    ASL

    4A Syst. of silent communication

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    90
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    AONE

    21D Tops

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    LLAMA

    14A Animal that shares its name with a Spanish 101 word

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    MED

    38A T-shirt size: Abbr.

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    90
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    SALE

    46D It might elicit a "cha-ching"

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    163
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    BEN

    62A Son of, in Hebrew

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    122
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    USERS

    48D Beta testers, e.g.

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    ILE

    20A Dot in la mer

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    234
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    GILA

    22A ___ monster

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    ICIER

    32A Less welcoming

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    AVERSE

    52A Opposed (to)

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    ALEE

    21A Protected from the wind

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    IBSEN

    43D Playwright Henrik

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    MURAL

    16A Bit of urban art

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    ABES

    45A Lincoln and others

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    55
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    CUES

    44D Sticks on a table, maybe

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    33
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    SHELL

    37A Mobile home?

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    DVD

    27A Early Netflix offering

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    24
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    RCCAR

    55A Wirelessly operated toy vehicle, informally

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    6
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    PEONS

    30A Grunts

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    VERB

    53D Last but not least?

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    34
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    MARINE

    9D Aquatic

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    32
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    SHIM

    35D Carpenter's wedge

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    ALANIS

    18A Self-titled debut album released four years before "Jagged Little Pill"

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    ONETON

    40D Pickup capacity, perhaps

    4
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    SALSAS

    11D Chipotle choices

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    LASED

    6D Zapped, in a way

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    EMPRESS

    15A Regal figure on a tarot card

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    10
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    RECAP

    36A Skippable part of a streaming series

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    UNUM

    47A "One" on a one

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    PEAL

    25D Ring

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    ACMES

    7A Pinnacles

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    OCULI

    58A Eyelike openings

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    25
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    CEELO

    12D Singer Green

    3
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    SSS

    31D *Air escaping*

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    SISAL

    5D Rope fiber

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    NAPES

    60A Mullet resting places

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    33
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    REDSEA

    17A What has a big part in "The Ten Commandments"?

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    EXILES

    50A Banishes

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    EMAILER

    10D Online correspondent

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    LEVIES

    19D Imposes, as a tax

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    CLUNG

    8D Held on (to)

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    ISLAMIC

    41A Like roughly a quarter of the world's population

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    3
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    CALABRIA

    12A The "toe" of Italy's "boot"

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    2
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    REBECCA

    36D Hitchcock film that won Best Picture

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    13
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    TEALEAVES

    56A Divination aids … or a phonetic hint to the shaded squares in this puzzle

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    CAMDEN

    1D One end of Philadelphia's Benjamin Franklin Bridge

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    FINESSES

    34A Manages with delicacy

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    MARON

    38D Stand-up comedian Marc

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    DCELL

    28D Big battery

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    MARVIN

    42D Martian who wears a green helmet and skirt

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    RONPAUL

    26D Presidential also-ran of 1988, 2008 and 2012

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    FEDEXCUP debut

    34D Championship trophy for the P.G.A. Tour

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    GONEPRO debut

    23A Made it to the big leagues

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    ORDERSIN debut

    59A Uses DoorDash, say

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