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Wednesday · 76 answers · 2 debuts

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

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    ORE

    38A Mine discovery

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    TNT

    67A Explosive stuff

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    338
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    NSA

    41D Code-breaking grp.

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    233
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    OGRE

    59D The oni of Japanese folklore, e.g.

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    284
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    OAT

    22D ___ flour, ingredient in some gluten-free baking recipes

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    INS

    8A Drop-___ (surprise visitors)

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    224
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    UTE

    64D Tribe that celebrates the annual Bear Dance

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    263
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    OPERA

    22A "The Marriage of Figaro," e.g.

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    247
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    ODES

    58D Poetic homages

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    226
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    PAR

    45D Something a scratch golfer expects to shoot

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    218
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    AGRA

    30D Taj Mahal city

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    197
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    ITS

    5D Part of T.G.I.F.

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    257
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    TSK

    4D "For shame!"

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    189
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    INON

    29D Privy to

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    166
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    GEE

    37A Capital of Georgia?

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    EBB

    25D Recede

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    182
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    URN

    39A Coffee holder

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    STAB

    10D Sharp pain

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    181
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    NASA

    9D Employer of rocket scientists

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    174
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    UPS

    11A FedEx rival

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    123
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    RAY

    40D Beam

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    128
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    INERT

    50D Like argon

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    149
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    AUTO

    57D Prefix that means "self"

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    165
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    ISTO

    8D What ":" means in an analogy

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    95
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    BOO

    36A Cry from under a sheet, perhaps

    12
    101
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    OOF

    58A Gut-punch response

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    69
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    READ

    33D Text message status

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    115
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    AMMO

    1D Doomsday prepper's stockpile

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    133
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    EMIL

    48A "___ and the Detectives" (1929 novel)

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    131
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    SHO

    68A "Shameless" channel, for short

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    86
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    RAID

    2D Surprise attack

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    95
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    GTOS

    27D Pontiac muscle cars

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    65
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    FESS

    60D Come clean, with "up"

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    51
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    WHEN

    24A "___ pigs fly!"

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    42
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    DUO

    26D Couple

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    105
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    EDGAR

    25A Bassist Meyer

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    80
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    SOLI

    44D Songs for one

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    62
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    EASYA

    47A Component of a "Mickey Mouse degree," say

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    54
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    FERN

    34D Fiddlehead producer

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    53
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    SUES

    35D Takes to court

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    42
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    GODNO

    46A "Heaven forbid!"

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    17
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    LOCH

    56D Nessie's habitat, supposedly

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    48
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    ACORN

    52D Oak-to-be

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    80
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    TEHEE

    53D Little laugh

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    49
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    LYES

    55D Some harsh cleaners

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    48
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    CELS

    3D Cartoon frames

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    45
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    EVICT

    48D Kick out

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    33
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    SOPOR

    7D Abnormally deep sleep

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    URIAH

    11D Dickens's ___ Heep

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    51
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    LATER

    51A "See ya!"

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    MIATA

    28A Mazda sports car

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    49
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    MASON

    49D Virginia's George ___ University

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    TEEPEE

    31D Conical shelter

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    29
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    CAMI

    21D Sleeveless undergarment, for short

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    15
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    ODS

    19A Some poison control center cases, in brief

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    98
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    PENCE

    12D Divisions of British pounds

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    29
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    MAESTRO

    14A Superconductor?

    3
    23
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    CROCE

    6D Jim who sang "Time in a Bottle"

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    17
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    UGLIER

    43D More likely to win a holiday sweater contest

    2
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    BUTTERFINGERS

    32A Nickname for a clumsy person

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    5
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    CORRECT

    65A "Ding, ding, ding!"

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    NEMESES

    69A Archrivals

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    24
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    TSARINA

    18A Catherine the Great, for one

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    SPAHN

    13D Hall-of-Fame pitcher Warren

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    FUM

    63D "Fee, fi, fo, ___"

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    ISEEYOU

    61A "That's a terrible hiding spot"

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    PREWAR

    16D Antebellum

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    SATPREP

    15A Service provided by Kaplan and the Princeton Review

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    6
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    PREGGO

    23D Having a baby bump, slangily

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    MILKSOP

    17A Coward

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    COCOABEACH

    20A City on Florida's Space Coast

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    2
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    OHFUDGE

    62A What you might cry upon recognizing this puzzle's ingredient list?

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    2
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    REUTERS

    66A International news agency since 1851

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    2
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    VANILLAICE

    54A Rapper with the hit 1990 album "To the Extreme"

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    ARCTICS debut

    1A Waterproof overshoes

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    1
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    SUGARSNAPPEAS debut

    42A Some stir-fry vegetables

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