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Friday · 70 answers · 5 debuts

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

  1. 1
    ASS

    10D Fool

    58
    409
  2. 2
    TSA

    47A Screening org.

    53
    189
  3. 3
    AGE

    43A In China, it's 1 at birth

    47
    417
  4. 4
    OAR

    30A Piece of wall décor at a lake house, perhaps

    36
    331
  5. 5
    RNA

    52D Translation material

    29
    322
  6. 6
    EELS

    53A Fish that can survive for several hours on land

    28
    199
  7. 7
    OPT

    34A Word at the bottom of some marketing emails

    27
    211
  8. 8
    ELK

    18A Colorado's ___ Mountains

    25
    207
  9. 9
    OVAL

    2D Shape of the Crab Nebula

    24
    216
  10. 10
    OVEN

    23D Dutch ___

    22
    177
  11. 11
    SCAR

    7D Leave damaged

    20
    188
  12. 12
    ALEC

    49D ___ Burks, N.B.A. shooting guard since 2011

    19
    279
  13. 13
    MERE

    35D Paltry

    18
    155
  14. 14
    SOLO

    15A Notes taken by a single person?

    18
    135
  15. 15
    WAS

    11A What might come between "that" and "that"

    17
    128
  16. 16
    DELI

    50A Feature of many a bodega

    15
    152
  17. 17
    SHH

    51D Sound in the stacks

    15
    100
  18. 18
    BIT

    21A Scrap

    15
    91
  19. 19
    LACE

    33D Intertwine

    14
    105
  20. 20
    IGLOO

    42D Dome-icile?

    14
    86
  21. 21
    ALS

    4D Green and others

    13
    134
  22. 22
    SINE

    48D Function that can be derived from a unit circle

    12
    102
  23. 23
    DOOR

    31A One of 17 on a Clue board

    11
    87
  24. 24
    TAOS

    47D Home of a 20th-century art colony

    10
    103
  25. 25
    RENEW

    9D Extend, in a way

    10
    91
  26. 26
    CAME

    1D Turned up

    10
    61
  27. 27
    ONSET

    28A Genesis

    9
    141
  28. 28
    OHARE

    44A Airport with the most runways in the world (8)

    9
    91
  29. 29
    BRER

    21D Title in children's literature

    8
    69
  30. 30
    SUET

    20D Haggis ingredient

    7
    70
  31. 31
    TRIB

    17A Chi-town daily

    7
    53
  32. 32
    MALTA

    35A Island that's home to Popeye Village, a film-set-turned-theme-park

    7
    50
  33. 33
    DOES

    27A Roughly half of mice

    6
    68
  34. 34
    STALL

    15D Repeat an interviewer's question, perhaps

    6
    54
  35. 35
    DOLL

    25D One might be nesting

    6
    48
  36. 36
    SWAB

    29D Covid test component

    5
    71
  37. 37
    RTS

    55A Shares on X, for short

    5
    68
  38. 38
    WARE

    36A Peddled good

    5
    47
  39. 39
    PARSE

    19A Make sense of

    5
    46
  40. 40
    IMED

    46D Pinged online

    5
    17
  41. 41
    LUCY

    33A Nickname for a 3.2 million-year-old Australopithecus skeleton discovered in 1974

    5
    16
  42. 42
    BARB

    32D Biting comment

    4
    58
  43. 43
    SALES

    20A Industry for marketing majors

    4
    47
  44. 44
    GRIME

    45A Filth

    3
    18
  45. 45
    BOOTYCALLS

    24D Rings given to a lover

    3
    3
  46. 46
    SANK

    3D Didn't go down well?

    2
    43
  47. 47
    SARIS

    38D Sights on the Bollywood red carpet

    2
    39
  48. 48
    ONLATE

    6D Like much adult programming

    2
    8
  49. 49
    ALIENRACE

    12D Vulcans, e.g.

    2
    7
  50. 50
    BLOWN

    32A Like some covers

    2
    7
  51. 51
    HOLESINONE

    54A Rare shots

    2
    5
  52. 52
    IWOULDNT

    22A "That seems like a bad idea"

    2
    4
  53. 53
    WEGETIT

    36D "Yeah, yeah, yeah"

    2
    3
  54. 54
    THISISNOTADRILL debut

    8D "Serious situation developing here!"

    2
    2
  55. 55
    GEYSER

    37A It erupts from time to time

    1
    14
  56. 56
    VELCRO

    26A Sticky stuff on a shoe

    1
    10
  57. 57
    BREEDS

    24A Scottish fold and Russian blue, e.g.

    1
    9
  58. 58
    SOBSTORY

    13D Blue yarn?

    1
    9
  59. 59
    ABJECT

    39A Word with failure or terror

    1
    7
  60. 60
    JAMESI

    40D First Stuart king of England

    1
    7
  61. 61
    COSANOSTRA

    1A Literally, "our thing"

    1
    4
  62. 62
    DOGOODER

    31D Holier-than-thou type

    1
    4
  63. 63
    DOPESHEET

    27D Page for a bookmaker

    1
    4
  64. 64
    NAPPIES

    5D Dummies : pacifiers :: ___ : diapers

    1
    3
  65. 65
    MANSPLAINS

    16A Condescendingly spells out

    1
    2
  66. 66
    OSCARBID

    41A Consideration for the Academy

    1
    2
  67. 67
    AVALANCHES debut

    14A They go downhill fast

    1
    1
  68. 68
    HOLDITASEC debut

    56A "Hang on!"

    1
    1
  69. 69
    SLIMETRAIL debut

    51A Sign of sluggishness?

    1
    1
  70. 70
    WORLDCOURT debut

    11D It takes suits from around the globe

    1
    1