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Thursday · 76 answers · 6 debuts

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

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    ETA

    20A Bit of flight info

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    OLE

    22A Cheer of encouragement

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    ERR

    61D Transgress

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    ART

    27D "___ is long, life is short" (Greek aphorism)

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    SEA

    24A Siren's setting

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    ANI

    62A Small change in party parity?

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    IDO

    45A Words of commitment

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    STAR

    1A Indy 500 directive

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    OVA

    35D Products of oogenesis

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    PTA

    29D Org. that might organize a book fair

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    LOT

    49A Portion

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    YEN

    65D Hunger or thirst

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    RES

    4D "Hi" follower

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    STOP

    44D "Enough!"

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    LYE

    70A Caustic cleaner

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    SIA

    64D One-named pop singer with hits such as "Elastic Heart" and "The Greatest"

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    ROTI

    30D Indian flatbread

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    NOVA

    10A Neon sign outside a motel

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    TOGA

    43D Word repeated in an "Animal House" chant

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    NBC

    10D Oldest major TV network in the U.S.

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    NIKE

    59D Figure in the Louvre's "Winged Victory of Samothrace"

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    BAIL

    58D Back out unexpectedly

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    ICK

    67A "Gross!"

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    ERNIE

    68A Muppet with a distinctive snickering laugh

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    NAPE

    36D Scruff

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    TILE

    14A Bit of roofing

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    EPEES

    8D Olympic weapons

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    GEODE

    60A Quartz-filled rock

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    BROS

    16A "My dudes!"

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    GAB

    60D "Gift" that can be annoying to others

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    CIG

    5D An "e-" one was first developed in 2003, for short

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    HIPS

    37D Where one's hands are placed at the end of the macarena

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    SOAK

    48D Enjoy a bath

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    ODAY

    38D Anita of jazz

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    CITI

    19A Name on an AAdvantage credit card

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    ASIAGO

    13D Popular Italian cheese

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    AGEGAP

    56A Generational divide

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    INAPP

    15A Like some mobile-device purchases

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    COMET

    5A Epiphany that precedes a major change

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    UVA

    40A Charlottesville sch.

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    YULE

    47D Wintry season

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    SENORA

    53D Title with a tilde

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    RUNS

    34D Routes down a ski mountain

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    EPPS

    17A Actor Omar

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    SAGAN

    71A Carl who wrote "Cosmos"

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    NOISY

    63A Like many bars during happy hour

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    MAUL

    7D Badly rough up

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    ALPACA

    3D Domesticated relative of the vicuña

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    TPS

    9D Festoons with bathroom tissue, informally

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    ABODES

    51D Houses

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    KCAR

    26D Classic Chrysler

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    SYNAPSE

    46A Part of a neural network

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    RIFTS

    41A Major faults

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    SYMBOL

    54A The green light in "The Great Gatsby," for one

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    ORISIT

    11D Question that casts doubt

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    ASTRONAUT

    33A One on a mission

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    PARAMUS

    50A New Jersey borough known for its shopping malls

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    HOWRU

    37A "What's up?," in text shorthand

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    ARLEN

    66A Harold who composed "Over the Rainbow"

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    BREST

    69A Port in western France

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    ONLOW

    6D Barely simmering, say

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    STEELS

    1D Fortifies

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    TOOTOO

    32A Excessive

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    TIPTOP

    2D First-rate

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    GLUES

    18A Sticks firmly

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    SPACER

    31A Orthodontic device

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    SPYRING

    28A Group of assets?

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    EONSAGO

    52A A long, long way back

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    VOTENO

    12D Say "nay"

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    3
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    WORMHOLE

    39D Portal represented by each pair of circled letters in this puzzle

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    CANCY debut

    55D —

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    FLAGGING debut

    42D Losing steam

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    HOMEBANKING debut

    57A Depositing checks with one's phone, say

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    LOCKJAW debut

    25A Tetanus, by another name

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    OJESUSMOMENT debut

    21D —

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    TYOURENGINES debut

    23D —

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