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Tuesday · 78 answers · 4 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

    19A GPS approximation

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    ADO

    9D Hullabaloo

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    ART

    40D Word in the name of many design colleges

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    SEA

    53A "Under the ___" (Oscar-winning song from "The Little Mermaid")

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    EPA

    12D Clean air org.

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    LET

    63D Permit

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    ANTS

    35D Grasshoppers' foes in "A Bug's Life"

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    ARIA

    58D Opera solo

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    ATARI

    40A Pioneer in arcade games

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    ADA

    24A "___ Twist, Scientist" (kids' book)

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    YET

    67A Until now

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    SPY

    61D Do some snooping

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    ORC

    60D Fearsome Middle-earth creature

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    IOTA

    44A Tiny bit

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    PTA

    64A School fund-raising grp.

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    ARES

    13A Greek god often depicted with a helmet and shield

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    ALEC

    32D Guinness of "Star Wars"

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    NOPE

    39D "Hard pass"

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    DOS

    28D Cinco menos tres

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    THE

    10A Article that Ohio State University surprisingly managed to trademark in 2022

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    CON

    55A Swindle

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    HTTP

    21A Start of an online address

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    CFO

    4D Corp. money manager

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    TACO

    43A Food with a shell

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    MAIL

    34A Word after G or e

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    DAN

    69A Novelist Brown

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    OOP

    16A Alley-___ (basketball pass)

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    CASA

    66A Ken's Mojo Dojo ___ House (redundantly named dwelling in "Barbie")

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    SUB

    61A Teacher's cover

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    TART

    6D Fruit-filled pastry

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    SEAM

    18D Layer of coal

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    PHD

    22A Common deg. for a professor

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    SWAT

    7D Give a thwack

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    SNARL

    53D Tangle

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    CUB

    62D Pup : otter :: ___ : bear

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    PITAS

    31D Shawarma holders

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    BOHO

    27D ___ chic (fashion style)

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    ALPHA

    5D Dominant wolf in a pack

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    DAME

    25D Title for Julie Andrews or Maggie Smith

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    TBONE

    20A Hearty steakhouse option

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    MPG

    1A "City/highway/combined" stat

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    FAM

    54A Close relatives, informally

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    VIBE

    38D General feeling

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    UMPIRE

    65A One who's always calling people out?

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    RANG

    51D Used, as a doorbell

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    SYN

    14D Thesaurus entry: Abbr.

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    ENIGMA

    29A Cipher machine of W.W. II

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    ASTHMA

    49D Reason to carry an inhaler

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    HOPS

    57D Hillsboro ___, minor-league baseball team with a mascot named Barley

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    HIDES

    36A Gets ready to yell "Surprise!," perhaps

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    HOTDATE

    11D Promising romantic encounter

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    WOAH

    33A "You just blew my mind," using a modern spelling

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    PENPAL

    8D What a best friend from camp might become

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    NORMS

    59A Standards

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    PREFER

    50A Have a predilection for

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    BASALT

    68A About 90% of all volcanic rock on Earth

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    TEAMUSA

    46D Simone Biles's squad

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    CATSPA

    4A Pampering place for purring pets

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    TOOCUTE

    41D "So adorbs!"

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    THAN

    56A "Easier said ___ done"

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    HOV

    23A Kind of lane marked with a diamond

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    ABROAD

    26A Out of the country

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    TORIES

    52A British Conservative Party, colloquially

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    PALOALTO

    31A Silicon Valley city whose name translates to "tall stick"

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    GHERKIN

    30D Pickle, to a Brit

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    MATTHEW

    1D Actor Macfadyen of "Succession"

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    ACROBAT

    42D One getting bent out of shape at work?

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    PRAIRIE

    22D Wide-open grassland

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    PROBONO

    2D Like some free legal work

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    TOEHOLD

    10D Rock climber's notch

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    FLAWED

    15A Imperfect

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    EVENTENOR

    37A Stable temperament

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    OFFROAD

    45D Where to ride ATVs and dirt bikes

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    TONYSOPRANO

    17A Role for which James Gandolfini won three Emmys

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    ARMSPAN debut

    47D Length from fingertip to fingertip, perhaps

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    CHORALGROUP debut

    62A What the ends of 17-, 31-, 37- and 48-Across are, collectively

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    GENOVIA debut

    3D Fictional country in "The Princess Diaries"

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    ROCKBASS debut

    48A Freshwater fish named for its shoreline habitat

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