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Thursday · 78 answers · 5 debuts

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

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    ARE

    34D Equal

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    IRA

    37D ___ Aldridge, early Black American playwright

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    ANTE

    55D Dealer's request

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    EPEE

    63A Weapon that shares an etymology with "spade" and "spatula"

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    NET

    59D Zero preceder

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    ASIA

    57A Setting for the FIFA World Cups of 2002 and 2022

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    OBOE

    14A Orchestra tuner

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    ORES

    11D Valuable deposits

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    ODD

    35D Like most primes

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    STU

    44A Name spelled out in "The Alphabet Song"

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    ETTA

    62A Jazz singer Jones

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    MRS

    27D ___ Butterworth's

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    EIRE

    52D Where drinks are toasted with "Sláinte!"

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    IOU

    39D The vowels not seen in "bad debt," ironically

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    DESI

    24A "The Lucy-___ Comedy Hour" (classic TV release)

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    ARID

    16A Dry

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    WEE

    42A Itty-bitty

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    ABCS

    2D Fundamentals

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    ARF

    34A Cry of terrier?

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    COD

    41A A carved one hangs in the chamber of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

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    EDDY

    13D Circular current

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    LOU

    33A He asked Bud "Who's on first?"

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    CHAR

    49A Arctic food fish

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    UNTO

    47A Golden rule preposition

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    EVENT

    61A It happens

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    MED

    27A Kind of school

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    DDAY

    56D Its 80-year anniversary was observed in June of 2024

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    THEE

    45D Proverbs pronoun

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    CAME

    50D Turned out

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    AETNA

    64A Company with a purple heart in its logo

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    CLUE

    23A Slightest idea

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    PANEL

    31D Group of experts

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    STEEL

    32D What many tins are made of, despite their name

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    ENNUI

    38D The blahs

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    SLEEP

    25D "Don't give up on your dreams. ___ longer" (quip)

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    PARR

    1A Catherine ___, last wife of King Henry VIII

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    SCADS

    25A Tons

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    COTTA

    49D Terra ___

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    WELD

    19A Fuse by heat

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    KILT

    12D Bagpiper's garb

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    UBERX

    5A Basic level of a popular ridesharing app

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    NEVER

    15A "You can't make me!"

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    EVO

    7D ___ Morales, former president of Bolivia

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    POST

    1D Thread component

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    COATI

    26D Raccoon relative

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    ETERNE

    40A Forever, poetically

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    NIGHT

    22D Ill-advised time for an ocean swim

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    TCELL

    45A Immune system agent

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    ATHAND

    29D Within reach

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    BESS

    6D Porgy's partner

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    NEMEA

    48D Site of a Herculean labor

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    GASPS

    28A Sudden inspirations?

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    XRAYS

    9D Revealing images

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    PISAN

    43A Galileo, by birth

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    WHEY

    65A Ricotta ingredient

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    LAKE

    53D The Dead Sea is one, technically

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    JOKE

    10A Part of a routine

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    STRIVE

    44D Try hard

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    MURK

    60A Darkness

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    CRUS

    18D French vineyards

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    JAWA

    10D First nonhuman species encountered in the "Star Wars" franchise

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    TSTORMS

    20A Bad weather forecast, informally

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    GUNN

    54D Tim of "Project Runway"

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    CASHEW

    46D Vegan cheese ingredient, often

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    RETOLD

    4D Like old chestnuts

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    DEFACTO

    24D Actual

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    GOESBAD

    54A Sours

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    OHTHAT

    35A Response to an anticlimactic reveal

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    CHANDELIER

    50A Ornate lighting fixture

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    HANDSUP

    51D Robber's order

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    REDHANDED

    8D Bad way to get caught

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    HANDYNASTY

    21A Preceder of the Three Kingdoms in Chinese history

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    MINUTEHAND

    58A Part of a clock depicted four times in this puzzle?

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    EASIERSAIDTHANDONE debut

    36A "It's not as simple as it sounds"

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    ROOTCAUSES debut

    3D Fundamental issues

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    SCOTCHANDSODA debut

    17A Mixed drink with an alliterative name

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    SHOWERBATH debut

    30D Hybrid fixture with a tub and nozzle

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    UNHANDME debut

    5D "Let go, you brute!"

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