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Friday · 70 answers · 11 debuts

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

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    ANTE

    7D Entry fee for some clubs?

    45
    461
  2. 2
    ERAS

    32D Meiji and Taisho, in Japanese history

    38
    295
  3. 3
    ORC

    37D Middle-earth menace

    26
    128
  4. 4
    PESO

    26D Replacement for the Spanish colonial real

    20
    131
  5. 5
    MESS

    31D Fiasco

    17
    145
  6. 6
    DEMO

    56A Helpful how-to

    16
    105
  7. 7
    TSP

    9D Alternative to a pinch: Abbr.

    15
    154
  8. 8
    UDON

    50A Japanese noodles

    15
    56
  9. 9
    PEP

    24D Dynamism

    14
    126
  10. 10
    TENT

    53A Camp sight

    14
    117
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    BID

    51D Prospective Olympic city's campaign

    14
    59
  12. 12
    RDA

    52D Vitamin qty.

    13
    138
  13. 13
    IDOS

    3D Wedding exchange

    10
    78
  14. 14
    MIST

    10A Ocean spray

    10
    69
  15. 15
    ICON

    48D Taskbar image

    9
    189
  16. 16
    BETA

    22A Early stage

    9
    104
  17. 17
    SPIN

    18A Music magazine since 1985

    9
    104
  18. 18
    TORSO

    43D Line drawn after an early wrong guess in hangman

    9
    74
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    KNOT

    2D Wedding planning website, with "the"

    8
    100
  20. 20
    LIU

    4D Fourth-most-common surname in China (after Wang, Li and Zhang)

    8
    79
  21. 21
    GEODE

    21A Sparkly collectible

    8
    43
  22. 22
    SIGH

    1D Something to heave

    7
    58
  23. 23
    UMNO

    16A "Why would you ever think that?!"

    7
    18
  24. 24
    SOBER

    35A Unlit?

    6
    44
  25. 25
    DOMES

    40D Heads, slangily

    6
    25
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    MAYI

    47D Question that's often a directive to step aside

    6
    19
  27. 27
    ERES

    55A You are, on the Yucatán

    5
    53
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    TONES

    13D Busy signals, e.g.

    5
    53
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    SNIDE

    12D Nasty, as a remark

    5
    47
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    WAIT

    6A Bad news from a maître d'

    5
    47
  31. 31
    BRIM

    46D Part of a hat

    5
    42
  32. 32
    TULSA

    38A City once home to Black Wall Street

    5
    42
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    RAINS

    57A "Why don't sheep shrink when it ___?": George Carlin

    5
    34
  34. 34
    ADDIN

    44A Introduce to the mix

    5
    26
  35. 35
    MODEL

    20A T, for one

    4
    42
  36. 36
    TOMS

    43A Middle word of a Stowe title

    4
    41
  37. 37
    MIZ

    47A "Les ___"

    4
    11
  38. 38
    IRR

    34A Nonstandard: Abbr.

    3
    80
  39. 39
    TELEX

    29A Email ancestor

    3
    30
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    ODDER

    42D Less expected

    3
    29
  41. 41
    WANDA

    6D Marvel's Maximoff

    3
    27
  42. 42
    ZEUS

    49D A statue of him was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

    3
    25
  43. 43
    BTEAMS

    28A Sub groups

    3
    8
  44. 44
    USMAP

    33A Where you can find ME

    3
    7
  45. 45
    HTS

    19A Short elevations?

    2
    49
  46. 46
    DURESS

    40A Unlawful coercion

    2
    18
  47. 47
    HBOMB

    45A What awakens Godzilla from the ocean, informally

    2
    18
  48. 48
    SPARES

    25A Goes easy on

    2
    16
  49. 49
    BOOTS

    15D Kicks (out)

    2
    11
  50. 50
    STUF

    25D Double ___ (cookie descriptor)

    2
    9
  51. 51
    HOTMICS

    41A Sources of some political gaffes

    2
    3
  52. 52
    IMISSEDYOU debut

    54A "It's been too long!"

    2
    2
  53. 53
    HAUTE

    41D ___ cuisine

    1
    30
  54. 54
    BERGS

    28D They might fall off a shelf

    1
    19
  55. 55
    SKILL

    1A Listing on a résumé

    1
    18
  56. 56
    SHARKS

    39A Animals that appear in the fossil record before trees

    1
    5
  57. 57
    BARRELRACE

    51A Rodeo event

    1
    3
  58. 58
    ALMOSTDONE

    27D "One more minute!"

    1
    2
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    FOOTLONGS

    36A Subway fare

    1
    2
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    IDOLATERS

    8D Blind worshipers

    1
    2
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    APLUSES debut

    23A Top marks

    1
    1
  62. 62
    BREATHMINTS debut

    22D Apt anagram of TINS BEAR THEM, minus an E

    1
    1
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    GLASSTUMBLER debut

    21D Cocktail vessel

    1
    1
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    GOOUTONTOP debut

    17A Retire while successful

    1
    1
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    IMPOSSIBLE debut

    11D Out of the question

    1
    1
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    INDIEBANDS debut

    14A The Black Keys and the White Stripes, e.g.

    1
    1
  67. 67
    KEEPSTIME debut

    30A Taps one's foot, maybe

    1
    1
  68. 68
    KINKSHAME debut

    30D Stigmatize sexual preferences, in modern lingo

    1
    1
  69. 69
    LETMEEXPLAIN debut

    5D "Don't get mad yet …"

    1
    1
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    MUSEUMTOURS debut

    10D Journeys into the past?

    1
    1