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Wednesday · 78 answers · 2 debuts

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

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    ALA

    11D In the manner of

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    END

    64A Word with tail or tight

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    ICE

    67A Smoothie bar supply

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    AHA

    63D Exclamation of enlightenment

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    SEA

    40D Site of many wrecks

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    LET

    12D Court call

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    RED

    70A Like many autumn leaves

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    IDLE

    42D Going nowhere

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    OLD

    37A Up there, so to speak

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    STIR

    59D Energize

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    ELK

    33D Animal with a bugle-like mating call

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    AHEM

    60D "Beg pardon ..."

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    ACER

    47A Maker of Aspire laptops

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    EDGE

    38A Outline

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    NAS

    65D Grammy winner for Best Rap Album in 2021

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    ROT

    62D Spoil

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    ECON

    8D Subj. for Milton Friedman

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    TALE

    43A Account

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    OTHER

    17A Referring t_ _ _ _ _est

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    INFO

    58D 411

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    RINSE

    52D Often-skipped step when making rice

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    HEIR

    56D Will figure

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    BYE

    6A Last word, at times

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    PIC

    29A Cropped photo?

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    IMHO

    3D Texter's qualifier

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    GENE

    34A Something that can be "dominant"

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    DAY

    50A A Venusian one lasts eight Earth months

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    RKO

    18A Onetime studio with a broadcast tower in its logo

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    SAGES

    53A Venerable teachers

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    STORM

    71A Tempe_ _ _ _ _onsoon, e.g.

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    PEE

    44A Snap back?

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    SMH

    13D Texter's "Unbelievable"

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    ORALS

    9A Hurdles for doct_ _ _ _ _tudents

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    DJS

    61D They often mix up lyrics

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    AOC

    15A Bronx politician with a noted 2018 upset, familiarly

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    PISA

    57A Tuscan city on the Arno River

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    ROMEO

    14A Lover boy

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    GEENA

    4D Actress Davis

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    STAKE

    69A It'_ _ _ _ _n on a vampire hunt

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    NINTH

    65A Pitcher's positio_ _ _ _ _e lineup, historically

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    SPILT

    54D Like the proverbial milk

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    OGDEN

    9D Nash who wrote "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of"

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    ANGOLA

    27D Neighbor of Zambia and Namibia

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    HOTS

    2D Sexual attraction, with "the"

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    PASTAS

    29D Foods with names often ending in "i"

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    ISON

    20A Has the stage

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    ESSENCE

    45D Lifeblood

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    ATHOME

    35A Comfortable

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    SARTRE

    51A "Being and Nothingness" author

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    DRAIN

    61A Street feature needed after a har_ _ _ _ _

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    ITHACA

    30D Ivy League city surrounded by more than 150 waterfalls

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    AMNIO

    23A Prenatal diagnostic, in brief

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    HEDGED

    26D Placed bets on both sides

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    TROI

    1D Counselor on the Enterprise

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    EDSELS

    46A Famous failures of the '50s

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    TEENSY

    28D Itsy-bitsy

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    HOR

    5D Opposite of vert.

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    RASCAL

    48A Another word fo_ _ _ _ _ _awag

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    DEATH

    19A I_ _ _ _ _at terrifies thanatophobes

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    ATONED

    32A Made amends for wh_ _ _ _ _ _id

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    GOLEM

    16A Clay figure in Jewish folklore

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    YOKOONO

    7D Half of the couple on the iconic Rolling Stone cover of 1/22/81

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    BARRIO

    6D Spanish-speaking neighborhood

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    CARDED

    49D Checked the IDs of

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    OVERTHINK debut

    36D Analyze to a fault

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    MAME

    24D Broadway "Auntie"

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    ALFIE

    68A Title role of 1966 and 2004

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    THIGH

    1A Chicken par_ _ _ _ _ in fat

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    JOHNS

    66A Going places?

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    INTHAT

    25A Because

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    IRONMEN

    21A Participants in a 140.6-mile race

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    CHOLER

    31D Fury

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    HITHERE

    55A Casual greeting

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    MIDDLEAGE

    22D "When your broad mind and narrow waist begin to change places," per E. Joseph Cossman

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    INTERPRET

    21D Make sense of

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    KLINGON

    41A "Star Tre_" _ _ _ _ _ _ot heard on the original series

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    ROENTGENS

    10D Units of X-ray exposure

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    SHOVERS debut

    39A They pu_ _ _ _ _ _ _tuff

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