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Friday · 70 answers · 4 debuts

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

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    ERR

    58A Make a gaffe

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    ERAS

    25D They increase with blown saves, for short

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    NSA

    51D Org. whose official number of employees is unknown to the public

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    ONCE

    57A At some point

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    EMU

    33A Sch. in Ypsilanti whose mascot is an eagle, not another large bird

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    NIL

    35A Zip

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    249
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    ABS

    1A What jackknives can help to carve

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    214
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    ARENA

    10D Where some banners are hung

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    SLED

    32D ___ dog

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    DEN

    60A Ottoman setting

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    ALAMO

    14A Site sieged by Santa Anna

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    STAY

    20D Not take off

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    159
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    ACME

    1D Summit

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    210
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    INANE

    21A Vacuous

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    SEEN

    49D A good way to feel

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    170
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    TAB

    9A Account of a wild night out?

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    167
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    OFT

    53D O'er and o'er

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    113
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    ALIEN

    5D Sci-fi franchise since 1979

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    SORE

    15A Cross

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    POP

    52D Word with rock or Rocks

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    MOTTO

    38D Minnesota's is French and California's is Greek

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    51
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    ENACT

    47A Put into effect

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    96
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    TORAH

    9D Numbers 1 through 36 are found in it

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    INCUR

    44D Rack up

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    40
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    PARTY

    28A Blowout

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    34
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    APEX

    26D Summit

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    NASAL

    46D Nosy?

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    SOLI

    34D Most arias

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    62
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    GONE

    54A No more

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    59
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    DOI

    8D Enthusiastic assent

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    48
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    LAX

    6D Laissez-faire

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    78
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    CEASE

    43D Halt

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    75
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    MALE

    16A Cob, e.g.

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    SUED

    55A Went after, in a way

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    52
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    ANNUAL

    26A Like meetings of the U.N. General Assembly

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    21
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    CRAP

    12A Fail, with "out"

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    15
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    NOLTE

    41A Murphy's co-star in "48 Hrs."

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    TATER

    45D Eyed food, informally

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    51
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    SORTS

    34A Bad thing to be out of

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    SOFAR

    56A At this point

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    30
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    APTLY

    59A How Vin Diesel was cast in "The Fast and the Furious," you might say

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    BESET

    11D Under siege

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    46
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    HORDE

    27A Group of zombies

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    IMF

    7D Global lending org.

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    ENMASSE

    19A Together

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    CELERY

    42D Food that's roughly 95% water

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    SUNTEA

    15D Beverage steeped in bright daylight

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    BRANDNAME

    2D Dumpster or zipper, originally

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    4
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    VALID

    4A "That's fair"

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    24
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    GIRDS

    18D Encircles

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    ALPACAS

    48A Sources of high-quality wool

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    LINEDANCE

    31D Cotton-Eyed Joe, e.g.

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    8
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    WORTH

    24D Concern for an antiquer

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    CHASED

    42A Went after

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    ONACID

    37D Tripping

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    VASSAL

    4D One doing the lord's work

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    PARASAILS

    29A Gets high on a kite

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    3
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    SHANE

    39A Comic Gillis

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    SHEP

    39D "Old ___," country standard performed by Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley

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    22
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    PORTO

    29D ___-Novo, capital of Benin

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    HADAGO

    40D Attempted, with "at"

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    PEANUT

    13D Bit of foam, perhaps

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    SHARPEN

    23D Improve, as an argument

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    INASECOND

    30D "Be right with you"

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    ACTIONPOSE

    50A Dynamic stance

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    SALMONRUN

    3D Boon for grizzly bears

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    CITATIONNEEDED debut

    43A Response to not getting the reference?

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    1
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    DONTANSWERTHAT debut

    22A "Actually, forget I asked"

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    SIXFIGURES debut

    17A What's often made by doctors

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    XENOMORPH debut

    36A Extraterrestrial menace in 5-Down

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