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Thursday · 81 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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    ONE

    61A Group for alkali metals on the periodic table

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    ANT

    8D Leaf-cutter, e.g.

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    EON

    10D Long stretch

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    LEO

    58A Rosten who wrote "The Joys of Yiddish"

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    TEN

    70A Half a score

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    SAT

    47A Posed for a portrait

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    TSAR

    54A February Revolution abdicator

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    OIL

    65D Paint type

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    ADA

    6A Law mandating curb cuts, in brief

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    ESE

    40D L.A.-to-Austin dir.

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    MET

    39D Mr. ___ (baseball mascot)

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    IGOR

    42D Composer Stravinsky

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    SIN

    15A "It's a ___" (2021 miniseries chronicling the AIDS crisis)

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    SEGA

    59A Genesis creator

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    CAT

    64D Abraham Lincoln was the first to keep one at the White House

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    AMID

    9D Betwixt

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    AMA

    67A President Obama's caused Reddit to crash, for short

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    AHAS

    60D Sounds of realization

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    TOY

    23A Miniature dog

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    LID

    22A Topper

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    LEIS

    58D Items given to arriving passengers at Daniel K. Inouye International Airport

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    ILK

    63D Sort

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    GPS

    33D Modern navigation aid

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    ATF

    20A Govt. agency whose initialism omits "Explosives"

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    TOTEM

    14A Monument seen in the Pacific Northwest

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    SGT

    53D Command ___ Maj. (onetime rank for Tim Walz)

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    ATBAT

    1D Attempting to beat the curve?

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    TOW

    29A Haul

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    CRY

    57A An idiom about regret: Don't ...

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    ALIBI

    1A Out

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    ANSEL

    55D Adams who co-founded the photography magazine Aperture

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    RERAN

    52D Performed again, as an experiment

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    MIME

    48A Act out

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    EBT

    34D Certain grocery payment option, for short

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    MENS

    28A Department store department

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    AIRED

    68A Made public

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    THUS

    24A Therefore

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    TETON

    12D Wyoming peak

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    SLYLY

    71A With a wink, say

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    SKATE

    11D Senator's footwear?

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    SESAME

    46D Bagel option

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    LEEDS

    32D Largest city in Yorkshire, England

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    REEDY

    56D Like a bassoon's sound

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    SOTO

    21A Yankees slugger Juan

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    METROS

    45A Population centers, informally

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    MYTREAT

    28D "Put your wallet away!"

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    PINATA

    19A Party animal?

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    XRAYS

    13D Diagnostics done with "Foot-o-scopes" in old shoe stores

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    ASKTO

    6D Request that one can

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    INALIE

    66A One way to be caught

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    MYMAN

    50D "I knew you'd come through, bro!"

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    MCRIB

    48D Fast-food sandwich that has had multiple "farewell tours"

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    IRINA

    49D Character name in both "The Seagull" and "Three Sisters"

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    ALDENTE

    44A Pasta specification

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    LOATH

    2D Reluctant (to)

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    WHERE

    30D Reporter's question

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    SOSUEME

    25D "I said what I said!"

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    NOUGAT

    26A Snickers component

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    EGGSON

    18D Goads

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    LAMINA

    22D Thin layer

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    DIEOUT

    7D Fade away

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    SMOKER

    16A Piece of equipment for a pitmaster

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    LIFETIME

    37A Cable channel known for its original movies

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    GALS

    27D Some square dancers

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    BEALL

    4D Most important thing

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    ASITWERE

    35D So to speak

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    WIRERS

    51A Electricians, at times

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    BANKS

    69A Sets of elevators

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    GEISHAS

    33A Performers wearing oshiroi makeup

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    SPITEFUL

    16D Malicious

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    IMYOURS

    5D Jason Mraz hit that spent 76 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart

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    RIMIER

    62A More frosty

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    ISNTSORRY

    38D Has no remorse

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    STEERING

    43A At the wheel

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    TAMELY

    31A In a subdued manner

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    SANRIO

    36D Japanese company that created Hello Kitty

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    AESTX debut

    9A A state slogan: Don't ...

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    BASALLYOUREGGSKET debut

    17A A proverb about risk: Don't ...

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    CARTHORSE debut

    64A A plea to plan wisely: Don't ...

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    ITSFUTILE debut

    3D "There's no point"

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    PBLUESAISNUERSES debut

    41A A tip in the working world: Don't ...

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