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Sunday · 140 answers · 8 debuts

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

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    ERA

    98A Detergent brand

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    IRE

    45A Bile

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    498
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    TEE

    53A With 112-Down, a small laugh

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    ORCA

    25D Marine menace

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    234
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    INS

    89A Connections

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    224
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    ABBA

    46A Band whose name is sometimes rendered with a backward B

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    192
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    ALOT

    100D Quite often

    23
    262
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    EPIC

    17D Larger-than-life

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    235
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    OER

    97A "The Strife is ___, the Battle Done" (hymn)

    22
    248
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    INON

    20A Privy to

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    166
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    EDIE

    115A Girl's name that sounds like two adjacent letters

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    190
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    SARA

    101A ___ Sidle, longtime role on "C.S.I."

    19
    181
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    ADAM

    120A Novelist Johnson who won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for fiction

    18
    265
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    NED

    109D ___ Low, famed English pirate

    18
    233
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    EGAD

    1A "Yikes!"

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    203
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    TUNA

    106D Poke bowl ingredient

    18
    112
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    ANNA

    6D Antonio López de Santa ___, three-time president of Mexico

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    239
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    EDS

    82A Publishing V.I.P.s

    17
    230
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    LYE

    42D "That's a ___!" (chemist's punny observation)

    17
    146
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    INC

    34A Rival of Forbes

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    126
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    POE

    48A "While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping" poet

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    154
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    RASP

    78D Woodworking tool

    15
    137
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    HEE

    112D See 53-Across

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    102
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    RAGU

    5A Italian sauce whose name sounds like a French stew

    15
    99
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    HID

    111D Secreted

    15
    79
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    RIA

    5D Narrow inlet

    14
    128
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    TONI

    79D Tennille of Captain & Tennille

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    117
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    ISIT

    24D "Really?"

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    72
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    PEST

    88A Nag

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    128
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    EKED

    105D Barely made, with "out"

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    86
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    OUT

    84A Unsafe?

    12
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    SNIP

    103D Barbershop sound

    12
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    DEI

    85A Modern H.R. initiative

    12
    84
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    LEIS

    52D Island rings

    12
    82
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    TACO

    73A Kind of shell that's easily broken

    11
    154
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    LENA

    116A Singer Horne

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    140
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    AIOLI

    61A Mediterranean condiment

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    51
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    AGER

    41D Ending with teen

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    108
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    SPAM

    107D Overcommunicate, say

    9
    125
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    CLUE

    60A What this is

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    93
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    TACIT

    70D Unspoken

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    75
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    AGENDA

    72D Word after hidden or political

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    60
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    MIDST

    65A Center

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    BALI

    19A Island west of Komodo National Park

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    104
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    KAT

    74D Apt name for a veterinarian

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    101
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    RARER

    83A Like golden eagles vis-à-vis bald eagles, in the United States

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    72
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    TASK

    18D Assignment

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    66
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    ROOT

    93D Origin

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    119
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    EBBS

    1D Subsides

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    90
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    ERNO

    95D Rubik of puzzle cube fame

    7
    81
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    STOLE

    63A Liturgical vestment

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    77
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    ALLIN

    108A Holding nothing back

    7
    50
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    UKE

    14D Island strings

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    93
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    ALGA

    3D Aquarium growth

    6
    92
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    ERIK

    38D Actor-turned-policeman Estrada

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    LOST

    67A At sea

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    82
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    STEED

    117A Mount

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    81
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    TYPE

    119A Variety

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    68
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    ELLIS

    26A ___ Island, designated historic site for both New York and New Jersey

    6
    65
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    SEEDS

    118A Detritus at the bottom of a bag of bagels

    6
    62
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    CART

    90A One in a line at a grocery store

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    60
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    APHID

    43D Garden invader

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    LLAMAS

    92D Woolly pack animals

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    32
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    SCOLD

    56D Give a lecture, say

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    30
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    FEND

    9D Ward (off)

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    26
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    STATS

    27A Fantasy football fodder

    5
    59
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    AWARD

    28A Something seen framed in a Zoom background, perhaps

    5
    57
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    TORTE

    73D Calorie-rich cake

    5
    57
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    IVS

    10D E.R. lines

    5
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    SERENA

    13D Star in Venus's orbit?

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    41
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    AGGIE

    114A Texas A&M athlete

    5
    39
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    NYETS

    104A Overseas refusals

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    HIE

    32A Hasten, old-style

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    ICER

    66D "Happy Birthday" writer, sometimes

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    MAZE

    65D Feature of some English gardens

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    COATI

    44D Raccoon relative

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    45
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    GAIT

    2D Walk way?

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    IBMS

    40D Some old PCs

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    36
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    PILAF

    58D Seasoned rice dish

    4
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    SKIER

    69D Lift ticket purchaser

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    RAIMI

    50A Sam who directed "Spider-Man"

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    24
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    TAZ

    81A "Devilish" cartoon character

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    23
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    UPSET

    14A It can bust one's bracket

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    RILL

    50D Small brook

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    ITCHY

    59A Having had a few bites, say

    3
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    KAPPA

    22A 10th of 24

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    CHURN

    55D Roil

    3
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    PEERAGE

    88D Nobility

    3
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    BAES

    102D Sweeties, informally

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    NOTONEBIT

    11D 0%

    3
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    AGUE

    51D Illness with chills

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    ENIAC

    33D Pioneering computer

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    DIEU

    62A "Mon ___!"

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    TAW

    81D Shooting marble

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    ALUMNA

    86A Bryn Mawr grad, e.g.

    2
    24
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    HADON

    57D Sported

    2
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    TUES

    64D Voting day: Abbr.

    2
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    RAOUL

    71A Suitor of Christine in "The Phantom of the Opera"

    2
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    ACHS

    43A Essen exclamations

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    KAFKA

    74A Novelist whose name is synonymous with nightmarish absurdity

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    CRAYOLA

    90D Creator of colorful crafts

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    CABO

    99A Baja resort town, familiarly

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    SEXTET

    94D Hexad

    2
    12
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    CAYS

    99D Coral islets

    2
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    IKEBANA

    12D Japanese art of flower arrangement

    2
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    EMAILER

    96A Person with attachment issues, perhaps

    2
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    OFFDAY

    68D Athlete's out-of-character performance, say

    2
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    SORESPOT

    30D Sensitive subject

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    IMREADY

    89D "Let's do this thing!"

    2
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    NANOBOT

    35A Futuristic microscopic machine

    2
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    BRUTAL

    36D Harsh

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    LST

    52A D-Day craft: Abbr.

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    EVOKE

    21A Call to mind

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    LAINE

    39D Jazz singer Cleo

    1
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    JAI

    49A ___ alai

    1
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    YOURE

    113A "Welcome" introduction?

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    JOY

    49D Partner of pride

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    TALI

    75D Ankle bones

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    RUSSE

    80D Charlotte ___ (dessert)

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    FINIS

    9A Last word

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    WHENCE

    37D From what place

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    EULOGY

    47A Grave words?

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    BOXES

    102A Moving day leftovers

    1
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    FREERANGE

    77D Claim on an egg carton

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    MICK

    31A Bandmate of Keith for 60+ years

    1
    6
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    OBES

    29A Honors for David Beckham and Leona Lewis: Abbr.

    1
    6
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    PALMOIL

    15D Ingredient in some lipsticks, pizza dough and biodiesel

    1
    4
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    SOLDASIS

    63D Listing agent's condition

    1
    4
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    DIGTHIS

    4D "Check it out, man!"

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    GOTWISE

    7D Finally saw through a deception

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    3
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    SPLITVOTE

    16D Cause of a hung jury

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    UNMANS

    8D Emasculates

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    2
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    AZUREBLUE debut

    76D Sky shade

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    1
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    BIGGIANTMONSTER debut

    23A Marquee at the Tri-Plex mistaken as a promo for ... "Godzilla"?

    1
    1
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    HANCOCKSIGNSTHEPAPER debut

    54A ... "Independence Day"?

    1
    1
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    MANHATTANHOOKUP debut

    110A ... "Sex and the City"?

    1
    1
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    MEMOIRE debut

    87D Aide-___ (mnemonic device)

    1
    1
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    TANGLEDFROZENTRAFFIC debut

    75A ... "Rush Hour"?

    1
    1
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    WIREDSLEEPERSMISERY debut

    91A ... "Insomnia"?

    1
    1
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    WITNESSALIENARRIVAL debut

    37A ... "E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial"?

    1
    1