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Saturday · 70 answers · 7 debuts

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

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    ALE

    9D Drink mentioned four times in the prologue of "The Canterbury Tales"

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    EDIT

    45A Cut and polish, maybe

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    IDOL

    15A Reality show winner since 2002

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    OPAL

    51A Birthstone that begins with the same letter as its month

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    TED

    5D With 43-Down, fictional coach of AFC Richmond

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    SNAP

    53A Go berserk

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    NOPE

    18A Meaning of a finger wag

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    STS

    33D Map abbrs.

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    NOSE

    54A Slim winning margin

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    NONE

    19A Zip

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    MAMA

    6A "Hound Dog" singer Big ___ Thornton

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    LASSO

    43D See 5-Down

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    HALT

    28A Go no further

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    RHEA

    46A Big bird

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    PALS

    20A People to hang out with

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    STL

    42A Letters on a Busch Stadium hat

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    EXPO

    45D National, formerly

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    RESIN

    39D Amber, e.g.

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    FIB

    49D Small invention

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    ETES

    4D Périodes chaudes de l'année

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    IDEAS

    41D They might be bright

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    IBAR

    16A Bridge piece

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    MOPE

    8D Brood

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    UBOAT

    11D Menace in "Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania"

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    ADOBE

    7D Building block

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    GRETA

    40D Van Susteren of TV news

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    DOI

    29D Emphatic agreement

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    MUST

    10A Freshly pressed grapes before fermentation

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    PLO

    23A Oslo Accords signatory, for short

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    LOSE

    24A Fail to tail

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    SKATE

    22A Fish whose egg casings are called "mermaid's purses"

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    ROUTE

    14A Way

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    VIBE

    21A Mood

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    TAY

    30D When doubled, a pop nickname

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    AXEL

    48A Spin out on the ice?

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    ASEC

    47A Two shakes

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    LOOS

    36A Pub fixtures

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    UMASS

    38D Where Dr. J played college hoops, for short

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    IVEY

    41A Tony winner Judith

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    SITU

    50A In ___ (unmoved)

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    TREED

    13D Out on a limb, say

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    TVSET

    1A Hotel room staple

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    RESTED

    25A Not spent anymore

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    TRAPP

    1D Name on the playbill for the 1936 Salzburg Festival

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    MERYL

    44A She played Julia in 2009's "Julie & Julia"

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    FAIRS

    49A Reasons for some street closures

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    SETSIN

    37A Takes root

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    RAPSHEET

    25D Naughty list?

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    URGEON

    38A Incite

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    RANI

    46D Asian royal

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    SANTE

    12D "À votre ___!"

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    INNES

    52A "ER" actress Laura

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    AON

    48D Chicago's ___ Center, formerly known as the Amoco Building

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    ACNED

    17A Spotted, in a way

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    CUSACK

    26A Two-time Oscar nominee Joan

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    STANLEYCUP

    27D Vessel that hasn't crossed the Canadian border since 1993

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    UNENTERED

    32D Not yet explored, as a tomb

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    BIGDO

    55A Quite the party

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    MINISKIRTS

    6D Skimpy garments

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    ORGANTRANSPLANT

    34A Medical breakthrough of 1954 that yielded a Nobel Prize

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    SELFPITY

    22D Something to wallow in

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    VOCALCORD

    2D One of a singing duo?

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    VOCATION

    21D Calling

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    DONTWAITUPFORUS debut

    29A "We'll let ourselves in"

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    HUNTSVILLE debut

    28D The so-called "Rocket City" of the South

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    IDENTITYTHIEVES debut

    35A Masters of bad impersonations?

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    LAWNTOOL debut

    24D Spade, for one

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    MINKSTOLES debut

    10D Deluxe wraps?

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    RAVISHING debut

    31D Gorgeous

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    SUNLOUNGE debut

    3D Solarium

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