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Thursday · 78 answers · 4 debuts

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

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    ASS

    46A Symbol of obstinacy

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    409
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    ARI

    33A Melber on MSNBC

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    378
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    SOS

    40D "Help wanted" sign?

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    251
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    TSAR

    56D Onetime Kremlin ruler

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    341
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    ETON

    59D College where 20 prime ministers were educated

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    282
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    ARTS

    47A ___ district, feature of many an urban area

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    222
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    OPS

    10D Missions, in brief

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    179
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    SKA

    18D ___ punk (hybrid music genre)

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    163
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    ESSO

    66A Name on Canadian pumps

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    276
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    GAS

    41D Hefty expense for an R.V. trip

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    218
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    ONIT

    37D "Sure thing, boss!"

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    147
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    ALSO

    5A "I wasn't finished …"

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    245
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    OPERA

    16A "La Forza del Destino," for one

    26
    247
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    IRIS

    29D Flower that gets its name from the Greek word for "rainbow"

    26
    225
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    ANO

    5D 12 meses

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    216
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    ODD

    53D Out of the ordinary

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    209
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    OER

    54A Atop, quaintly

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    248
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    IHOP

    2D Chain restaurant whose name sounds like something a rabbit might say?

    21
    110
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    ALAMO

    35A ___ Drafthouse (movie theater chain)

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    181
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    EERIE

    49D Like the feeling of déjà vu

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    260
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    CIA

    44A Org. with the sculpture "Kryptos" outside its headquarters

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    206
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    IAM

    63D First (and last) two words of "Green Eggs and Ham"

    19
    127
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    SIA

    23A Singer with the 2016 #1 hit "Cheap Thrills"

    17
    43
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    SEEN

    69A Word before a time stamp in direct messaging

    16
    170
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    TAD

    28D Bit

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    169
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    AGAR

    27D Food thickener

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    172
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    ALIEN

    21A Out of this world

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    180
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    LARA

    6D Dr. Zhivago's love

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    138
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    ANG

    31D Director Lee

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    117
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    NCAA

    65A Org. with conferences

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    164
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    NAPA

    15A Setting for the 2019 comedy "Wine Country"

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    112
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    AHOY

    14A Mate's call

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    108
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    LAG

    61D Fall behind

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    116
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    OASIS

    8D Fertile refuge

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    104
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    TINY

    28A Nickname for N.B.A. great Nate Archibald (he was actually 6'1")

    10
    64
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    ERNIE

    12D One of a pair of mismatched friends on "Sesame Street"

    9
    163
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    ORALB

    60A Big name in dental floss

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    55
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    COG

    32A Gear tooth

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    63
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    MEAT

    24A What Monday meals might lack

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    123
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    WAN

    30A Sickly-looking

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    85
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    RUSE

    58D Trick

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    77
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    MACS

    1D Raincoats, in England

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    67
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    SAGAS

    13D Long stories

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    50
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    TSE

    45A Lao-___

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    228
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    ASYET

    55A To date

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    72
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    TOGO

    52A Not for here

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    66
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    ROOFS

    48D They've got you covered

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    14
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    FINAL

    64A Course concluder

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    32
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    USING

    19A Drawing on

    3
    32
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    SEDGE

    67A Marsh plant

    3
    31
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    DEIST

    11D Voltaire or Leibniz, religiously speaking

    3
    30
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    CODES

    9A Does programming work

    3
    24
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    SYDNEY

    4D Largest city on the Tasman Sea

    3
    21
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    MICS

    1A They're checked before a show

    3
    9
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    GERM

    68A Starting point

    2
    52
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    COIF

    43A Elaborate hairstyle

    2
    31
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    STUDS

    42A Small earrings

    2
    23
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    AGREES

    47D Matches (with)

    2
    20
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    BRAND

    50D Apple or BlackBerry

    2
    20
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    DRDRE

    57A Rapper who founded Aftermath Entertainment

    2
    19
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    SPUNK

    20A Moxie

    2
    17
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    HUTU

    39D Native Rwandan

    2
    13
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    SPELUNK

    7D Go caving

    2
    11
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    DISHING

    38A Big bash

    2
    3
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    INSIDEOUT

    62A Pixar film whose title suggests how to read five answers in this puzzle

    2
    3
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    KIDSTABLE

    34D No place for fine china

    2
    2
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    KINK

    34A Tight curl

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    14
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    EYING

    51D Looking over

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    13
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    CADENCE

    43D Pace

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    9
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    COLDSORES

    17A Past issues to settle

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    3
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    ESCAPIST

    22D Like many romance novels

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    3
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    REBUTTED

    48A Like much movie theater popcorn

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    3
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    SPARING

    40A Breaking down grammatically

    1
    3
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    COLUMNIST

    3D Important post at the Post

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    2
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    COUNTOLAF debut

    9D "A Series of Unfortunate Events" villain

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    1
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    MICRODOSE debut

    36D Small amount of LSD, e.g.

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    1
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    TWINSETS debut

    25D Matching pullover-and-cardigan pairs

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    1
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    USSTATES debut

    26A Places in the pecking order

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