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Friday · 70 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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    ODE

    42A Pablo Neruda wrote one to a large tuna in the market

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    USE

    61D Milk

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    SSN

    39D Fig. that's often redacted

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    AIR

    29A 2023 film in which Michael Jordan is only shown from behind

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    ETAL

    1A Abbr. in a scholarly paper

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    ACT

    26A One of three in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead"

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    ARIA

    3D Performance that might elicit a "Brava!"

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    ESSO

    13D Aptly named descendant of Standard Oil

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    276
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    ATM

    26D Place to take notes

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    260
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    OMEN

    45D The sun emerging from the clouds at exactly the right time, say

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    257
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    EMU

    1D Rhea's relative

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    INN

    60D Stay there!

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    258
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    ABLE

    65A Willing partner

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    259
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    ETRE

    37D French 101 verb

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    241
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    DEN

    43A Where to watch the cubs

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    AAA

    57D Org. with towers

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    CAT

    10D Garfield, for one

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    REPO

    12D Certain seizure

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    146
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    PAN

    6D Certain film shot, or film reaction

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    125
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    SPAS

    5A Places with scrubs and masks

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    163
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    KOI

    59D Splash of orange in a Japanese pond

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    60
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    MOO

    20A Barn greeting

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    137
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    REA

    41A Mens ___

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    201
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    REIN

    64A It comes straight from the horse's mouth

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    147
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    SUR

    5D Lead-in to pass

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    MAO

    52A Subject of 199 silkscreen paintings by Warhol

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    141
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    TENOR

    28D Lin-Manuel Miranda, vocally

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    107
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    LAND

    16D Sighting from the crow's nest

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    69
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    TANG

    2D Sharpness

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    59
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    WIN

    19A Triumph

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    96
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    SER

    9D Spanish 101 verb

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    100
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    XES

    30A Check mark alternatives

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    65
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    ORGAN

    34D Lymph node, e.g.

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    62
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    SCORE

    9A Acquire, informally

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    47
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    GENES

    33D Pool contents

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    47
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    FOO

    49A Egg ___ yung

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    35
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    FIRM

    49D Like some handshakes and mattresses

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    LICIT

    4D Allowed

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    25
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    ODEA

    50D Ancient music halls

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    72
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    SOUL

    55D "'Hope' is the thing with feathers / That perches in the ___": Emily Dickinson

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    48
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    SIDLE

    23D Move like a crab

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    40
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    SPIES

    36D Masters of disguise

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    24
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    GAIA

    18A Goddess often depicted clothed in green

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    22
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    OVUM

    11D Largest cell in the human body

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    SATIE

    8D French composer who influenced Ravel and Debussy

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    43
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    LOBS

    53A Softballs

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    26
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    SKIED

    31D Came down after getting lifted up?

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    PALAU

    22D Micronesian nation

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    TATAR

    46D Member of the Golden Horde

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    OHMY

    51D "Jeepers!"

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    DEIST

    25D Many a founding father, religiously

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  52. 52
    BYOB

    54D Letters on an invite

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    29
  53. 53
    CHIT

    27D I.O.U.

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    ELLY

    47D 2024 M.L.B. All-Star ___ De La Cruz

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    NEWDO

    35D Hairstyle change

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    VIN

    58D Chablis, e.g.

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    39
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    EXPOS

    24D M.L.B. team that once drafted Tom Brady

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    MAYAN

    63A Like the ruins in Tulum

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    DOLMA

    48D Dish whose name is Turkish for "stuffed"

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    JOAO

    15D John, in Portuguese

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    MINERALDEPOSITS

    38A Veins, e.g.

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    TOPSEEDED

    21A #1 overall, say

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    ANSWEREDTONOONE

    7D Had carte blanche

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    IDHAVETOKILLYOU

    56A "Sorry, those secrets are *beyond* classified"

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    SNOTNOSED

    44A Young and inexperienced, so to speak

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    TONGUETWISTERS

    40A Harsh sentences?

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    2
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    MARIJUANALEAVES debut

    14A Common motifs in high art?

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    REMAINANONYMOUS debut

    62A Refuse to sign one's work, say

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    THEGOLDENSPIKE debut

    32A Symbol of America's first transcontinental railroad

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    UNICORNSTARTUPS debut

    17A Major success stories in the entrepreneurial world

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