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Saturday · 70 answers · 12 debuts

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

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    ERE

    54D Short palindrome in the middle of a famous longer one

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    NET

    3D Losing athlete in the 2002 and 2003 N.B.A. Finals

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    LET

    22A Returner's call

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    SOS

    50D This means trouble

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    TOE

    7D Oft-kissed part of the statue of St. Peter in Vatican City

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    OPT

    19A No longer waffle

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    SAP

    52D Woodpecker's fare

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    URLS

    28A Lines in bars

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    EPI

    2D Lead-in to -gram

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    ALMA

    18A Austrian composer Mahler

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    PBS

    46A Its first airing was "The French Chef" with Julia Child

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    ROB

    39A Apt name for a thief

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    BOT

    1D X follower, perhaps

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    53
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    NORI

    27D Japanese food that's a good source of what it spells backward

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    46
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    ECIG

    35D Pen for a hit

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    REBA

    41A First name in country

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    BRR

    48A Exclamation with a shake

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    REFS

    29D Some who whistle while they work

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    TUBA

    36D Latin for "trumpet"

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    CIO

    31A Certain tech exec

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    RITE

    29A Confirmation, for one

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    RUT

    53D Bad place to be stuck

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    CLEO

    56A Last ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, familiarly

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    TATS

    58A What some people display after getting stuck?

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    MARA

    42A Rooney of "Women Talking"

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    ETD

    55D Track stat

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    ENACTS

    37A Adds to the code, say

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    SHUT

    6D Turned (off)

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    52
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    BANS

    48D Blue laws, e.g.

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    MYNA

    33D Noisy Asian bird

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    26
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    APA

    11D Shrinks' org.

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    POOH

    16A Character who says "I am short, fat and proud of that"

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    ASTUTE

    9D Not born yesterday, so to speak

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    WRITE

    45D Form letters?

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    PRTEAM

    32D Comms group

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    5
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    WEEDS

    10D Bed hogs, at times

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    IUDS

    20A Pill alternatives, in brief

    3
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    RUNINTERFERENCE debut

    8D Shield, with "for"

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    3
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    LOGAN

    30A Mount ___, Canada's highest peak

    2
    24
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    REMOTE

    41D Like many on a Zoom call

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    19
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    MORESO

    33A All the greater

    2
    17
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    WADED

    45A Slogged (through)

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    FUND

    38A Stake

    2
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    DROOLS

    4D Runs off at the mouth?

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    11
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    OPERAHOUSE

    15A Madrid's Teatro Real, for one

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    NOBLY

    23A À la king?

    2
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    SILOED

    21D Isolated

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    6
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    BENDYSTRAW debut

    1A Shifty little sucker?

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    2
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    ACCT

    11A C.D., e.g.: Abbr.

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    59
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    ANGIE

    40A "The Hate U Give" author Thomas

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    PEKE

    32A Chinese dog breed, for short

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    AUKS

    49A Black-and-white divers

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    MARTHA

    42D Vineyard eponym

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    NOBID

    44D Like a sole-source contract

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    5
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    TITOPUENTE

    17A The "King of Mambo"

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    4
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    ITCANTHURT

    57A "Worth a shot"

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    3
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    MOME

    47A "And the ___ raths outgrabe" ("Jabberwocky" line)

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    3
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    BLOWAGASKET

    25D Go ballistic

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    2
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    BONSAITREE

    51A It's a little shady

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    DEEPSEATED

    59A Far below the surface

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    AIKO debut

    26D Jhené ___, Grammy-nominated R&B singer

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    ANTSINESS debut

    26A Reason for foot-tapping

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    COLLEGEGRAD debut

    12D One who's made it to some degree?

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    COMESASHORE debut

    13D Lands

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    LOWERFORTYEIGHT debut

    34A Alabama is in it, but Alaska is not

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    NUCLEARPACT debut

    23D SALT, but not PEPPER

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    1
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    ORIONNEBULA debut

    24D Star-forming region nearest to Earth

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    1
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    REAGANERA debut

    43A Most of the 1980s

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    1
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    THATSNOTBAD debut

    14D "I kinda like it!"

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    YAPPY debut

    5D Like a noisy toy

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