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Friday · 72 answers · 5 debuts

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

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    ONE

    8D Horizontal line, in Chinese writing

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    ERAS

    34A Industrial Revolution and others

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    ETS

    31A Saucer contents, in brief

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    OGRE

    26D Fantasy creature

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    ENDS

    56A Split things, sometimes

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    303
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    ARM

    4D Ready to fight

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    ALTO

    23A Midrange performer

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    290
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    ATLAS

    11D It shows the lay of the land

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    NEED

    25D It's a must

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    DEN

    37A Cubby hole?

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    ABET

    2D Provide crooked support for

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    ARES

    23D Father of Phobos and Deimos

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    OTIS

    50A 2011 hit by Jay-Z and Kanye West that samples a 1966 soul performance

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    ALAMO

    30A Budget alternative

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    181
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    SOB

    47A Blubber

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    149
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    IPO

    6A Exchange letters

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    133
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    SEGA

    46A Company behind Sonic the Hedgehog

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    118
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    TOO

    53D Adverb much used by Goldilocks

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    189
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    STOP

    46D Point on a bus route

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    SLAT

    33D Louver

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    EGRET

    29A Buff marsh resident

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    RIOT

    36D Hoot

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    OLGA

    48D ___ Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature

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    NOTE

    16A Hint

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    OOH

    52D "How gorgeous!"

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    RAIL

    36A Fulminate

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    STUN

    47D Floor

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    EBAY

    9A Venue for the sale of the town of Buford, Wyo., in 2012 (price: $900,000)

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    TOTE

    45D Schlep

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    SALAD

    1A Introductory course

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    101
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    EAGLE

    42D Quarter back?

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    AMORAL

    21A Unprincipled

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    ANITA

    14D Borg who co-founded the Institute for Women in Technology

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    140
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    TILE

    54A Bit of a subway station wall

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    114
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    SONAR

    58A Ping maker

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    YELL

    12D Big whoop

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    IRISES

    41D Blooms for van Gogh

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    41
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    SUSS

    1D Work (out)

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    25
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    CALL

    18A ___ option

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    46
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    LEAR

    3D Shakespearean counterpart to Logan on "Succession"

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    107
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    HART

    44A Actress Melissa Joan ___

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    44
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    ENCORE

    9D "More!"

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    48
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    BRAN

    38D Milling byproduct

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    63
  44. 44
    SLANT

    28D Way of looking at things

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    PINS

    20A Affixes, in a way

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    33
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    SATIN

    43D Smooth kind of finish

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    PITS

    7D Worst possible circumstances, with "the"

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    32
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    MAKO

    22D Speedy shark

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    22
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    BRAVE

    35A First Pixar film with a female protagonist

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    20
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    BEHR

    49D Big name in paint

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    6
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    TIKI

    32D ___ bar

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    54
  52. 52
    SCRAPE

    43A Pickle

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  53. 53
    HPS

    57A Some printer purchases, for short

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    11
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    SEAMONSTER

    17A Jörmungandr, in Norse mythology

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    6
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    GOODENOUGH

    55A "That'll do"

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    STR

    19A Narrow passage: Abbr.

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    SITKA

    39A First capital of Alaska

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    19
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    TAHINI

    45A Sauce made of seeds

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    SHARDS

    24A Shattering results

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    DROPLET

    5D Bead

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    NOGREATSHAKES

    25A So-so at best

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    BEANE

    38A Playwright/screenwriter Douglas Carter ___

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    3
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    SPRAINS

    39D Unfortunate twists

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    BEEPING

    35D Alarm sound option on a smartphone

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    DIRECTDEPOSIT

    40A One method of payment

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    GRANDCHILD

    27D Relative minor?

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    ITSNOTARACE

    6D "Take your time!"

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    BOARDSEATS debut

    10D Positions of governance

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    GRAHAME debut

    15D Kenneth who wrote "The Wind in the Willows"

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    NOTALITTLE debut

    51A Very

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    SHAVEDHEADS debut

    24D Features of some monks and punks

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    UBERRATING debut

    13A What you might get after being taken for a ride

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