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Sunday · 140 answers · 11 debuts

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

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    ACE

    27A Do perfectly

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    END

    57D Close

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    447
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    ERR

    10D Forget to finish writing a clue, mayb

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    IRE

    62A Boiling state

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    ONO

    63A Author of the 1964 artist's book "Grapefruit"

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    IRA

    40A Lyricist Gershwin

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    448
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    RIO

    66A Home of the Sugarloaf Cable Car, informally

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    315
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    AIR

    53A Word with lock or pocket

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    ISLE

    79D Barbuda or Barbados

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    316
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    ARTS

    51A Newspaper section

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    ONES

    89A 11, literally

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    UTE

    87A Beehive State athlete

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    SPY

    11A Plant with bugs?

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    177
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    ANNE

    50A ___ of Cleves, wife of Henry VIII

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    283
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    GEL

    88A Coalesce

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    AHI

    52A Tuna variety

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    ATL

    98A Delta hub: Abbr.

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    TAO

    107D Confucian concept

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    ELSA

    101D "Lohengrin" soprano

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    EDIE

    32D Marriage equality activist Windsor, familiarly

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    190
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    PEN

    8D Pig's digs

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    HAS

    44A "Everything ___ Changed" (Taylor Swift song)

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    175
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    CAN

    65A When doubled, a dance

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    MAT

    39A Spot for a pin

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    IBET

    75A "Uh-huh, whatever you say!"

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    CIS

    105D Gender identity prefix

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    48
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    TSP

    84A 1/96 of a pint: Abbr.

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    154
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    ATRIA

    41A Halls that may have glass ceilings

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    HON

    113A Sweetie

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    SHH

    104D "Quiet!"

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    LEA

    9D Locale where clovers bloom

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    ORATE

    22A Give an address

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    TESS

    84D Ocean in "Ocean's Eleven"

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    LEIA

    3D Leader of filmdom's Rebel Alliance

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    ISM

    73A Philosophy

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    ESSAY

    111A Many a piece of writing by Joan Didion

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    HOSE

    100D Rip off

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    PLOT

    45A Scheme

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    PALS

    83A Mates

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    HIS

    29A What's-___-name

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    MASH

    64D "Monster ___" (1962 #1 song)

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    ULTA

    95D ___ Beauty

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    17
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    RAID

    38A Unwanted event at a speakeasy

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    95
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    YTD

    13D Since Jan. 1

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    PDAS

    28D PalmPilots, e.g., for short

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    HIP

    106D With it

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    IOTAS

    70D Soupçons

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    APPLE

    6A Tech giant based in Cupertino, Calif.

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    MPH

    72A Radar gun inits.

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    COW

    96A Intimidate

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    TANK

    99D Fail ignominiously, as at the box office

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    49
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    HAIR

    44D What locks are made of

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    90
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    LOIN

    74A It may be on the chopping block

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    TWIN

    24D Scarlett Johansson, Rami Malek or Vin Diesel (did you know?)

    7
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    POOR

    80D Shoddy

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    CHUM

    2D Fish bait

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    MOPE

    90D Have a pity party

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    45
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    SYS

    108D Part of iOS: Abbr.

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    OUNCE

    103A Smidgen

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    BOAR

    21D Creature that sounds like a snooze

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    PARR

    45D Catherine ___, wife of Henry VIII

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    HIGH

    31D Like some heels and hopes

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    RECUR

    86A Happen over and over

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    CASTS

    49A Collectors of signatures?

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    COPSE

    96D Small wood

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    ECLAT

    1A Dazzling display

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    PURR

    7D Sound of a smooth-running engine

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    ESQ

    1D Lawyer's title: Abbr.

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    IMAY

    33D "Perhaps. That's something that interests me"

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    MAIDEN

    34A Inaugural

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    WIMP

    69D Fraidy-cat

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    EXCEL

    92D Google Sheets alternative

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    FLAN

    102D Custardy treat

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    CACAO

    93D Supply at the Hershey Company

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    SAUCE

    11D Secret ___

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    BITTE

    25A Viennese "please"

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    PESTER

    28A Hound or dog

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    21
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    SOAPS

    55D Many long-running TV shows

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    PUNS

    81D Most dad jokes

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    SCRUM

    14A Formation of rugby players

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    USTED

    109A Formal "you," in Uruguay

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    SPOKE

    114A Part of a wheel

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    UTTERROT

    17D Complete nonsense

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    ARABICA

    59D Most common coffee bean variety

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    ALASNO

    53D "Unfortunately, that's incorrect"

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    RIOTS

    38D Hoots

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    MONEY

    64A Legal tender

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    CRISP

    15D Potato chip, to a Brit

    3
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    WEANS

    115A Detaches from a source of dependence

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    ABCD

    4D Options on some tests

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    BMWS

    68D i5 and X5

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    SKEWS

    76A Distorts

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    WHEY

    48D Protein powder ingredient

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    WANTS

    30D Wish list items

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    WINGIT

    42A Improvise

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    12
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    MALARIA

    34D Disease that was the subject of the second Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1902)

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    TOTTERS

    61D Walks unsteadily

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    MEDAYS

    90A Occasions for self-indulgence

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    SHEBA

    19A Queendom in the Bible

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    ACTION

    58D Director's directive

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    AQUAS

    6D Blue-green shades

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    SOBEIT

    14D "C'est la vie"

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    TRADES

    43D Lines of work

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    PINED

    12D Felt longing (for)

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    TOUCAN

    85A It comes with a hefty bill

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    ATONERS

    35D Yom Kippur observers, e.g.

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    ITSAFACT

    70A "Really! Check for yourself!"

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    IBEXES

    97A Wild goats of the Alps

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    LOOKTHEOTHERWAY

    46A Tolerate misbehavior … or what's found in 56-Across?

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    MEERKATS

    18D Small mongooses

    2
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    TOPCHEF debut

    99A Reality competition show with quickfire challenges

    2
    2
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    LYCEE

    74D School before l'université

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    GREEDY

    88D Like King Midas, notably

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    IRONIES

    36D Amusingly incongruous outcomes

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    DIKES

    37D Flood preventers

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    CIGNA

    49D Aetna alternative

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    FORMAT

    56D Word processing selection

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    FILED

    71D Organized in a cabinet, say

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    SHYLY

    112A In a bashful manner

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    OTOWN

    94D City near Disney World, informally

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    ELEVENTY

    78D 110, facetiously

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    MADEWAR

    26A Attacked

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    RATTAILS

    16D Coiffure parts that are sometimes braided

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    REISSUES

    54A Second printings, e.g.

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    HAUNCH

    47D Horse's behind

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    HAWAIIANS

    110A Americans who live in their own time zone

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    NICEGUY

    60D Love interest in a Hallmark movie, maybe

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    SCOTCHTAPEROLLS

    104A Gift-wrapping supplies

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    WEREOK

    42D "Don't worry about us"

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    WHEREDIDIPARK

    30A Question when leaving a grocery store, perhaps

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    ASSBACKWARDS debut

    67A Totally the wrong way … or what's found in 79-Across?

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    BREWCREW debut

    82D Nickname for Milwaukee's baseball team

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    1
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    FEDERALGRANT debut

    56A Source of some public funding

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    IMHAPPYTOOBLIGE debut

    79A "It'd be my pleasure"

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    KATEBUSH debut

    77D Singer whose 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” became a top 10 hit in 2022 after being featured on “Stranger Things”

    1
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    QUEERBAIT debut

    20A Hint at L.G.B.T.Q.+ story lines to generate buzz

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    1
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    QUICKTURNAROUND debut

    23A What a tight deadline might require … or what's found in 30-Across?

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    REVERSECOURSE debut

    91A Completely change one's position … or what's found in 104-Across?

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    SPURIOUS debut

    76D Not to be relied upon

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    TAKEHEAT debut

    5D Receive severe criticism

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