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Saturday · 70 answers · 8 debuts

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

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    STY

    65A Complete mess

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    343
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    IRA

    1D ___ Flatow, longtime host of public radio's "Science Friday"

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    SAD

    37D Sorry

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    236
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    RNA

    55D Transfer ___

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    322
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    AMI

    53A Someone with whom to share un peu de camaraderie

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    302
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    TAR

    41A Waterproofing substance

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    351
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    MET

    27A Location of the world's oldest surviving piano, with "the"

    25
    187
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    TAU

    58D Cross shape

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    169
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    EVA

    22A Actress Mendes of "Ghost Rider"

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    247
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    TATA

    63A "Later"

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    175
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    DEA

    5D Federal agcy. established during Nixon's presidency

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    124
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    INERT

    24D Like helium

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    149
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    ASOF

    16A Lead-in to a date

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    107
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    TUT

    33A Sound from a dental click

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    120
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    PAD

    61D Deceptively beef up

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    103
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    BOO

    48A Surprising outburst

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    101
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    TUG

    29D Water tower?

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    67
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    VISA

    35A Need for an international student, often

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    60
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    DEB

    5A Nickname that omits "-orah"

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    94
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    INSET

    28A Common map feature

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    94
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    OMENS

    32D Itchy ears and itchy hands, to the superstitious

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    78
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    REUP

    60A Go back for more

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    48
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    DEREK

    46A ___ and the Dominos, rock band behind "Layla" and "Bell Bottom Blues"

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    42
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    IBAR

    1A Support in construction

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    91
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    DORM

    56A Duke residence

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    59
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    LASE

    40A Lightly cut?

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    43
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    RULE

    12A Dominion

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    100
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    NOTRE

    30A French for "our"

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    ELY

    59D Cathedral city in Cambridgeshire

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    96
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    SUED

    66A Under legal threat, in a way

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    52
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    INEZ

    19A 20th-century activist ___ Milholland, dubbed a "Joan of Arc-like symbol of the suffrage movement"

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    46
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    TRIES

    34D Scoring plays in rugby

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    39
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    SCENT

    44A Trail of evidence

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    66
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    REFER

    4D Pass (to)

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    56
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    ROVES

    26D Meanders

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    18
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    RANTAT

    47D Go off on

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    12
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    ASHORE

    31A Washed up, perhaps

    3
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    ZAIRE

    20D Democratic Republic of the Congo, once

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    41
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    SCUD

    8A Move quickly with the wind, as clouds

    3
    37
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    SUDS

    64A They're in a lather

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    34
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    INKED

    39D Tatted up

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    33
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    SPOOF

    8D Send up

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    19
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    ACTIONITEM

    17A Post-meeting to-do

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    5
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    UPI

    10D Global news inits.

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    INSECT

    43A Walking stick, e.g.

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    19
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    MIB

    14D Film franchise that boosted sales of Ray-Ban sunglasses, for short

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    10
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    FORCED

    25A Like some entries and smiles

    2
    9
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    MENTALNOTE

    57A Unwritten reminder

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    5
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    EXAMPAPER

    13A On what to write one's final words?

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    3
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    JORTS

    52D Portmanteau pants

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    3
  51. 51
    EMAILSPAM debut

    23D Unwanted inbox filler

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    2
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    BORON

    54A B in chemistry class

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    21
  53. 53
    OHBOY

    21A "How exciting!"

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    21
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    PULSAR

    49A Celestial object producing a so-called "lighthouse effect" as it rotates

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    CANYON

    9D Locale for an echo

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    12
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    ISOMERS

    36A Molecules with the same chemical formula but different structures

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    11
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    TABARD

    45D Sleeveless medieval garment

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    8
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    GRIEVES

    38A Mourns

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    4
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    NEARFATAL

    62A Life-threatening

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    4
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    REBOOTS

    42D Many nostalgia-baiting TV shows

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    4
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    EXCONS

    6D Those whose time has come and gone?

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    3
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    ROLFS

    50D Massages deeply

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    3
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    ENGRAINS

    23A Firmly establishes, in one spelling

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    2
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    ALONGTHOSELINES debut

    3D "Similarly …"

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    1
  65. 65
    BASEJUMP debut

    51A Go off a cliff, maybe

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    1
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    BATHSET debut

    7D Bundle that might include soap and towels

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    1
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    BUSINESSACUMEN debut

    2D Know-how in negotiations, say

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    1
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    DETECTIVEBUREAU debut

    11D Base for cases

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    1
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    MADEASTOP debut

    18D Took five on the road

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    REVERSECOMMUTE debut

    15D Part of a living arrangement that avoids rush-hour traffic

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