← Fill Atlas

Thursday · 78 answers · 8 debuts

Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-02), then by uses across the whole archive.

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    ATE

    2D Verb that sounds like a number ... and is a letter backward

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    EAR

    25A Locale for a cochlea

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    SEE

    45D Go out with

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    NEO

    47A Prefix with soul or classical

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    SEA

    31A Kind of cucumber that isn't a vegetable

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    ETNA

    58A Mythical forge locale

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    SHE

    68D "There ___ Goes" (1988 hit by the La's)

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    EDIT

    42D Button added to Apple's Messages app in 2022

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    REN

    27D The Knights of ___, shadowy side group in "Star Wars"

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    ESE

    48A Spanish letter before te

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    STU

    30A ___ Holden, U.S. soccer player-turned-commentator

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    ETTA

    22D Singer James

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    OER

    36D Poetic contraction that omits a "v"

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    ENTER

    12D Return to a PC keyboard?

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    NED

    63D Subject of Homer's loathing on "The Simpsons"

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    AKIN

    59D Similar

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    TOO

    29A "You Come ___" (Robert Frost collection)

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    DAB

    1D Dollop

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    AGAR

    32D Food thickener

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    DEER

    21A Animal known for freezing under pressure

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    DRY

    28A Deadpan

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    ANYA

    39A Actress ___ Taylor-Joy

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    FOE

    66D One of "them"

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    AFEW

    41A Some

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    ASIF

    26D Cher's catchphrase in "Clueless"

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    ENOKI

    57D Skinny white mushroom

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    EWW

    54A "Get that away from me!"

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    OFAGE

    38D –

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    OBESE

    7D Overly big

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    STOW

    40D Stash

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    KID

    9D Josh

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    UNCLE

    53D Mr. Reed, to Jane Eyre

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    LOIN

    23D Selection at the butcher's

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    USED

    10D Put to work

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    STALE

    49D Far from fresh

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    MOVE

    6D "Outta my way!"

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    PIECE

    72A –

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    PRADA

    46A Eponymous Italian designer Mario

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    ACC

    67D Sports org. that now includes U.C. Berkeley and Stanford, strangely enough

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    ATONAL

    14A Like some experimental music

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    LEAPT

    15D Sprang (at)

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    ROM

    3D CD follower

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    BERG

    61D Floating mass

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    GENRE

    51D Mixing thematic elements and tropes … or a feature of this puzzle?

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    GIG

    50A One of many listed on the back of a tour shirt

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    AVI

    64D Bird-related prefix

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    WOMEN

    55D People celebrated worldwide on March 8

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    KNISH

    4D Potato turnover

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    STREETS

    56A Grid lines, perhaps

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    WAGS

    43D Jokesters

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    MATED

    11D Like some socks and chess players

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    TOUCHE

    20D "Nice one, you got me"

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    CEN

    8D One of 10 in a millennium: Abbr.

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    STATES

    19A They might be all over the map

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    BEMINE

    17A Valentine's Day sentiment

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    GSU

    51A Atlanta sch.

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    ELCHAPO

    22A Noted criminal extradited to the U.S. in 2017

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    SHEAF

    40A Bundle of paper or grain

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    EDKOCH

    70A 1980s New York mayor

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    OBTAIN

    60A Get

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    MYSTERY

    44A –

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    STIEB

    52D Dave ___, seven-time All-Star pitcher for the Blue Jays

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    VENDETTA

    18A More than a mere grudge

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    FANTASY

    5D –

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    OBEISANT

    16A Deferential

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    NICKNAME

    62A Second calling?

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    TIZZY

    33A Dither

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    LOOFAS

    65A Items that gather lather

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    MAYEST

    37D Might, to Shakespeare

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    ZAYN

    34D One-named singer who's a former member of One Direction

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    COMINGO debut

    35A "Lady Bird" and "Stand By Me"

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    COZYM debut

    24D "The Thursday Murder Club" and "A Killer Sundae"

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    DARKF debut

    1A "Interview With the Vampire" and "Prince of Thorns"

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    EBENDING debut

    71A –

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    MOCKUMEN debut

    6A "Borat" and "This Is Spinal Tap"

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    NTARY debut

    13D –

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    PERIODP debut

    46D "Downton Abbey" and "Shogun"

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    RELIEVER debut

    69A Person with the shift after a long one of yours

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