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Thursday · 74 answers · 4 debuts

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

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    ODE

    48D Uplifting work

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    523
  2. 2
    ARE

    31A Is for the people?

    56
    533
  3. 3
    EST

    69A Times Square ball drop setting, in brief

    55
    428
  4. 4
    ALI

    15A Whom Will Smith played in a 2001 sports biopic

    49
    518
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    ELM

    19D West ___ (furniture retailer)

    30
    240
  6. 6
    ORS

    20A Places to carry out some takeout orders, for short?

    25
    161
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    ARES

    16A Son of Zeus and Hera

    21
    271
  8. 8
    AERO

    50A Lead-in to -nautics

    20
    269
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    MAC

    35D Big thing in fast food?

    19
    133
  10. 10
    MAE

    22D Trailblazing astronaut Jemison

    18
    181
  11. 11
    HAD

    44A Past-tense verb that's potentially confusing (but grammatically correct!) when written twice in a row

    18
    114
  12. 12
    LEAST

    23A "Not in the ___!"

    17
    83
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    CIS

    9D Modern prefix with normativity

    16
    48
  14. 14
    LAV

    4D W.C.

    12
    63
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    IKE

    62D President posthumously inducted in the World Golf Hall of Fame, informally

    11
    181
  16. 16
    MAD

    64D Crackpot

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    126
  17. 17
    EPSOM

    47A ___ salt (form of magnesium sulfate)

    11
    72
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    OASIS

    25D Refuge from the heat

    10
    104
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    PACT

    10A Covenant

    10
    79
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    LISP

    32A Daffy Duck speaking feature

    10
    68
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    LGBT

    59D Community associated with Out magazine

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    37
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    GAL

    54D ___ pal

    9
    124
  23. 23
    CREE

    38D Language that gave us "Saskatchewan"

    9
    105
  24. 24
    SIM

    60A Video game character speaking a gibberish language

    9
    58
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    STEEL

    56D Source of Andrew Carnegie's wealth

    8
    93
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    CLEF

    42A Sheet music symbol

    8
    56
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    PALEO

    10D Dairy-less diet

    8
    39
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    BBC

    7A Original airer of "Doctor Who"

    7
    76
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    TSETSE

    13D Tswana for "fly"

    6
    113
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    SEPIA

    29A Old tone

    6
    74
  31. 31
    INES

    65A ___ Mendoza, former first lady of Puerto Rico

    6
    39
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    ARIANA

    11D Singer Grande

    6
    27
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    ECLAT

    36D Splendor

    5
    113
  34. 34
    ATILT

    5D Not quite straight up

    5
    77
  35. 35
    SYRIA

    41A Country that was home to the Ebla library, thought to be the world's first (2500 B.C.)

    5
    51
  36. 36
    PLEAS

    30D Calls for sympathy

    5
    30
  37. 37
    AVEENO

    45D Skin-care brand

    5
    18
  38. 38
    PRY

    33D Snoop

    4
    68
  39. 39
    NOISY

    53D Racket-raising

    4
    25
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    ABSORB

    1D Soak up

    4
    19
  41. 41
    BABE

    7D Film based on the 1983 children's novel "The Sheep-Pig"

    3
    67
  42. 42
    IAMB

    27D It's one foot long

    3
    59
  43. 43
    GENOA

    57A Columbus's birthplace

    3
    50
  44. 44
    KGB

    66A Onetime C.I.A. foe

    3
    38
  45. 45
    DORY

    68A Title friend of Marlin in an animated film

    3
    28
  46. 46
    ELDERS

    70A Revered sorts

    3
    28
  47. 47
    LEMME

    34A "I wanna!"

    3
    18
  48. 48
    CENSOR

    12D Turn into stars, say?

    3
    13
  49. 49
    RETRIAL

    2D Outcome of a hung jury

    3
    8
  50. 50
    BERATE

    14A Give a lashing

    2
    21
  51. 51
    LUMEN

    21A Light unit

    2
    16
  52. 52
    AVENGER

    52A *Carve out, in a way

    2
    15
  53. 53
    FEMALE

    63A Like does

    2
    13
  54. 54
    RICOTTA

    24A *It's "read" as a stern warning

    2
    13
  55. 55
    ARTLAB

    1A Schoolroom that serves as a studio

    2
    7
  56. 56
    BEAUTS

    6D Gorgeous ones, informally

    2
    5
  57. 57
    KIMONOS

    26A *Relative of a snowboard

    2
    5
  58. 58
    TRESCHIC

    3D "How stylish!"

    2
    5
  59. 59
    STEVIA

    17A Sweetener in some diet sodas

    2
    4
  60. 60
    HAGRID

    44D Who says "You're a wizard, Harry"

    2
    3
  61. 61
    BAHA

    28A ___ Men (group that won a Grammy Award in 2001 for Best Dance Recording)

    1
    15
  62. 62
    ONMEDS

    51D Popping pills, say

    1
    11
  63. 63
    DENVER

    46D City that lends its name to a style of omelet

    1
    9
  64. 64
    ILEFT

    58A "___ My Heart in San Francisco"

    1
    9
  65. 65
    DUSTPAN

    55A *Comedy club fare

    1
    7
  66. 66
    FRAILER

    43D More delicate and weak

    1
    5
  67. 67
    KEEPSAKE

    40D Memento

    1
    4
  68. 68
    BASELINE

    18A *Cat breed named after an Indonesian island from which it didn't originate

    1
    3
  69. 69
    LEAKED

    67A Like government secrets, occasionally

    1
    3
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    MUFFLE

    49D Quiet

    1
    2
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    BLANKIES debut

    8D Some comforters for toddlers

    1
    1
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    CIRCLESBACK debut

    37A Brings up a prior topic … or a hint to making sense of the answers to this puzzle's starred clues

    1
    1
  73. 73
    LIPRINGS debut

    39D Piercings that might be felt while kissing

    1
    1
  74. 74
    REVILING debut

    61A *Villain's expression

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    1