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Friday · 66 answers · 3 debuts

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

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    ERA

    26A Gain competitor

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    ETA

    20D H, to the Hellenes

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    ALE

    54D It's off limits if you 59-Across

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    SAT

    31A Planted oneself

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    LED

    6D Was up

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    RED

    41D First color that babies can see, after black and white

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    RAE

    35A Issa of "Insecure"

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    ADA

    7D Pioneering mathematician Lovelace

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    ARLO

    40A 1968 live folk album

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    TIARA

    51A Word derived from the Greek for "headdress of Persian kings"

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    STEW

    58A Brood

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    ITO

    36A Spanish diminutive suffix

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    MAE

    55D West who said "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it"

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    LOO

    24A Brit's "bog"

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    HOT

    53D Sizzling

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    NOAH

    9A Noted doomsday prepper

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    LAM

    39A Illicit decampment

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    DISC

    1D Region of a plane bounded by a circle, in geometry

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    EBAY

    25A Global auction house

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    PIT

    8D Center of a drupe

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    OCTET

    2D Scorpion's legs, e.g.

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    CTRL

    50D One of three keys to a PC reboot

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    TAROT

    21A Deal with The Devil?

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    SANAA

    47D World capital next to the Sarawat Mountains

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    CELEB

    18A Attention magnet, say

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    IDLES

    45A Slacks off

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    DOO

    42A When repeated, something often said to be "deep"

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    NOUNS

    9D Meat and potatoes, e.g.

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    OUTTA

    17A Weird Al Yankovic's "Straight ___ Lynwood"

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    ALDI

    33D German-based supermarket with about 2,500 stores in the U.S.

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    ANNAL

    40D Log

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    TOOK

    22D Stole

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    NOCANDO

    48A "Your request is denied"

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    EMEET

    46D Become acquainted virtually

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    PAULA

    3D Abdul with the #1 albums "Forever Your Girl" and "Spellbound"

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    BOCCE

    15A Game played on a grass or dirt court

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    CAREW

    44D Eponym of the A.L. batting title award

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    BOGEY

    15D Solving Wordle in five guesses, colloquially

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    ACTNORMAL

    11D "Don't attract attention to yourself"

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    SUMAC

    49A Shrub with a "staghorn" variety

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    DMV

    30A Org. that may allow religious headwear in pictures

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    LEANTOS

    23D Rough digs

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    AHAMOMENT

    52A Flash point?

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    ICALLEDIT

    13A Prognosticator's shout

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    ELDERLY

    4D Getting on

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    POLARBEAR

    57A One that can put a meal on ice

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    STUDYDATE

    16A Occasion to brush up together?

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    ATELOCAL

    37A Reduced demand for refrigerated trucking, in a way

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    ENGEL

    56A Heavenly figure, in German

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    TEETOTAL

    59A Abstain ... as suggested by the black squares in this puzzle

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    HEATWAVE

    12D When squirrels may thermoregulate by splooting

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    ATOMICAGE

    28D Period satirized in "Dr. Strangelove"

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    COLUMBO

    38D 1970s "howcatchem" TV series

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    DAYTODAY

    27A How one lives in the face of an inscrutable future

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    DIALSOAP

    29D Antibacterial product introduced in 1948

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    LATESHOW

    23A TV program with its time of day in its name

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    GOODSORT

    34D Friendly, respectful person

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    OCTAHEDRA

    10D D8 pieces in Dungeons & Dragons, e.g.

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    DATAPOINT

    27D One of many in a trend line

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    DOPESLAP

    1A Whack to the head, in slang

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    EPICNESS

    43A Sheer quantity of awesome

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    SILENTES

    31D "Sometimes" has two of them

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    TERABYTE

    14D Extra-large storage unit

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    REGNANT debut

    19A Like Queen Elizabeth, but not Queen Camilla

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    SKINTAG debut

    32A Harmless growth

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    SLYBOOTS debut

    5D Shifty type

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