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Monday · 78 answers · 2 debuts

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

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    ALE

    46A Draft pick?

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    570
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    SPA

    39A Spot for a massage

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    475
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    ALA

    40D In the style of

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    END

    47D Finale

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    447
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    TSA

    67D Airport screening grp.

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    ALI

    25A Comedian Wong

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    EPEE

    44A Sporting blade

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    343
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    ACRE

    63D Surveyor's measure

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    328
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    LED

    38A Held the reins

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    222
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    TIN

    43A Element used in bronze

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    SLED

    73A Winter coaster

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    AHEM

    71A "Excuse me …"

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    UCLA

    57D The N.C.A.A.'s Bruins

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    ILL

    22D Springfield is its capital: Abbr.

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    EEK

    54A Apt rhyme for "shriek"

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    IMIN

    2D "Sign me up!"

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    86
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    TRUE

    11D Factual

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    150
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    NOAH

    58D Biblical ark builder

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    KALE

    59D Dark leafy green

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    91
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    OMAR

    14A Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan

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    GEM

    51D Jewel

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    MORE

    70A A second helping, say

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    TINE

    60D Fork prong

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    99
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    AUDI

    19A Luxury auto whose logo is four overlapping rings

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    111
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    URNS

    16A Big coffee containers

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    108
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    AREPA

    27D South American flatbread

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    10
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    UNSEE

    69A "I wish I could ___ that!"

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    10
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    RTES

    8D Google Maps options: Abbr.

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    INDY

    12D Where the N.F.L.'s Colts play, informally

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    60
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    QTIP

    10A Branded cotton swab

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    44
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    UPC

    7D ___ code (what most product packages have)

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    43
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    CASTS

    26A Projects, as a shadow

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    38
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    CALEB

    26D Biblical spy for Moses

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    36
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    OKED

    64D Gave a thumbs-up

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    36
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    CHANT

    5D "U-S-A! U-S-A! …," e.g.

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    PSIS

    13D Letters before omegas

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    GOTO

    1D ___ Jail (space on a Monopoly board)

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    48
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    ALGORE

    42D Former vice president who won a Nobel Peace Prize

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    44
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    WRIST

    32D Spot to find a pulse

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    27
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    GIFT

    1A Package under a Christmas tree

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    23
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    NINTH

    33D Final inning, typically

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    23
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    GIRTH

    53A Midsection measurement

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    15
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    LALA

    68A In ___ land (daydreaming)

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    COOL

    62D Chilly

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    OUTER

    31D Word before space or Mongolia

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    FANG

    3D Vampire's tooth

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    34
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    VII

    36A X minus III, in old Rome

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    31
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    YURI

    37A Cosmonaut Gagarin

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    31
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    GEARS

    72A Things shifted on a bicycle or in a car

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    29
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    SIDEB

    28D Lesser-played part of a 45

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    29
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    USTED

    23A Formal "you," in Spanish

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    14
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    AIS

    30D ChatGPT and Google Gemini, for two

    3
    18
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    CHURN

    5A Old-fashioned butter maker

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    17
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    HIPTO

    15A In on, as a trend

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    COAX

    65A Gently persuade

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    ELDEST

    48A Firstborn

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    ARISES

    34A Comes to light

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    DMV

    24D Org. with notoriously long lines

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    17
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    CURACAO

    61A Caribbean island with a liqueur named for it

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    10
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    DISSES

    18D Insults

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    8
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    HINGES

    6D Movable joints on a door

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    4
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    SMALLTOWN

    29A 1985 song by John Cougar Mellencamp

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    3
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    SZA

    41A R&B singer whose album "SOS" spent 100+ weeks in the Billboard top 10

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    3
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    BABYGRAND

    50A 1987 song by Billy Joel and Ray Charles

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    2
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    DOJOS

    55A Martial arts studios

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    16
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    EYEEXAM

    45D Test taken at the 24-Down

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    9
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    JULES

    56D Novelist Verne

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    9
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    UNKEMPT

    57A Disheveled

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    9
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    SMILEYS

    21A :), ;), :D and others

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    8
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    ONGOING

    20A In progress

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    DISARMS

    49D Wins over with charm

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    TRYOUTS

    4D Auditions

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    QUALITY

    10D Counterpart of quantity

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    LITTLEROCK

    66A Capital of Arkansas … or a description of 17-, 29- and 50-Across?

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    3
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    TINYDANCER

    17A 1972 song by Elton John

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    3
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    SPARKPLUG

    35D Device for starting an engine

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    DOCTER debut

    52D Pete who directed "Up," "Inside Out" and "Soul"

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    NORMALIZE debut

    9D Bring into the mainstream

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