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Saturday · 68 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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    LEE

    28A Robert Frost's middle name

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    NTH

    49A Utmost

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    ALT

    42A Not mainstream, as some music genres

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    TIN

    27A Cassiterite is a source of it

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    IHOP

    48D Blue-roofed restaurant

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    TOT

    55D One whose eyes are "all aglow" in "The Christmas Song"

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    RENT

    19A Musical set in Alphabet City

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    BAE

    20A Term of endearment appropriated from 9-Down

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    LOLA

    51A ___ Tung, star of cable TV's "The Summer I Turned Pretty"

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    LATTE

    4D Drink often sipped

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    ASHY

    47D Like some unmoisturized skin

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    APNEA

    38A Breathlessness

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    ARIEL

    23A Animated friend of Sebastian the crab

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    POI

    39A Polynesian staple

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    STEREO

    59A One might play at home

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    SERB

    33D Tesla, for one

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    ELOPE

    45D Skip the ceremony, say

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    FDR

    7D In brief, to whom Grover Cleveland once said "I am making a strange wish for you ... that you may never be president of the United States"

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    ETHAN

    29A ___ Allen Express, Amtrak train from New York City to Burlington, Vt.

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    LICE

    34D Affliction treated with a nit comb

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    FRET

    43A Fuss

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    TRIS

    25A Some arm muscles, informally

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    FRERE

    43D French relative

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    ASTRAL

    1D Kind of projection

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    WOMB

    6D Space to develop as a person?

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    IMHERE

    2D Call at a roll call

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    ISAYSO

    41D Declaration after "because"

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    AAVE

    9D Dialect that is responsible for a large majority of Gen Z slang

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    TROY

    30D ___ Story (punny nickname for the "Iliad")

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    AVES

    32D Scientific classification for birds

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    NAIAD

    31A Innermost moon of Neptune

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    YESAND

    13D Principle of improv comedy

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    TROD

    10D Put one's foot down

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    HUES

    50D Coral and sand, for two

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    MEANIE

    3D Big jerk

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    FEDORA

    22A Part of a Blues Brothers outfit

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    CALORIE

    36D ___ counter

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    SATBY

    37A Was on the sidelines

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    ONTRIAL

    12D Like defendants at court

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    OFLATE

    40D Recently

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    MOHAIR

    46A Angora fabric

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    PROPER

    39D Following etiquette

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    AIRHORN

    56A Musical sample added for excitement

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    RETYPED

    58A Entered again

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    SMEAGOL

    14A Tolkien ring bearer

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    THATSME

    17A Phrase you might say while pointing at a photograph

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    SAMBAR

    37D South Indian lentil stew

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    DND debut

    53D Popular role-playing game since 1974, informally

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    OGS

    5D Rap pioneers, slangily

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    REEFS

    8D School houses?

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    NEMEAN

    31D Like the lion killed by Hercules

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    NERFS

    44A Weakens, as an overly strong character, in video game lingo

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    NEOPETS

    57A Animals in an early-2000s virtual fad

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    AIMLOW

    1A Set unambitious goals

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    BOLOTIES

    11D Decorative items worn at Western galas

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    BRUSHED

    52A Did a bedtime task

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    FRATBOY

    7A One playing beerball, perhaps

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    REVOLTS

    18A Goes against the rule?

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    DEARONE

    16A Precious person

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    AUTOPAY

    54A Modern banking convenience

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    LETFLY

    24D Uncork, so to speak

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    BEFORETIMES debut

    35A Past, colloquially

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    BUTTHURT debut

    35D Acting like a sore loser, informally

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    CURLYBRACES debut

    36A Symbols used to group blocks of computer code

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    ERASERPEN debut

    21D Error correction tool

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    INSTANTTAN debut

    26D Body bronzer

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    LEATHERBAR debut

    15D Gay nightlife spot with a dress requirement

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    STRESSLEVEL debut

    33A Pressure gauge?

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