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Wednesday · 74 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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    ONE

    30A Answer to the riddle ending "How many are going to St. Ives?"

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    ARE

    9D Exist

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    YES

    59D "For sure!"

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    ONO

    19A Musician Yoko

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    EMO

    57D Angsty

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    TRI

    22A ___-color pasta

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    ART

    60A Singer Garfunkel

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    SAT

    56D Exam for college applicants

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    EWE

    32D Producer of milk for Roquefort cheese

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    AVE

    34D Street sign abbr.

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    OPERA

    15A "Don Giovanni" genre

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    TIN

    16A Container for sardines

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    LOT

    55A One to build on

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    OVAL

    51A Racetrack shape

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    ASK

    11A Request

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    PSI

    41D Tire inflation meas.

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    NAS

    10D Rapper Lil ___ X

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    RYE

    63A Deli bread option

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    CSI

    50A Inits. on a police forensic van

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    EIRE

    53D Ireland, to the Irish

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    LAS

    33D "___ Culturistas" (popular podcast)

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    OHO

    2D "Well, that's a surprise!"

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    EDENS

    65A Paradises

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    LATTE

    46D Milky coffee drink

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    SPED

    54D Hightailed it

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    CAP

    1D Upper limit

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    MATE

    4D Join

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    AHEAD

    14A Winning, for the moment

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    PETRI

    8D ___ dish

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    APU

    42A Kwik-E-Mart proprietor on "The Simpsons"

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    AMEND

    61A Update, as the Constitution

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    ROAM

    23D Wander

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    ATOLL

    11D Part of Micronesia

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    SINAI

    12D Mount associated with Moses

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    TEENS

    48D Many first-time smartphone owners

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    SOLAR

    44D Certain renewable energy

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    TCM

    22D Channel for old westerns

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    TAPE

    18D Wrap for an athlete's injury

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    NUTS

    38D McAuliffe's one-word reply to a German commander's demand of surrender

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    COMMA

    1A Clause separator

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    SLAW

    21A Alternative to fries, maybe

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    INSOLE

    26D Shoe part

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    COPE

    25D Deal (with)

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    SPOON

    7D With whom the dish ran away in "Hey Diddle Diddle"

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    ADIN

    5D Tennis score after deuce

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    IVORY

    45D Shade of off-white

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    MANET

    31A "Olympia" painter

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    CSPAN

    6A Channel showing committee hearings

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    COARSE

    27A Vulgar

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    TOPSY

    64A ___-turvy

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    LETUP

    40A Take one's foot off the gas

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    SENATOR

    20A One in a hundred

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    TUN

    58D Large cask

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    REVUE

    62A Vaudeville show

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    BESETS

    43A Attacks

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    BYRD

    43D Polar explorer Richard

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    NEAREST

    52A Like Mercury among all the planets vis-à-vis the sun

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    SLEEVES

    21D Things a vest lacks

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    CONTE

    6D Old French tale

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    UNREP

    47D General Assembly participant, for short

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    RECHALL

    28D Community center for games and activities

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    STRIPY

    29D Having streaks

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    POSTITNOTES

    17A In 1968, Spencer Silver at 3M Corporation was attempting to develop a superstrong adhesive ...

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    CHINESE

    39A Language in which "computer" is made up of the characters for "electric" and "brain"

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    ONUP

    37D "Movin' ___" ("The Jeffersons" theme song)

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    KNOWN

    13D Recognized

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    ELAPSED

    32A Ran out, as time

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    TANDY

    49D Jessica who won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy"

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    PENICILLIN

    24A In 1928, Alexander Fleming at St. Mary's Hospital in London found mold in his cultures of staphylococcus bacteria ...

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    SILLYPUTTY

    44A In 1943, James Wright at General Electric was attempting to develop synthetic rubber for the war effort ...

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    DETECTIVE

    35D Clue examiner

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    MESSIANIC debut

    3D Marked by a religious zeal

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    MICROWAVEOVEN debut

    36A In 1945, Percy Spencer at the Raytheon Manufacturing Company noticed the chocolate bar in his pocket had melted close to a magnetron ...

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    SERENDIPITY debut

    56A Happy chance, as illustrated by the four invention stories at 17-, 24-, 36- and 44-Across

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