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Friday · 70 answers · 4 debuts

Ordered by uses in the last three years (since 2023-11-02), then by uses across the whole archive.

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    ERA

    45A History unit

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    ASS

    28D Nincompoop

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    EEL

    46A One that's hard to catch

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    NET

    56A Backup for a trapeze artist

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    EKE

    52D Squeeze (out)

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    ATM

    11D C-store offering

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    IDLE

    4D Wait for a passenger, perhaps

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    NEE

    21A French word in the middle of a name

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    MET

    17D Linked up with

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    AGRA

    24A Site with a monument that gets around 7 million ticketed visitors a year

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    NES

    35D Legend of Zelda console inits.

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    TIP

    53D Q follower

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    ARES

    50A Foe of Wonder Woman

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    SNIT

    47D Mini-tantrum

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    LAB

    10A Place with flasks and alcohol

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    DECO

    48D Empire State Building's style, informally

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    NYT

    44D Big Apple media inits.

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    RENE

    19A Philosopher Descartes

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    AMMO

    50D Snowballs, sometimes

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    BAT

    23A The flying fox is a type of one

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    BOSS

    27D Big cheese

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    NAV

    44A Sat ___ (GPS, to Brits)

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    IVAN

    43A Anora's husband in "Anora"

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    IRK

    22A Annoy

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    FIRE

    29D Awesome, in slang

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    55
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    LEEK

    31D Key ingredient in Bridget's blue soup, in "Bridget Jones's Diary"

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    OKIE

    7D "___ From Muskogee" (Merle Haggard song)

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    FISH

    39A Remove, as from a cluttered container, with "out"

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    QUO

    5D Status ___

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    NOTOK

    38A Unacceptable

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    SHAH

    40A Title derived from the Persian for "king"

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    BALM

    27A Topical application

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    ELITES

    36A Privileged groups

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    OTRO

    14A "___ Atardecer," Bad Bunny song whose name means "Another Sunset"

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    DESERT

    37A Hot spot

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    SALS

    49D Pizza shop in "Do the Right Thing"

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    NOLOSE

    30A Win-win

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    NUMERO

    2D Once, e.g.

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    ARENTI

    41D "That's true about me, right?"

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    TIKI

    54A ___ bar

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    ATARIS

    1D Pop-punk band named after a video game company, with "The"

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    DENIES

    33D Ixnays

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    HASTEN

    42D Expedite

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    SYNODS

    47A Church congresses

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    ILOVEIT

    34D "Yas queen!"

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    DEADLY

    18D Like assassins and some sins

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    LOYD

    10D W.N.B.A. star Jewell ___

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    MOSH

    32D Dance wildly, in a way

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    TENABLE

    8D Within the realm of reason

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    NORTON

    26D Actor Edward of "A Complete Unknown"

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    ENGRAM

    9D "Storage unit" of memory in the brain

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    AUGERS

    24D Helical tools

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    FEARED

    20A Worried

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    SILENTTREATMENT

    51A Cold shoulder, so to speak

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    DIVORCE

    37D Split decision?

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    FANTAN

    39D Chinese gambling game invented during the Northern and Southern dynasties

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    FUSED

    29A Like the glass in many a Dale Chihuly sculpture

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    ONEREEL

    15D Like the original Looney Tunes shorts, lengthwise

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    DIGRESS

    33A Drift off

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    MIGUEL

    32A California's San ___ Island

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    UCSF

    6D Bay Area sch.

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    SOIN

    25A Totally down (for)

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    TURDUCKEN

    13A Nested birds?

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    ANDIQUOTE

    1A Phrase said indignantly before a citation

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    NEOSPORIN

    57A Popular antibiotic ointment

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    NOREPLY

    35A Beatles song with the lyric "I tried to telephone / They said you were not home / That's a lie"

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    ACCLIMATE debut

    55A Get used to it

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    AMILOSINGMYMIND debut

    16A "Argh! What is happening?"

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    BRINGSUPTHEREAR debut

    12D Comes in last

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    DRINKINGITALLIN debut

    3D Fully appreciating something

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