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Sunday · 140 answers · 9 debuts

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

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    EAR

    119A Pink part of a Mr. Potato Head set

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    IRE

    7D Indignation

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    ACRE

    103D Part of a plot, at times

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    NOR

    65A Country with the all-time greatest number of medals at the Winter Olympics: Abbr.

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    STAR

    4D Giant or dwarf

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    ARTS

    43A Focus of many a small private college

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    EELS

    106D Once-common fish in the Thames

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    ESE

    42D Linguistic suffix

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    IRIS

    113A Pupil's surroundings

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    ICEE

    98A Drink in a red, white and blue cup

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    ETRE

    42A What's to be with Québec?

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    NEED

    52A Food or water

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    REV

    14D Race prior to a race?

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    SARI

    4A Garment whose name is a homophone for a board game

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    ATT

    64D "The Good Wife" figure: Abbr.

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    ASIS

    37D How the car in this puzzle's theme would be sold

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    PELE

    117A Legend who occasionally used his head to achieve greatness

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    AIDE

    5D ___-de-camp

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    CCS

    60D Keeps in the loop, electronically

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    AKA

    77D Isis Naija Gaston, ___ Ice Spice

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    MENU

    17A Listing of what's on tap

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    NANA

    76A Family nickname comparable to the Yiddish "bubbe"

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    URLS

    97A Safari destinations?

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    MAE

    63D Pioneering astronaut Jemison

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    AKIN

    61D Similar (to)

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    ALES

    13D Porters, for example

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    TIER

    18A Story

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    ISLA

    78D Madonna's "La ___ Bonita"

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    TAD

    109D Smidgen

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    OMANI

    100A Yemeni neighbor

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    ARCH

    9D What someone flat-footed lacks

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    ADOS

    33A Kerfuffles

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    RAIL

    104D The third one is dangerous

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    AVER

    115A State as fact

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    SUR

    59D California's Big ___

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    ENTS

    66A Quickbeam and Leaflock, in fantasy

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    FEN

    29A Boggy place

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    RISES

    79A Gains prominence

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    SEX

    35A "Physics is like ___: Sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it" (quote attributed to Richard Feynman)

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    ONME

    47D Opposite of "You'll pay for that!"?

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    VISA

    88A Big name in plastic

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    SPAY

    68D Fix a litter problem?

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    AUDI

    32D Mercedes alternative

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    NODE

    69A Point of intersection

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    RAMS

    31A Their horns don't honk

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    PHIL

    99A Donahue on TV Guide's list of "50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time"

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    SIM

    94A Calling card, for short?

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    ARCS

    50D Long stories have them

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    SUM

    85D It all adds up to this

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    THIS

    86A "___ just in …"

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    SENDS

    21D Excites

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    BEAD

    34A Moccasin decoration

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    BORED

    34D Idly doodling, maybe

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    WRAP

    19A It's right around the present

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    BIC

    1A Pen name

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    SALIVA

    94D What wets the appetite?

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    SLATE

    49A 19th-century school item

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    LORI

    83D "Shark Tank" shark Greiner

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    RYDER

    116A U-Haul alternative

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    IRONED

    78A Smooth, now

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    TRUST

    30A Rightmost word on the front of a penny

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    SDSU

    118A SoCal sch.

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    MALE

    114A Like toms and drakes

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    NEONS

    69D Show signs

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    PHEW

    93D "That was a close one!"

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    TAGS

    8A Keywords accompanying a YouTube video, say

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    ANOINT

    55D Divinely elect

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    BANS

    67D Declares off limits

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    TOWEL

    28D Item on a rack

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    CARESS

    12D Pet

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    EVICT

    80D Kick out

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    RSS

    38D Blog feed letters

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    ORANGE

    45D It has a rind but supposedly no rhyme

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    DIES

    53D Runs out of gas

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    HAMS

    24D Over-the-top performers

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    ALERTS

    20A Phone notifications

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    METES

    41D Hands (out)

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    FARSI

    71A Mideast language

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    REDACT

    54A Cover with a black rectangle, say

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    UPSET

    72A Surprising result

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    PERSE

    99D Intrinsically

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    SCAMP

    59A Rascal

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    MISER

    96D Penny pincher

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    VANES

    58A Useful pointers?

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    REVERE

    25A Massachusetts city named for a colonial patriot

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    NEPTUNE

    48D God who aids the Trojan fleet in the first book of the "Aeneid"

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    MCRAE

    101D Jazz singer Carmen

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    SEEHERE

    89D "Now, wait just one minute!"

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    TENDON

    74A Achilles, e.g.

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    FOIST

    71D Palm off (on)

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    SWATCH

    108A Upholsterer's sample

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    AFL

    102A Old gridiron org. for the Boston Patriots

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    IGO

    70A "Here ___!"

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    IMACS

    62A Tech models since 1998

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    BLEU

    107D Veal cordon ___

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    ORATES

    51A Emulates Cicero

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    TRENDY

    57D Faddish

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    MOTTS

    17D Fruit snack brand

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    PRIMAL

    93A Rudimentary

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    CARPS

    12A Bellyaches

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    BEFORE

    1D Caption below the first of two photos

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    STREAKS

    16D Barely runs?

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    ATHLETES

    27A Team players

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    WANTON

    46D Deliberately malicious

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    GALLANT

    10D Like an honorable knight

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    HMS

    111D Inits. at sea

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    HATES

    40D Disrelishes and then some

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    DRIES

    75D Hangs on a clothesline

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    INEVER

    95D "The idea!"

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    QUASH

    91D Suppress

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    FEIGN

    73A Pretend

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    HARARE

    112A Capital of Zimbabwe

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    OVULES

    90A Rudimentary seeds

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    TWITS

    8D Ninnies

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    RICHER

    92D Like cheesecake vis-à-vis sponge cake

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    CURLS

    3D Dumbbell exercises

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    TARSUS

    36A Ankle part

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    REVERSES

    6D Backs out, say

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    SIDETRIP

    81D Planned detour

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    SPEEDERS

    11D They might be on one's radar

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    FREELOAD

    73D Mooch

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    INFLUX

    2D Opposite of exodus

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    MISSED

    41A "You will be ___"

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    HILLARY

    87D Edmund who wrote "View From the Summit"

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    TOLLFREE

    26A Like phone numbers in infomercials

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    ACTTHREE

    103A End of "Our Town" or "A Doll's House"

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    CODGER

    56D Old yeller?

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    DEBACLES

    105A Spectacular flops

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    EVILDEAD

    84D Horror franchise that includes 1992's "Army of Darkness"

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    OFTTIMES

    23D Again and again, in verse

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    TURFWAR

    86D "West Side Story" conflict

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    BUCKETSEATS debut

    67A "… and what about the leaky roof?"

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    KEYLESSENTRY debut

    82A "… and the broken door locks?"

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    LOVEIT debut

    44D "Fabulous!"

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    LOWEMISSIONS debut

    44A "… and that the tailpipe is dragging on the ground?"

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    NEWSHOCKS debut

    39A "… and how do we add that it was just struck by lightning?"

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    OFFROADVEHICLE debut

    22A "For our ad, how should we list the car that we found in the ditch?"

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    PREFECT debut

    15D Fifth-year student leader at Hogwarts

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    QUIETRIDE debut

    91A "… and the defective speaker system?"

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    REARWHEELDRIVE debut

    110A "… and finally, the missing front tires?"

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