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New York Times, Thursday, April 4, 2013

Author:
Corey Rubin
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
46-Across : Response to a punch, perhaps
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Corey Rubin

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 32 Missing: {JQX} Spans: 2 This is puzzle # 8 for Mr. Rubin. Thursday freshness: 82%
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© 2013, The New York Times4/4/13 ( No. 23,158 )
Across
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Really good time : GAS
4
2006's "Ms. New Booty" and others : RAPS
8
Gather on a surface, in chemistry : ADSORB
14
Hookah component : URN
15
Back muscle, in brief : LAT
16
What may go for a buck? : BRONCO
17
Downsized : SMALLER
19
Pyramid-building people : AZTECS
20
Impersonate : POSEAS
22
Board, informally : HOPON
23
Bars from the supermarket, for short? : UPC
25
Garden Isle of the Pacific : KAUAI
27
French pronoun : ILS
28
Minor blowup : SPAT
30
Lama's goal : NIRVANA
32
Australia's ___ Rock : AYERS
34
Seven-time Wimbledon champ : GRAF
35
It might prevent you from rising : FEAROFHEIGHTS
40
Counterpart of jour : NUIT
41
Lead-in to phobia : AGORA
42
Bert and Ernie, on "Sesame Street" : ROOMIES
45
Expressed some surprise : OHED
46
Response to a punch, perhaps : OOF
47
Neighbor of Del. : PENNA
49
Atmospheric prefix : AER
50
___ Wars (conflicts of the second and third centuries B.C.) : PUNIC
52
Rarely affected by hurricanes, say : INLAND
54
Like the opera "Wozzeck" : ATONAL
56
Triggers : SETSOFF
59
"Your mother wears army boots," e.g. : RETORT
60
Final: Abbr. : ULT
61
Tribulation : WOE
62
Currents : TRENDS
63
Tiny splash : PLOP
64
"What's ___?" : NEW
Down
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Director Van Sant : GUS
2
Place for a tattoo : ARM
3
Common stir-fry ingredient : SNAPPEA
4
Literary inits. : RLS
5
Supermodel Wek : ALEK
6
Hymn : PAEAN
7
Gets ready for company, perhaps : STRAIGHTENSUP
8
Old sports org. with the Virginia Squires : ABA
9
Film character who says "I hate everything you say, but not enough to kill you for it" : DRZHIVAGO
10
___ speak : SOTO
11
It's often the first to be knocked over : ONEPIN
12
"Great taste since 1905" drink : RCCOLA
13
Petty officers, for short : BOSNS
18
Swiss resort city : LOCARNO
21
Convinced : SURE
23
Letters on a B-52 : USAF
24
Poet laureate Henry James ___ : PYE
26
Mozart piece : ARIA
29
Ace in the hole : TRUMPCARD
31
Soft blankets : AFGHANS
33
French silk : SOIE
36
Over, overseas : FINI
37
Fiddler's event : HOEDOWN
38
I ___ Tenori : TRE
39
Iraq's ___ City : SADR
42
Wireless network necessity : ROUTER
43
Significant : OFNOTE
44
Fishhook attachment : SNELL
46
Some psychedelic decoration : OPART
48
Part in some arrangements : ALTO
51
Aware of : INON
53
Org. for Nadal and Federer : ATP
55
Sulu and Uhura on "Star Trek": Abbr. : LTS
57
One against another : FOE
58
Not many : FEW

Answer summary:
2 unique to this puzzle, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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