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New York Times, Thursday, September 13, 2012

Author:
Matt Ginsberg
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
28-Across : Get back on the horse
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
501/17/200810/24/20197
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1703016464
RebusCircleScrabDebutFresh
331.5731274%
Matt Ginsberg

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 76, Blocks: 34 Missing: {JQVX} This is puzzle # 32 for Mr. Ginsberg. Thursday freshness: 56%
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© 2012, The New York Times9/13/12 ( No. 22,955 )
Across
1
Blather : PAP
4
Q1 : WHY
7
Ignores the teleprompter : ADLIBS
13
Q2 : ARE
14
109 acres, for Vatican City : AREA
16
Lords ... or subjects : LIEGES
17
Over there : YON
18
Musical interlude : REST
19
Q3 : FRENCH
20
Fancy basketball scores : DUNKS
22
Florida city, informally : BOCA
24
Fighter of pirates, in brief : RIAA
25
British interjection : ISAY
26
"My Big Fat Greek Wedding" libation : OUZO
27
Awaited someone's arrival before going to bed : SATUP
28
Get back on the horse : REMOUNT
30
Only Semitic language that's an official language of the European Union : MALTESE
32
Trypanosomiasis transmitter : TSETSE
33
Member of the singing Winans family : CECE
34
Blood-___ : RED
35
38
Corrode : EAT
41
Currency exchange premium : AGIO
42
Fits : SPASMS
46
Accuse formally : ARRAIGN
48
Reliable profit center : CASHCOW
49
Q5 : SMALL
50
Early wielder of a bow and arrow : EROS
52
One of the Nereids in Greek myth : IONE
53
Trouble's partner : TOIL
54
Carrie Underwood or Taylor Hicks : IDOL
55
Uganda's second P.M. : OBOTE
56
A, AA and AAA : MINORS
58
Exude : OOZE
60
Too smooth : PAT
61
Franklin with a cameo role in "The Blues Brothers" : ARETHA
62
Lady of the Haus : FRAU
63
Kind of stroke : EGO
64
"Battleship" co-star, 2012 : NEESON
65
Lotion abbr. : SPF
66
Fox hole, e.g. : DEN
Down
1
Good thing to hit : PAYDIRT
2
Gets going : AROUSES
3
Dr. Seuss, e.g. : PENNAME
4
Does battle : WARS
5
Charlemagne's domain: Abbr. : HRE
6
Excuse maker's lead-in : YESBUT
7
Romeo's precursor? : ALFA
8
See 33-Down: Abbr. : DIR
9
Examine like a wolf : LEERAT
10
Flint, e.g. : IGNITER
11
A1 : BECAUSE
12
Curvy, in a way : SSHAPED
15
The whole kit and caboodle : ATOZ
21
___ Protocol (1997 agreement) : KYOTO
23
"Deep Impact" menace : COMET
26
A2 : ONEEGG
27
Is in low power mode : SLEEPS
29
Letters in - or on - boxes : USMAIL
31
Substitutes for : ACTSAS
33
Corp.'s 8-Down : CEO
36
Like some paper and garbage cans : LINED
37
Indian master? : SAHIB
38
Linda who married Paul McCartney : EASTMAN
39
Bedroom piece : ARMOIRE
40
Company newbie : TRAINEE
43
Beat, journalistically : SCOOPED
44
Visual olio : MONTAGE
45
Smitten with : SWEETON
47
Rations : ALLOTS
48
Salmon and coral : COLORS
51
Overhead expense? : ROOF
54
A3 : ISAN
55
A4 : OEUF
57
Secondary character in Aristophanes? : RHO
59
Nuke : ZAP

Answer summary:
1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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