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ACROSS

1 Blather 4 Q1 7 Ignores the

teleprompter 13 Q2 14 109 acres, for Vatican

City 16 Lords … or subjects 17 Over there 18 Musical interlude 19 Q3 20 Fancy basketball

scores 22 Florida city, informally 24 Fighter of pirates, in

brief 25 British interjection 26 “My Big Fat Greek

Wedding” libation 27 Awaited someone’s arrival before going to bed 28 Get back on the

horse 30 Only Semitic language that’s an official language of the European Union 32 Trypanosomiasis

transmitter 33 Member of the singing

Winans family 34 Blood-___ 35 Q4 38 Corrode 41 Currency exchange

premium 42 Fits 46 Accuse formally 48 Reliable profit center 49 Q5 50 Early wielder of a bow

and arrow 52 One of the Nereids in

Greek myth 53 Trouble’s partner 54 Carrie Underwood or

Taylor Hicks 55 Uganda’s second P.M. 56 A, AA and AAA 58 Exude 60 Too smooth 61 Franklin with a cameo role in “The Blues Brothers” 62 Lady of the Haus 63 Kind of stroke 64 “Battleship” co-star,

2012 65 Lotion abbr. 66 Fox hole, e.g.

DOWN

1 Good thing to hit 2 Gets going 3 Dr. Seuss, e.g. 4 Does battle 5 Charlemagne’s domain: Abbr. 6 Excuse maker’s leadin 7 Romeo’s precursor? 8 See 33-Down: Abbr. 9 Examine like a wolf 10 Flint, e.g. 11 A1 12 Curvy, in a way 15 The whole kit and

caboodle 21 ___ Protocol (1997

agreement) 23 “Deep Impact”

menace 26 A2 27 Is in low power mode 29 Letters in — or on

— boxes 31 Substitutes for 33 Corp.’s 8-Down 36 Like some paper and

garbage cans 37 Indian master? 38 Linda who married

Paul McCartney 39 Bedroom piece 40 Company newbie 43 Beat, journalistically 44 Visual olio 45 Smitten with 47 Rations 48 Salmon and coral 51 Overhead expense? 54 A3 55 A4 57 Secondary character

in Aristophanes? 59 Nuke