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NY Times, Fri, Mar 02, 2001

Author: Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 66, Blocks: 30, Avg Word Len: 5.91, Missing: { J X }, Scrabble score: 345 (avg 1.77)
Open squares: 96, Cheater squares: 4, Freshness Factor™: 84.6, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 118 of 245 for Mr. Nosowsky — solos: 243, collaborations: 2, Sundays: 29

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© 2001, The New York Times
Across Down
1. Be short with : SNAPAT
7. Brunch dish : QUICHE
13. Servitude : PEONAGE
14. Insincere : UNMEANT
16. Using less than due deliberation : HASTIER
17. Follower : ACOLYTE
18. More frequently : OFTENER
19. Gathers abundantly : RAKESIN
20. Shouldered : BORNE
21. Living units: Abbr. : APTS
23. Studio sites : SETS
24. "You lose" : IWIN
25. Doctor in "A Passage to India" : AZIZ
26. Memorial marker : STELE
27. Discussing excitedly : ALLABUZZ
29. Tannery products : SUEDES
30. Brian who wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire" : CROZIER
32. Bantu language : RUANDA
36. Bond with : ADHERETO
41. A year in Provence : ANNEE
42. Weizman of Israel : EZER
43. Chemical compound : ENOL
44. The opponents : THEM
45. "Fools Die" author : PUZO
46. Made common cause (with) : SIDED
47. Certain delay : TIMELAG
49. Bit of salt : GRANULE
51. Like wind and water : EROSIVE
52. "The Ten Commandments" role : RAMESES
53. Resident : DENIZEN
54. It may go up in an airplane : ARMREST
55. "Justine" author, 1791 : DESADE
56. Polite title: Abbr. : MESSRS
 1. Coastal birds : SEAFOWL
2. Air intake site : NOSTRIL
3. Good listener? : ANTENNA
4. "The Liberty Tree" writer : PAINE
5. Pulitzer winner James : AGEE
6. Atrium flooring : TERRAZZO
7. Hard rock : QUARTZ
8. Tragic James Fenimore Cooper character : UNCAS
9. Comment after an accident : IMOK
10. Popular pizza : CELESTE
11. Provincial, so to speak : HAYSEED
12. License : ENTITLE
13. Cause for inaction, maybe : PHOBIA
15. Strains : TENSES
22. Flair : PIZZAZZ
25. Something in the air : AURA
26. "You betcha!" : SURE
28. A train? : BCDE
29. Very, in Bonn : SEHR
31. Bit of fine calligraphy, maybe : IDEOGRAM
32. Sang : RATTED
33. Jobless : UNHIRED
34. Flower said to have sprung from the blood of Adonis : ANEMONE
35. Batman, to the Riddler : NEMESIS
37. Hollywood father and son combo : REINERS
38. Product enjoyer : ENDUSER
39. Like sandals : TOELESS
40. First-born : OLDEST
42. ___ Gant, hero of "Look Homeward, Angel" : EUGENE
45. Easy to drive on : PAVED
46. Emma of "Dynasty" : SAMMS
48. "___ of Lambeth" (Maugham's first novel) : LIZA
50. Exceptional : RARE
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