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NY Times, Sat, Aug 16, 2003

Author: Manny Nosowsky / Will Shortz
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Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 72, Blocks: 28, Avg Word Len: 5.47, Missing: { K Q V X Z }, Scrabble score: 296 (avg 1.50)
Open squares: 101, Cheater squares: 0, Freshness Factor™: 64.7, New York Times Across Lite file
This is puzzle 172 of 245 for Mr. Nosowsky — solos: 243, collaborations: 2, Sundays: 29

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© 2003, The New York Times
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1. Do-over command : FROMTHETOP
11. Station along Route 66 : ESSO
15. "My treat next time!" : IOWEYOUONE
16. One taking driver's ed, perhaps : TEEN
17. Lab protector : FLEACOLLAR
18. Cost of living? : RENT
19. Poetic dusk : EEN
20. Paper piece : OPED
21. Doctor's order : SAYAH
22. One who fought Uitlanders : BOER
23. Labor day? : DUEDATE
25. Scrap : TAGEND
28. Young traveler, maybe : HOSTELER
29. Casts : HURLS
30. Business section : SALES
31. The Diamondbacks, on scoreboards : ARI
32. Reword : EDIT
33. Picks and chooses : CULLS
34. It's a guy thing : STAG
35. Flipper : FIN
36. Pens : JAILS
37. Bloodsucker : LEECH
38. Means in all : ADDSUPTO
40. Shrouded : SECRET
41. Mold over : RESHAPE
42. Kind of moss : PEAT
43. "Ad hominem" source : LATIN
44. Stick with the herd? : GOAD
45. Comments around babies : AWS
48. Southern college : ELON
49. Is suspicious : SMELLSARAT
52. Ward : FEND
53. Stop fighting : CALLATRUCE
54. Certain domino : TREY
55. Reaches a crisis point : HITSBOTTOM
 1. Marching band instrument : FIFE
2. Lady Macbeth, e.g. : ROLE
3. Pulitzer-winning playwright ___ Davis : OWEN
4. Start of an apology : MEA
5. Moguls : TYCOONS
6. Like some earrings : HOOPED
7. Author of "Introduction to Algebra" : EULER
8. Was a blabbermouth : TOLD
9. ___ dare : ONA
10. Singly : PER
11. Modern buying and selling : ETRADE
12. "S'long!" : SEEYALATER
13. Sexennial affair : SENATERACE
14. Dangerous way to pass : ONTHERIGHT
21. Social groups : SETS
22. Important highway : BELT
23. Numismatist : coins :: plangonologist : ___ : DOLLS
24. Makes work : USES
25. Radical group : THEFARLEFT
26. Foxes used to be seen here : AUDIDEALER
27. Nose's place? : GRINDSTONE
28. Greeting in "Winnie the Pooh" : HALLO
30. Hotel offering : SUITE
33. Andy in the newspapers : CAPP
34. Nazarenes, once : SECT
36. Spanish explorer ___ Bautista de Anza : JUAN
37. Results in : LEADSTO
39. Rumpus : SHINDY
40. Aquanaut's workplace : SEALAB
42. Matters of opinion : POLLS
44. Hanukkah gift : GELT
45. Stuck, after "in" : ARUT
46. Chisholm Trail town : WACO
47. Thorn site : STEM
49. Prep, e.g.: Abbr. : SCH
50. Month of le calendrier : MAI
51. Public hanging : ART
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