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New York Times, Friday, March 2, 2001

Author:
Manny Nosowsky
Editor:
Will Shortz
45-Down : Easy to drive on
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Manny Nosowsky

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 30 Missing: {JX} Minimum word length: 4 This is puzzle # 126 for Mr. Nosowsky. Friday freshness: 97%
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© 2001, The New York Times3/2/1 ( No. 18,742 )
Across
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
Down
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

Answer summary:
3 unique to this puzzle, 1 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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