1. Book reviewer, for short
2. Big galoot
3. Call, as a game
4. Amigo
5. Made some short cuts?
6. Determined
7. Excursion
8. "Give it ___!"
9. Friendliness
10. Sound buy?
11. Frustration
12. Continental capital?
13. Equal
18. Stick in one's ___
22. Priestly attire
23. Solicits, with "up"
24. Homonym of 48A
25. Provocation
26. Squirrel's nest
27. Plump poultry purchase
29. Early copters
31. Oar pin
33. Greek "S"
34. Put the squeeze on
36. Picking a guitar
37. Antitoxins
39. Ancient colonnade
40. Little chickens
42. Worst off, so to speak
43. Tilt
44. Combine
45. Erected
46. Greet the villain
47. Diva's ditty, i.e.
50. Bled in the wash
51. "Sesame Street" watcher
52. Garden creeper
53. Salad dressing component
54. Born, in bios