Possible Clues:

• Punishment such as hanging?
• In abeyance
• Put off for a while, like old socks?
• Arrested and prosecuted about exhaust
• Stayed over on South American peninsula, initially
• Put off by The Simpsons and the like, which is not much of an existence
• American writer in South Dakota editor excluded
• With 59 Across, dormancy
• Stopped for a time
• Hanging, as a bridge