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New York Times, Saturday, January 27, 2018

Author:
Mark Diehl
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
20-Down : Pulpy refuse
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31.57592888%
Mark Diehl

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 66, Blocks: 32 Missing: {QX} This is puzzle # 69 for Mr. Diehl. Saturday freshness: 89%
Mark Diehl notes:
Confession: Sometimes when I'm writing the clues for a completed puzzle I will overreach the boundaries of what is a sound and ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
A Diehl low-word-count themeless! (insert mixture of excitement and apprehension here) Love those big, juicy, wide-open white ... read more
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© 2018, The New York Times1/27/18 ( No. 24,917 )
Across
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When St. Patrick's Day is celebrated : MIDMARCH
9
Side with? : ABUT
13
First two-time Nobelist : MARIECURIE
15
Deep red pigment : HEME
16
Slice, e.g. : ORANGESODA
17
Place for a big wheel : HELM
18
Company that launched the game FarmVille : ZYNGA
19
Insignificant one : TWERP
21
A lot of Top 40 music : RAP
22
Space race? : ALIENS
24
Word with mother or sharp : TONGUE
26
Call of the wild? : ROAR
27
One spewing obscenities : TRASHMOUTH
31
Wine container : TUN
32
Things with pods : BEANPLANTS
33
Ingredient in a Caesar cocktail : CLAMJUICE
34
Like the hepatitis B and C pathogens : BLOODBORNE
36
LinkedIn listing : JOB
39
Be open-minded, maybe : THINKYOUNG
40
Trigger-to-cylinder connection : PAWL
41
Kept close to one's chest? : HUGGED
42
Twain of note : SHANIA
44
Hellenic character : ETA
45
Make no effort to stop something : SITBY
49
Make right : EMEND
50
Bad way to get to work : LATE
52
Extra leaf in some books : ERRATAPAGE
54
Freshly : ANEW
55
Curling and rugby, but not boxing, in the Olympics : TEAMEVENTS
56
Hard to get around, say : WIDE
57
Radio option with improved sound quality : FMSTEREO
Down
1
Title girl in a 1961 Ricky Nelson hit : MARYLOU
2
Resident of Isfahan : IRANIAN
3
Home run, in slang : DINGER
4
Actress Boone of NBC's "The Blacklist" : MEGAN
5
Nickname for a pal : ACE
6
Feature of many a jalopy : RUST
7
The bird in Hitchcock's "The Birds" : CROW
8
Palm, in a way : HIDE
9
"That's the spot!" : AHH
10
Woe of a bar habitué : BEERGUT
11
Some high points of Mötley Crüe? : UMLAUTS
12
Relative of tofu : TEMPEH
13
___ Effect (supposed I.Q. boost from music) : MOZART
14
Opposite of 22-Across : EARTHLINGS
20
Pulpy refuse : POMACE
23
Coconuts, to a maroon on an island, maybe : STEADYDIET
25
Fourth little piggy's share : NONE
28
Macho type : RAMBO
29
Green-skinned fruit : ANJOU
30
Reject : SPURN
32
Chaps : BLOKES
33
D.C. body : CONG
34
Native of Thimphu : BHUTANI
35
Tied up, in the operating room : LIGATED
36
Witty Garofalo : JANEANE
37
Because of : OWINGTO
38
Barbershop assortment : BLADES
39
Something you may lay down or break : THELAW
40
Baby : PAMPER
43
Not just fling : HEAVE
46
Forbidden, in a way : TREF
47
First name in horror : BRAM
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Vegetables high in vitamin C : YAMS
51
Pecorino cheese source : EWE
53
Holiday abroad : TET

Answer summary:
9 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later.

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