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New York Times, Saturday, October 19, 2019

Author:
Byron Walden
Editor:
Will Shortz
Blog:
46-Down : Synthetic fiber once used in wigmaking
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Byron Walden

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 64, Blocks: 29 Missing: {JQ} This is puzzle # 95 for Mr. Walden. Saturday freshness: 92%
Byron Walden notes:
Solvers of last week's Saturday Stumper (Newsday) got a big hint for 56-Across. The clue for MR T. there referenced the cereal. ... read more
Jeff Chen notes:
Appropriate that the black squares form a yin-yang-ish pattern. For every EARWORM, there was an UMBRIEL (dark indeed!) CELESTA ... read more
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C
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K
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G
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X
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N
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L
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G
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C
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W
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© 2019, The New York Times10/19/19 ( No. 25,547 )
Across
1
Common street food purveyor : TACOTRUCK
10
Big name in dining guides : ZAGAT
15
Port city built on a crater of an ancient volcano : ADENYEMEN
16
Make a slight correction? : ATONE
17
O.K. : TOLERABLE
18
Common treatment for anxiety and panic disorders : XANAX
19
Design credential : ARTDEGREE
20
Elaboration phrase : IDEST
21
Lo-___ : RES
22
C, as in coach? : AISLESEAT
24
Very far from : NONETOO
26
First name of two of the 12 astronauts who have walked on the moon : ALAN
28
Sex drive? : LOVERSLANE
31
10 milliliters, perhaps : DOSE
32
Commercial suffix akin to -apalooza : ORAMA
33
Bottled spirits? : GENII
34
Dance prop for Fred Astaire : CANE
35
Indian state of 90+ million bordering Bhutan : WESTBENGAL
40
Lab assistant in "Young Frankenstein" : INGA
41
Royal flush in draw poker, say : PATHAND
42
Long part of a longarm : GUNBARREL
44
Something to chew on : CUD
47
"If ___ Street Could Talk" (2018 film) : BEALE
48
Bacchanal : WILDPARTY
51
"Beavis and Butt-head" spinoff : DARIA
52
Once more : OVERAGAIN
53
Extra : ADDON
54
Go from variable to fixed-rate, say : REFINANCE
55
Binary response option : YESNO
56
Onetime Quaker offering based on a 1980s TV icon : MRTCEREAL
Down
1
Language whose alphabet went from Arabic to Latin to Cyrillic : TATAR
2
Can't get enough of : ADORE
3
Worshipers of the goddess Rhiannon : CELTS
4
Linear : ONED
5
Lebanese city on the Mediterranean : TYRE
6
First family with the dogs Lucky and Rex : REAGANS
7
Darkest moon of Uranus, whose name is related to the Latin for "shadow" : UMBRIEL
8
Keyboard instrument heard in "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" : CELESTA
9
Use, as a prie-dieu : KNEELON
10
Line of depth : ZAXIS
11
Hopelessly stuck : ATADEADEND
12
Cooperated (with) : GONEALONG
13
Evil stepsister of Cinderella, in Disney : ANASTASIA
14
Word with book or box : TEXT
23
Nondiscriminatory hiring abbr. : EOE
24
Victim of Hercules' first labor : NEMEANLION
25
Mouths: Lat. : ORA
27
First name of the first man to walk on the moon : NEIL
28
Sets of points on graphs : LOCI
29
Fruity refreshment : ORANGEADE
30
Leaders of movements : VANGUARDS
33
Lead-in to X or Y : GEN
35
New Deal agcy. that helped build La Guardia Airport : WPA
36
The 1975 hit "Can't Get It Out of My Head" would be an appropriate one : EARWORM
37
One really trying : STRIVER
38
Progressives : THELEFT
39
Sword-bearing shoulder belt : BALDRIC
43
Aid to digestion : BEANO
44
Origami creation : CRANE
45
Upstate New York college : UTICA
46
Synthetic fiber once used in wigmaking : DYNEL
47
Kind of card, familiarly : BDAY
49
Part of a French door : PANE
50
Ice cream thickener : AGAR

Answer summary:
7 unique to this puzzle, 2 debuted here and reused later, 1 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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