Episode #248 Contest: "Squeeze Play"

Meta crosswords from Lollapuzzoola creator and host Brian Cimmet, offered from time to time through the Fill Me In podcast, which is hosted by Mr. Cimmet and Ryan Hecht. More information available here: https://bemoresmarter.com/
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Solved
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I’ve peeled the banana and found the answer.

Don’t love the last step, but OK.

Before I got it, I had a different method to get an obscure and now defunct brand name, but that didn’t seem likely, so I kept working on it.
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Got this one; now back to Fireball.
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Got it!
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The answer to "Squeeze Play" was CHARMIN.

The answers to seven clues were one letter too long to fit in the grid. Those "squeezed" out letters needed to be re-arranged (with apologies for random anagramming), and when done so, yielded the answer.

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Oh man, after many several passes through the grid, I could only find 5 of the "squeezed" entries:

5A: bliNtz
17A: alterCation
23A: lAunch
57A: writHe
63A: geMologists

Can someone tell me where the other two are??
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Lookout Bear wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:14 pm Oh man, after many several passes through the grid, I could only find 5 of the "squeezed" entries:

5A: bliNtz
17A: alterCation
23A: lAunch
57A: writHe
63A: geMologists

Can someone tell me where the other two are??
They’re downs

22D asseRt
38D savIor
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BarbaraK wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:21 pm
Lookout Bear wrote: Tue Jun 30, 2020 9:14 pm Oh man, after many several passes through the grid, I could only find 5 of the "squeezed" entries:

5A: bliNtz
17A: alterCation
23A: lAunch
57A: writHe
63A: geMologists

Can someone tell me where the other two are??
They’re downs

22D asseRt
38D savIor
Ah...*shakes fist* downs. Thanks!
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