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New York Times: Saturday, May 20, 2006
Below is the full solution for the Saturday, May 20, 2006 New York Times crossword puzzle.
Editor:
Will Shortz
Author:
Bob Klahn
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Serious accident
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Serious accident
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Goal
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Goal
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Folk music scholar who helped popularize Woody Guthrie and Muddy Waters
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Folk music scholar who helped popularize Woody Guthrie and Muddy Waters
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Smashing
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Smashing
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Dapple
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Dapple
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"Jive at Five" composer/performer
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"Jive at Five" composer/performer
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Fall off
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Fall off
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Very much for
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Very much for
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Lukewarm reviews
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Lukewarm reviews
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American Airlines Ctr. team
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American Airlines Ctr. team
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Coasted at the Olympics?
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Coasted at the Olympics?
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Yanks
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Yanks
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Dr.'s order?
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Dr.'s order?
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Discombobulates
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Discombobulates
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Took a course
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Took a course
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City at the mouth of the Loire
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City at the mouth of the Loire
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"Take your pick"
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"Take your pick"
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Widely seen
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Widely seen
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Shade of black
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Shade of black
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Port alternatives
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Port alternatives
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Waggish
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Waggish
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Hacker
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Hacker
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Treasured blankets
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Treasured blankets
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100 Bulgarian stotinki
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100 Bulgarian stotinki
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Flapdoodle
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Flapdoodle
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Johnson who managed the 1986 championship Mets
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Johnson who managed the 1986 championship Mets
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Quiet types
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Schooner's cargo
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Schooner's cargo
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Hindu deities
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Hindu deities
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Piano key, essentially
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Piano key, essentially
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Complex unit
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Complex unit
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In one's spare time
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In one's spare time
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Top-flight story
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Top-flight story
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Intimate chats
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Intimate chats
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Otterlike
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Otterlike
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Imbroglio
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Fossil remains of homo erectus discovered in 1891
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Fossil remains of homo erectus discovered in 1891
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Where Zelda Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole were born
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Where Zelda Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole were born
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Parade
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Parade
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Interlocks
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Interlocks
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Co-founder of the avant-garde Blue Four
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Co-founder of the avant-garde Blue Four
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Thick quaff
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Thick quaff
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Words sung after "Hallelujah"
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Words sung after "Hallelujah"
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Flag
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Flag
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Critical analysis
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Critical analysis
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0-198-61186-2, e.g.
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0-198-61186-2, e.g.
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1988 Meg Ryan thriller
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1988 Meg Ryan thriller
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"Popeye" cartoonist
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"Popeye" cartoonist
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Emperor beginning in 1989
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Emperor beginning in 1989
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"The Most Happy Fella" composer
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"The Most Happy Fella" composer
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Classic song that's the official anthem of the European Union
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Classic song that's the official anthem of the European Union
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"A Study in Scarlet" inspector
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"A Study in Scarlet" inspector
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Dahomey, since 1975
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Dahomey, since 1975
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Drives off
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Drives off
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Corn grower
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Corn grower
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Series finale
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Series finale
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"Hubba hubba!"
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"Hubba hubba!"
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Mexican rattlers
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Mexican rattlers
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Southwestern salamander
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Southwestern salamander
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Thaw
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Thaw
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Grassland dotted with trees
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Grassland dotted with trees
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Peridot, e.g.
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Peridot, e.g.
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Leaves the country
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Leaves the country
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Major hurdle, metaphorically
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Major hurdle, metaphorically
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Palace card
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Palace card
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Quark-antiquark combo
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Quark-antiquark combo
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Curtail
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Curtail
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Shoot, slangily
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Shoot, slangily
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Go out
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Go out
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It might turn up a lot
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