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New York Times, Saturday, May 20, 2006

Author:
Bob Klahn
Editor:
Will Shortz
28-Down : Drives off
TotalDebutLatestCollabs
601/29/19945/22/201110
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
1313121426
CircleScrabDebutFresh
11.5746577%
Bob Klahn

This puzzle:

Rows: 15, Columns: 15 Words: 70, Blocks: 29 Missing: {PQWZ} This is puzzle # 48 for Mr. Klahn. Saturday freshness: 60%
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J
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A
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C
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K
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K
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N
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I
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F
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E
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I
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D
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E
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A
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L
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A
L
A
N
L
O
M
A
X
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S
O
C
K
O
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V
A
R
I
E
G
A
T
E
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B
A
S
I
E
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A
B
A
T
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B
I
G
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O
N
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E
H
S
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M
A
V
S
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L
U
G
E
D
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G
I
S
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A
M
A
27
B
E
M
U
S
E
28
S
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A
T
E
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N
A
N
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T
E
S
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E
I
T
H
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E
R
O
R
34
O
N
T
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V
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S
O
O
T
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M
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A
39
D
E
I
R
A
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S
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J
O
C
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O
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S
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E
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A
X
E
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N
A
V
A
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J
O
S
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L
E
V
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R
O
T
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D
A
V
E
Y
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M
I
C
E
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A
L
E
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D
E
V
A
S
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L
E
V
E
R
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C
O
N
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D
O
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O
N
T
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H
E
S
I
D
E
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A
T
T
I
C
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O
N
E
O
N
O
N
E
S
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S
L
E
E
K
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M
A
R
E
S
N
E
S
T
© 2006, The New York Times5/20/6 ( No. 20,647 )
Across
1
Serious accident : JACKKNIFE
10
Goal : IDEAL
15
Folk music scholar who helped popularize Woody Guthrie and Muddy Waters : ALANLOMAX
16
Smashing : SOCKO
17
Dapple : VARIEGATE
18
"Jive at Five" composer/performer : BASIE
19
Fall off : ABATE
20
Very much for : BIGON
22
Lukewarm reviews : EHS
23
American Airlines Ctr. team : MAVS
24
Coasted at the Olympics? : LUGED
25
Yanks : GIS
26
Dr.'s order? : AMA
27
Discombobulates : BEMUSES
29
Took a course : ATE
30
City at the mouth of the Loire : NANTES
32
"Take your pick" : EITHEROR
34
Widely seen : ONTV
36
Shade of black : SOOT
37
Port alternatives : MADEIRAS
41
Waggish : JOCOSE
45
Hacker : AXE
46
Treasured blankets : NAVAJOS
48
100 Bulgarian stotinki : LEV
49
Flapdoodle : ROT
50
Johnson who managed the 1986 championship Mets : DAVEY
51
Quiet types : MICE
52
Schooner's cargo : ALE
53
Hindu deities : DEVAS
54
Piano key, essentially : LEVER
55
Complex unit : CONDO
57
In one's spare time : ONTHESIDE
59
Top-flight story : ATTIC
60
Intimate chats : ONEONONES
61
Otterlike : SLEEK
62
Imbroglio : MARESNEST
Down
1
Fossil remains of homo erectus discovered in 1891 : JAVAMAN
2
Where Zelda Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole were born : ALABAMA
3
Parade : CARAVAN
4
Interlocks : KNITS
5
Co-founder of the avant-garde Blue Four : KLEE
6
Thick quaff : NOG
7
Words sung after "Hallelujah" : IMABUM
8
Flag : FATIGUE
9
Critical analysis : EXEGESIS
10
0-198-61186-2, e.g. : ISBN
11
1988 Meg Ryan thriller : DOA
12
"Popeye" cartoonist : ECSEGAR
13
Emperor beginning in 1989 : AKIHITO
14
"The Most Happy Fella" composer : LOESSER
21
Classic song that's the official anthem of the European Union : ODETOJOY
24
"A Study in Scarlet" inspector : LESTRADE
27
Dahomey, since 1975 : BENIN
28
Drives off : SHOOS
31
Corn grower : TOE
33
Series finale : ETC
35
"Hubba hubba!" : VAVAVOOM
37
Mexican rattlers : MARACAS
38
Southwestern salamander : AXOLOTL
39
Thaw : DETENTE
40
Grassland dotted with trees : SAVANNA
42
Peridot, e.g. : OLIVINE
43
Leaves the country : SECEDES
44
Major hurdle, metaphorically : EVEREST
47
Palace card : JESTER
51
Quark-antiquark combo : MESON
53
Curtail : DOCK
54
Shoot, slangily : LENS
56
Go out : DIE
58
It might turn up a lot : HOE

Answer summary:
1 unique to this puzzle, 3 debuted here and reused later, 2 unique to Modern Era but used previously.

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