New York Times - May 20 2006

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Clues Answers
'A Study in Scarlet' inspector LESTRADE
'Hubba hubba!' VAVAVOOM
'Jive at Five' composer/performer BASIE
'Popeye' cartoonist ECSEGAR
'Take your pick' EITHEROR
'The Most Happy Fella' composer LOESSER
0-198-61186-2, e.g. ISBN
100 Bulgarian stotinki LEV
1988 Meg Ryan thriller DOA
American Airlines Ctr. team MAVS
City at the mouth of the Loire NANTES
Classic song that's the official anthem of the European Union ODETOJOY
Co-founder of the avant-garde Blue Four KLEE
Coasted at the Olympics? LUGED
Complex unit CONDO
Corn grower TOE
Critical analysis EXEGESIS
Curtail DOCK
Dahomey, since 1975 BENIN
Dapple VARIEGATE
Discombobulates BEMUSES
Dr.'s order? AMA
Drives off SHOOS
Emperor beginning in 1989 AKIHITO
Fall off ABATE
Flag FATIGUE
Flapdoodle ROT
Folk music scholar who helped popularize Woody Guthrie and Muddy Waters ALANLOMAX
Fossil remains of homo erectus discovered in 1891 JAVAMAN
Go out DIE
Goal IDEAL
Grassland dotted with trees SAVANNA
HACKER AXE
Hindu deities DEVAS
Imbroglio MARESNEST
Clues Answers
In one's spare time ONTHESIDE
Interlocks KNITS
Intimate chats ONEONONES
It might turn up a lot HOE
Johnson who managed the 1986 championship Mets DAVEY
Leaves the country SECEDES
Lukewarm reviews EHS
Major hurdle, metaphorically EVEREST
Mexican rattlers MARACAS
Otterlike SLEEK
Palace card JESTER
Parade CARAVAN
Peridot, e.g. OLIVINE
Piano key, essentially LEVER
Port alternatives MADEIRAS
Quark-antiquark combo MESON
Quiet types MICE
Schooner's cargo ALE
Series finale ETC
Serious accident JACKKNIFE
Shade of black SOOT
Shoot, slangily LENS
Smashing SOCKO
Southwestern salamander AXOLOTL
Thaw DETENTE
Thick quaff NOG
Took a course ATE
Top-flight story ATTIC
Treasured blankets NAVAJOS
Very much for BIGON
Waggish JOCOSE
Where Zelda Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole were born ALABAMA
Widely seen ONTV
Words sung after 'Hallelujah' IMABUM
Yanks GIS