News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1 Transcript fig. 4 Tango quorum 7 Actress __ Alicia 10 Greenspan, who was just approved for a 4th term 11 Northern Ireland's Paisley 12 Grouchoesque look 14 Campus military org. 15 Malaprop or Doubtfire 16 Medicinal fluids 17 Yuppie's degree 18 Dude, Jamaican-style 19 Kind of buddy 20 Tie up the phone 21 "Goodnight" girl 23 Out-of-date, in dicts. 24 Bank claim 26 Fix the brakes 28 Abner's radio partner 30 Toward the tiller 31 Skimpy top 34 Tiny amount 37 Impact sound 38 Radio parts 40 Ford is offering these to all its employees 42 Rodeo rope 44 Stimpy or Felix 45 The Name of the Rose author 46 Icelandic poetry collection 47 Half a Heyerdahl title 48 Nation that backs Hizballah 49 Stutz Bearcat contemporaries 50 Churchillian gesture 51 Roaster's platform 52 43-Down's nat. 53 Pull a boner 54 Taxpayer ID

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1 __ warming 2 He abandoned his efforts to keep 36-Down off the New York ballot 3 Mandela's org. 4 East __ (site of reputed atrocities by Indonesian generals) 5 Super Bowl hero Kurt __ 6 Switch positions 7 The Sun __ Rises (1957 movie) 8 Gun Shy star Liam 9 Oxygen-dependent bacterium 10 "God's __" (Burmese rebel group) 13 5-Down's team 18 __ Square (captured Grozny center) 19 Site of a jeopardized power-sharing government 22 Gallery-funding org. 25 90-degree pipe bend 27 Addams Family cousin 29 Deep Blue's sixteen 31 Leader of Austria's far-right Freedom Party 32 __ Diallo, subject of a high-profile New York City murder case 33 Selig recently suspended him until May 1 35 Met productions 36 He claims he can beat Gore "like a drum" 37 __ Rabbit (Joel Chandler Harris character) 39 He fell off the stage flipping pancakes 41 George W. and Jeb, to George 43 Itar- __ (news agency) 47 D.C.'s Pennsylvania, e.g. 48 Psyche segments Can't wait till next week for this week's answers? Visit our website at time.com For more of Fred's puzzles, visit his website: macnamarasband.com