News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. They rarely take Mar. vacations 5. It's ending in June 9. When doubled, a song of Bush's alma mater 10. Boys Town is near this city 12. German firm EM.TV is buying the Jim __ Co. 13. MGM Grand has offered to buy it 15. Neurologist's tool, for short 16. One of the Coens 18. __ Perce (early Westerners) 19. Part of many Quebec place names 20. Initials of '52 and '56 21. Mary Quant design 22. Georgia was one, once 23. Richards, who called Bush "Shrub" 24. Peter Ackroyd's The __ Papers 25. Item burned in protests 26. Its cost is skyrocketing 27. Statistic 30. 1998 Tony winner 31. Campaign-button slogan of the '70s 34. The Depression and others 35. Bush's wasn't very high 36. Shakespeare title word 37. One of the DiMaggios 38. With 1-Down, television bride 40. Kidnapped monogram 41. Grammy-winning rapper 43. Rene of silents 45. A Berkeley scientist has figured a way to make hydrogen fuel from these 46. He's running on the Green ticket 47. Betamax introducer 48. Straw in the wind

DOWN

1. See 38-Across 2. 2B or SS 3. Ingredient in some tissues 4. He took home eight 5. Results of poisonings, sometimes 6. Exile of 1979 7. La Brea stuff 8. Grammy winner Twain 9. Betty Lou __, who was denied a reprieve by Bush 11. The X-Files figure 12. Spandau's last prisoner 14. Basso Pinza 17. Cackleberry producer 21. Real estate abbr. 23. Radius site 24. Robertson, who called a McCain co-chairman a "vicious bigot" 25. The Straight Talk Express, for one 26. Mob turncoat arrested for allegedly pushing Ecstasy 27. Sotheby's CEO Brooks, who resigned 28. Java emanation 29. Rebellious Sri Lankans 30. Busy mo. for 1-Across 31. McCain co-campaign chairman Rudman 32. Goldbrick 33. Sacagawea's likeness on the new $1 coin allegedly got a "__ job" 35. Like venison 38. Either of two Gas House Gang moundsmen 39. Cain raiser? 42. South Vietnam's __ Dinh Diem 44. Pindaric opus

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