News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. Excellent, to Moody's 4. No room to swing __ 8. Freeman Gosden radio role 12. Japanese volcano that has recently erupted 13. Hosiery shade 14. A paramecium has one 15. This Seattle landmark is history 17. Saddam Hussein's son, who has won a National Assembly seat 18. Attacks suddenly 19. Paul's Exodus role 20. Sign of summer 21. American Beauty Oscar winner 24. Phi Beta Kappa concern: Abbr. 26. Reform Party chairman Choate 27. Actuary's concern 28. It may be floated 29. NBC has pulled the plug on __, the Devil, and Bob 30. A newspaper here ended a 20-year taboo by printing the U.S. flag 31. Torah holder 32. Reagan was its pres. 33. Nixon, for two yrs. 34. Scientists have found a gene that regulates this 36. Azores' loc. 38. Source of high-protein flour 39. Split apart 42. Reply to the Little Red Hen 44. Bruce Babbitt wants to restore it 46. Pal of Kukla and Ollie 47. Pressing need? 48. Oscar-winning director Mendes 49. Bureau chief Kenneth Prewitt is defending the __ form 50. Vintners' valley 51. Space-bar neighbor

DOWN

1. Puffin's kin 2. Sale-tag phrase 3. Polly, to Tom 4. One of Mia's exes 5. HUD secretary who's proposing new laws to curb predatory lending practices 6. McCain's father and grandfather: Abbr. 7. Hole starter 8. NSX automaker 9. Its projected insolvency has been pushed back to 2023 10. Pay stub? 11. Machiavellian 16. Heights that Syria would like to recover 19. It may have an EIK 21. Novi __, Serbia 22. Alaska's first Governor 23. It's worth about a penny 24. He now wants to ban "soft money" 25. They want to resume talks with India over Kashmir 26. '90s fad item 28. Yale is tops in this, according to U.S. News and World Report 29. Hood's handgun 30. Farrakhan's Nation of __ 32. In debt 35. Auctioneer's word 36. Columnist Joseph or Stewart 37. Brandon __ (Hilary Swank Oscar-winning role) 39. Mrs. Dithers 40. What Juan needed to come get Elian 41. Bibliography abbr. 42. It's keeping instant replay 43. __ y Plata (Montana' s motto) 44. Passive principle, in Chinese philosophy 45. CPR giver, perhaps

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