News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. Disease that affects livestock 5. What Charlton needs to make "Betsy" work 9. French company bidding for Nabisco 11. Like jambalaya, gumbo and etouffee 13. It conducted the first-ever mail-in primary 14. Be next to 15. Americans lined up for it in '73 and '79 16. "Son of" in Saudi Arabia 18. __ of Court (responsible for British legal education) 19. Where Knight time has still not come to an end 22. Hersey's bell town 25. Cautionary road sign 26. T. rex now on display in Chicago 29. Roman city that's the site of a frantic salvage operation 31. What Rick is expecting from Hillary 33. Western moniker 34. Throw in 36. Turkey's new President, __ Necdet Sezer 37. They're now getting $750,000 per show 39. Wavy lines, in comics 42. New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or __" 43. Populous area, for short 46. Its third secret was not what Vatican critics said it would be 48. Sierra Leone's captured rebel chief Foday __ 51. When 7-Down bought in, she walked out 52. Most tender 53. Bear's exhortation 54. Glaswegian gal

DOWN

1. __ Dutta, the new Miss Universe 2. Change for a fin 3. Minor player 4. One of the "Two Virgins" 5. Suffix with dull or drunk 6. Winner of the Dominican presidential election 7. He established the organization that is taking over U.P.I. 8. Subsidiary of this company makes 5-Across 9. Buddy of the Clintons 10. Geraint's lady 11. Isthmus constructions 12. One of two kinds of U.S.N.A. grads 17. Again, in music 19. Like a noted Beethoven minuet 20. Baseball's Garciaparra 21. Wanderer 22. The FDA approved it in 1987 23. Gidget portrayer Sandra 24. La Cage __ Folles 26. Casablanca pianist 27. Suffix with press or moist 28. Attendance fig., often 30. Reebok rival 32. Inquisitive utterances 35. Agnus __ 37. The Firefly composer Rudolf 38. Stack role 39. Repeatedly, in rhyme 40. Morse Ts 41. Siouan speaker 43. They're picked in Hawaii 44. Larry, who claimed half of the $363 million lottery 45. Common preservative 47. __ de mer 49. It's teaming up with AutoNation to sell cars online 50. Org. opposed by the Million Moms

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