News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1 Attacks, dog-style 5 Web -- (technology targeted by 29-Down) 9 12-Across's were laundered 10 Quite similar 12 Kohl, who resigned his honorary position in 3-Down 13 This nation wants to picture diseased organs on cigarette packs 15 -- May Clampett 16 TV quizmaster Stein 17 He investigated Bill and Monica 18 Cakes and -- 19 Chief U.S. Syria/Israel negotiator Dennis 21 Audition tape 22 Reputed site of a 1948 Israeli massacre of Palestinians 24 Syria wants these Heights returned 25 Latish lunchtime 26 30-Across coach Heard 27 40-Across Center 30 Jordan is now their part owner 34 Ex-politico who wrote I, Che Guevara 35 Uris' -- 18 36 Jack's successor 37 First Burmese Prime Minister 38 Donald's Reform Party rival 39 Sgts. and cpls. 40 Theme-park name 42 The NAACP's Mfume 44 Mongoose's foe 45 Karmann -- (old Volkswagens) 46 Vittles 47 Weevil's home

DOWN

1 In a gloomy mood 2 "-- opinion" 3 Scandal-ridden German pol. org. 4 JFK arrival 5 Wears out the rug 6 Greenspan of the Fed 7 Cacophony 8 Central figure in a 25-year-old murder case 9 Loesser's The Most Happy -- 11 Serious fluid buildup 12 Police, slangily 14 Bartlett's abbr. 16 "Be prepared" org. 19 Litter's littlest 20 Bauxite or galena 21 Dumb -- (old comic strip) 23 Sot's spree 24 Strip in the Middle East 26 Lesage's -- Blas 27 Benjamin's successor 28 Rush to sell, on Wall Street 29 New competitor for the Pentium 30 One-liner producer 31 Bradley favors Executive Order to outlaw -- profiling 32 Smeltery waste 33 Spanish ayes 35 Yucatan natives 38 Fresh mouthed 39 Buzz's lunar partner 41 30-Across's org. 42 Putin's former org. 43 Comedy-routine first baseman

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