News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1 __ Cynwyd, Pa. 5 Suffix with drunk or tank 8 Gulager of The Virginian 11 Angolan rebels 13 Book-jacket blurb, maybe 14 Towel word 15 Bush won't meet with the Log __ Republicans 16 Human genome project head Dr. Francis __ 18 List-ending abbr. 20 Solitary sort 21 Beethoven's __ Elise 23 Gregory Hines' specialty 25 First to putt 26 Israeli in Palestine/Israel talks, Oded __ 28 The Wreck of the Mary __ 30 Blue or green shade 31 J.F.K. terminal listing 32 Exile of 1979 36 Heartsick one 38 Verboten 39 Apple-pie order 41 Name in court decision supported by Gore, Bradley 43 Wacko 44 Shopaholics' meccas 45 __ Blue (show that firefighters want boycotted) 47 One of Elian's grandmothers 50 Warner Music chairman Ames 53 Environmental prefix 54 __ Service (Melisse Shapiro e-novel) 55 Give the slip to 56 Use a keyhole 57 Agent's take 58 Targets for McNair

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1 Tampa Bay player, in headlines 2 Santa __, Calif. 3 Word in a recent Clinton Freudian slip 4 Plugging away 5 A network that has agreed to hire more minorities 6 Hope-Crosby destination 7 "__ Bill" Bradley 8 Nation tightening controls on the Net 9 Marked with streaks 10 Fed. that dissolved in 1991 12 Med. school course 17 Bottommost 19 Osama bin __ (possible link to suspected Algerian terrorists) 21 Interneuron has sued A.H.P. over __/phen 22 Debunked mentalist Geller 24 TV's Jennings 27 Katmandu tongue 29 Baseballer at State of the Union 33 Clinton would require a photo ID to purchase one 34 __ Dis (village that may become Palestine's capital) 35 Quarterback's syllable 37 In __ (intrinsic) 39 Org. supporting a boycott of South Carolina tourism 40 Football great __ ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch 42 Novelist Bronte's Jane 44 Sras., across the Pyrenees 46 Pope John Paul II, for one 48 First U.N. Secretary-General Trygve __ 49 Tarzan movie extra 51 Hall of The Tonight Show 52 Scale notes

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