News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. El __ (Spanish hero) 4. Cape Town currency 8. Willie of Charles in Charge 10. One of many found in a trash bin 12. Clinton, Blair agree that __ research should be public 13. Veteran Michael Boehm played Taps on one in My Lai 15. List-ending abbr. 16. Successes for John Rocker 18. The Waste Land monogram 19. Humdinger 21. Auction ending? 22. Consort of Caesar 23. Joe Cocker's Cry Me __ 25. Spain's Prime Minister, who scored a landslide 26. Virginia Governor who okayed creation of an Internet transaction code 28. Apples, pears and such 31. Big name in Internet software 34. Demo unit, for short 35. Like Anderson in '80: Abbr. 36. __Corell, U.N. team leader in Cambodia 38. Roofer's gunk 39. It's offering PCs to its employees 41. Code-cracking org. 42. Sacrificial sites 44. "But I am not the sea nor the __": Whitman 46. Nurse, as a drink 47. Gore called Bush's tax plan "__ oil" 48. Cloister sisters 49. Ask __ Girl (1959 MacLaine film)

DOWN

1. Johns Hopkins researchers believe saliva tests could detect this 2. "Editorially speaking," in cyber-shorthand 3. Gore's gang, for short 4. BMW is selling this English subsidiary 5. Warts and all 6. Cpl. or sgt. 7. Bond portrayer Timothy 8. It apologized for having insured the lives of slaves 9. Conger, for one 11. Viviana __, winner of 39-Across's Science Talent Search Competition 12. Name on Prizms, once 14. Within earshot 17. Its House has okayed civil unions for gays 20. Star in the constellation Orion 22. Native of Brno 24. Word on either side of -a- 25. Notre Dame's Parseghian 27. Word with doctor's or marching 28. Org. that drew fire for its "Got Beer?" ad campaign 29. Quarter-mile paths, perhaps 30. Kenyon, who got the most votes for the AP All-America basketball team 32. Gangster Meyer, an early investor in Las Vegas 33. Come after 35. Research orgs. 37. __ Clemente (Nixon retreat) 39. The U.S. is easing sanctions on this country's luxury products 40. Capp's "__ the Hyena" 43. The Simpsons storekeeper 45. Grid great Marino, who has announced his retirement

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