News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. Rain check, typically 5. Tony Blair's brand-new son 8. Polish partner 12. eBay halted bidding on a charred rifle from here 13. Stevedores' org. 14. Take on board 15. It boosted the space station to a higher orbit 17. Gray area?: Abbr. 18. "Peachy-keen!" 19. The House voted to repeal a __ tax enacted to finance Spanish-American War 20. Get to work on TIME? 23. Key at the upper-left corner 24. __ Hamoukar, site of a recently discovered 6,000-year-old city in Syria 27. Like the Sabin vaccine 29. One of L.B.J.'s beagles 32. Inflation-fighting agcy. of the '40s 33. Word on a striker's placard, perhaps 34. Euro forerunner 35. Money obtained as political patronage 36. Holder of Nixon's "smoking gun" 37. AC rating units 38. Org. in the movie Michael Collins 40. Site of controversial May 28 presidential runoff 42. Specter may seek a sanction against him over the fund-raising scandal 44. Neighbors of radii 48. They're sometimes put on 49. Gene, who is advising Clinton on an economic plan for impoverished areas 52. Rebels demanded this Fijian President step down 53. Henley crewman 54. James in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 55. Did away with 56. Org. that's offering speeding-ticket insurance 57. Britney Spears fan, most likely

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1. Ugly duckling, in time 2. Gallery with the John Singer Sargent Wing 3. Aikman QB'd here 4. Seaside lodging 5. Liberal arts course, for short 6. "Dubya," as a collegian 7. Gp. that didn't monitor election in 40-Across 8. The last of them fled in '79 9. He's been stripped of immunity in Santiago 10. Hard-liner Rafsanjani has withdrawn from its Parliament 11. Head of Haiti? 16. Affirmative action? 19. Sensation of the 1958 World Cup 21. New Rochelle, N.Y., college 22. Prosecutors have dismissed charges against her 24. It may be blown 25. Grp. wanting less arsenic in H2O 26. New guns 'n' butter man in Times Square 28. To __ (perfectly) 30. Post-O.R. destination 31. Sweater letters 33. It's rethinking its use of inmates as telemarketers 37. Preakness winner Red __ 39. Further shorten, in a way 41. Play in which the word robot was coined 42. Nuclear gps.? 43. 10-Down coin 45. Nick's time, on the tube 46. Deal preceder 47. O'Connor's successor 49. Jeb, to George 50. She played Mindy 51. It was defeated in '82

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