News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. Wallace running mate Curtis Le __ 4. David, notably 8. Long. crosser 11. He denounced Rome's gay-pride festival 12. Kill __ killed 13. Jazz trombonist "Kid" __ 14. Their march through a Catholic district was barred 16. Creaking orbiter 17. "Live Free or Die," e.g. 18. Etch-A-Sketch control 20. You can count on them 23. Two New Yorkers were arrested for hacking into its computers 26. Mexicali Mrs. 29. C.W. Post is part of it 30. Gettysburg Address ender 31. Shakespeare prince 32. Team that baseball owners would like to disband 34. Kind of process 35. Opportunity for a hit 37. Magnum and others 38. Deep Blue's maker 39. Reddish-brown gemstone 40. He's signed on with the ad agency that helped elect Ventura 42. Prefix meaning personal 44. Bush got heckled by death-penalty opponents at its convention 48. Dow Jones fig. 50. City that's offering White Bikes 53. Dickensian epithet 54. The National Geographic Society will tailor these to individual needs 55. Subject of a conference in Durban, South Africa 56. Social worker? 57. Scottish hillside 58. U.S.N.A. grad

DOWN

1. Philippine troops have captured the headquarters of the __ Islamic Liberation Front 2. Pit-__ (heartbeat sound) 3. Nosey Parker 4. Cedar Rapids college 5. Turntable part 6. South African President Thabo __, whose policies on 55-Across have been widely criticized 7. Brown foe 8. Sports hero quoted by Bradley in his endorsement of Gore 9. Bush p.r. man Fleischer 10. __ Sport, whose high-tech swimsuits have been banned in the Olympic trials 11. Lap dog, for short 15. Harry Potter and the __ of Fire 19. Words preceding "tear" or "roll" 21. 1748's Treaty of __-la-Chapelle 22. Serving of tea, to a Brit 24. Bit of theater litter 25. "Beg pardon" 26. Party that bolted Barak's coalition 27. Pro __ 28. She's meeting with Shihab to discuss Moluccas 30. Dead Sea Scrolls scribe 33. "Human" or "fact" follower 36. Use 20-Across 40. Fenway star Garciaparra 41. __ aves (unique individuals) 43. Prosodic foot 45. Pt. after deuce 46. No-goodniks 47. Blair among others: abbr. 48. Org. whose president-elect backs a moratorium on capital punishment 49. __ Diemen's Land (Tasmania, once) 51. A place to lose 52. The Waste Land monogram

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