News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1 Object of controversy in South Carolina 5 ___ money (campaign-reform issue) 9 Ark terminus 11 IROC-Z, for one 13 Company that has mapped 90% of the human genome code 14 Kurdish insurrectionist on Turkey's death row 15 Souchong or oolong 16 Hasty escape 18 Fully absorbed 19 New Microsoft CEO Steve 22 "Is that your ___ answer?" 25 Ducats, in Variety 26 LAX guesstimate 29 Congressman Dan, who wants to subpoena Elian 31 "I lost a bet with ___" (Hillary Top Ten list item) 33 Hallelujah, ___ Bum 34 Bricklayer's burden 36 Data for detectives 37 Donna ___ (soaps actress and Giuliani's wife) 39 Campbell of Scream 42 Dolly the clone, e.g. 43 N.H. clock setting 46 Rocker likened New York to this city 48 Michigan Governor and potential running mate 51 Puts a lid on 52 It's taking a back seat to personality in the Democratic race 53 He gets the chair in planned megamerger 54 Sorrows

DOWN

1 First word of a political protester's cry 2 In ___ land (spacy) 3 YOU ___ HERE 4 Needle-nosed fish 5 Pouch 6 Astrologer Sydney 7 F.D.R.'s pooch 8 Lint collector 9 Tread the boards 10 Like Bill Bradley 11 Perpetrate 12 Windsor's prov. 17 Space-bar neighbor 19 Belfry denizen 20 "Hello" or "Goodbye" 21 Send to Siberia 22 Freeh men? 23 Elemental suffix 24 Second Amendment defender: abbr. 26 Org. that sued Koch Industries for $30M for oil spills 27 Time Warner exec Turner 28 "___ longa, vita brevis" 30 Some musical ensembles 32 According to 35 Part of D.J.I.A. 37 Ed McMahon intro opener 38 Al, now 39 Seinfeld network 40 Antidiscrimination agcy. 41 ___ Zapata! (Brando flick) 43 Nobelist Wiesel 44 Jiffies 45 Take a whack at 47 Suffix with press or script 49 ERA supporters 50 Day-___ paint

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