News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. It may be hailed 4. House vote 7. He suspended Strawberry 9. Troops here may have got defective chemical suits 12. He labeled McCain "anti-New York" 13. McCain called Robertson and Falwell "__ of intolerance" 14. Kind of discrimination 15. Spain's Princess __ 17. Politically incorrect suffix 18. Novi Sad resident 20. __ attack (hacker's ploy) 21. Cass Elliot was one 22. China won't relinquish its right to use force here 24. Went white 25. Arbitrator Shyam __, who halved Rocker's suspension 26. Women's patriotic org. 27. Airline that's going Chapter 11 30. Kind of profiling at issue 33. Score after deuce 34. Prefix with chloride or oxide 35. First name at the Fed 37. Kunstler protege Kuby 38. Oakland mayor who's backing Gore 40. Horner's last words 41. "__ primary" (in which voters cross party lines) 43. O'Neill title character 45. Flashing lights, say 46. Island of southeast Greece 47. Connecticut's Golden Hill, for short 48. '50s campaign monogram

DOWN

1. Literally, "the rest" 2. Fla. neighbor 3. Travel like Lance Armstrong 4. Hindu discipline 5. Ending for 22-Across? 6. Toughen, as steel 7. Bob of Full House 8. Radner and namesakes 9. Results of arms treaties, sometimes 10. Knocker's reply 11. Congressman Rothman called him a "brutish thug" 12. __ de deux 16. Seemingly forever 19. Senator Joseph, who endorsed Gore 21. Hsia, who was found guilty of making illegal contributions to the Democrats 23. Hell, to Sherman 24. D.C. fund raiser 26. Natural-selection theoretician 27. __ Halonen, Finland's first woman President 28. Hall of Famer Lefty 29. Pollster's projection 30. Stutz Bearcat contemporary 31. Wen Ho Lee has been denied bail in the Los __ security breach 32. 1936 Peace Nobelist Carlos Saavedra __ 34. C.I.C. 36. Delta of Venus author 38. Diner orders, for short 39. "March Madness" org. 42. College sr.'s test 44. Extension on program files

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