News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. Jimmy Stewart syllables 4. Dervish's faith 9. Make some zigzags, perhaps 12. Socks, e.g. 13. Hafez Assad's Foreign Minister for the last 14 years of his rule 14. Inflation-fighting WW II org. 15. 14 years later, the govt. says it's going to shut it down 17. Left Coast luggage tag 18. What Rosie did 19. Flying start? 21. Yemeni port 22. __/Faulkner, book award 24. Barbra's Funny Girl co-star 27. Pimlico shape 29. Sierra __, hardly a holiday spot for the British 30. It approved AT&T's acquisition of MediaOne 33. Foy patriarch 35. Cancel, in Hollywood-speak 36. "__'s Law" (governs computer power and cost) 38. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll author Bogosian 40. Richard ___ (Edwin Arlington Robinson poem) 41. Desert Storm cuisine 42. Gag response, informally 46. Humped bovine 48. Procter & Gamble chairman Durk, who is stepping down unexpectedly 49. 45-Down's org. 51. Double-Tony-winning director Michael 54. Ron's second chief of staff 55. The Army says it shot down a rocket with one 56. Advance degree seeker's test: abbr. 57. Harlem Globetrotters organizer Saperstein 58. Lewis Carroll critter 59. Cry of surprise

DOWN

1. Ghana's capital 2. Indonesia's President, who has won a reprieve 3. Grid great Young, who is retiring 4. Ain't right? 5. HBO competitor 6. Where Jekyll became Hyde 7. Skinhead group: __ Brotherhood 8. Kind of bonding 9. Rebels have seized control of the capital of the __ Islands 10. Gov't agency banning pesticide chlorpyrifos 11. Tussaud's medium 16. She's at odds with 45-Down over campaign fund raising 20. Name on a 1973 decision 22. Beatnik home 23. Gore is proposing a $30 billion __ care program 25. Folk singer DiFranco 26. Mardi Gras figure 28. Churchillian gesture 29. Bloomers worn around the neck 30. Auto corp. that will extend health care to gay partners 31. Bill's partner 32. He spent more than $30 million on his New Jersey Senate nomination 34. High dudgeon 37. Reuben need 39. Hardly a blabbermouth 41. 1998 animated film 43. Phrase in disco names 44. Iron: prefix 45. He's at odds with 16-Down 47. OPEC units 48. Fool 49. Org. that will study cell-phone safety 50. Trent's predecessor 52. Simile center 53. Prefix with plunk or flop

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