News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. "And Still I Rise" poet Angelou 5. The standoff here was re-enacted 9. ERA supporters 12. Microsoft's French spelling recommended replacing "anti-stress" with "anti-__" 13. Touched down 14. It's phasing out MTBE as a gas additive 15. They're fighting to oust the Israelis 17. Part of B & B 18. Feedbag morsel 19. Whittle away 21. __ & Wesson has agreed to make products childproof 24. Sponge feature 26. Basra is Iraq's primary one 27. Indy 500 sponsor 28. It's ceasing monthly publication 32. Mauna __ 33. __ Teng-hui is stepping down as Nationalist party chairman 34. Aging orbiter 35. Word on some cornerstones 37. Jeanne d'__ 38. Indian princess 39. They're setting up a neutral zone in Yugoslavia 41. Jiang __ will meet with Chen Shui-bian only if they talk about one-China policy 42. Feds concede he may not be a Cuban spy after all 45. World Bank offering 46. "__ had it!" 47. "Without __" (book about history of lynching in the U.S.) 53. Snooker 54. Michael Collins' land 55. "Viva __!" (Palestinians' cheer to the Pope) 56. Aardvark morsel 57. Word for Yorick 58. Egypt's Port __

DOWN

1. __-jongg 2. Olympic Airways founder, in headlines 3. Fenway great's nickname 4. "Who's on first?" team member 5. Mickey's creator 6. Garth Brooks' Touch 'Em __ Foundation 7. Allen W. Dulles once headed it 8. Significant person? 9. Like Moses, Pope saw the Promised Land from here 10. Essay page 11. Abdoulaye __, who has been elected Senegal's President 16. "That feels good!" 20. Meth. or Luth. 21. Sudan's rebel gp. 22. Where the Eagle landed 23. They're backing 15-Across 24. Wing: prefix 25. They expect to boost output 27. Venetian blind 29. Shi'ite leader 30. Portrait artist's "Done!" 31. __ Nicole Claunch (first woman to be appointed battalion commander at VMI) 36. Magnolia sound-track song 38. Makes a new version in yet another language 40. Dazed and confused 41. Prom-night trauma 42. Pay-stub inits. 43. Jung is its CEO 44. Polite chap 45. They're never returned 48. Be out of sorts 49. Its EVP won't retract accusations against Clinton 50. Roadside assistance org. 51. Sacrifice-fly stat 52. __ Vashem (Holocaust memorial visited by the Pope)

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