News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. It may be lost or saved 5. New toy sensation Poo---, the Interactive Puppy 8. Slender fastener 12. Bishop favored to succeed O'Connor 13. "__ Ken" Livingstone, 45-Across's first elected mayor 14. New computer virus, the __ Bug 15. Look after 16. ALF and Mork, for short 17. On the main 18. Label that is removing 40-Down from its top spot 20. He and Blair made another bid to revive the peace process 21. The White House has blamed Y2K for problems with this 24. He phoned Juan Miguel on May Day 28. Navy bombing range that was the site of a protest 33. The State Department has identified South--as a terrorism hub 34. My --, site of a '60s wartime atrocity 35. This bear can be major or minor 36. Puerto Rico's pro-independence leader, who protested at 28-Across 38. Camp __ (site of the Lockerbie trial) 39. They were grounded by Reagan 41. It's working with the U.N. on a cease-fire 45. Its stock exchange will merge with Frankfurt's 50. "Peek-__!" 51. Mai __ (rum drink) 53. Word on a $1 bill 54. Gore says Bush is stuck in a cold-war -- warp 55. __ lane (rush-hour convenience) 56. Tiger's pocketful 57. Merlin, for one 58. Corrida cry 59. Vortex

DOWN

1. Brine-cured cheese 2. Antiquing agent 3. Who -- Turn To 4. Winds up 5. Defeat soundly 6. __ up (angry) 7. Psyche parts 8. Ho-hum 9. Puppeteer Rufus, whose family is in a custody battle for Howdy Doody 10. State with conviction 11. Campus bigwig 19. Business-card abbr. 20. Schooner filler 22. "Cease!" at sea 23. Rocky -- 24. Adjective for the Beatles 25. Suffix with expert 26. S or N 27. It may be lent or bent 29. Doris Day title starter 30. William Tell's canton 31. Pothook shape 32. Rode the bench 34. Mauna __ 37. Wall St. debut 38. Chaotic place 40. Record exec Davis, who's getting the boot 41. Jazz players 42. Village Voice award 43. Iditarod terminus 44. Peripatetic sort 46. F or G, but not H 47. Scott in 1857 news 48. Israeli negotiator Eran, who held out the prospect of a Palestinian state 49. Snoopy 51. However, briefly 52. They've signed a global- marketing pact with Coke

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