News Quiz Crossword

By Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1. He'll give trigger locks away 5. __ Kabibble 8. According to its president, it won't increase output in July 12. Prefix with lock or knock 13. Gallery-funding org. 14. Mission: Impossible theme-composer Schifrin 15. Yemeni port 16. Former colleague of Mike and Morley 17. Home for an SS-18 18. Dance partner? 19. He had his 15 minutes of fame in '95 20. "Love Bug" creator de Guzman, who claimed it was released "by accident" 21. They've offered to begin disarming 23. Ludwig __ Drake 25. Run out of Time? 28. Two shakes 29. The House has extended the __ -tax moratorium for five years 32. Rodriguez, the president of 8-Across 33. He quipped to Ford, "You dead yet?" 35. Break ground, in a way 36. __ the Dog 37. Oklahoma! character __ Annie 38. Sierra __, which is edging toward civil war 40. Credit-checking org. 41. __ es Salaam, Tanzania 42. Source of Italian bubbly 45. J. Fred Muggs, for one 47. Finn's transport 51. South Carolina's House voted to remove it 52. Meth. or Luth. 53. Natural emollient 54. Croupier's need 55. Kind of fingerprinting 56. O'Hara spread 57. [see other side] 58. Sloppy place 59. __ drug-makers have agreed to slash prices for Third World countries

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1. The unsilence of lambs? 2. Reverse 3. Tommy's gun 4. No. 1 before the German Open 5. Its population has just reached a billion 6. Straphanger's search 7. She and the mayor are separating 8. Sara Jane, who won a delay in her bomb-conspiracy trial 9. Clinton feels yours 10. She, in Cherbourg 11. With it 22. Concrete strengthener 24. Sunshine State city 25. Clinton is seeking to keep his __ license 26. Wallace's state: Abbr. 27. Fiber-glass critter now being seen all over Cincinnati 28. B.O. sign 29. Famous first baseman? 30. A long time 31. Sacramento newspaper 34. Ex-Gov who was found guilty in Baton Rouge 39. Slips in print 40. Prabhakaran is one 41. He's with Clinton, on China anyway 42. Jesse Jackson once sported one 43. Croat or Pole 44. Filmmaking unit 46. Confined, with "up" 48. Half-court game? 49. Ex-President who is helping Clinton pursue a China-trade agreement 50. Pekoe et al.

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