News Quiz Crossword

ACROSS

1. Reggie Jackson's favorite mo. 4. "Sorta" suffix 7. Double-helix compounds: Abbr. 11. "THAT's a laugh!" 12. Vincent Lopez's theme song 13. River past Interlaken 14. __ Skin (controversial Springsteen tune) 16. Ms. links letters 17. Subject to additional duty? 18. According to Forbes, he's still the world's richest person 20. Los __, where hard drives seem to come and go 22. Gig components 25. One of the five Iroquois nations 28. They've got "no good explanation" for soaring 47-Down prices in the Midwest 29. Party that could bring down Barak's government 32. Some physicians are pressing this org. to seek a moratorium on capital punishment 33. Like the Kalahari 34. Part of R.S.V.P. 35. Plaza Hotel imp 37. Reagan Treasury Secretary 39. Suit materials 43. Adlai's '56 running mate 46. "That's the __ of my worries" 47. Long-jawed swimmers 49. It has accepted a plan to end its two-year-old border war 51. Jessye Norman specialty 52. Jackie's dress designer 53. Faberge creation 54. Fokker foe 55. Jaworski's predecessor 56. IV hooker-uppers

DOWN

1. Butterfield 8 novelist 2. Ad figure Joe 3. Frat letter 4. Org. overseeing Sydney festivities 5. Bessemer process leftover 6. She defeated Martina in the '85 U.S. Open 7. Coelho's out; he's in 8. The RIAA wants to shut it down 9. Nation that has apologized for its Holocaust role: abbr. 10. Kind of cow, horse, dog or man 12. The Justice Department will compensate his estate for his tapes and papers 15. Aquino's successor in the Philippines 19. Unknown, on a sked 21. Jesse Ventura, once 23. Prefix with log or gram 24. Novi __, Serbia 26. Web short-hand meaning "editorially speaking" 27. Place to get roasted 29. Georgia, once: abbr. 30. Get the lead out of your shoes 31. Its President wants France to write off some debts 33. Word on Spanish air mail 35. Tolkien tree creature 36. Thurmond has petitioned him to lift the ban on Shoeless Joe 38. First name used to be Hafez; now it's Bashar 40. Rubbernecker 41. Legislation that would eliminate the need for paper contracts 42. Deer sirs 44. Antidiscrimination agcy. Thomas once chaired 45. Allied victory site of 7/18/44 47. Its price has skyrocketed in Chicago 48. Coiner of the word stabile 50. Kind of nut

For more of Fred's puzzles, see his website at macnamarasband.com

Can't wait till next week for this week's answers? Visit our website at time.com