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BestCrosswords.com - "News Quiz 12/4/2010" by Frank Virzi on 12/4/2010 [moderate]
Across 1- "Las Vegas" star Duhamel who was kicked off a plane this week for not turning off his BlackBerry (4); 4- Thieves in Britain are using Google Earth to target church roofs made of this heavy metal (4); 7- Derek who is 74 hits short of his 3,000th hit - the first New York Yankee ever to reach that mark (5); 11- "___ mouse!" (3,1); 13- Heavy book (4); 15- Rudy's coach in the 1993 football film "Rudy" (3); 16- Rapper who received ten Grammy nominations last week for "Recovery," his seventh album (6); 18- "Love and Other Drugs" star Anne who's co-hosting the Oscars in February, 2011 (8); 20- British rule opposed by Gandhi (3); 21- Dauphine and Le Car (8); 22- 20-year-old who was named Entertainment Weekly's 2010 Entertainer of the Year (5); 24- Dirty Harry's rank: Abbr. (4); 26- Co. nicknamed "Big Brown" that plans to hire about 50,000 temporary workers this holiday season (3); 27- The coffin used to bury him in 1963 goes up for auction on Dec. 16, 2010. Bidding starts at $1000 (6); 31- Walks like an expectant father (5); 34- Anguish (3); 35- Hilary Clinton on Wikileaks: "Foreign counterparts have told me: Don't worry, you should hear what ____" (2,3,5,3); 38- Org. known as the Company (3); 39- Orange feature (5); 40- Still on the market (6); 43- Coleridge wrote one to dejection (3); 45- "Harry Potter ____ Chambre Des Secrets" (2,2); 47- Actor Norris who was named an honorary Texas Ranger this week (5); 50- Knightly address to a damsel (4,4); 53- Marshal at Waterloo (3); 54- Name of the stadium misspelled on counterfeit tickets for the Patriots-Jets game on Monday night (8); 55- Teen pop idol Justin who last week solved a Rubik's Cube in less than 90 seconds on Spanish TV (6); 57- Darker-than-beer quaff (3); 58- Texas Republican Congressman who defended Julian Assange's WikiLeaks leaks on Fox Business last week (4); 59- "Divine Secrets of the ___ Sisterhood" (4); 60- Cubs legend Ron (1940-2010) who could be selected posthumously to the Hall of Fame in 2012 (5); 61- Huckabee who said Wikileaks founder Julian Assange should be tried for treason and executed if guilty (4); 62- Over two feet of lake-effect snow from this Great Lake buried the Buffalo area this week (4);   Down 1- Bleacherites' barbs (5); 2- Maestro Ozawa (5); 3- Female octopus (3); 4- On the ____ (fleeing) (3); 5- Parthenon locale (6); 6- ____ Pills (classic muscle-ache medication) (5); 7- Biblical king who destroyed the worshipers of Baal (4); 8- "I ____ I taw a puddy tat!" (4); 9- Big Band and Victorian (4); 10- Romano of "Men of a Certain Age" (3); 12- Colleague of Lane and Olsen (4); 14- Highest peak in the Philippines: Abbr. (5); 17- Animal mouths (4); 19- Keep ____ profile (4); 21- Carpentry tool that cuts with the grain (3,3); 23- Monks' addresses (4); 25- Ike's monogram (3); 26- Road reversal, in slang (3); 28- Comedy show that once featured John Candy and Martin Short (4); 29- Truant GI (4); 30- Rawls or Reed (3); 31- The NFL announced last week that the Black Eyed ____ will be playing at halftime for Super Bowl XLV (4); 32- Baseball player Yastrzemski (4); 33- Cyber ____ (6); 35- Come out on top (3); 36- OPEC member: Abbr. (3); 37- When repeated, part of a Beatles refrain (4); 38- Saucer's companion (3); 41- Part of a French face (4); 42- "You'll love the way we fly" airline (5); 43- Yale nickname (6); 44- Slush Puppie cousin (4); 46- Jazz great Art (5); 47- Pet that needs only water (4); 48- Take the bolt off (5); 49- ____ eleison (Lord, have mercy) (5); 50- Reebok competitor (4); 51- Chrysler building architect William van ___ (4); 52- Result of an auto loan default, briefly (4); 54- Pedal next to the brake (3); 55- "Catch ya later!" (3); 56- Ophthalmologist's study (3);