Special Edition News Crossword

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4. Valerie Plame Wilson lives in this city

7. Constitution Party candidate

8. The Old Pine Box sells environmentally friendly _____

11. A proposed bronze memorial in Albuquerque would connect current wars

to _____

13. State regulations stiffened for _____ artists

14. Presidential hopeful’s maiden name

16. On his way out

17. The mayor is again considering restricting alcohol sales at some of

these events

19. Tina Fey look-alike

20. Barack _____

23. One of these vehicles gets stolen every other day in Albuquerque

24. Cyclists in the 505 play a far-ranging game of this every other

weekend

25. Religious organization that wants to build a church in the Gizmo

building

26. This nuclear advocate is passing the torch

31. _____ Maneuver (Hint: CD1)

33. The City Council is considering building an _____ Downtown

36. Issue most important to voters

37. Sen. Joe _____

40. Neighbors sued the city over the _____ stadium

42. Reagan’s face is tattooed on his calf

43. To lessen the impact on the aquifer, Albuquerque will drink _____

46. An 88-year-old woman with _____ registered to vote

47. Bingaman’s new fellow senator

48. The Bernalillo County clerk

51. The Duke City travel team beat No. 1-ranked Kansas City Roller _____

53. Fairgoers made the longest chile _____ ever recorded

54. The longtime TV chief meteorologist who was fired by phone

55. The state hasn’t figured out how to distribute medical _____

56. Senate candidate who lost to Udall

57. This Burque neighbor is trying to become its own town, city or village

58. Until January 2009, Obama is the president-_____

DOWN

1. Won the race to become Bernalillo County treasurer

2. Number of years we’ve been in Iraq

3. First Dem in 30 years in Southern New Mexico

5. A drug Albuquerque police say they found at the big Club 7 bust

6. It’s put on cars with too many parking tickets

9. Albuquerque business accused of selling duplicated CDs

10. Won Cheney’s endorsement

12. Two presidential terms

14. I can see _____ from my house

15. Drag queen activist, the first openly gay man to run for office in the

United States

18.State politician with the same name as his dad

19. Virgin Galactic won’t shoot the first of these films in space

22. Lost her seat in the House to run for Senate

27. The state opened the first _____ arts high school this year

28. Gay couples from Albuquerque went here to get married

29. Inauguration Day in January

30. APS opened a charter school in this kind of punitive facility

32. The first openly gay man to win an office in the United States

34. UNM faculty called out President _____

35. Commander in chief’s moniker

38. Richardson called a Special Session for this

39. Bob Barr’s political party

41. Painted on Mikey Weinstein’s house

44. Green Party presidential candidate

45. Jason ______ kept his seat on the PRC

49. _____ the vote

50. A Midway worker at the State Fair

52. Presidential candidate, yet again
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