Time - USA (2019-12-23)

140 Time December 23–30, 2019

ACROSS

1. First 24-hour news
   channel, launched by
   Ted Turner


2. Like much of the
   heartland inhabited
   by The Middle
   Americans


3. Do what Owen D.
   Young did to some
   of Germany’s Great
   War reparations debt


4. Law, like the one
   establishing Social
   Security that Franklin
   D. Roosevelt signed


5. 81, for the oldest
   individual Person
   of the Year, Deng
   Xiaoping


6. A form of aid George
   Marshall offered to
   Western Europe
   after World War II


7. Groups like the
   Apollo 8 crew


8. Genetic molecule
   analyzed by some
   U.S. Scientists


9. French honorific
   for Chiang Kai-shek’s
   wife Soong Mei-ling,
   briefly


10. Market event during
    Ben Bernanke’s Fed
    tenure


11. Political affiliation
    of POTUS Ronald
    Reagan


12. Rudy Giuliani’s title
    on 9/11


13. Come before, as
    Gerald Ford’s time
    in the White House
    did vis à vis Jimmy
    Carter’s


14. Chamber of
    Congress that
    impeached Bill
    Clinton


15. Like deserts, or fuel
    tanks during the
    embargo led
    by Saudi Arabia’s
    King Faisal


16. Sudden surge,
    like that of the
    movements
    embodied by The
    Protester


17. Number of
    years Ruhollah
    Khomeini was
    Supreme Leader
    of Iran


18. It’s disappearing
    from the
    Endangered Earth


19. Barack Obama’s Veep


20. Expertise of Popes
    John XXIII, John Paul II
    and Francis


21. Some Donald Trump
    properties


22. Periods defined by
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    (Person of the
    Decade) and Albert
    Einstein (Person of
    the Century)


23. Lyndon Johnson’s wife


24. Territories, like India
    during Mahatma
    Gandhi’s lifetime


25. George H.W. Bush to
    George W. Bush


26. Corazon Aquino, a
    first for Philippine
    Presidents


27. Mohammed Mossadegh
    nationalized Iran’s oil
    and ___ industry

DOWN

1. Nikita Khrushchev
   upheld the Iron ___


2. Initials of a New Deal
   initiative run by Hugh
   Johnson


3. Agency that JFK
   tasked to win the
   space race


4. Like Richard Nixon’s
   White House
   conversations
   5. Former profession of
   Newt Gingrich
   7. Key on The Computer


5. Org. that gave Martin
   Luther King Jr. its
   highest honor


6. Like Amazon CEO
   Jeff Bezos, when it
   comes to wealth


7. Harlow Curtice’s
   car company, for
   short


8. Catchall for Olympic
   events staged by
   Peter Ueberroth


9. George W. Bush’s
   rival Al ___


10. Country invaded
    by Joseph Stalin and
    Adolf Hitler


11. Vladimir Putin’s
    nationality


12. Rooms occupied by
    Nelson Mandela for
    27 years


13. The Good Samaritans,
    in trying to alleviate
    poverty, set an
    example of a good
    one


14. Dwight D. Eisenhower
    during World War II,
    for example


15. Wearing the crown,
    à la Elizabeth II


16. Anwar Sadat flew
    here to attend
    Egypt-Israel talks in
    Jerusalem


17. Charles de Gaulle’s
    “L’Appel du
    18 juin” or Winston
    Churchill’s
    “Their Finest Hour”


18. Judge John Sirica’s
    order to turn
    Watergate tapes over
    to prosecutors


19. You were named
    Person of the Year for
    putting content here


20. Built, as Walter
    Chrysler’s company
    did Plymouths


21. Edward VIII
    abdicated the throne
    to ___ Wallis Simpson

SQUARES OF INFLUENCE

By Emily Barone

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