The Christian Science Monitor Weekly - April 16, 2018

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Across

7. Also known as mare’s-tail
   clouds


8. Hosts


9. NASA craft will get seven
   times closer to this object
   than any previous probe


10. Last month’s “moon” won’t
    occur again until 2020


11. Arab market


12. Mozart, for one


13. Eat quickly (slang)


14. Topic for debate


15. Former French president has
    been ordered to stand trial
    for corruption


16. Story, in song


17. Chanel of fashion


18. Conditions


19. United Nations agency for
    children


20. To o

Down

1. The way one used to call


2. Damon, to Pythias


3. His internet access was cut
   off recently by his hosts at
   their embassy in London


4. Checked with


5. President Trump took it to
   task for its tax payments


6. Mexican state on Gulf Coast


7. Clobber


8. Star of this revival of an
   eponymous TV show got
   a congratulatory call from
   Trump


9. New head of the Department
   of Veterans Affairs


10. Release


11. Extra-point expert


12. With “hoo”


13. Enlighten


14. “Deputy first dog” for Gov.
    Jerry Brown in California
    (give yourself extra credit if
    you know this one)

Words in the news

Bolded clues are linked to current events. What

former French president faces a corruption trial?

By Owen Thomas

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