written and edited by John J. Bulten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Show Errors Clear Letter Clear All ACROSS 1. Fiscal reason to petition the government for redress of grievances: 2 wds. 9. Highly polarizing White House occupant, 1993-2001 ... or her husband 10. Trait the Army credited to Lt. Col. Lakin after he asked for Obama's papers 11. Partial sound bite taken out of its context by attackers, for instance 12. Often unthinking adherence to political correctness or established custom 13. Poetic surname of Congresswoman Jo Ann, from Missouri 14. Guerrilla revolutionary and counterculture icon Che Guevara, to his family 16. Made it conventional wisdom that Van Jones founded a communist group, e.g. 19. Persons under personhood initiatives not persons under the Born Alive Act? 21. Washingtonian, or (Middle) Jerusalemite 23. The Supreme Court; or two words for the result of Obama's Web kill switch? 24. Idle discussion, especially when monitored for volume to gauge threat level 25. Stump from which free speech branches out into its manifold manifestations 26. Legal reason to petition the government for redress of grievances: 2 wds. DOWN 1. Social reason to petition the government for redress of grievances: 2 wds. 2. Israel's characterization of Obama's limited foreign-policy experience 3. Those with the time-honored trust of swearing to the Truth before the Court 4. With 15-Down, Israeli who gave the U.S. an incomparable bicentennial gift 5. Comprehensive legislation, such as stimulus, health-care or immigration 6. Shiite Prime Minister al-Maliki of Iraq, who faces al-Qaida resurgence 7. How Hamilton emphasized that "Supremacy" is confined to constitutional ends 8. Global reason to petition the government for redress of grievances: 2 wds. 15. "Don't be so skeptical. Raise your hopes. We can perform miracles" speaker 17. Jersey city in which math teacher Maria Saco was jailed for minor intimacy? 18. Items bearing Caesar's name and image, just as dollars display Washington's 19. Attacks (an Afghan, for one, but only if he's loading first!): 2 wds. 20. Hit with a true show of force, or hide a true show of force 22. Conscientious above average, and with exceedingly thorough circumspection PDF Solution