ACROSS 1 Republicans in doubt blame him (7) 4 What baby Bush calls his daddy (5) 6 So-called "pro-lifers" are really this (10) 10 Bush's Waterloo (4) 11 Nickname for the National Security Advisor (5) 12 Former friend and current embarrassment to most DC pols (5) 14 Another kind of political party (10) 15 Not quite your large intestine (5) 16 Big Persian embarrassment (9) 19 Once-important allies now feel mostly duped (4) 21 Someone whose trousers are likely very very hot (4) 22 The GOP Puppetteer (4) 23 The raison d'etre of the Bush administratioin (6) 26 Ashcroft's waiting for the end of the world and hoping this is (2) 27 41 and 43 (4) 29 Texas, the southern states, and other GOP voters. And communists. (3) 30 Enemy of Clinton's bookend Presidents (7) DOWN 1 If he hadn't already died for their sins, they'd have him locked up under the PATRIOT ACT (6) 2 The new "evil empire" religion (5) 3 Ashcroft's allegedly defunct and now renamed program for fact finding on everyone (3) 5 You can do this as long as you're safely fenced in a free speech zone (7) 7 A "new" swindler (6)

8 You ain't tough in politics if you ain't tough on this (5) 9 The lifeblood of crony and money politics (12) 13 Drop-in foreign policy (4) 14 Bush senior's alma matter (3) 16 Bush's stint in the National Guard was mostly this (4) 17 New York, California, and other liberal states (4) 18 Month in which Bush's fortune changed (abbr.) (4) 19 Vastly inappropriate site of the GOP marketing blitz for 2004 (3) 20 Dubya seems to want to prove he wears these (5) 24 Bush's famous publicity stunt started in this medium (3) 25 This agency took a lot of flack over domestic intelligence failures. (It wasn't the private education system in Texas.) (3) 26 According to a former President, his sexual activities depend on the definition of this word (2) 28 International legal and political body (2)