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Lights Out At 'News Of The World'

MARY LOUISE KELLY, host:

Good morning. I'm Mary Louise Kelly.

News of the World's final edition hit newsstands in the U.K. yesterday. The paper's staff managed to vent some of their anger at being shut down in the crossword puzzle. Clues and answers included criminal enterprise, menace, stink and stench. The clue to 24 across, woman stares wildly at calamity, may be a parting shot at former editor Rebekah Brooks. The eight-letter answer: disaster.

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