In the news: Friday, November 13

Across

3. Knoxville state senator focusing on kitchen table issues in new ____ role (10)
7. Long ER waits have doubled Roane County’s ____ response times, delaying emergency response (9)
9. ___ Creek Lodge, a wilderness lodge inside Big South Fork reached by trail (6)
11. Tonya ___, Most Outstanding Player of the 1987 Final Four (7)
12. The SS United ____ takes its final voyage to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico (6)
14. Oranges investigated after four girls die in suspected Uganda school ____ (9)
15. Tracking mountain ____ & first area wide freeze ahead (10)

Down

1. ‘School mom’ to ‘school grandma’: ____ has served students for 52 years (9)
2. Frontiersman who led the team of frontiersmen through the Cumberland Gap (5)
4. Parkway (SR 162, with I-140 in the middle) named for an older name of the Clinch River (11)
5. US envoys meet ____ in Dublin after talks with Putin in Moscow (8)
6. Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic ____ from the September 15-16 FOMC meeting (11)
8. ___-Macon, beaten 71-62 by Chattanooga for the 1977 NCAA Division II men's basketball title (8)
10. Pastor ____ leasing efforts to keep historic North Knoxville church open (9)
13. ___ Theaters, which bought the Bijou in 1935 as a second-run movie house (5)

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