Crossword

ACROSS

1 It follows Thurs. 4 Compass dir. 7 Cooked in hot

oil

12 Horse hue 13 Parts of gals. 14 ___-car 15 Suffix with

cash

16 Left alone 18 Pancake

cousin

20 Sue Grafton's

“___ for Alibi” 21 Music's ___

Na Na

22 With 27 Across, a sitcom that cleaned up at last year's Emmy Awards 27 With 22 Across, a sitcom that cleaned up at last year's Emmy Awards 29 Düsseldorf

denial

30 Brings in 31 Kindergarten

adhesive 32 Actors Dan, Eugene or Sarah, who starred in the show referenced in 22 and 27 Across 33 First name in

swing

34 “The League”

star Katie

38 Big bird of

myth

39 Golden Girl

Blanche 40 Waterlogged

ground 43 Actress O'Hara, who starred in the show referenced in 22 and 27 Across 48 1993 Sean Connery film “Rising ___” 49 Mandel of “St.

Elsewhere” 50 ___ cit. (footnote abbr.) 51 Vane dir. 52 Steinbeck

characters 53 Grp. with missionaries 54 Moo ___ pork

DOWN

1 Money guarantor, for short 2 Sorry sort

3 Put aside for

later

4 Lubricant targets

5 RR stop 6 “Cómo ___?” 7 ABC sitcom about the Huang family: “___ Off the Boat”

8 “The Crying Game's” (1992) Oscar-nominated lead Stephen ___ 9 Bankbook abbr. 10 Hot time in

Quebec

11 Peter Griffin or

Homer Simpson 17 Late rocker

Ocasek 19 Derived from

benzene

23 One after the

other, as ducks 24 Precedent

setters

25 South American monkey 26 Old-fashioned

knife

27 1989 Literature Nobelist 28 “The Facts of Life” star Charlotte, and others

31 Han Solo did the Kessel Run in less than 12 of these 35 Cherry and

apple

36 “Days of ___

Lives” 37 Jurassic Park

(1993) star

Sam ___

41 Call to a

husky

42 Prefix with

“matic” 43 Comedian

Margaret

44 “All systems

go”

45 Light prefix 46 Shake a leg 47 Wordless gesture