television crossword

ACROSS

1 “Happy Days’” Ralph Malph: Don ___

5 Diminutive suffix

8 “Happy” mollusk

12 On ___ with (equal to) 13 Sounds from Santa

14 HBO reality series “We’re ___” 15 Floridian resort Mar-a-___ 16 Canon camera model 17 Lennon’s in-laws 18 Long-running sitcom about a family living in Manhattan 21 Emmy-winning Gotti in “Gotti” (1996)

22 Show the way, with a finger 25 Really dig

29 Wall St. worker

30 Be in arrears

31 Wayne ___ (Batman’s home) 34 Actor Neil, who starred as dad Mike Heck in “The Middle” 36 Time free from work 40 Repeatedly

46 TV’s Griffin, who created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!

47 One of three “Chicagos” 48 Tolkien character

49 Green Gables girl with her own series on Netflix

50 “Full Frontal” host 51 “Beetle Bailey” dog 52 ___-do-well

53 Like some verbs: Abbr. 54 Procrastinator’s promise

DOWN

1 Beer base 2 Colorful fish 3 Wise guy

4 Harmful computer program 5 Giada De Laurentiis, Gordon Ramsay and Bobby Flay 6 Bathroom sponge (var.) 7 Industrial city of Germany 8 Picked out of many

9 Letterman rival

10 Elvis’s middle name 11 Two-season sitcom “Bless This ___”

19 Repair shop fig.

20 Road map abbr.

22 “The Office” receptionist 23 “Are you a man ___ mouse?” 24 Son of, in Arabic names 26 Elation

27 TV channel headed by Oprah Winfrey

28 Hunger

32 “Last Week Tonight” host 33 Solo’s son

34 Italian monk

35 “Living in Oblivion” (1995) and “Drugstore Cowboy” (1989) star James, whose surname literally means “the large”

37 Poetic metrical units

38 Curl one’s lip

39 Milk source

40 Make ___ of

41 Middle child in “Bob’s Burgers”

42 “Rule, Britannia!” composer 43 Mercury or Saturn 44 Passionate about 45 Element #10