television 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) Oscarnominated 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