CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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ACROSS
2021 Series for Tori Anderson (2) Actress Long
Fanny
Comment from Homer
“__ __ Grows in Brooklyn”; 1945 film
Basketball game venue
“__ Who?” (2007-09)
“United States of __”
HI followers
“Harry’s __” (2011-12)
__ Ullmann
Role on “The Waltons”
Polly Holliday role
Actor Estevez’s initials
Matt Damon’s age
Series for Paul Guilfoyle (2) Close & Stonestreet
“Return to __”; reality series 38. 39. 42. 43.
Battery size
505 and 506
Undesirable spot
“FBI: __ __”
DOWN
1. Word attached to pick or wit 2. Accord & Camry
3. Flower stalk
4. Actress Kelly
5. “__ the World Turns”
6. “__ Not to Wear”
7. Creative thought
8. 2003-07 Saturn model 9. Actress on “La Brea” (2)
12. Role on “Chicago P.D.” (2)
14. “Please Don’t __ the Daisies”
16. Fraternity letter
19. Veronica or Ricki
20. Mom on “Home Improvement”
22.
“__ Are Marshall”; Matthew Fox film
23. Ferrigno’s initials
27. UCLA’s crosstown rival
28. Rob Lowe’s “The West Wing” role 30. Farewell
31. “Whose Line __ __ Anyway?”
32. Put on weight
33. Shirt label info
35. Crash into
37. Caesar, for one
40. Cry from a flu shot clinic
41. John Wayne’s state of birth: abbr.
BY JAY BOBBIN
Old habits die hard, as Dexter Morgan is about to reaffirm.
Showtime revives one of its most popular dramas as Michael C. Hall resumes the title role of the well-intentioned serial killer in “Dexter: New Blood,” premiering Sunday, Nov. 7. Set a decade after Dexter left Miami amid a hurricane, the new series establishes him in an upstate New York town with a new identity and a romance with the police chief (Julia Jones) ... but that doesn’t keep him from resorting to his lethal former ways when fresh circumstances prompt that.
“There were all kinds of things that would float through my mind,” Hall reflects of continuing “Dexter” after the supposed finale in 2013. “I think my mother wanted him to be in a monastery. She just wanted to watch him meditate for 10 hours. That didn’t happen. Honestly, I think from the day the show ended until we started — and perhaps even finished principal photography on — this revisitation, it’s been percolating. It’s been something that’s been maybe a sometimes unconscious preoccupation. There’s been a sense of it being unfinished business.”
Indeed, Hall acknowledges criticism from many “Dexter” devotees about the ending eight years ago: “I think a lot of what was mystifying or dissatisfying to people is a lot of what creates the appetite we’re hopefully satisfying now. The show did not end in a way that was definitive for people, or gave anybody a sense of closure. We didn’t hear from Dexter; he didn’t say anything to us when the show ended, and I think it left audiences, if nothing else, in a sense of suspended animation. I think a big part of our motivation was to definitively answer the question of what happened to this guy.”
Other familiar faces also resurface, including Jennifer Carpenter as Dexter’s sister Debra and John Lithgow, who won a Primetime Emmy Award as the socalled “Trinity Killer” ... though fans of the original show may question how they could reappear. Carpenter says she deems Debra, in her “New Blood” form, “more of a link or an echo or an inconvenient truth for Dexter. That’s what I was attracted to.” Dexter’s son Harrison also figures into the plot, now played by Jack Alcott.
Hall also returns as a “Dexter” executive producer, along with Clyde Phillips, Scott Reynolds and Marcos Siega. The “New Blood” shoot was completed in just under four months in Massachusetts (doubling for fictional Iron Lake, New York), and Phillips calls it “an extraordinary undertaking,” particularly under pandemic conditions. “It was the hardest I think all of us have ever worked, and we’re really proud of the fact that we accomplished what we set out to do.”