TV CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “Cat __ Hot Tin Roof”

4 “Star Wars” filmmaker George __ 9 “Sesame Street” network 12 Cauldron

13 “The World __ Enough”; 007

movie

14 Diving bird

15 “Please Donʼt __ the Daisies”

16 Sri __

17 Presurgical scan, for short

18 __ con carne; spicy stew 20 “Falcon __”; prime-time soap

opera

22 Actor on “NCIS: New Orleans” 26 “Close Encounters of the __ Kind” 27 Cochleaʼs place

28 Word attached to fly or about

29 Pigʼs home

32 Bottled water brand

35 2018 sci-fi series

39 Trigger or Mister Ed

40 Lionsʼ dens

42 “__ Life to Live”

43 “Every Which Way But __”;

Clint Eastwood film

47 11/11 honoree

48 Marvin or Majors

49 Western actor Lash __ 50 Greek letter

51 Suffix for host or heir

52 Difficult to climb

53 VP Rockefellerʼs monogram

DOWN

1 Intl. alliance

2 Webster and Wyle

3 Upper room

4 Frasierʼs ex

5 “McFarland, __”; Kevin Costner

movie

6 Network for Wolf Blitzer 7 Satisfactory, for short

8 Robert __ of “Unsolved

Mysteries”

9 Victoria Principalʼs role on

“Dallas”

10 College treasurer

11 Short one-act play

19 “A __ Like Love”; Amanda Peet

movie

21 Ms. McClanahan

23 “Crouching __, Hidden Dragon”;

Chinese action film

24 “The Real Housewives” network

25 __ Ababa, Ethiopia

29 Oliver and Sharon

30 “__ Company”

31 “Say __ to the Dress”

33 __ at the switch; inattentive 34 Long or Peeples

36 Prison rooms

37 Best Actor Oscar-winner David __ 38 Actress Garbo

39 “Rabbit __”; Nicole Kidman film

41 “__ Trek: Discovery”

44 Cereal grain

45 Minerʼs discovery

46 Johnny Cashʼs “A Boy Named __”