TV Crossword

ACROSS

1 Snap and Crackle’s companion 4 Letters on a Soyuz rocket 8 Funny kind of gift 11 Nev. neighbor 12 MGM mascot’s

sound 13 ___ fide (in bad

faith) 14 Teachers’ org. 15 Better than all the

rest 17 Shrill 19 Beast of burden 20 Ultimate object 23 Channel that’s soon to be rebranded as Paramount Network 26 Singer Gorme 27 Part of a laugh 28 Famous American

explorer Johnson 29 Oven emanation 32 He played a bit of a geek in “Stranger Things”: Sean ___ 34 Ryder, who plays a worried mom in “Stranger Things” 36 From ___ ___ Z 37 Hit 2017 film starring the actors named in 1 and 8 Down 42 Put into another

language 44 Grand ___ Opry 45 Actress Diana, who

was nicknamed “The Blonde Bombshell” 46 Like the Empire in

“Star Wars” 47 Jon Snow and Tyrion Lannister’s home 48 Get the picture 49 Stagger 50 ___ Diego

DOWN

1 Captain Kirk, these days 2 Greek theaters 3 Early late-night name 4 “Top Gun’s” (1986) top gun 5 The heads of some old “SNL” characters 6 Mystery writer John Dickson ___ 7 Long-running game show “The ___ is Right” 8 Israeli modelturned-actress who starred in “Furious 7” (2015) 9 Brewpub offering 10 Gallivant 13 “Homeland” star

Patinkin 16 Creepy plant 18 Neighbor of Iran:

Abbr. 21 “How to Murder Your Wife!” (1965) star Virna ___ 22 Low-fat 23 “Jaws” (1975) and “From Russia with Love” (1963) star Robert 24 ___-mutuel (betting system) 25 Some pots and

pans 30 Mars has two of

them 31 Landers and others 32 “Agent Carter’s”

Carter 33 Michigan’s ___

Canals 35 “Will & Grace”

surname 36 Bandleader Shaw 38 Roof overhang 39 Scale that measures hardness 40 Jessica of “Dark

Angel” 41 Light on Broadway 42 QBs’ goals 43 Caviar