TV CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “__ Wonderful Life”

5 “The __ and I”; movie for Fred MacMurray & Claudette Colbert

8 “Make __ for Daddy”

9 Blockbuster miniseries based on an Alex Haley novel

12 Actor Winkler

13 “__ Wife”

14 College credit

15 “The Parent ’__”; Robert

Townsend sitcom

16 Laundry detergent brand

18 Last page of a calendar: abbr.

19 Actor and rapper LL __ J

20 Japanese silk sashes 21 Frequent Mayberry jail inmate

23 “Fear and Loathing __ Vegas”; Johnny Depp movie

24 Actress Thompson & others

25 __ code; part of a phone number

26 “Where’s __?”; popular series of children’s books

28 Pear variety

29 Raw minerals

30 Country singer __ Campbell

32 “The Karate __”

35 Syllable before pick or wit

36 Hammered fastener

37 __ vera extract; lotion ingredient

38 Merman and Waters

40 Commonplace

41 “__ It to Beaver”

42 One of Bart’s sisters

43 “__, Dear”

44 Long-running Broadway musical

DOWN

1 __ Ryan of “The Beverly Hillbillies”

2 Actress on “Hostages”

3 Organize into categories

4 “Judging __”

5 Actor Flynn

6 “The __ Wife”

7 Republican Party, for short

10 New James Spader series

11 Damascus’ nation

12 Paul Newman movie

13 “__ Close for Comfort”

15 Role on “Bonanza”

17 Burro

19 Sophia Loren’s farewell

20 “The Defiant __”; movie for Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier

22 Koppel and Danson

23 “__ Man”; film for Robert Downey, Jr.

25 Cain’s victim

26 “How the West Was __”

27 Main character in “The Little Mermaid”

30 Storm and Gordon

31 Fleur-de-__

33 Smidgens

34 Billy __ Williams

36 Actress Campbell

37 Operatic solo

39 Mister Ed’s dinner

40 “The Little Couple” network