TV CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “The __ Wife”

5 Historical period

8 In the distance

9 Old Tim Daly sitcom set in an airport terminal

12 Helps as an accomplice in crime 13 “The Marriage of __”; opera by

Mozart

14 Johnson and Rickles

15 Rather and Aykroyd

16 France’s continent: abbr. 18 NATO or OPEC

19 Crooner Crosby

20 __ Chandler of “Friday Night

Lights”

21 Not quite closed

23 Actress Spacek

24 Sticky, grimy goo

25 Actress Belknap of “CSI: NY” 26 Sally __

28 Capricorn or Sagittarius 29 Award won by a TV actor or a

TV show

30 Actor Johnny __

32 Doctors’ assn. 35 Daniel __ Kim

36 Carney and Linkletter

37 “__ by Step”

38 Wee, misshapen folklore

creatures

40 Phillips, once of “Dateline NBC” 41 Blues singer Ms. James and her

namesakes

42 Scottish caps

43 Football scores, for short 44 Popular Irish singer

DOWN

1 Zsa Zsa __

2 “Rules __”

3 Dinner for Mister Ed, perhaps 4 Kildare and Quinn: abbr.

5 Bobby or J.R.

6 Tractor-trailers

7 Actress Ortiz of “Ugly Betty” 10 Ellen Pompeo’s medical drama

series

11 Pastor’s concerns

12 “Much __ About Nothing”

13 “The __”; Robert De Niro movie

about a baseball player

15 Actor __ Benedict

17 Alejandro __ of “The Flying Nun” 19 “Making the __”; reality series 20 “Larry __ Live”

22 Summer month

23 Make a small cut

25 Poisonous snakes

26 __ up; disgusted

27 Spitting __; person strikingly like

another person

30 “Say Yes to the __” 31 Interplanetary visitors, for short 33 High IQ society

34 King Kong, for one

36 “It’s __, Mad, Mad, Mad World” 37 __ Laurel and Oliver Hardy 39 Baseball’s Mel

40 Sault __. Marie