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 model-turned- 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