TV Crossword

ACROSS

1 “No ___!” (“Can do”)

5 When repeated, the hero of a 2011 film based on a Belgian comics series

8 Settled a cable TV bill

12 Desired gift in “The Bachelorette”

13 Prefix with meter

14 ___ of passage

15 Itty-bitty bit

16 ___ Moines, Iowa

17 Thor’s father in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

18 Sicilian eruptor

20 Administer via needle

22 Queen ___ (Beyoncé nickname)

23 “The Facts of Life” actress

24 Permit

27 “Star Trek” character nicknamed Bones

31 Entry room

32 “Who’s there?” response

33 Shakespeare’s theater

34 Overconfident

35 Starchy tuber

37 “Elementary” star Lucy

38 “Tom and Huck”

(1995) and “The Client” (1994) star Brad

41 Fishy reality series

45 Organic compound

46 Clothing label

48 Website that anyone can edit

49 VHS alternative

50 Gloaming

51 Rate ___ (be perfect)

52 Pasty-faced

53 Broadway hit “Hamilton’s” ___-Manuel Miranda

54 Before today: Abbr.

1 Proper partner?

2 Cheer for the home team

3 Bone: Prefix

4 Food Network competition series

5 NBC morning show

6 Cyan finish

7 Emphatic denial

8 Reality TV series

9 Campaign worker

10 Suffix with arthr11 Bumper depression

19 January 1st

21 South African nation

24 High school subj.

25 Text titter

26 Wall St. deal

28 Civil War letters

29 Mantra sounds

30 Food Network’s “Girl Meets Farm” host Molly

36 Former drama based on a classic cinematic thriller: “Bates ___”

37 Wearer of three stars: Abbr.

38 Former sitcom that starred a country music singer

39 Chemical endings

40 “Sex and the City’s” Mr. Big portrayer

42 Toy that comes with strings attached

43 Just makes, with “out”

44 Force or power

47 Prefix that’s for the birds

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