TV Crossword

ACROSS

1 Masked official, briefly

4 Teacher’s deg.

7 Trampled

11 Unwanted email

13 2008 musical film “Mamma ___!”

14 Type of cider

15 Italian pasta dish

17 Nerve network

18 Childhood game

20 Mary ___ cosmetics

21 Reddish brown pigment

25 Old-school movie storage mediums

28 Star Wars star Oscar

29 In the thick of

30 Part of the foot

31 Complex unit?

33 In a weird way

34 Villanelle by another name, in the series referenced in 44

Down

36 Airport abbr.

37 Bygone legal sitcom

42 “30 Rock’s” Baldwin

45 Nil

46 Batman’s hideout

47 Yale student

48 Major-___

49 Lyft competitor

50 W.W. II woman

51 Accident

DOWN

1 “Full Metal Jacket” (1987) org.

2 Movie-rating org.

3 Agreement

4 Atlanta university

5 Former “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Manzo

6 Robin Hood’s Marian, and others 7 If two’s company ...

8 “Diff’rent Strokes” and “The Facts of Life” star Charlotte

9 Food scrap

10 J.F.K.’s predecessor

12 New competition that’s a spinoff of a musical series

16 Some TVs

19 Number of weeks per annum

22 Plant once used in medicine

23 Salt, chemically

24 In need of a massage

25 Tortilla treat

26 Wild and crazy way to run

27 Donkey tail fasteners

32 Demon from Japanese folklore

33 “Free Willy’s”

(1993) Willy

35 Nixon’s second

36 Scary place in many horror movies

38 Granada greeting

39 “This is bad!”

40 Terza ___ (Italian verse form)

41 Sporty car roof

42 Prefix with puncture

43 “Breaking Bad” setting

44 “Killing ___” (award-winning TV dramedy)