TV CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “__ Trek: Deep Space Nine”

5 Mr. Deluise

8 Place for a goatee

9 Lt. __ Van Buren; S. Epatha Merkerson’s “Law & Order” role 12 Dryer and Savage

13 Tim’s neighbor on “Home

Improvement”

14 Sitcom about a southern soccer

mom

15 Tyne or Tim

16 And not

18 “The __ and the Pussycat”;

Barbra Streisand movie

19 Actor __ Grant

20 “__-Called Life”; Claire Danes

series

21 “It’s __, Mad, Mad, Mad World” 23 Ben Affleck’s younger brother 24 Reality series whose theme song

is “Bad Boys”

25 Part of the foot

26 Wallace and Farrell

28 Small plateau

29 “__ well that ends well!”

30 Dog on “Garfield and Friends”

32 Actress __ Thompson

35 Zoom down snowy slopes

36 Advanced degrees: abbr.

37 “Less __ Perfect”

38 “__ As It Gets”; Jack Nicholson

movie

40 Prickle on a rose stem

41 Phillips, once of “Dateline NBC”

42 Person, place or thing

43 Agrees to, for short

44 Bathroom features

DOWN

1 Threaded metal fastener

2 Series for James Spader

3 Verdi opera

4 Nurses, for short

5 “The __ Show with Jon Stewart”

6 “For Your Eyes __”; 007 movie

7 Prefix for placed or matched

10 Actor on “We Are Men”

11 Win by __; eke out a victory

12 To and __; back and forth

13 “__ of the Worlds”; Tom Cruise

film

15 “My Two __”

17 __ Rogers and Dale Evans

19 Headwear for baseball fans

20 Actor Bernie and others

22 Namesakes of a Stooge

23 Actress __ Summer

25 Actress Suzy __

26 Bell and Barker

27 Actress Chase and others

30 Woodwind instruments

31 “American __!”

33 Makes, as a salary

34 Ms. Jillian

36 Former series about a detective

37 “O Brother, Where Art __?”;

George Clooney movie

39 Wet sticky stuff

40 One of Ted Turner’s networks