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

Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle