TV CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “$#*! My __ Says”

4 Simon ____ of “The Mentalist” 9 Felix or Stimpy

12 “Grand __ Opry”

13 S. Epatha Merkerson’s role on

“Law & Order”

14 Geisha’s sash

15 Prefix for fat or sense

16 __ O’Reilly; role on “M*A*S*H” 17 Take advantage of 18 “Suddenly __”

20 Raring to go

22 Role on “Criminal Minds” 26 Bird that sometimes mimics

human speech

27 Carney or Linkletter 28 “Message __ Bottle”; Kevin

Costner/Paul Newman movie 29 Charged atom

32 Gives a pink slip to

35 Actor on “The Office”

39 Davis or Midler

40 “__ of Two Cities”

42 Actress Charlotte __

43 Storm and Gordon 47 Animal with an udder

48 Make a mistake

49 “Hearts __”; John Ritter sitcom 50 “Mike Hammer, Private __” 51 Golfer Ernie __

52 Take the helm

53 Three-foot measures: abbr.

DOWN

1 Adams and Ameche

2 Audibly

3 Thickheaded

4 Fred Flintstone’s neighbor

5 __ Ortiz of “Ugly Betty”

6 “The Karate __”

7 Greek letter

8 More unusual

9 “__ Town”; Courteney Cox series 10 “The __-Minded Professor”; Fred

MacMurray movie

11 Wedding cake layer

19 Upper limb

21 __ Khan; title for an imam 23 “Mack the __”; popular song of

past decades

24 __-depressive; bipolar 25 Scarlett’s last name in “Gone

With the Wind”

29 “My Name __”

30 Semi-aquatic mammals

31 Tennis court divider

33 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie 34 __ up; arrange

36 “Las __”; James Caan series 37 “Cagney & __”

38 Beau and Jeff Bridges’ dad 39 Role for Marcia Cross on

“Desperate Housewives” 41 Mates for rams

44 Fore and __; at both ends of a

ship

45 “__ to Me”; crime drama series

for Tim Roth and Mekhi Phifer 46 Before, in poetry