TV CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Role on “How I Met Your Mother” 4 “Dancing with the __”

9 “The __ News Bears” 12 MacGraw or Larter

13 __ four; dainty iced pastry 14 Baseball stat.

15 Monogram for writer Alcott 16 Actress __ Massey

17 “Days of __ Lives”

18 “Late Night with __ O’Brien” 20 Loop at the end of a lasso 22 Actress on “How to Live with Your Parents (For the Rest of Your Life)”

26 Hawaiian greeting

27 __ Moines, Iowa

28 Big __; trucker’s truck

29 Maya Rudolph’s role on “Up All

Night”

32 “The Cat in the Hat” author

35 __ Smith; actress on “NCIS: Los

Angeles”

39 “You Don’t __ Me Flowers”; Neil

Diamond/Barbra Streisand song 40 Sandler and Wylie 42 Sushi bar dish

43 “The __ Escape”; Steve

McQueen movie

47 Animated film about a macaw 48 180 from WNW

49 Sharp, as a pain

50 “A Nightmare on __ Street”;

Johnny Depp movie

51 Floral wire delivery service 52 More uncommon

53 John of “Touched by an Angel”

DOWN

1 Powder, for short

2 Red Muppet and his namesakes 3 Ross or Rigg

4 “This Is __ Tap”; Rob Reiner film 5 __ Aviv, Israel

6 From __ Z; the whole gamut 7 “The Adventures of __ Tin Tin” 8 Actress Katic of “Castle” 9 Actress Shields

10 Mistreats

11 Urgent

19 Former coach Parseghian 21 “The New Adventures of __

Christine”

23 Trigger or Mister Ed

24 “Sorry about that, __”; line from

Maxwell Smart on “Get Smart” 25 The __; large Dutch city 29 Capture and take into custody 30 Covered; hidden

31 Sothern or Jillian

33 Christian or Helen

34 Actor __ Caesar

36 Samantha __

37 Gave a hoot

38 Procter of “CSI: Miami”

39 Red meat

41 “__ Like It Hot”

44 TV brand

45 Spain’s continent: abbr.

46 Dined