TV CROSSWORD

By Jacqueline E. Mathews

ACROSS

1 Actress Paquin

5 “Murder, __ Wrote”

8 “The __”; talk show for Whoopi 9 “Mea __”; admission of guilt 12 Bicyclist Armstrong

13 Popular prime-time soap opera 14 DEFG followers

15 Actor Harmon

16 Tamera Mowry’s twin

18 Ending for pay or Motor

19 Lion’s neck hair

20 Actor Neeson

21 “That Was the __ That Was”;

David Frost political satire series 23 Boy on “The Partridge Family” 24 Up to the task

25 Silent film actress Theda 26 Gilbert and Rue

28 Actor Sandler

29 Like a bloody horror movie 30 Skillets

32 Paul’s cousin on “Mad About

You”

35 Prefix for cycle or angle

36 Very dry 37 “The __ Campbell Goodtime

Hour”

38 Leo G. Carroll series of early TV 40 “The Life of __”; William Bendix

sitcom

41 Zodiac sign

42 “Rock of __”; Alec Baldwin movie 43 Suffix for heir or host

44 Grow weary

DOWN

1 To no __; ineffectively 2 “American __”; action game

show

3 Least-popular piece of chicken 4 Feeling of wonderment

5 “Let’s __ Jessica to Death”;

Zohra Lampert horror movie 6 “The Incredible __” 7 Perpendicular building wing 10 Actress on “Madam Secretary” 11 Thai or Japanese

12 JFK’s assassin

13 Role on “Roseanne”

15 “Let’s __ a Deal”

17 Mom on “Little People, Big

World”

19 Diner where Alice worked

20 Dr. Zhivago’s love

22 Auction lover’s site

23 “My Two __”

25 “Making the __”; reality series 26 “__. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts

Club Band”

27 Vital blood vessel

30 “Meet the __”

31 “Up in the __”; George Clooney

movie

33 “Touched by an Angel” actress 34 “__ Given Sunday”; Pacino film 36 “Planet of the __”

37 Leslie Caron Oscar-winning film 39 “American __”; Jason Biggs film 40 Long-tailed rodent