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October 16 - 22, 2023 Page 3 By Sarah Passingham It's the beginning of the end of the trail for some apocalypse survivors in the return of the final season of "Fear the Walking Dead." The "Walking Dead" spinoff series' midseason premiere airs on AMC Sunday, Oct. 22, just in time for an early celebration of the eeriest holiday of the year. Kim Dickens ("Friday Night Lights") stars as Madison Clark, a high school guid- ance counsellor before the outbreak who now oversees the reconstruction of a survivors' island colony. "Fear the Walking Dead" closes out an impressive eight-season run with six episodes to go before the big, two-part series finale set to air Sunday, Nov. 19. The first of now six spinoffs of the original series, "Fear the Walking Dead" premiered in 2015 and followed an extended family as they tried to survive in post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. The series detailed the survivors' journey as they travelled and settled in Cal- ifornia, Mexico and now an island off the Georgia coast. The island, known as PADRE, was constructed after the walker outbreak as a military operation in- tended to distribute supplies to new communities of survivors. A tragic walker invasion decimated PADRE, and since then, desperate survivors have used the island's resources that once represented a more hopeful future. In the first half of the final sea- son of "Fear the Walking Dead," Madison landed on PADRE after a hard-fought journey to find the island with Morgan Jones (Lennie James, "Save Me"). The pair re- united Morgan with his daughter, Mo (Zoey Merchant, "The Price of Fame"), by force at PADRE before the show leaps seven years into the future. Madison is imprisoned on PADRE while Morgan spends most of the first six episodes of the season on his own mission, trying to save Grace Mukherjee (Karen David, "Legacies") from radiation sickness before sadly losing her and setting off to Alexandria. With the dangerous former co-leaders of PADRE no longer a problem, Madison attempts to reinvigorate the spirit of PADRE and the island with the remaining resources available to them. While the final episodes of "Fear the Walk- ing Dead" could certainly detail the establishment of a post-apocalyptic paradise, this is the Walking Dead universe after all, so there will un- doubtedly be danger lurking in the shadows of PADRE. Across 1. One of the friends on "Friends" 5. Unit of electrical resistance 8. Time of day: Abbr. 11. baseball family name 12. Drive off 13. "Extraordinary Attorney ___" 14. break down 15. One of the friends on "Friends" 17. "Little House on the ___" 19. court stat 22. beltway environs 26. Spiders' kin 27. Score after deuce 28. Org. for Rory McIlroy 29. Attorneys' org. 30. Open, as a bottle 33. Rhodes of Rhodesia 35. Pumps (up) 37. One of the friends on "Friends" 38. Night bird 40. Did a background check 43. capitol Hill worker 47. Sob syllable 48. bleats 49. "Sounds good to me!" 50. It may be stroked 51. Slip 52. One of the friends on "Friends" Down 1. Talk, talk, talk 2. Vaudevillian Olsen 3. Want-ad letters 4. Stereotypical beemer driver 5. "When'd you come in?" 6. Stockpile 7. One of the friends on "Friends" 8. belt maker's tool 9. Adversary 10. craggy hill 12. "beat it!" 16. Word with heat or meat 18. Online news aggrega- tion inits. 19. Energize, informally 20. Indications 21. Actor Keach 23. Kind of motel 24. Jazz pianist blake 25. To any degree 31. Long (for) 32. One of the friends on "Friends" 33. Field call 34. cream-filled pastry 36. Salvaging aid 37. Farm measures 39. Fly 40. Any car, affectionately 41. Minor player 42. Friend of Tigger 44. chat room "I believe" 45. Run down 46. Dash widths CoverStory 'Fear the Walking Dead' returns with final episodes Solution is on page 2. Jenna Elfman in "Fear the Walking Dead"

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