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July 17 - 23, 2017 Page 3 ACROSS 1. "American __" 8. Murray of "NCIS" 9. "The Red Skelton __" 10. Former anchor of NBC's "Today" (2) 14. Corddry, once of "Mom" 15. Cobb and Burrell 16. "Cat __ __ Hot Tin Roof" 17. "Make __ __ Break It" (2009-12) 18. Encyclopedia vol., perhaps 19. Paper Mate products 20. Estes and Lowe 24. Starz competitor 27. Woodwind instrument 28. Suffix for auction or command 29. Wally or Courteney 32. Feline cry 33. Actor on "Fresh Off the Boat" (2) 36. "__ 222" (1969-74) 37. Baseball's Slaughter 38. Sullivan of "Blindspot" DOWN 1. Actress Patricia 2. Western movies and TV shows 3. Prefix for form or cycle 4. "__ the Boss?" 5. Debtor's note 6. Outbreak of anger 7. Moran and Burnett 8. Emulate Michelle Kwan 11. Film alien 12. Famed pitcher __ Young 13. "The __ in the Hat"; 2003 movie 14. "__ / Tuck" (2003- 10) 20. Actor on "Everybody Loves Raymond" 21. Actress Merle __ 22. Manuals and novels 23. Stitch 24. "I'm with __" (2003- 04) 25. Yogi and Boo Boo 26. "To be __ __ to be..." 29. "Daddy Day __"; 2007 film for Cuba Gooding Jr. 30. "__' Man River" 31. Sarah Michelle Gellar's age 34. __ __ double take; look twice 35. "__ Sematary"; 1989 Fred Gwynne movie Solution on page 2 CoverStory By George Dickie © Zap2it Invest. Pay off debt. Go on a nice, long trip. Tell the boss where to go. We've all fantasized about what we'd do if we came into sudden wealth. A new dramedy from across the pond explores how four sudden tech mil- lionaires handle their good fortune — for better and for worse. In "Loaded," premiering Monday, July 17, on AMC, the British 30-somethings in question are Josh (Jim Howick, "Broadchurch"), Leon (Samuel Anderson, "Doctor Who"), Ewan (Jon- ny Sweet, "Babylon") and Watto (Nick Helm, the U.K. series "Uncle"), four college pals who sell their tech firm Idyl Hands and its hit mo- bile game "Cat Factory" to Casey (Mary McCormack, "In Plain Sight") for millions. Overnight, they're faced with the awesome and/or terrifying realization that they have more money than they know what to do with. While the other guys go into celebration mode, Josh, the group's neurotic creative conscience and moral compass, frets over suddenly having 14 million pounds in his chronically overdrawn checking ac- count and doesn't know how to handle it. One idea is to buy his parents an around-the-world trip but even they can't enjoy it because they don't enjoy being around each other. And now the guys are under the thumb of Casey, their new no-nonsense boss, who expects them to come up with an equally successful follow-up to "Cat Factory." But Josh, who hates sequels, resists and the two lock horns — which only serves to aggravate his already pro- nounced neuroses. "We kind of go head to head because my charac- ter finds sequels creatively barren and just essentially a money-making (scheme) ...," Howick explains. "One thing about this show that comes across is the guys ... are not particularly proud of this game. You know, in their minds they can make a better game. They want to be making kind of 'Vice City' or 'GTA' ('Grand Theft Auto') and they ended up making a game that mums play on the toilet on their phone. And that's the thing, is that they've made their name with this game and they're not particularly proud of the game itself." "They're sort of forced into this world of sort of smartphone, low-fi kind of games, I guess, and what they really want to be do- ing is making the 'Rockstar' games." The seriocomic series "Loaded" premieres Monday on AMC. Techies strike it rich, for better and for worse, on AMC's 'Loaded'

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