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December 18 - 24, 2017 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Barrett of "NCIS: Los Angeles" 4. One of the boys on "Home Improvement" 8. Daughter on "Family Guy" 11. Stomach muscles, for short 12. Roof overhang 13. "Avengers: __ of Ultron"; 2015 movie 14. "American __ __"; sports game show 17. Lichtenstein's continent: abbr. 18. "__ Kelly"; 2003 Heath Ledger film 19. "__ Copy" (1989-99) 21. "SportsCenter" network 24. "__ the World Turns" 25. Initials for Popeye's love 26. Smallest of fifty: abbr. 27. Setting for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show": abbr. 28. Actress Winningham 30. Actress Lange 32. "__ Tree Hill" 34. Voight or Stewart 35. Bernadette __; role on "The Big Bang Theory" 41. "__ Dalmatians" 42. Princess __; Carrie Fisher's "Star Wars" role 43. "Please Don't __ the Daisies" 44. Name for a Stooge 45. "Black __"; 2010 Natalie Portman movie 46. Cobb and Burrell DOWN 1. "The __"; 1996 Robert De Niro baseball movie 2. __-Wan Kenobi 3. Lou Grant's portrayer 4. Smokey or Yogi 5. "__ Deal"; 1986 Schwarzenegger film 6. Wife to Mickey, Artie and Frank 7. Laura or Bruce 8. "Pretty __ All in a Row"; movie for Rock Hudson 9. Sense of self-esteem 10. Marlene Dietrich's birthplace: abbr. 15. "__ at Nuremberg"; Spencer Tracy/Burt Lancaster film 16. "The Donna __ __" (1958-66) 19. Role on "JAG" 20. Oman's continent 22. "__ and Circumstance" 23. "__ But the Brave"; Frank Sinatra movie 29. __ O'Donnell 31. Beginning 33. Sargasso Sea dangers 34. __ Rivers 35. Curved edge 36. "Hollywood Squares" win 37. "The __ Adventures of Old Christine" 38. Optima or Sedona 39. Actress Panabaker 40. "__ Like, You Know..." (1999-2001) Solution on page 2 CoverStory By John Crook © Zap2it Actor Kit Harington has earned global fame with his role as Jon Snow in HBO's epic fantasy "Game of Thrones," but he turned to a grim and very real chap- ter out of British history for "Gunpowder," a three-part historical thriller premiering Monday-Wednesday, Dec. 18-20, on the premium service. The drama recounts the events surrounding an unsuccessful plot by Catholic rebels to murder the Protestant King James I of England by blowing up the House of Lords at the opening of Parliament on Nov. 5, 1605. To the ex- tent that Americans know of the episode, they may associate it chiefly with conspirator Guy Fawkes (Tom Cullen), but the real ringleader of the conspira- cy was Robert Catesby, an ancestor of Harington, who plays him in the miniseries. It was about three years ago that Harington first broached the topic of dra- matizing Catesby's story with his best friend Daniel West, a producing partner and one of Harington's co- stars in "Gunpowder." "Every schoolkid in England knows the rhyme about 'Remember, remem- ber the fifth of November,' and they probably know a little something about the Gunpowder Plot but not really the whole picture," Harington says. "As far as I knew, no one had ever really explored it. "We wanted to do this, not to school people exact- ly, but we thought maybe that period of history is in danger of becoming lost in time. We thought it would be worthwhile to really dig into the story and remember what the fifth of November is actually com- memorating." In addition to the char- ismatic Cullen, joining Harington in the strong cast are Scots actor Pe- ter Mullan ("Top of the Lake," "Trainspotting") as the Jesuit leader Father Henry Garnet, Mark Gatiss ("Sherlock") as Robert Cecil, the king's ruthless spymaster, and Liv Tyler as Anne Vaux, Catesby's cousin. When this miniseries aired in Great Britain earlier this fall, the BBC received some viewer complaints about the level of graphic violence shown, particularly in the first night's depiction of the torture of (fictional) Lady Dorothy Dibdale (Sian Webber). Harington readily con- cedes that some scenes are hard to watch, but the violence isn't gratuitous, he says. Kit Harington, Liv Tyler and Sian Webber star in "Gunpowder," a three-night miniseries premiering Monday on HBO. HBO's 'Gunpowder' chronicles historical events behind UK's annual Bonfire Night

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