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February 8 - 14, 2021 Page 3 ACROSS 1. __ Hanna; "NCIS: Los Angeles" role 4. Word in the title of Viola Davis' series 8. Ernie with a club 11. Suffix for treat or expert 12. Bread spread 13. "__ Race"; 2001 film for Whoopi 14. Series for Sean Giambrone (2) 17. "... '__ the season to be jolly ..." 18. Hug, kiss, hug 19. "Back in the __"; Beatles song 21. "Man With a __" 24. "That's __ Raven" 25. Behold's partner 26. Series for Maura Tierney 27. "The Last Man __ Earth" 28. Actress Mazar 30. "Do __ others ..." 32. Source of quick cash, for short 34. Actress Joanne 35. "The __"; Chris Harrison's series 41. Words that end the single life (2) 42. "The __ Ranger" 43. Welling or Bergeron 44. "__ Air"; Nicolas Cage movie 45. Highway sign 46. "What I Like About __" DOWN 1. Take a load off 2. Volcanic residue 3. "Boy __ World" 4. Wines and dines 5. "__ Fly Away" 6. "How I Met Your Mother" role 7. Freddie the Freeloader, for one 8. Actor Flynn 9. Jet __; traveler's woe 10. Easy & Sesame: abbr. 15. "The __ __ the Dragon Tattoo"; 2011 film 16. "Northern __" 19. "__ People"; MacLaine/ Bates/Tandy movie 20. Feeling resentful 22. "__ __ Like Love"; film for Kutcher & Peet 23. Advice to Nanette (2) 29. Actor Kevin 31. "The __ Professor"; 1996 Eddie Murphy film 33. Diner where Alice worked 34. Carey, for one 35. Pen name 36. Needless fuss 37. Chat room laugh 38. Beatle wife 39. "A Bridge __ Far"; Sean Connery movie 40. Huge bird Solution is on page 2. CoverStory By George Dickie As animated family comedies set in Alaska go, Fox's "The Great North" is in a category all its own. Premiering Sunday, Feb. 14 (following a January sneak peek), the half-hour comedy follows the ad- ventures of the Tobin clan of the 49th State, which is headed by patriarch Beef (voice of Nick Offerman, "Parks and Recreation"), a single dad trying to keep his disparate group of kids together after his wife left him. Probably the biggest oddball of them is daughter Judy (Jenny Slate, "Bob's Burgers"), who dreams of being an artist away from life on the family fishing boat. There is also oldest brother Wolf (Will Forte, "Last Man on Earth") and his fiancee Honeybee (Dul- cé Sloan, "Chick Fight"); middle brother Ham (Paul Rust, "Love") and young- est brother Moon (Aparna Nancherla, "A Simple Fa- vor"). And with her mother not available, Judy seeks guidance from boss Alyson (Megan Mullally, "Will & Grace") and her imaginary friend Alanis Morissette (voicing herself), who ap- pears to her in the northern lights. The series was cre- ated by "Bob's Burgers" writers/producers Wen- dy Molyneux and Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin, who originally conceived of this as a vehicle for Offerman and Slate and incorporated elements of themselves and their experiences into the characters, particularly Beef and Judy. "We were talking a lot about our own experienc- es as teenage girls who maybe didn't always fit in," Wendy Molyneux explains, "and that's where we start- ed thinking about Judy and Beef as this sort of like benevolent dad character. We thought the idea of them as a father/daughter combo would be really fun. And then we just wanted to think about an environment that we weren't currently seeing in animation and ... this idea of a little more of a kind of work-a-day dad and a more artistic daugh- ter. And Alaska came up as an idea because Lizzie had visited there a few times and just found it kind of inspiring." And Alaska isn't just a mere backdrop but a character, as its wildlife, topography and weather all play roles here. So do the northern lights, in the visage and voice of sev- en-time Grammy-winning singer/songwriter Moris- sette, who serves as Ju- dy's lodestar. "I think we always want- ed Judy to have this big, emotional, fantastical life inside of her head," Lizzie Molyneux-Logelin explains. "I think part of that for us was a feeling about when we were teenagers, of sort of feeling like ... 'Oh, I can't wait to get out into the bigger world and see all of the things,' and sort of be a part of this world that you don't experience when you're just living in your hometown as a teenager. " A family contends with Alaska and one another in Fox's animated 'The Great North' The identity of the featured celebrity is found within the answers in the puzzle. In order to take the TV Challenge, unscramble the letters noted with asterisks within the puzzle.

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