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February 22 - 28, 2021 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Role on "Mom" 5. Actor Stonestreet 9. India's New __ 10. Fannies 12. Suffix for Vietnam or Japan 13. "__-Pro"; Will Ferrell movie 16. Tuck's partner, in phrase 17. "__ the World Turns" 18. Walker of "Chicago Fire" 20. Vanna White's state of birth: abbr. 21. "The __ Housewives of Beverly Hills" 23. Dog on "The Thin Man" 25. Madame in Madrid 26. Prefix with light 27. Luau dish 28. Egg layer 29. Hand-__; tailor-made 30. Actor Brody 32. "Touched by __ Angel" 33. Number of Waltons in the family home 38. "As __ sow, so shall ..." 39. Actor __-T 41. "__ Movie"; 2007 Kal Penn film 42. "__ Doll"; 1964 Four Seasons hit 43. Evil spirit 45. Goldie's family 47. Gallops 48. Fashion designer Cassini DOWN 1. Actor on "Chicago Fire" (2) 2. Suffix for infant or text 3. Hagman's initials 4. One of the Simpsons 5. Actress Moran 6. Prefix for heat or play 7. Actor McShane 8. Role on "Grey's Anatomy" (2) 9. "Yes, __" 11. Animal protection organization 14. Character in "The Wizard of Oz" 15. "__' Better Blues"; Denzel Washington film 18. Role on "Seinfeld" 19. Fillion of "Castle" 22. "Pretty Maids All in __ __"; Rock Hudson film 24. Ingrid Bergman's nation of birth: abbr. 29. "Enough __"; Julia Louis-Dreyfus movie 31. Ryan and Tilly 34. Camera's eye 35. Initials for Lisa Marie's dad 36. "Star Wars: Episode __ - Return of the Jedi" 37. Repeated sound 40. Very large bird 42. Emerson's monogram 44. "Homicide: Life __ the Street" 46. Peggy Bundy's man Solution is on page 2. CoverStory By Jay Bobbin The Man of Steel and Lois Lane have been mar- ried on television before, but viewers now can see what they're like as par- ents, too. The CW expands its DC Universe again by launching "Superman & Lois" Tuesday, Feb. 23, with a 90-minute premiere followed by a behind-the-scenes spe - cial. Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch reprise the iconic roles they've played on "Supergirl" and in the crossover sagas "Elseworlds" and "Crisis on Infinite Earths," taking the characters back to Smallville as they raise their sons Jonathan and Jordan (Jordan Elsass, Al - exander Garfin). Still there is Lana Lang (Emmanuelle Chriqui), now married to the local fire chief (Erik Valdez) and with her own child, Sarah (Inde Navar - rette). "I really don't have a history with the character," friendly "7th Heaven" alum Hoechlin admits about Superman before starting to portray him. "I played baseball and was acting at a young age, so all of my free time was taken up, and comic books weren't really my thing ... but in what I think in a fortunate way, that lack of history is beneficial, in that I can approach (Superman) in a way that's very honest and intuitive." Tulloch says she feels "it doesn't get much better" than to land as prominent a part as Lois, and she feels the new show's appeal is in presenting Lois and Su- perman's earthy alter ego Clark Kent as "modern, working parents who are kind of the best of the best in their careers, but as par- ents, they're flailing a lot. Especially in 2021, when we've had a difficult past year, a lot of people are struggling. Lois and Clark make mistakes." Hoechlin believes having played Superman a num- ber of times before starting his own show in the role was helpful, "though the tone is very different from what we did on the other shows. We've never seen this before, and that's a very freeing experience on the set." The wife of David Gi- untoli of ABC's "A Million Little Things", Tulloch was well into a pregnancy when she first played Lois in the "Elseworlds" miniseries. "I am very career-driven and ambitious," Tulloch states in likening herself to Lois, "so I never saw myself not being a working actress/mother. David has much shorter working days than I do, so it's tough on the days when I go to work at 5:30 in the morning and come home at 9 or 10 at night and don't see my daughter once during the day. I make sure I spend a lot of time with her on the weekends." 'Superman & Lois' takes off as CW series premieres 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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