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November 8 - 14, 2021 Page 3 ACROSS 1. 2021 Series for Tori Anderson (2) 9. Actress Long 10. Fanny 11. Comment from Homer 13. "__ __ Grows in Brooklyn"; 1945 film 15. Basketball game venue 17. "__ Who?" (2007-09) 18. "United States of __" 20. HI followers 21. "Harry's __" (2011-12) 23. __ Ullmann 24. Role on "The Waltons" 25. Polly Holliday role 26. Actor Estevez's initials 29. Matt Damon's age 30. Series for Paul Guilfoyle (2) 34. Close & Stonestreet 36. "Return to __"; reality series 38. Battery size 39. 505 and 506 42. Undesirable spot 43. "FBI: __ __" DOWN 1. Word attached to pick or wit 2. Accord & Camry 3. Flower stalk 4. Actress Kelly 5. "__ the World Turns" 6. "__ Not to Wear" 7. Creative thought 8. 2003-07 Saturn model 9. Actress on "La Brea" (2) 12. Role on "Chicago P.D." (2) 14. "Please Don't __ the Daisies" 16. Fraternity letter 19. Veronica or Ricki 20. Mom on "Home Improvement" 22. "__ Are Marshall"; Matthew Fox film 23. Ferrigno's initials 27. UCLA's crosstown rival 28. Rob Lowe's "The West Wing" role 30. Farewell 31. "Whose Line __ __ Anyway?" 32. Put on weight 33. Shirt label info 35. Crash into 37. Caesar, for one 40. Cry from a flu shot clinic 41. John Wayne's state of birth: abbr. Solution is on page 2. CoverStory By Jay Bobbin The word "reunion" typ- ically connotes a happy regathering. Then, there's the reunion that fuels "Yel- lowjackets." Premiering Sunday, Nov. 14, the Showtime drama series focuses on four women 25 years af- ter surviving a wilderness plane crash while members of a high school soccer team. The show flashes back frequently to that ordeal, helping to explain the respective issues that they still have now. Mela - nie Lynskey ("Two and a Half Men"), Juliette Lewis ("Natural Born Killers"), Christina Ricci ("Black Snake Moan") and Tawny Cypress ("Unforgettable") play the quartet in the present day. "I honestly was so ex- cited to read something that was so different," Lynskey reflects. "There was a genuine sort of edge to this, something very tense in the writing. And I really loved that it was so female-centered, and every single one of the women was so well-drawn and interesting. By the end of the pilot, I felt like I knew everybody, and they were all unique individuals. I'm very, very nervous of sign - ing long-term show con- tracts, and I just was like, 'I can't wait to see where this goes. I can't wait to do this for as long as I can do it.' " Since "Yellowjackets" visualizes the plane crash often, a younger foursome of actresses also portrays the central characters. Sophie Nelisse ("The Book Thief"), Lynskey's counter- part as the teenage Shau- na, recalls that working on that part of the show's set was, "very claustrophobic. The plane was slightly tilt- ed to the side, so I think it was really helpful for us to be in an environment like that. It made it very real- istic. When we got there on the first day and saw how real it looked, I think we felt very scared, and it really helped us get into our characters' bodies and motions." Ella Purnell also is among the younger cast members. "Yellowjackets" exec - utive producer and (with Bart Nickerson) co-creator Ashley Lyle says, "We knew we didn't want to be a show about what hap- pened, but about why it happened. We figured the best way to do that was to just play it all in the begin- ning, so that the question is more, 'How did they get from Point A to Point B?' Obviously, there are rifts in the group, but it's really a team. "What was interesting to us about having it be a championship soccer team is that it's all about collaboration," adds Lyle. "Spoiler alert: It's not re - ally a soccer show, but it's about how these girls were able to really work together, then to see how that might really start to fall apart and shatter over the course of a season. The circumstances bring out both the best and the worst in them." 'Yellowjackets' brings athletes' past trauma into the present on Showtime 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. InFocus "How to With John Wilson" (HBO — season premiere, Nov. 26) The self-described "anxious New Yorker" and quirky documentary filmmaker John Wilson returns for the sophomore season of his six-part docuseries, in which he continues his eccentric journey of self-exploration and observation. Following the show's off-the-wall premise, Wilson turns his cameras on his fellow New Yorkers going about their lives, while he also tries to offer practical advice on six new and deceptively simple topics.

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