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April 18 - 24, 2022 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Thomas of "B Positive" 10. __ vera; lotion ingredient 11. __ __ broke; risk it all 12. "__ Amsterdam" 13. "Breaking __" (2008-13) 14. "Alley __" 16. Actor on "Mr. Mayor" (2) 18. British cars 20. Lina of "S.W.A.T." 21. Freshwater fish 22. Role on "The Waltons" 23. Retirement account 24. White Monopoly bills 25. __-__ list; paper full of chores 27. Insurance company employee 28. Series for Dwayne Johnson (2) 32. Dundee denial 33. "Hollywood Squares" win 34. Setting for "Empty Nest": abbr. 37. November birthstone 39. Elderly 40. Actor on "black-ish" (2) DOWN 1. "__ With a Plan" 2. Suffix for infant or project 3. Tony __ of "Leave It to Beaver" 4. Actress Cote __ Pablo 5. Old-fashioned oath 6. "The Days and Nights of Molly __" (1987-91) 7. "Catch Me __ You Can" 8. Ten __ __; very good odds 9. "__ Jordan" (2001-07) 13. "Venom: Let There __ Carnage"; 2021 film 15. Word attached to book or knife 16. Recipe amount 17. Refusals 18. Leave high and dry 19. "The __"; 1967 Dustin Hoffman movie 21. "Spin __" 24. Furniture wood 26. "__ __ the Boys"; 1989 sitcom 29. Wander 30. Seep out 31. "Here Come the __- eds"; Abbot & Costello film 34. E-I connection 35. __ Dilallo; role on "The Good Doctor" 36. High naval rank 38. Initials for Columbo's portrayer 39. Comedian Carney's initials Solution is on page 2. CoverStory By Jay Bobbin Over 60-plus years, through personal and professional triumphs and setbacks, his life has been Magic. And often very public. With contributions from relatives and friends, Earvin "Magic" Johnson tells his story in "They Call Me Mag- ic," a four-part Apple TV+ documentary series that be- gins streaming Friday, April 22. The program traces his legendary, numerous-re- cord-setting career with basketball's Los Angeles Lakers, which saw him retire upon disclosing his HIV-positive diagnosis, but he returned to the team lat - er as a coach and then as a player again — and then as the Lakers' president of basketball operations. "People had come to me before and wanted to do something," Johnson says of making the profile, "but I felt the timing wasn't right. Then (the ESPN/ Netflix documentary) 'The Last Dance' happened and everybody just said, 'Hey, you've got to do yours.' And I was ready for it. I got a great partner in Apple. I think that this is an amazing journey that I've been on, and we're going to tell that story." Johnson also has made marks as a media personal- ity and a business entrepre- neur, the latter making him an owner of the Los Ange- les Dodgers, an insurance company and the cable net- work Aspire. He believes he shows other athletes how to "reinvent yourself," reason- ing that "if you can remem- ber all those plays ... you're smart enough to really go into being a businessman or a businesswoman." However, Johnson ac- cepts his health also is a major part of his history. He reflects, "What I tried to do is ask my doctors, 'What do I have to do to be able to live for a long time?' Everything that they told me — take my meds, have a positive attitude, work out — I did those things. And then, (I also had to) be comfortable with my new status. I think that was the main thing. I was giving up the game that I love in bas- ketball, and that was hard for me to do. "I think at the end of the day, I've done everything the right way. The most im- portant thing, why I'm prob- ably still here, is because of my support system: my wife, Cookie, my kids, my parents, my brothers and sisters. Still, Johnson notes that in reviewing his life as "They Call Me Magic" was being made, "You always look at it differently. I mean, I've lived it. Whether that was winning championships or crying when (former Lak- ers owner) Dr. Jerry Buss was dying, whether it was announcing HIV, whether that's when I opened movie theaters in the Black com- munity — it brought back some incredible memories for me to do this documen- tary. And I'm so proud of it." Magic Johnson tells his own story in Apple TV+ documentary series 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 "Welcome Home Nikki Glaser?" (E! — series premiere, May 1) Comic, podcast host and frequent "roastmaster" Nikki Glaser gets an unsettling wake-up call after recent life events force her to forsake her fast-paced Tinseltown lifestyle and move back to her hometown of St. Louis, Mo., in this new half-hour "reality sitcom." Now a big fish in a small pond, Glaser finds herself leaning on her parents, Julie and EJ Glaser, childhood best friend Kerstin Robertson and ex-boyfriend Chris Convy as she looks for love while simultaneously keeping her career on the front burner.

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