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June 20 - 26, 2022 Page 3 ACROSS 1. "__ __ __ Right" 9. Actress Peeples 10. Youngest daughter on "7 Little Johnstons" 11. "__ Girl Friday"; Cary Grant movie 13. Actor Davis 15. Actress Dana 17. Jay __; "Chicago P.D." role 18. Car racer Foyt 20. Hitchcock's initials 21. "Apocalypse __"; Sheen/Brando film 23. "__: Vegas" 24. "__-Wee's Big Adventure"; 1985 movie 25. Tamera's twin 26. Initials for a Beatle 29. __ negative; rarest blood type 30. "The __"; Chris Harrison's series 34. Burnett or Channing 36. Regions 38. Suffix for Nepal or Japan 39. City next to Provo 42. Cigar dropping 43. Actress on "The Good Doctor" (2) DOWN 1. Poet's contraction 2. Corned beef concoction 3. Orange rind 4. Mitchum's initials 5. "__ No Angel"; Mae West movie 6. "__ Fear"; 1991 De Niro/Nolte film 7. "If __ __ a Hammer" 8. Command to Fido 9. "Law & Order" role (2) 12. Actress on "Good Sam" (2) 14. Actor McKellen 16. "The __ and Harry McGraw" 19. Montana & Mantegna 20. Bhutan's continent 22. "Life as __ Know It" (2004-05) 23. Hartford's location: abbr. 27. __ Paulo, Brazil 28. "Grounded __ Life" 30. "La __" 31. Wooden shoe 32. Light source 33. "__ Window"; James Stewart film 35. Deadly animal 37. "Not __ __ Stranger"; movie for Sinatra 40. Prefix for cycle or cover 41. Elke's initials Solution is on page 2. CoverStory By Jay Bobbin For certain attendees at the Daytime Emmy Awards, it will be the night of a lifetime. Several television main- stays will receive Lifetime Achievement honors during the 49th annual event, which CBS and Paramount+ will televise Friday, June 24, from the Pasadena (Calif.) Civic Auditorium. Those who will take home a statue for their career-spanning accomplishments include: "PBS NewsHour" anchor and managing editor Judy Woodruff, John Aniston, a longtime co-star of the NBC serial "Days of Our Lives"; CBS sportscaster Lesley Visser; former "Reading Rainbow" host and producer LeVar Bur - ton; the PBS series "This Old House"; documentary staple Sir David Atten- borough; and technology innovator Yvette Kanouff. "It was a complete surprise to me," Woodruff says of being notified of her latest award. "I had no idea. I'm incredibly hon - ored. I mean, this is the Emmy, the gold standard of television awards. No matter what you do in this business, you know about it, so it's just a huge hon - or. It's really special." At a time when she's being Emmy-honored for all she has done pro- fessionally, the pleasant Woodruff allows, "You can't help but look back. I've been doing this for five decades, and how for- tunate I've been. I just feel incredibly blessed to have had this front-row seat on what's happening in our country and around the world. I really wanted to cover Washington and na- tional politics. Along came PBS and the 'NewsHour,' and it gave me a chance to get in on the ground floor." Well-known to the "Days of Our Lives" faith- ful as the devious Victor Kiriakis, Aniston never foresaw playing the part for so long. He originated it in 1985, and having been on the daytime se- rials "Love of Life" and "Search for Tomorrow" earlier, he reasons, "Char- acters come and char- acters go. There can be good characters but the stories don't work out, or the stories can be good but the characters are flawed." The father of actress Jennifer Aniston enjoys that in portraying Kiriakis, he's gotten to do "all the things that people want to do, but they're afraid to do them. He's well-rounded. Fortunately, he has a co- medic twist from time to time, and I've appreciated that. 'Days' has a relation- ship with its audience that is quite unique." Woodruff recently announced her plans to leave "PBS NewsHour" at the end of this year, a highly significant step in a career that also has encompassed reporting stints at NBC and CNN. Daytime Emmy Awards give special honors to some TV long-timers 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 "America Outdoors With Baratunde Thurston" (PBS — series premiere, July 5) This new six-part travel and adventure series follows bestselling author and outdoor enthusiast Baratunde Thurston on an exploration of America's diverse regions, to discover how those landscapes shape the way Americans work, play and interact with the natural world. The series premiere, "Death Valley: Life Blooms," takes viewers to the hottest place in the world, which nonetheless is remarkably filled with life. As Thurston seeks out visitors who embrace this national park, he meets a marathon runner and the mayor of a town of one.

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