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January 4 - 10, 2016 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Actress on "Scorpion" (2) 8. Cartoon explorer 9. "Able was I __ __ ..." 10. Role on "Rookie Blue" (2) 14. Actress on "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" 15. Period 16. SLC-based religion 17. "The __ King"; high- est-grossing film of 1994 18. Actor Mineo 19. Holiday and Hampton 20. Actor Bridges 24. Paulo or Tom"'e 27. Stew pot 28. TV alien 29. "__ __ Lonely Place"; Humphrey Bogart movie 32. Jon Cryer's role 33. Role on "Madam Secretary" (2) 36. Actress Russo 37. Victories 38. Actor on "Mom" (2) DOWN 1. __ __ Jovi 2. Actress Eve and her family 3. "90 __ Fianc"'e"; 2014 reality series 4. "Callaway __ Thataway"; Fred MacMurray film 5. __ pro nobis; pray for us 6. Carter and her family 7. Ms. Radner 8. Pop singer Bobby 11. "Trapper John, __" 12. "Here Come the __- eds"; Abbott & Costello movie 13. Fashion designer's monogram 14. Actor Marienthal 20. Role on "Happy Days" 21. Burstyn and Pompeo 22. Whips mercilessly 23. "The __"; 1996 Robert De Niro baseball film 24. Rob Lowe's role on "The West Wing" 25. Night table awakener 26. "It's not my cup __ __" 29. Part of the title of Jason Segel's recent sitcom (2) 30. Ming-__ Wen 31. Hitchcock's initials 34. Explosive letters 35. "We __ the Night"; 2007 Joaquin Phoenix film Solution on page 2. CoverStory By John Crook © Zap2it As the Emmy-winning PBS series "Downton Abbey: The Final Season" premieres Sunday, Jan. 3 (check local listings), a cloud hangs over several of the main characters. There's a blackmailer threatening Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) with a potential scandal (yes, another one!), while Anna Bates (Joanne Froggatt) withholds a heartbreaking secret from her husband (Brendan Coyle) even as she awaits her legal fate. Not even the happiest event at the close of last season — the betrothal of Mr. Carson and Mrs. Hughes (Jim Carter, Phyl- lis Logan) — is a matter for unbridled joy, as Mrs. Hughes nervously won- ders whether her fiancé wants and expects "a complete marriage" in all its intimacy. Moreover, there's an- other seismic change looming across England, where more owners of great houses like Downton Abbey are being forced by economics to downsize their household staffs or sell off their estates com- pletely. Thanks to shrewd co-management by Mary and Tom Branson (Allen Leech), Downton itself is momentarily safe, but as Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville) confides to a grim-faced Carson, wages at Downton have tripled since their pre-war levels. "Who has an underbutler nowadays?" Robert asks rhetorically. The year is 1925, and the gracious if socially stratified world these characters have known all their lives is slipping further into the past. Then again, coping with sweep- ing changes has become part of their DNA, points out "Masterpiece" exec- utive producer Rebecca Eaton. "Ever since the Titanic went down in Season 1 and then Matthew Craw- ley, a lawyer, was going to become the next Earl of Grantham, things have been in flux for these characters," she says. "And now they're talking about what we know is coming: a major change in the social fabric of En- gland." It was series creator Ju- lian Fellowes who decided to wrap up the series at the end of this nine-epi- sode season, but Eaton says that Fellowes by no means was running out of story material. In fact, he is said to be pondering a "Downton Abbey" film at some point in the future. "I can't speak for Julian, but I do think six years was a long time for him to spend writing every word of this entire series," she says. "That worked out to about 10 and a half hours per season, and it was just really intense. Cer- tainly, in terms of world events, there's a huge, rich story still to come, in terms of the 1929 (stock market) crash and the Second World War. I think his decision was more personal. He had said what he had to say." Under its previous handle, "Masterpiece Theatre," the drama show- case had a similar hit in the 1970s with "Upstairs, Downstairs," but "Downton Abbey" exploded into the pop culture on an un- precedented scale partly because it arrived just as viewers were really start- ing to change how they watched TV. "The show premiered as technology was giving viewers different options to sitting down together and watching on Sun- day nights," Eaton says. "People could record and watch each episode when they wanted or even stream a complete season all at once." "Downton Abbey: The Final Season" premieres Sunday on PBS' "Masterpiece Classic." Crawleys confront more tests as 'Downton Abbey' opens last season RETIRE WORK Take Control of Your Future 64825 County Road 31 Goshen, IN 46528 1-866-764-1601 www.QualityDriveAway.com See America and Supplement Your Income!! Get Paid to Deliver Vehicles Throughout the U.S. & Canada Retiring Doesn't have to be Scary We Have Vehicles for Every License Type! Call Us Today! Solution on page 2

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