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January 25 - 31, 2016 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Nolan Gould's role on "Modern Family" 5. Actor LaSalle 9. Role on "Cheers" 10. Charlie Brown's best friend 12. Color 13. "__ Stalkings" (1991-99) 16. Actress Long 17. Word in the title of Howie Mandel's game show 18. "Homicide: Life on the __" (1993-99) 20. Demi Moore's state of birth: abbr. 21. Usually dry streambed 23. Possesses 25. Prefix for like or respect 26. Chain of printing stores 27. Suffix for real or duel 28. Encyclopedia volume, perhaps 29. "How to __ It in America" (2010-11) 30. Prefix for dynamics or space 32. "__ With Busey"; 2003 reality series 33. Role on "Everybody Loves Raymond" 38. Actress Darby's initials 39. Series for Allison Janney 41. "Room for One __"; Cary Grant movie 42. "The Karate __" 43. Ridiculous 45. Rickman or Thicke 47. Martin, for one 48. __ down the law; takes charge DOWN 1. Debra Messing's role (2) 2. Suffix for press or cult 3. Initials for singer Loggins 4. "Witches of __ End" (2013-14) 5. Ms. Sommer 6. Smallest of fifty: abbr. 7. Home for the Loudons on "Newhart" 8. Katie Lowes' role on "Scandal" (2) 9. Food, slangily 11. Elliott and Neill 14. Prefix for regular or rational 15. Sabrina __ Beauf 18. "__ Wives" 19. 1960s cartoon series about a feline (2) 22. Ruptured __; back problem 24. "Eyes __ Shut"; 1999 Nicole Kidman movie 29. Rogers or Kennedy 31. Likelihood 34. "The __"; 1976 film for Gregory Peck & Lee Remick 35. Jackson or Diddley 36. 1996 Emmy winner for outstanding drama series 37. "The __ Housewives of Orange County" 40. __ West 42. Actress Panabaker 44. Ming-__ Wen 46. "__ Femme Nikita" Solution on page 2. By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it Mulder and Scully, together again. Almost 14 years after "The X-Files" ended (barring 2008's "I Want to Believe," the second of the two feature-film spinoffs), two of the most famous charac- ters in sci-fi television — and the actors who first played them — re- unite as Fox launches a six-episode revival Sunday, Jan. 24, after the NFC champion- ship football game. It will continue the next night and on Mondays thereafter, with David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson back as the FBI partners still seek- ing the truth that's "out there" through decided- ly supernatural cases. "It wasn't a reality un- til we both said 'Yes,' " Anderson recalls of the project taking shape once she and Ducho- vny both signed up again as Dana Scully and Fox Mulder. "Un- til then, it was just a thought or a question, and I had no desire to do it whatsoever. I thought they were mad, and that it was never gonna happen. I think I'd buried Scully pretty deep, so it took a bit longer to get back into her than I thought. It was fine in the end, and I found my footing. "I've made a lot of very deliberate choices away from her," notes the England-based An- derson, who since has appeared in the series "Hannibal" and "The Fall." She's also in the miniseries version of "War & Peace" current- ly running Mondays on A&E Network, History and Lifetime, and she'll bring her 2014 London stage performance as Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named De- sire" to New York in the spring. "I've played a lot of very complex and equally strong and intelligent characters," Anderson reflects, "and different versions of that than Scully, so she was farther away than I anticipated." Also key to the return of "The X-Files" is the involvement of its cre- ator, Chris Carter, the writer-director of three of the six new stories (including the first and last). Original writer-pro- ducers Glen Morgan and James Wong also are on board again, as are co-stars Mitch Pileggi (alias FBI supe- rior Skinner), William B. Davis (the Smoking Man), Annabeth Gish (FBI operative Monica Reyes), and Bruce Har- wood, Tom Braidwood and Dean Haglund as the Lone Gunmen. Joel McHale, Robbie Amell ("The Flash") and Lauren Ambrose are among cast newcom- ers. Also a novelist now as a co-writer of the "Earthend Saga," An- derson maintains any "higher expectations" she had for "X-Files" scripts this time was "less to do with my own writing experience and more to do with the fact that I've just worked with such amazing ma- terial since (the original series). Anytime you take on a new project when you've just done Tennessee Williams, your brain's going to go, 'Uhh ... wait a second.' "And there's a spe- cific formula we have for "The X-Files,' " An- derson adds. "I actually realized, after so much time apart from it, how stylized it is in compari- son to a lot of the other stuff I've done. I didn't realize the degree to which it kind of lives in its own universe." (From left) Mitch Pileggi, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson and William B. Davis reunite in a limited-run revival of "The X-Files" starting Sunday on Fox. CoverStory 'The X-Files' reopens with original stars Get your copy at Only $5 114 S. Main St., Goshen Don't Miss Monday's Food Page You'll find Great Recipes and Food Advertisements only in 574-533-2151

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