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September 19 - 25, 2016 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Basinger and Kardashian 5. Basketball's O'Neal 9. "Tomorrow __ Dies"; James Bond movie 10. "__ a Boy" (2014-15) 12. "All About __"; 1950 Bette Davis film 13. Tim "The __ Man" Taylor 16. Actress on "Elementary" 17. Note of the scale 18. DiPillo of "Chicago Med" 20. Henry Fonda's state of birth: abbr. 21. "__ and Again" (1999- 2002) 23. Possesses 25. President Arthur's monogram 26. Bigwig, for short 27. Setting for "Evita": abbr. 28. 90 degrees from NNW 29. "Two __ __ Half Men" 30. Media mogul __ Griffin 32. Jetta maker, for short 33. "Little House on the Prairie" role 38. Initials for actress Alley 39. Actor Somerhalder 41. "You're So __"; Carly Simon song 42. Have a bug 43. Rigg or Ross 45. "As the World __" 47. Knight and Cruz 48. __ for; chooses DOWN 1. New Kevin James sitcom (3) 2. "__ Got a Secret" 3. "Lie to __" 4. Spanish miss 5. "__ of the Century"; 1983-89 game show 6. Initials for Bacall's love 7. Email provider for millions 8. Role on "Scandal" (2) 9. Captain __; role in "20,000 Leagues Un- der the Sea" 11. Night we watch "Fresh Off the Boat": abbr. 14. "The __"; 2003-07 series for Adam Brody 15. Sandra of "Grey's Anatomy" 18. Family name on "Blue Bloods" 19. "__ __ Tender"; Elvis hit 22. Jack or joker 24. "Days of __ and Ros- es"; Jack Lemmon movie 29. Eager 31. Kilmer and others 34. Gabor and Longoria 35. "__ Femme Nikita" 36. Brooke Shields' age 37. "He's Just Not That __ You"; 2009 film 40. Scotsman's denial 42. Carney or Garfunkel 44. Josh Duhamel's state of birth: abbr. 46. "__ All Night" Solution on page 2 CoverStory By Jay Bobbin © Zap2it For the better part of a television decade, Kief- er Sutherland protected presidents. Now, he's the president who needs protection. The former "24" star re- turns to series work as the ABC drama "Designated Survivor" debuts Wednes- day, Sept. 21, casting him as someone who moves into the Oval Office quite unexpectedly. The intense opening hour starts with Tom Kirkman (Suther- land) as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Devel- opment, and the Cabinet member left behind — the "designated survivor" — when other top government officials are killed in an explosion during the State of the Union Address. Kirk- man reluctantly becomes the new chief executive, soon learning that the dan- ger likely isn't over. Also among the execu- tive producers, along with series creator David Gug- genheim and "Criminal Minds" and "Grey's Anato- my" veteran Mark Gordon, Sutherland (who recently released his first coun- try-music album, "Down in a Hole") was drawn into "Designated Survivor" through his long friendship with Gordon and his re- action to the pilot script. "I had no intention of doing a television show," he says, "and I was very busy, but I felt I needed to give this script a cursory read so that I could at least respond with some intel- ligence and explain why I couldn't do it. And I found myself on page 22, and I remember saying, 'S... .' "I felt the script was so beautifully structured. It had the thriller aspect of trying to find out who had done this. It had a family dra- ma; what happens when, overnight, you go from a very structured life to the life of the President of the United States and the First Lady? What happens to your children? What sacri- fices are made there? And then it also allowed itself, on a political level, to have discussions that I think we need to have in this country in a rational way — not so divisive, but really important and respectable points of view from the left and the right." A strong cast surrounds Sutherland in "Designated Survivor." Natascha McEl- hone ("Californication") plays his wife, a lawyer with her own adjustment to make in suddenly be- coming First Lady; Maggie Q ("Nikita") portrays an FBI agent probing the ongoing threat; Kal Penn ("House") appears as the new president's skeptical speechwriter; Italia Ricci ("Chasing Life") is seen as the chief of staff; and Adan Canto ("The Fol- lowing") plays the deputy chief of staff and Presi- dent Kirkman's adviser. Kal Penn co-stars in "Designated Survivor," premiering Wednesday on ABC. Kiefer Sutherland is the 'Designated Survivor,' and new president, in ABC drama

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