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February 6 - 12, 2017 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Mom on "Little People, Big World" 4. "The __ Campbell Goodtime Hour" (1969- 72) 8. Goodman or Cariou 11. Part of a sock 12. "What's My __?" 13. Sean Taro __ Lennon 14. Actress on "Speechless" (2) 17. __ Hunter 18. "__ Life to Live" 19. "Matt __" (1975-76) 21. Wire fox terrier on "The Thin Man" 24. Series for George Clooney, once 25. Encyc. volume, perhaps 26. Initials for Perry Mason's portrayer 27. Esther, to John Walton Sr. 28. Actress Behrs 30. Robert of "The Sopranos" 32. Cereal grain 34. "__ Age: Continental Drift"; 2012 film 35. "__ __ __ __ with Murder" 41. Ending for Carol or Jan 42. Military org. on campus 43. Suffix for infant or text 44. Spoil 45. Carve in glass 46. Tia, to Tamera DOWN 1. Source of quick cash, for short 2. Miss Piggy's word in referring to herself 3. 1983 Barbra Streisand film 4. Insincerely smooth 5. "__ to Me" (2009-11) 6. "This Is the __"; 2013 James Franco movie 7. "__ Wolfe"; 1981 William Conrad series 8. Word in the title of Ray Romano's sitcom 9. 90 degrees from NNW 10. Lesser-used conjunction 15. "__ __ Tune" 16. "A Good Man __ __"; 1994 Sean Connery film 19. Rosemary, for one 20. Actress Kathryn 22. "In __"; 2011 Justin Timberlake movie 23. Not quite closed 29. "__ Heist"; 2011 Eddie Murphy/Ben Stiller film 31. Jerry or Shari 33. __ off; left suddenly 34. "The Seven Year __"; Marilyn Monroe movie 35. "She Done __ Wrong"; Mae West/Cary Grant film 36. "Snakes __ __ Plane"; Samuel L. Jackson movie 37. "America's __ Talent" 38. List-shortening abbr. 39. Actress MacGraw 40. "__, Dear" Solution on page 2 CoverStory By George Dickie © Zap2it Judd Hirsch's introduc- tion to "Superior Donuts" came via special delivery. "What happened was they sent me a box of do- nuts," the 81-year-old actor explains. "I was doing a play in the Berkshires and a dozen donuts comes in the mail and I, whoa, I've never been, you know, asked to do a play be- cause they sent you ... a gift. Uh, that's the way it turned out." In the half-hour CBS workplace comedy, which has its time period pre- miere Monday, Feb. 6, and is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tra- cy Letts, the veteran "Taxi" actor stars as Arthur Przy- byszewski, a change-resis- tant old curmudgeon who owns and operates the title donut shop in a Chicago neighborhood that is rapid- ly gentrifying. With a cast of regulars around him that includes an ambitious new African American employee (Jer- maine Fowler, "Friends of the People"), a Chicago cop (Katey Sagal, "Sons of Anarchy"), a Muslim as- piring real estate magnate (Maz Jobrani, "Better Off Ted") and a guy who holds down a number of odd jobs (David Koechner, "Anchor- man: The Legend of Ron Burgundy"), the opportuni- ties for topical humor are many. But as series execu- tive producer Garrett Dono- van told a recent gathering of journalists in Pasadena, Calif., the emphasis will be more on humor and less on topicality. "This isn't going to be an issue of the week show," he says. "We will talk about issues if it comes up or- ganically, but we'll also do stories about dating and about different flavors of donuts and things. "Our approach is, too, we focus a lot on who these characters are," he continues. "And to the extent we're going to look at cultural issues and issues in the news, it will be through the lens of the characters. For example, on the gun story that we'll be doing coming up, it's the effect that a gun has on our characters' lives. And not a political kind of thing. In fact, we're never going to say or try to say the word Democrat or Republican, to keep it out of the political realm and to make it more just, like, issue based." Jermaine Fowler (left) and Judd Hirsch star in "Superior Donuts," which has its time period premiere Monday on CBS. Topical humor baked into CBS' 'Superior Donuts' Providing for the Agricultural & Gardening Needs of our Community 711 E. WATERFORD • WAKARUSA • 574.862.1163 SALES • SERVICE • RENTALS ® We Sell and Service Bad Boy and Scag We also service John Deere, Zero Turn, and most other lawn mowers.

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