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February 5 - 11, 2018 Page 3 ACROSS 1. Actor on "The Good Doctor" (2) 9. Felix or Stimpy 10. __ Burns; Hala Finley's role on "Man with a Plan" 11. Steiger or Serling 13. Actor __ Ballard 15. Gillette or Bryant 17. "__ __: Discovery" 18. "Lie __ Me" 20. "My Name __ Earl" 21. V's followers 23. "Judging __" 24. 2010 Bruce Willis movie 25. 1995-2005 crime drama series 26. Word in the title of Kyra Sedgwick's series 29. Initials for painter Rockwell 30. Series for Anne Heche (2) 34. Third World nation 36. Classical language 38. Dan Bakkedahl's "Life in Pieces" role 39. __ out a living; got by 42. Explosive letters 43. "__ Survivor" DOWN 1. __ Linden 2. "It is what __ __" 3. Princess __; Carrie Fisher's "Star Wars" role 4. Howie's initials 5. "I __ Legend"; 2007 Will Smith movie 6. "__ Window"; James Stewart classic 7. Actor Estrada 8. Go bad 9. Ryan __ of "Kevin Can Wait" 12. Role on "Madam Secretary" (2) 14. McKinley and Rainier: abbr. 16. "__ and Stacey" 19. Work animals 20. "__ __ old cowhand from the Rio Grande..." 22. Linear measure: abbr. 23. Actress Michalka of "The Goldbergs" 27. President Taft's monogram 28. Ms. Gardner 30. "Once Upon a __" 31. "Old MacDonald had a farm, __O..." 32. Actor on "M*A*S*H" 33. Ending for Paul or Jean 35. Assistance 37. Terre Haute's state: abbr. 40. Initials for Frasier's portrayer 41. Prefix for twine or large Solution on page 2 CoverStory By George Dickie © Zap2it Get ready for more than 2,400 hours of ski- ing, skating, bobsledding, curling, luge and more as NBC and its partner networks broadcast the games of the 2018 Winter Olympics from PyeongC- hang, South Korea. Beginning Thursday, Feb. 8-25 on NBC, NBC Sports Network, CNBC, USA Network, NBCOlym- pics.com and the NBC Sports app, these games will see nearly 3,000 ath- letes from 88 nations (plus the Russian federation) competing in seven sports for 102 medals, among them Lindsey Vonn, Shaun White, Kelly Clark, Mikaela Shiffrin, Nathan Chen and Chloe Kim. There will be four new events at these games — big air snowboarding, freestyle skiing, mass start speed skating and mixed doubles curling — and viewers across the nation will get to see prime-time and late-night competi- tion live at the same time thanks to South Korea being 14 hours ahead of New York and 17 ahead of Los Angeles. "There's no spoiler alert with a call from your aunt on the East Coast if you live in California, that, 'Hey, did you see this person or that person win a medal?' " points out Mike Tirico, who succeeds Bob Costas as NBC's Olympics studio host with these games. "And they have to wait to see it three hours. They'll see it all as it's happening, it'll be on live across the country in the evening and then a little bit later on late night on the East Coast, which is prime time on the West Coast. So I think that's going to be the major dif- ference in the coverage of these games from Asia." There will be a few glar- ing absences in Pyeong- Chang, probably the most significant being Russia, which was banned from these games because of a doping scandal. Any ath- letes competing from that country will do so under the aegis "Olympic Athlete from Russia" or O.A.R, which should make the medal ceremonies inter- esting. Also missing in men's ice hockey are the players from the NHL, which has opted not to pause its 2017-18 season for the games, thus ending a run of five consecutive Olym- pics. Mike Tirico takes over studio hosting duties for the 2018 Winter Olympics from PyeongChang, South Korea. Live from South Korea, it's the 2018 Winter Olympic Games!

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