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CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Painter Chagall
5 G-men's org.
8 Some-where out there
12 Hexagonal state
13 Part of UCLA
14 Location
15 Short skirt
16 Listener
17 Coaster
18 Smother
20 Son of Eve
22 New Year's Eve figure
26 Jazzy style
29 In the manner of
30 Campaigner, for short
31 Destroy
32 9mm submachine gun
33 Antitoxins
34 Playwright Levin
35 Indivisible
36 Bygone
37 Principal supply
40 Aesopian alsoran
41 Utter foolishness
45 Troubles
47 Piercing tool
49 Adhesive
50 Academic
51 Female deer
52 H.S. subj.
53 Hardly muscular
54 Hebrew letter
55 Pith helmet
DOWN
1 "— the word"
2 Persisting
3 Hindu royal
4 Sheer silk fabric
5 Armada
6 Feathery accessory
7 Tel Aviv resident
8 No liability
9 Flicked a finger
10 Dined
11 Scarlet
Solution time: 25 mins.
19 Once around
21 Support system?
23 Ted Key's cartoon maid
24 Additional
25 Verve
26 Fedora feature
27 Modern-day money
28 Skiing-shooting combo
32 Ill-prepared
33 Dexterity
35 "— the ramparts ..."
36 Peculiar
38 Rash
39 Lubricated
42 Hodge-podge
43 Point
44 Bigfoot's cousin
45 Mischief-maker
46 Mary — Retton
48 Court
Yesterday's answer 5-5
5-5 CRYPTOQUIP
5-5 CRYPTOQUIP
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Yesterday's Cryptoquip: IF A THRIFTY PERSON TENDS TO NEVER OVERSPEND, WOULD YOU CALL THAT WALLET-Y CONTROL?
Today's Cryptoquip Clue: S equals E
10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
HOROSCOPE
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
daily discipline, and discipline
yourself for what may be required.
Use your hidden resources. Provide
excellent service. Others are saying
nice things about you.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
Today is an 8
day and taking the time
to get it right. There's beauty to
be found in the repetitive nature of practicing something until it becomes natural.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21)
Do you have a power suit? A careful work-related investment may be in order. Boost your confidence with the perfect costume for the role. Accept a bonus.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
Today is an 8
Rules simplify things. Your self-
discipline is impressive. Keep at it
until you get it. Practice pays off.
You and a distant colleague see
eye to eye.
LEO (July 23-Aug.22)
You see the value of old standards. Kindness, hard work and honesty are always in style. Get together with friends to celebrate Cinco de Mayo by winning against all odds.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Today is a 7
Take your ideas for a walk. You'll think of something brilliant, and your heart will thank you later. You don't need to venture far. In fact, stay close to home.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 7 Follow the experience of another to avoid making the same mistakes. Make new mistakes instead, those that can cause breakthrough results.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Don't drown your worries in margaritas. Discover talents you didn't know you had. There's so much to explore and see. You can learn to cut costs. Structure provides strength.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is
You've been patient, diplomatic and thorough, and others have high parisia levels are high Find a beautiful spot to celebrate with a friend.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is an 8
Leave the celebration for after the work is complete. If you want to make it on time for happy hour, you may have to call for reinforcements, invite them out after.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Today is a Z
Your patience and thoroughness with implementing solutions is appreciated. It's a good day for travel, even the armchair kind. Do some creative writing. Strive for balance.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is a 8
For best results, stay close to home. It's a great time to tackle a renovation or fix a leaky faucet. Your patience pays off. Collect an old debt.
Conceptis Sudoku
please recycle this newspaper
By Dave Green
Difficulty Level ★★★
Answer to previous puzzle
RON ARTESIAN
"And then the lazy bastards expect government handouts—oh look, the t-shirt cannon!
Matt Marsaglia
ENTERTAINMENT
MCCLATCHY TRIBUNE
TV spots competitive for fall
Not long ago few would have predicted that "American Idol" would still be TV's No. 1 show, even without Simon Cowell. And even fewer would have guessed that the most-watched comedy, "Two and a Half Men," would be facing life without Charlie Sheen.
In fact, it's been a rough year for broadcasters all around. The major networks got pummeled by critics for a slate of uninspired new offerings last fall, which no doubt helps explain why each suffered notable ratings erosion this season. No. 4 NBC was hammered the worst, with double-
LOS ANGELES — As TV executives huddle in screening rooms the next few days, watching pilots for proposed fall series, they're having to adjust to a couple of big surprises.
digit declines in major categories, according to the Nielsen Co.
So executives are facing tough decisions about the futures of some onetime audience favorites that might be bulldozed to make way for new series. Among the long-running shows that are, in the industry's lingo, "on the bubble": ABC's family drama "Brothers & Sisters," NBC's perennially endangered comic caper "Chuck" and Fox's crime drama "Lie to Me." Their fates are likely to depend on how appealing the new pilots seem when executives watch them.
Despite its high ratings, "Two and a Half Men" should also be added to the "bubble" list, since Sheen was fired from the show amid a spectacular public meltdown and CBS and Warner Bros., the studio that makes the show, are scrambling to adapt the comedy without its big star. Most insiders consider it a foregone conclusion the show will return in some form, but the details have yet to be worked out.
Other series, such as NBC's heavily publicized "The Event," ABC's superhero drama "No Ordinary Family" and CBS "The Defenders," are considered near-certain bets for cancellation.
York, said of CBS. "If you don't have 'Two and a Half Men' on Monday night, what do you put there?"
Luckily for CBS executives, their network is the one perhaps best-positioned to handle such uncertainty heading into the "uprfronts," the annual selling season that begins later this month, when networks present their fall schedules to advertisers in New York. CBS is the most-watched network by far, although it's also the oldest-skewing, with an average viewer age of 55. Tuesday night, for example, is rock-solid on CBS with the "NCIS" franchise, one of the most popular on TV.
"That's a decision they're going to make," Brad Adgate, an analyst at Horizon Media in New
Because it has the fewest holes in its lineup, CBS ordered just 16 drama and comedy pilots, compared with 22 for NBC and 24 for ABC. (Fox also ordered 16, but it programs just two hours on weeknights compared to three for its rivals.)
But the Sheen case has created a major strategic problem. This season the network moved its sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" to Thursdays, where it has helped the network establish a comedy base on that night for the first time in years.
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