2 - TVCC – WEEK OF DECEMBER 3- DECEMBER 9, 2015
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CMA Country Christmas
5. Internet giggle
Thursday at 9 p.m. on KATU,
6. Take the gun from
KEZI
For the sixth year, Jennifer
Nettles hosts the Country Music
Association’s annual celebration
of the season by artists who
add their unique sounds and
spins to familiar yuletide songs.
Among those joining Nettles to
perform at Nashville’s Grand
Ole Opry House — with the
Marine Corps Reserve’s Toys for
Tots program among the show’s
beneficiaries — are Martina
McBride, Leann Rimes, Jewel,
Darius Rucker, Kelsea Ballerini,
Brian Setzer, Pentatonix and
Michael W. Smith.
7. Popular 1942
Disney animal film
8. Hateful feeling
11. “Win, Lose __ Draw”
12. “__ Ordinary Family”
13. Syllables from the
hard of hearing
14. “__ Deal”; 1986
Schwarzenegger movie
20. “Strangers on __ __”;
1951 Hitchcock thriller
21. Look toward
with a smile (2)
The Flight Before Christmas
Saturday at 8 p.m. on LIFE
As Amy on “The Big Bang
Theory,” Mayim Bialik has trav-
eled a rocky road to love and
the course is no smoother in this
new holiday romance, which
casts her as Stephanie, whose
boyfriend dumps her just before
Christmas. On her flight home,
she is seated next to Michael
(Ryan McPartlin, “Chuck”),
who’s planning to pop the ques-
tion to his own girlfriend. After
a blizzard strands their flight in
Montana, however, Stephanie
and Michael are forced to share
a room. Reginald VelJohnson
and Jo Marie Payton co-star.
Sinatra 100 — An
All-Star Grammy Concert
Sunday at 9 p.m. on KVAL
As the year of commemorating
the 100th anniversary of the
“Chairman of the Board’s” Dec.
12 birth nears its end, this new
two-hour special — taped at
the Wynn Las Vegas’ Encore
Theatre — gathers a diverse,
star-packed cast to render
music associated with Frank
Sinatra. Among the performers:
Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks,
Zac Brown, Harry Connick Jr.,
Celine Dion, Alicia Keys, Lady
Gaga, John Legend, Adam
Levine, Carrie Underwood and
Usher.
(541) 991-2920
22. __ up; relaxes
23. “Touched by an Angel”
actor
The identity of the featured celebrity is found within
the answers in the puzzle. In order to take the TV
Challenge, unscramble the letters noted with aster-
isks within the puzzle.
Across
1. “The Astronaut __ __”
8. “Auld Lang __”
9. Charlie Chaplin’s wife
10. Role on
“NCIS: New Orleans” (2)
14. “The __”; 2011
Anthony Hopkins movie
15. Rogers or Clark
16. President Hayes’
monogram
17. Abbr. on a business letter
envelope
18. Prefix for
diagnosis or deal
19. “The __ Wing”
20. Elderly
24. Spencer Tracy’s birth year
24. “Married to the __”; 1988
Michelle Pfeiffer film
25. __ T. Nelson
26. Ms. Thomas
27. Cafeteria patron’s need
29. Fluid-filled sac
28. __ pro nobis
30. “__ the World Turns”
29. Felix or Morris
31. Initials for
32. “__ of the Planet of the
Apes”; 2011 film
33. Actor on
“The Whispers” (2)
coach Landry
34. On a pension:
abbr.
35. “__ Life to Live”
36. Suffix for
text or project
37. Long and Peeples
38. “America’s __ __”
Down
1. Earp and others
2. “Law & Order:
Criminal __”
3. Dr. Dolittle, for one
4. “Hard __” (1989-99)
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