ACROSS
1 The Yankees, Rangers or Lakers
5 The Producers writer Brooks
8 Attack with a knife
12 Deal ___ Deal, featuring Howie Mandel (2 wds.)
13 Author Levin (The Stepford Wives)
14 Perry Mason creator ___ Stanley Gardner
15 Units of time (abbr.)
16 ___ City (popular computer game)
17 The ___ Brothers (O Brother, Where Art Thou? writers)
18 CBS Evening News anchor and former host of Today (2 wds.)
21 "To ___ is human, to forgive divine"
22 Mötley Crüe's "___ It or Lose It"
23 60 Minutes correspondent Stahl
26 18 Across's Evening News predecessor Dan ___
30 ___ Got a Secret
31 Wheel of Fortune vowel buy (wd. & letter)
32 20/20 coanchor Elizabeth ___
36 "Sweet ___" by Debbie Harry (2 wds.)
39 Monsters, ___ (animated comedy; abbr.)
40 "Fool (If You Think It's Over)" by Chris ___
41 Good Morning America cohost (2 wds.)
46 "___ to Be Wild"
47 Capture; catch
48 "___ the night before Christmas ..."
50 Leave out
51 Actor Wallach
52 "___ of the Dog" by Guns N' Roses
53 Porgy and ___
54 "Swallowed in the ___" by Coldplay
55 William Shakespeare's All's Well That ___ Well
DOWN
1 Former NBC Nightly News anchor Brokaw
2 Actor Estrada of CHiPs
3 ___ Nicole Smith
4 Comedian-actor Zero ___
5 Oscar-winning film starring Kathy Bates
6 Sixteen Grammy-winning rocker Clapton
7 Dorothy ___ (Road to Bali costar of Bing Crosby)
8 Bruce Springsteen's "___ Garden"
9 Lwaxana ___ (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character)
10 Actor Baldwin of 30 Rock
11 Actor Stiller of Meet the Fockers
19 Anger
20 "Surfin' ___" by the Beach Boys (inits.)
23 Actress Tyler of the Lord of the Rings trilogy
24 Actress Longoria of The Sentinel
25 "Quiero ___" by Menudo
27 Character actor Holbrook
28 Grammy-winning music producer Brian ___
29 A Letter from Death ___, starring Martin Sheen
33 Little ___, starring Ed O'Neill
34 18 Across's former Today colleague Curry
35 "___ from an Italian Restaurant" by Billy Joel
36 Lawrence of ___, starring Peter O'Toole and Omar Sharif
37 "What's ___, Pussycat?" by Tom Jones
38 The ___ Earth Stood Still (sc-fi film; 2 wds.)
41 "Pleasure ___" by Van Halen
42 Stanley & ___, starring Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda
43 For ___ (real estate sign)
44 Actor McGregor of Star Wars: Episode III—Revenge of the Sith
45 The Great ___, starring Benjamin Bratt
46 Former CBS Evening News anchor Schieffer
49 Graduates (abbr.)
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