EMILY NUSSBAUM, I LIKE TO WATCH -- I dug Taxi, I loved M*A*S*H. ... I memorized Monty Python sketches... . But I also regarded TV the way that Americans had been taught to... . Television was junk. It wasn't worthy of deep thought, the way that books or movies might be.
| A. | Lucy and Ricky's landlady on a 1950s sitcom (2 wds.) | ETHELMERTZ |
| B. | Typical state in a Stooges scene | MAYHEM |
| C. | Boob tube (2 wds.) | IDIOTBOX |
| D. | Appealing to an elevated aesthetic | LOFTY |
| E. | Non-Muppet role for Frank Oz | YODA |
| F. | Anchor's phrase in an abrupt segue (2 wds.) | NOWTHIS |
| G. | Not buying into the drama, say | UNMOVED |
| H. | Susan who wrote the 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'" | SONTAG |
| I. | Puts on | STAGES |
| J. | 2005 film based on a 1960s sitcom | BEWITCHED |
| K. | Carriers of broadcasts | AIRWAVES |
| L. | With one's true identity revealed | UNMASKED |
| M. | Marion Cunningham on "Happy Days" or Moira Rose on "Schitt's Creek" | MOTHER |
| N. | Sector involved in production | INDUSTRY |
| O. | Canned commodity? | LAUGHTER |
| P. | William known as the "Playwright of the Midwest" | INGE |
| Q. | Blowup of a comic? | KABOOM |
| R. | "Playwright of the Midwest," e.g. | EPITHET |
| S. | Cinematic take framing a pair of people (hyph.) | TWOSHOT |
| T. | Sarcastic surname of a "Captain" | OBVIOUS |
| U. | Cinematic symbol of virtue (2 wds.) | WHITEHAT |
| V. | What "whatever" may indicate | APATHY |
| W. | The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, for one | TETRAD |
| X. | Talk show host who wrote the essay collection "Talk Show" | CAVETT |
| Y. | Monkeyshines, shenanigans, slapstick foolery (2 wds.) | HIGHJINKS |