| SESAMESTREET | Early producers of this show, now in its 50th season, worried that puppets and humans interacting would confuse children |
| ATARI | Early producers of video football |
| SNL | NYC-based show now in its 49th season; you may recall some of the cast members |
| PUNCH | Puppets: - and Judy |
| STRING | Ease off steering line for puppets and pearls (6) |
| BEAT | With 13-Across, TV show now in its 34th season |
| SQUIBB | Early producer of penicillin |
| REPRESENTS | ... shows now in the first-half result (10) |
| RCA | Early producer of color TVs |
| LAYER | Early producer of eggs (5) |
| COLON | Dougie ___, That Puppet Game Show host |
| TOOL | Saw in here that puppet was cast off - w 1dn (4,4) |
| SHED | Saw in here that puppet was cast off - w 26ac (4,4) |
| ULLMANN | Fritz ____'s Encyclopedia of Industrial Chemistry, first published in German in 1914, is now in its seventh edition |
| JEFFPROBST | "Survivor" host (for the past 25 years!) who announced yesterday that the 50th season will premiere in February of 2026 |
| RAV4 | Toyota's SUV, launched in 1994, now in its fifth generation of models (4) |
| LEXEME | In linguistics, a basic unit of meaning in a language/vocabulary in the form of a word or several wo |
| IONIC | Greek form of architecture seen in The Temple of Artemis, one of the seven wonders of the ancient wo |
| FACTOR | Ricki Lake is competing in a Celebrity version of this show (3,1-6) |
| THEX | Ricki Lake is competing in a Celebrity version of this show (3,1-6) |
