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“Remember Sunday” is airing amid a spate of fresh activity for Bledel on both the professional and personal fronts. She’s filmed the pilot for a proposed Fox comedy for next season — “Friends & Family,” inspired by the British hit “Gavin & Stacey” and teaming her with a more recent colleague of “Gilmore Girls” mom Lauren Graham, Jason Ritter (“Parenthood”) — and she’s engaged to actor Vincent Kartheiser, her principal co-star and love interest during her relatively brief “Mad Men” tenure.

“She was someone who struggled with real depression,” Bledel recalls of her “Mad Men” character, Beth, who had an affair with 1960s advertising man Pete Campbell despite their marriages to others. “There was a sort of darkness about her that she couldn’t escape, and she was looking for somebody to lift her out of it. She almost had a habit of doing that, I think, and playing her helped me understand the Gus-and-Molly relationship in this.

“As you get older, you personally experience more that you’re able to add to characters as an actor. It was a great break to play Molly after playing Beth, because she has this lightness about her. It was such a pleasure to read the part, then to play her. You get to be that person for a time.”

Across

1. “1600 Penn” actress (2)

10. Nabisco treat

11. Fine tablecloth fabric

12. __ King Cole––

13. Paul Johansson’s role on “One Tree Hill”

14. “Just __ Water”; 2008 Dylan Walsh movie

16. Role on “Last Resort” (2)

18. Hot tub

20. “__ Came Running”; Frank Sinatra film

21. Collins or Rivers

22. Ignited

23. “Con __”; 1997 movie for Nicolas Cage

Down

1. Cryer, for one

2. Period of time

3. “The __”; 1995 movie for Sandra Bullock

4. “__ Ordinary Family”

5. Old Western actor Jack

6. “The Weakest __” (2001-03)

7. Initials for nurse Nightingale

8. Intends

9. “Guys __ __”; 1955 Marlon Brando movie

13. 1988 Martin Sheen film

15. Adopted child in “The Omen”

16. “__ Antonio”; Errol Flynn Western

17. “__ Make a Deal”

18. Evening party

19. “__ Guidance”; 2012 Bette Midler film

21. “Madea Goes to __”; 2009 movie for Keshia Knight Pulliam

24. Tempe school, for short

26. “Let’s __ Jessica to Death”; 1971 horror film

29. Lead role on “JAG”

30. “__ __ Wonderful Life”

31. Initials for Felix Unger’s roommate

34. “Harry’s __”

35. “I’m Dancing as Fast __ __ Can”; 1982 film

36. Role on “The Waltons”

38. Carney’s initials

39. Former series for Jana Marie Hupp