Where the lakes area turns for news and

eral months ago indicate Megan and Don make a trek to Hawaii.

“It’s hard to extrapolate anything from a still photograph,” Hamm notes, “and we live in a world where everybody and their dog has a camera. People don’t know what that means, because they have no context to put it in. I think they’ll be pleasantly surprised when they see how it fits in.”

A “Mad Men” producer as well, Hamm also directs the second new episode. “It’s definitely a learning process,” he says after having also guided one of last season’s stories, “and it’s exciting for me to have a completely different perspective on all of these other characters. It’s also a kind of detachment, and since I’m obviously in a lot of the scenes as well, I have to walk that line.

“I was not only able to watch Ben Affleck do that on ‘The Town’ (in which Hamm co-starred), but also Jen (Jennifer Westfeldt, Hamm’s actress-writer-director girlfriend), and Slattery a few times on the show. It’s been a tremendous challenge, and also a way for me to learn more about the show and about myself as a person. It’s very fulfilling.”

As “Mad Men” also is for Pare. “It’s nice to be able to go into meetings now where people have seen work that I’ve done,” she says, “or at least have heard about it. It’s actually surprising how many meetings I have where people say, ‘Oh, we hear you’re on that show. Never seen it.’ What’s great, though, is that the material I get to read — and read for — is so much more interesting than before.”

43. Setting for “M*A*S*H”

45. “Studio 60 __ __ Sunset Strip”

47. “McHale’s __”

48. “__-__-You.Com”; 2006 movie for Beau Bridges

Down

1. Actor on “Criminal Minds” (2)

2. Suffix for command or profit

3. Prefix for play or run

4. “__ La Douce”; 1963 Shirley MacLaine film

5. Oz visitor

6. Initials for the star of “Dave’s World”

7. Cash source, for short

8. “In __ __ __ __ Night” (1988-95)

9. “__ White and the Huntsman”; 2012 film

11. Floor

14. Most-watched series of the 1998-99 season

15. “Shoot ’__ Up”; 2007 film for Clive Owen

18. Role on “The Big Bang Theory”

19. Actor Chuck

22. “__ Fear”; 1991 Nick Nolte movie

24. Anthropologist Margaret

29. 1962 best actor Oscar winner

31. “Jimmy Kimmel __”

34. Auction lover’s delight

35. “__ Time for Sergeants”

36. Nation whose capital is Wellington: abbr.

37. “__ Arabian Nights”; 1959 animated film

40. Paul’s cousin on “Mad About You”

42. Polished off

44. Initials for Ms. Verdugo

46. Sedaka’s initials