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• ___ Powers

• ___ Powers (mnemonic trio of South American nations)

• ___ Powers (negotiators between the U.S. and Mexico, 1914)

• ... easy as 1-2-3 Jackson 5 hit

• ... Millionaire network

• '20/20' airer

• '20/20' network

• '70 Jackson 5 hit

• 'Alias' airer

• 'Desperate Housewives' airer

• 'Good Morning America' network

• 'Lost' airer

• 'Lost' broadcaster

• 'Lost' network

• 'NYPD Blue' network

• 'Poison Arrow' band

• 'The View' network

• 'Ugly Betty' network

• *Jackson 5, 1970

• #1 hit #2 for the Jackson 5

• #1 hit between 'Let It Be' and 'American Woman'

• #1 hit by the Jackson 5

• #1 hit of 1970

• #1 song of 1970

• #1 tune of 1970

• 1 on a telephone

• 1-2-3 of 26

• 1970 #1 hit for the Jackson 5

• 1970 #1 hit with the lyric Or simple as do re mi

• 1970 #1 Jackson 5 hit

• 1970 hit by the Jackson 5

• 1970 hit for The Jackson 5

• 1970 hit with the lyric That's how easy love can be

• 1970 Jackson Five song

• 2 letters

• 2 on a phone dial

• 2 on a touch-tone

• 2 on the phone

• 2, on an ATM

• 3 letters on 2

• 60 Minutes network

• 8 Simple Rules airer

• A network

• A network logo

• A network that has agreed to hire more minorities

• Aaron Brown's employer

• According to Jim airer

• According to Jim network

• Agatha Christie's 'The ___ Murders'

• Airer of WWTBAM

• Alias network

• All My Children network

• Alphabet beginner

• Alphabet intro

• Alphabet opener

• Alphabet run

• Alphabet section

• Alphabet start

• Alphabet trio

• Alphabet web, to Variety

• Alphabetical network

• Alphabetical openers

• Anecdotally, the most ubiquitous song of the last month

• Another Jackson 5 hit

• As easy as ___

• Basic beginning

• Basic facts

• Basic ingredient to all four theme entries?

• Basic letters

• Basic principle

• Basics

• Beginning of learning

• Better Off Ted channel

• Big Three member

• Boston Legal network

• Broadcast channel

• Brothers & Sisters airer

• Brothers & Sisters network

• Castle carrier

• Castle network

• Castle shower

• Catch Monday Night Football here

• CBS alternative

• CBS rival

• Charles Gibson's net

• Charles Gibson's network

• Charlie's Angels airer

• Christie's The ___ Murders

• Coach network

• Cop Rock network

• Corporate monogram

• Cougar Town network

• Dancing With the Stars airer

• Dancing with the Stars network

• Describing straightforward play*

• Desperate Housewives network

• Desperate Housewives shower

• Diane Sawyer's network

• Dinotopia network

• Dirty Sexy Money airer

• Disney acquisition

• Disney acquisition of 1995

• Disney channel

• Disney division

• Disney holding

• Disney network

• Disney owns it

• Disney partner

• Disney purchase

• Disney subsidiary

• Don't Trust the B---- in Apt 23 channel

• Drew Carey's network

• Duel network

• Dynasty airer

• Early investor in Disneyland

• Early Jackson 5 hit

• Early run?

• Easy as ___

• Easy as letters

• Easy comparison?

• Easy letters?

• Easy threesome?

• Elementary beginning

• Elementary trio

• English trio?

• Epitome of ease

• Epitome of easiness

• Epitome of simplicity

• Exemplar of ease

• Exemplar of easiness

• Exemplar of simplicity

• Extreme Makeover network

• Final answer? broadcaster

• First #1 song, when all #1 hits are listed alphabetically

• First letters

• First network, alphabetically

• First of 26

• First steps to reading?

• First string?

• First three of 26

• First-grader's trio

• Fox alternative

• Fox competitor

• Fox rival

• Fundamental start

• General Hospital network

• GMA's home

• Grade school song start

• Grey's Anatomy network

• Happy Days network

• Home Improvement home

• Home Improvement network

• Home of The Drew Carey Show

• Home of The Practice

• Home of The View

• How a straightforward player plays*

• How beginners play poker

• Initial letters

• Invasion network

• It succeeded Let It Be as Billboard's #1 single

• It's easy as 1-2-3

• It's Easy as 1-2-3 hit of 1970

• Its slogan was once Wide world of entertainment

• Jackson 5 #1 hit of 1970

• Jackson 5 chart-topper

• Jackson 5 classic

• Jackson 5 hit

• Jackson 5 hit of 1970

• Jackson 5 smash

• Jackson 5 song

• Jennings and Koppel work here

• Jennings's employer

• Jeopardy! airer

• Jimmy Kimmel Live channel

• Jimmy Kimmel Live network

• Kids' song opening

• Kind of soil or warfare

• Kindergarten song start

• Kindergarten starting trio

• Kindergarten trio

• Kindergarten-song opening

• Kindergartner's song

• Koppel net

• Leading letters

• Letter openers?

• Letters near 2

• Letters of introduction?

• Life on Mars network

• Liquor-store chain

• Lois & Clark network

• Lost letters?

• Lost shower

• Lost tribe?

• Major TV broadcaster

• Marcus Welby, M.D. network

• Men in Trees net

• Men in Trees network

• Modern Family airer

• Modern Family network

• Monday Night Football channel

• Monday Night Football network

• Multiple-choice choices

• Natl. TV network

• NBA Finals channel

• NBC competitor

• Network

• Network for Koppel

• Network for Peter Jennings

• Network letters

• Network of Lost

• Network of The View

• Network on which Phil Hill has been a sports commentator

• Network owned by Disney

• Network owned by the Walt Disney Company

• Network that ran National Bingo Night

• Network that tried a Charlie's Angels reboot

• Network that wants us all to get Lost

• Network, briefly

• Nightline home

• Nightline letters

• Nightline net

• Nightline network

• Number-one hit single by The Jackson 5

• NYPD Blue carrier

• One Life to Live airer

• Opening letters

• Opening string

• Org. that verifies publication sales

• Original airer of The Jetsons

• Paradigm of easiness

• Part of the Disney empire

• Peter Jennings's network

• Phone button letters

• Phone dial's 2

• Phone trio

• Phone-button threesome

• Pie equivalent?

• Politically Incorrect network

• Preschool group?

• Primer

• Private Practice network

• Programming letters

• Regis' network

• Regis's employer

• Relativity network

• Revenge carrier

• Rin Tin Tin shower

• Roots network

• Roseanne broadcaster

• Roseanne's network

• Rudiment

• Samantha Who? network

• School song start

• Scrubs network

• Simple analogy

• Simplicity epitome

• Something simple, supposedly

• Song that knocked Let It Be off the #1 spot in 1970

• Song that knocked Let It Be out of #1 in 1970

• Song that knocked Let it Be out of the #1 spot

• Song that replaced Let It Be at #1 in 1970

• Soup ingredients?

• Spin City network

• Standard of ease?

• Start Here network

• Start Here sloganeer

• Start of a children's song

• Start of a familiar lineup

• The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural)