Crossword Puzzle Answers - 12/13/2015 - The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more

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• He, in Italian
• Book that begins "In the days when the judges rule...
• Word printed on mazes
• Working in a mess hall
• Wrote with a template
• Luis Obispo, CA
• Volunteer`s offer
• Without delay
• What ``candy`` starts with
• Used as a blackboard
• Typography flourish
• Tooth pro`s deg
• Title for Conan Doyle
• Tigger`s creator
• Ties, as a score
• Thinks much of
• Telegraph inventor
• Sweet tangerine
• Take the role of
• Swedish tennis great
• Spontaneous comment
• Steel mill delivery
• Sporty car roofs
• Source of some salt
• Soil-shaping tool
• Snack cake brand
• Slow walkers
• Shortbread brand
• Senior members
• Second-rate boxer
• Search software
• Procter & Gamble rival
• Party consultant
• Prefix meaning ``billionth``
• Part of France`s motto
• Nursery rhyme opener
• Opposite of COD
• Non-alcoholic cocktail
• Most-nominated Oscar performer
• Morning talk-show host
• Middle of the sixth century
• Menlo Park middle name
• Membership fees
• Make revisions to
• Letters on spacesuits
• Mac eschewer
• Largest Greek island
• Lake adjoining Cleveland
• Key concept in criminal law
• John Wayne film of `70
• Hockey opportunity
• Human Resources` ranges
• Hospital`s prepping place
• Hasbro`s major competitor
• Gritty film genre
• German industrial city
• Ft. Lauderdale locale
• Fruity frozen dessert
• French dessert
• Fruity dessert
• French 101 verb
• Exactly when expected
• Four of Ben Hogan`s titles
• Flash of inspiration
• Fists, so to speak
• First name of two moonwalkers
• Explosive, for short
• Do over, as walls
• Earlier, in poems
• Director Wertmüller
• Daredevil Knievel
• Considered overnight
• Cobs with kernels
• Chalet`s evening activities
• Cash in Tokyo
• Cabernet grape
• By-laws, for short
• Body art, for short
• Bodies of work
• Beekeeper`s concern
• Become permanent
• Be indisposed
• Backpack material
• Athens` ancient enemy
• As it happens
• After the buzzer
• ``Top Chef`` appliances
• ``South Pacific`` tune
• ``Inside`` information
• ``Cut that out!``
• With the bow, musically
• Weather map notations
• Use one`s peepers
• Tosses from office
• Three times, in Rx lingo
• They were bound to the land
• The main course?
• Strong rope fiber
• Start of several California city names
• What a hasty pilot might make?
• Springfield, for one
• Short distance
• Russian legislative assembly
• Quite familiar with
• Put in the fridge
• Prominent rock on a hill
• Premature, as a decision
• Place for a boutonniere
• Part of a swap?
• One running casually
• One and the other
• Officers in blue
• Obsolete "for fear that"
• Move like a hummingbird
• Like some banking
• Largest U.S. union
• Knit goods problem
• Just love to pieces
• Item in black
• It`s known by its fruit
• It may follow a million
• Irksome swarm
• In the back of the boat
• Horseshoe site
• Highlands family
• Has trouble with S`s
• Geiger of radiation detection
• From the beginning
• Former ruler of Iran
• For an interim
• Fly or mosquito, e.g
• First half of the alphabet?
• Edible root of taro plants
• Earthenware stew pots
• Eagerly seize an opportunity
• Ducks and dodges
• Dry to the bone
• Dream-time acronym
• Does a nightly ritual, for some
• Distinctive atmosphere about someone
• Dickens character Heep
• Common college degrees, briefly
• Birds as tall as people
• Basketball Hall of Famer Archibald
• Automaton of Jewish legend
• Advanced college deg
• "Sic `em, Spot!"
• "Famous" cookie maker
• "Born Free" lioness
• What a hypochondriac wants?
• Utensil for a chef
• Type of whiskey
• Type of rug
• Type of passage in the face
• Treated very unfairly, in slang
• Thing of value
• Start to some juice-blend names
• Stare at on the beach
• Rugs from Sweden
• Places for experiments
• Place to play ball
• Pastoral composition (var.)
• Parts of roadies` agendas?
• Part of the canyon
• Opened or unused
• One way to cross the Potomac
• One of Henry VIII`s six
• Old French coin
• More sharp, as pain
• Make sure charity starts at home?
• Like all new shoes
• Like a comfortable pillow
• Kind of thermometer
• Killer ___ (powerful software program)
• Item of earthenware
• Island encountered by Magellan
• If a = b and b = c, then a = c, e.g
• Guzzle`s cousin
• Group of whales
• Golden Fleece seeker`s vessel
• Goes along with the band
• Front of the boat
• Eye or lung, e.g
• Everyone except the winner
• Declines in the middle
• Deceptive appearance
• Common dessert
• Common cookie
• Color in the American flag
• Cause to lose courage
• Campus recruiters, briefly
• Bread ingredient
• Be in debt
• Baptism and marriage
• it" ("as you wish")
• 1/12 of a subion, often
• 1960s activist`s hairstyle
• "The Eternal City"
• Abbr. in a help-wanted ad
• Anesthetic choices, once
• Alpha`s opposite
• "Sesame Street" watcher
• "Much ___ About Nothing" (Shakespeare)
• As a result of wagering
• "In God We Trust" is one
• "Got milk?" plaint
• "Fair" beater
• "Bear" that`s not a bear
• First responders, for short
• Zip (through)
• Forum infinitive
• Fish-eating duck
• Commercial prefix with "cell"
• Went off the deep end
• Classic showdown time
• Marked for deletion
• Be gaga over
• Magic center?
• "Sure, I get it"
• Least likely to bite
• Rogers Centre player
• Travelers` references
• Son of Agamemnon
• Cabinet part: Abbr.
• Phrase on a fortuneteller`s business card
• Decorative sewing case
• Canine attraction
• Interstellar dist
• Fishing, perhaps
• Where the Shannon flows
• Don Knotts denial
• First name in superhero lore
• Monty Python co-founder
• Throws a fit
• Spanish "that"
• CBS drama since 2000
• Machine displaying fruit symbols
• Go out with
• Vanilla-flavored, as wine
• Liquid courses
• Like talent, in a Geoff Colvin best-seller
• Lincoln-to-Des Moines dir
• Advantage to get
• Like most zoo animals
• Purim month
• Largest of the Near Islands
• Simple rhyme scheme
• Woman in a "Paint Your Wagon" song
• Marine myth
• Not a good thing to make
• Bust measurements?
• Chiwere speakers
• Simulated military exercise
• Course-plotting "Star Trek" crewman
• Winery fixtures
• Bar fruit
• European cheese town
• Two-balled weapon
• Six-pack set
• One awaiting a cancellation
• Some govt. lawyers
• "The Flying Dutchman" soprano
• Conclude with
• Texas city nickname
• Techniques involving falsetto
• Sign of boredom
• Doesn`t have to ask about
• Nails the test
• Snack in a stack
• Life partners
• Really large items thrown overboard?
• WWII bond designation
• Memoirs of a penitent bookie?
• Doo-wop band instruments
• Match in size
• Kidney-related
• Tee sizes: Abbr
• Race on the water
• If it`s orange, it`s really black
• Done like Donne
• "Missionary squad loses big in softball game"?
• Truth stretcher
• Time to beware
• Silents star Negri
• Current king of Spain
• Mexican dish you were warned not to eat?
• Aiming devices
• Annual August golf tournaments, familiarly
• Salesperson who doesn`t take your offer seriously?...
• "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" constable
• Type of cell or cent
• Soviet cooperative
• Pleads not guilty
• Fan appreciation event
• Something for a fan to support
• Corporate rule
• Therapists` org
• Table salt, in chem class
• I`m flying in my taxi": Harry Chapin lyric
• Unprincipled operator?
• Unavoidable end
• Superman or Spider-Man
• Harsh criticism of an old Pontiac?
• Painful, in a way
• Start a bulleted list, perhaps
• Asian cookware
• Polaris Rangers, e.g., briefly
• Biblical shepherd
• Opinionated assortment
• Ad follower
• Fridays (restaurant chain)
• Start of a Mozart title
• Classic record label for R&B and soul
• Writer Bret
• San ___, Argentina
• Area code 801 resident
• Favored at the 96-Down, say
• One of the majors
• Singer/actress Lola
• Czar's decree
• Candy Crush Saga, for one
• Weigh (down)
• Typing test fig
• LeShan who wrote "It's Better to Be Over the Hill ...
• Golfer Ernie
• Solve by logic
• Lead role in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"
• Place to get stuck
• Apple Pencil, for one
• Who said "Aristotle is my friend - but my greatest...
• Undergo ecdysis
• They may be taught with a song
• Undergo ecdysis
• Chinese: Prefix
• China's Chou En
• Travelmate in "On the Road"
• Actress Kurylenko of "Quantum of Solace"
• Professors' reading
• Carrier inits
• Silently acknowledge
• Order at McSorley's
• Like the comment "Maybe, maybe not"
• Kind of wheel
• Dating datum
• Sound of disapproval
• Dermatological sac
• No de Cologne?
• Show, with "out"
• Something bound to sell?
• Open spot in a woods
• Big bankruptcy of 2001
• Northwest airport named for two cities
• Peacock's "eyes"
• Not taking sides
• It may be jaunty
• With 14-Down, figs. in the war on drugs
• Bosox division
• No-name
• Nee: Abbr.
• "Wheel of Fortune" category
• Symbol of industry
• Lover of Sir Lancelot
• Early spring blooms
• Bill for cable TV
• Capital of Ghana
• Time and time again
• Like Crimea, now
• Deliverer's assignment
• "We've been approved!"
• What many Black Friday shoppers do at midnight
• A wink or a nod, maybe
• Land on the Red Sea
• Home Depot competitor
• "Now the truth comes out!"
• Mellark, Katniss Everdeen's partner in "The Hunger...
• Lark for a Halloween hooligan
• Org. in "The Martian"
• Claire, Wis
• Recipe amounts
• Investor's concern
• Cold War capital
• Strong and unwavering
• Like child-safe cleaning products
• Victoria's home: Abbr
• Medium for cuneiform writing
• Public spat
• Kind of pie or doughnut
• Times when shops close
• Former baseball boss Bud
• Title ship in a 1997 Spielberg movie
• They're seen spread on the back of a quarter
• Certain sorority member, informally
• Job-related move, for short
• "The King of Queens" co-star Remini
• Brewery kiln
• Eww, gross!
• "Grand" name in the frozen food aisle
• Nominative or accusative
• All the cars going the same way
• Key state geographically or electorally?: Abbr
• It's for the birds
• Some are 13-/14-Down
• Itinerary abbr.
• Aid for a flood-prone house
• Quest for the unknown?
• Forward, as a letter
• "Why didn't I think of that?!"
• Elevated sight in the Windy City
• A touch of class
• Available, as a London limo
• "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen," e.g.
• Slow musical movements
• Pomeranian, e.g.