Crossword Puzzle Answers - 12/14/2015 - The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more

• Crossword Puzzle Answers - Solutions for daily newspapers: The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more.

• Baited with incendiary remarks
• Spectrum’s end
• Sign before Taurus
• Sleazy, in slang
• Tennis legend Arthur
• Trying to homer, perhaps
• Underworld river ferried by Charon
• Uses a pew
• Valuable violins, for short
• Vases with bases
• The going rates?
• Water, in Paris
• Western writer Zane
• Willie Nelson sound
• Writer Loos
• Sentence ender
• Scrooge, for one
• Second-most populous nation
• Rob of ‘The Grinder’
• River spanned by Westminster Bridge
• Prefix with pad or port
• Phone-to-phone message
• Paris’s ___ d’Orsay
• One way to settle a point of honor
• One might go out on a limb
• Not one of the cool crowd
• Monopoly purchases
• Male principle, in Chinese philosophy
• Like some vaccines
• Letters before omicrons
• House majority leader from 2003 to 2005
• Heating system part
• Geometry calculation
• Follow, as advice
• Don’t go there!
• Fat used in making flaky pie crusts
• Declare untrue
• College freshman, typically
• Chocolate-covered toffee bar from Hershey
• Canyon’s edge
• Advertising travel to England?
• Advertising Sondheim?
• Advertising Rolaids?
• A little more than 900 kilograms
• Not There (1964 hit for The Zombies)
• ‘Queen of the Blues’ Washington
• Classic Pontiacs
• Brownstone fronts
• Advice guru Landers
• ‘Taken’ star Neeson
• Classic muscle car
• Young’s partner in accounting
• Type A? | Type E? | Type O?
• Supplemented, with “out”
• Queeg’s command
• Sheltered, nautically
• Reply from a gentleman
• Pie chart part
• Out for the night
• Pampering places
• Opera set in Egypt
• Not participate, with “out”
• Nick of “Lorenzo’s Oil”
• Newcomer, briefly
• Naval conflicts
• Meat eschewers
• Kindergarten lesson
• Lasting impression?
• December decoration
• Foot the bill
• Funny Foxx
• Garage containers
• Deli machine
• Epitome of thinness
• Flies alone
• Custard concoction
• Cry of accomplishment
• Crunch at breakfast
• Cousin of a cockatoo
• Colleague of Ruth and Sonia
• Cold drink
• Churchyard tree in “Romeo and Juliet”
• Bridges of Hollywood
• Big fat mouth
• Become unhinged
• Baseball boss
• Baseball semifinals, for short
• Bad mood inducer
• Audited, with “on”
• Alumna bio word
• 2002 winner at Muirfield
• 1970 Kinks hit
• “When We Were Kings” subject
• “Malcolm X” moviemaker
• “How exciting!”
• “Field of Dreams” setting
• new world`s record
• of measure (pound or mile)
• Venetian-blind strip
• Unmannerly guy
• Undercover agent
• Perform on stage
• Performer lists
• Try to lose weight
• Tampa neighbor, for short
• Pebble or boulder
• Study of the nature of knowledge
• Person filling prescriptions
• Stroked, as a dog
• State south of NJ
• Out of town
• State formally
• Sauces made with basil
• Running-track circuits
• Right away, in a memo
• Ray of sunlight
• Removes suds from
• Religious offshoot
• Pets that purr
• Newspaper articles
• Sealed up, as a carton
• Police`s arrest list
• Process, as flour
• Shape of a wedding ring
• Mosquito attack
• Mountain climber`s starting place
• Minor quarrel
• Meat in a sausage
• Mexican food in a shell
• Medal of Honor recipient
• Kentucky Derby contender
• Initial poker payment
• Husband`s spouse
• Have sore muscles
• Have in mind
• Have another go at
• Go right or left
• First claim, informally
• Entertains at home
• Feel pessimistic about
• Enjoying others` company
• Duplicate made with an office machine
• Do great on a test
• Cry of woe
• Colts` fathers
• Clown`s height enhancer
• Bartlett or Bosc
• Blissful regions
• Black-and-white cookie
• Birds flap them
• Alternative to suspenders
• ``Let`s get out of __!``
• ``Not guilty,`` for one
• ``It must`ve been something __``
• Wrench type
• Young elephant’s weight, maybe
• Word of farewell
• Voicing one’s disapproval
• Tiny nuclear-energy source
• Time of “comfort and joy”
• Terrestrial amphibian
• Some talk on the street
• Some animals’ mouths
• Some 7-Down employees
• Singer’s first syllables, perhaps
• Shoulder extension
• Short and to the point
• Shopper’s cheat sheet
• Seed’s outer covering
• Secluded valley
• Romantic handout
• Ragout, for one
• Punch-card hanger
• Prefix with “red” or “structure”
• Person whose name begins “Mc,” often
• On a single occasion
• Most hard-hearted
• Man of steal?
• Lotion ingredients
• Little Greek letter
• Like the Capitol building
• Letters on an ambulance
• Largest city in Vermont
• Land surrounded by water
• Lab heater of old
• Kind of shark
• Killed, as a dragon
• Italicizes or leans
• It might be bummed, for short
• Iron-pumper’s muscle
• Improved partner?
• Highly spiced stew
• Feathered six-footer
• Farmer’s place, in a song
• Europe’s second-longest river
• Employ a wrecker
• Does some lawn work
• Commandments count
• Cocktail ingredient
• City on the Rio Grande
• City of despair
• Chichuahua or Connecticut
• Certain African
• Carpentry joint
• Capital of New Zealand
• Bologna home
• Bit of prevention
• Be on the brink
• Assault the nostrils
• And others, briefly
• After-bath powder
• Aarvark’s delight
• 100 qintars
• In a million
• “If all __ fails..”
• “How __ I to know?”
• “Get busy on that!”
• “Father of His Country”
• “Battle Born” state
• “And lead us not __..”
• On Down the Road
• East, in Essen
• Quarterback Dawson
• Audition goal
• Poppy narcotic
• Blackjack surface
• "This convenience store checks IDs"
• Emer. money sources
• Desktop image
• Ritualistic kind of doll
• Apple tree grouping
• Org. concerned with pesticides
• Jimmy Fallon`s longtime house band
• Pro __: in proportion
• Home in a tree
• Pretended to be what one isn`t
• Nebraska city associated with steaks
• "Yeah, whatever"
• Adorns with Cottonelle, informally
• Memorial news item, briefly
• Beltmaking tools
• Vague amount
• Valentino`s valentine
• Stingless bee
• Fireworks reaction
• Salad veggie with an edible pod
• Answer the call
• "__ hearing you right?"
• Canine gnawing toys
• Top with a slogan
• Display confidence and pride
• Greek letter before kappa
• Wearing a long face
• Makes a choice
• Revise, as text
• German pistol
• Sunburn soother
• Get lovey-dovey
• Awards for Helen Hunt and Holly Hunter
• "The Simpsons" Squishee seller
• Carrying a gun
• Important Colonial cash crop
• Short online message visible only to approved foll...
• Canonized fifth-cen. pope
• Cubes in a tray
• Beauty goop
• Enjoy the pool
• Girl who lost her sheep
• Ginormous amount
• BBC time traveler
• Org. that created American Hunter magazine
• For each one
• Superfan to the max
• Six-sided state
• Jeane Mortenson: Marilyn Monroe`s birth name
• A whole bunch
• Pizza party drinks
• Seniors, to juniors
• Theater décor
• Room where it looks like a bomb went off
• Stumble over
• Going without a date
• Initial money for the pot
• Fizzling sound
• Selassie, old Ethiopian leader
• Accept, as a lesser charge in exchange for admitti...
• Nonbelievers, to believers
• Wally`s kid bro, in 1950s-`60s TV
• Tournament front-runner
• Vehicle seized for auction
• Revolutionary Guevara
• Hatcher who co-starred in "Tomorrow Never Dies"
• Muslim cleric
• Teacher in a one-room schoolhouse
• Added up (to)
• Nobody at all
• "You said it!"
• Pioneering first-person computer game
• Submarine in a Tom Clancy best seller
• Wellness retreat
• Buddhist principle of fate
• Walks with a brash air
• Channel for cinephiles
• A to L and beyond, on a keyboard
• Rigidly uptight
• Wanderer in search of work
• Airborne urban hazard
• Downward force felt on the surface of the earth, i...
• Chick`s place
• Seductive nightwear
• "Fare thee well!"
• Gaze longingly upon
• Naval battle group
• Title held by the people who lent their names to 1...
• Opposite of empties
• Fundamentalist Palestinian group
• Stopped working
• Container in a dairy barn
• Depression-era shantytown
• Nuclear reactor insert
• Benjamin of "Law & Order"
• Lustful Le Pew
• Record producer Brian
• Winter hand warmer
• Competition in which the winner always gets the la...
• Statement such as "They misunderestimated me"
• Puts a protective shield on
• Low-level Dungeons & Dragons monster
• "I`m paying"
• Supply-side fiscal policy popularized in the 1980s...
• Exiled leader of Iran
• Lauderdale, Fla
• Fed. agents
• Clay monster of Jewish folklore
• Range through Peru and Chile
• National health insurance overhaul
• Sonnets, odes and such
• Like early vinyl records
• Rugby formation