Crossword Puzzle Answers - 12/15/2015 - 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.

• Report card stat
• Poet Teasdale
• Pres. after LBJ
• Port of Algeria
• Pedometer reset
• Part in a play
• Oft-quoted Yogi
• NYC sports venue
• NNW`s opposite
• Novelist Fleming
• Nine-to-five gig
• Nickname of the N.Y. Jets
• Minn. neighbor
• Losing battles?
• L`Orange-flavored French vodka
• iPad extras
• Ice-T`s music
• Houdini, for one
• Hirsch of `Taxi`
• Calif. wine region
• Biblical hunter
• Apollo and Eros
• `Jazz` filmmaker Burns
• `Feed me!`
• `Hairspray` mom
• `Garfield` dog
• `the Beat` (Go-Go`s hit)
• Veep`s superior
• Steer clear of
• Staunton of `Vera Drake`
• Stare stupidly
• Spot for would-be attorneys
• Signaled on stage
• Playground sight
• Pep rally participant
• Pago Pago setting
• Not rented out
• Line of symmetry
• Like some museum paintings
• Legislative VIP
• Letter before omega
• Fills completely
• In the style of
• Gene messenger
• Eventually succeed
• Citi Field team
• `Das Lied von der Erde` composer
• `Casablanca` nightclub
• Wide grin`s width
• Washington on a dollar bill
• Toward the sunrise
• Turf-gripping shoes
• Unpaid TV ad, for short
• Use a keyboard
• Very bad reputation
• Tip of an airplane
• Stroked, as a cat
• Starting scale notes
• Shoot the breeze
• Sgt.`s subordinates
• Sell from a pushcart
• Santa`s laugh
• Red-in-the-middle sirloins
• Raised, as livestock
• Raggedy doll
• Practical applications
• Play segments
• Open-handed hit
• Mouse catcher
• Metal piece on a cowboy boot
• Membership fees
• Lite, on food labels
• Letters before tees
• Letter add-ons: Abbr
• In a timid way
• Hurricane centers
• Hunt illegally
• Honolulu feast
• Hint in a whodunit
• Henhouse products
• Garlands worn at a 16 Across
• Flies like an eagle
• Cry of dismay
• English, to a Hungarian
• Designer Christian
• Computer memory measures
• Becomes hazy, with ``up``
• Complete collections
• Ballerina`s skirt
• At a good distance
• Argue the issues
• Anti-pollution org
• ``Toodle-oo!``
• Adhesive on a roll
• 1, 3, 5, 7, etc
• to you (common toast)
• ``So long, amigo!``
• ``If all __ fails . . .``
• a one (nobody)
• Wiener schnitzel meat
• Way in for a miner
• Vegetable that`s peeled
• Unpaid charges
• Tooth material
• Unfair things
• Three-piece suit part
• They`re hidden in the theme entries
• Respected tribesman
• Scruff of the neck
• Put in the overhead
• Savannah`s place
• Some upright supports
• One excited about a birthday
• On the clothesline
• Obeyed "Down in front!"
• Positioned, as a building
• Something attached
• The two doz. in a day
• Mulligan or ragout
• Like a fireplace floor
• Jelly-filled pastry
• High schooler`s book
• Golfer`s collection
• Freetown currency unit
• Does high-tech eye work
• Europe`s tallest active volcano
• Duffer`s scorecard listings
• Dept. of Justice arm
• Decorative wall hangings
• College club, briefly
• Clive of films and TV
• Classify a film as PG
• Celestial phenomena
• Capone and Gore
• Calculators that don`t need batteries
• Capital of Norway
• Caesar or Waldorf
• Breakfast bowlful
• Bordelaise or tartar
• Big Apple conveyances
• Beatty of "Roseanne"
• Bach is played on them
• At some earlier time
• Advance warning
• 12/24 and 12/31
• "Now ___ seen everything!"
• Type of saxophone
• Worker for Santa
• Unable to kick the habit
• What good-looking businesses make?
• That is, in Latin
• Teenage blemishes
• Swish generator
• Take a break
• Taj Mahal city
• Suffix with "sight" or "over"
• State definitively
• Start of a segue
• Spot of land
• Some low cards
• Site of the Alhambra
• Proof of crying
• Prepare to pick up something
• Peninsula near Singapore
• Portable gaming device
• Picks (with "for")
• One wanted in the Wild West
• Part of a church`s interior
• Offering from Etsy
• Parkinson`s disease drug
• Nell, lover of Charles II
• Measure of gold`s fineness
• Marriage ceremony
• MacGraw of "Love Story"
• Long, angry complaint
• Japanese currency unit
• It`s hot in there
• Home-school union?
• Handle adversity
• Fired, as a weapon
• English 101 verb
• Deep in thought
• Damage the surface
• Contest of speed
• Carpenter, at times
• Brad of Hollywood
• Bad place to be in New York
• Barney of Mayberry
• Bit of sculpture
• Barber-chair attachment
• Asserts to be true
• Annapolis mascot
• American cabbage?
• 21-gun salute, e.g
• "Walk of Fame" features
• If all fails
• "Grand" piece of furniture
• "Black Beauty" author Sewell
• "Beat it!" to a cat
• Common URL ending
• Kitchen gadgets brand
• Bowler or boater
• "That`s a shame"
• Dieter`s setback
• Four and five, but not six and seven
• Pub choices
• Earth pigment
• Triumphs over
• Prone to flip-flopping
• Skillfully made
• Hardly a buzz cut
• "Way to go, kid!"
• Payment option
• Police blotter letters
• Remove, as a rind
• Story with a lesson
• Word in some private school names
• Fed the piggy bank
• Sally, to Charlie Brown
• A-list group
• Gymnast Comaneci
• Divorce proceeding rep.
• Deal with it
• Apt name for a Dallas cowboy?
• "CSI" facility
• Voting against
• Coke and Pepsi
• Pesticide poison
• Shoulder muscle, informally
• Name after 39-Down
• Laugh-a-minute types
• Wild West law group
• Salon employees
• Shopping bag
• Bygone anesthetic
• Tackling a problem
• Figure skating leap
• Churchgoer`s donation
• Prejudicial view
• Traffic complaint
• Deviation from a normal routine, and a hint to thi...
• Float up and down
• Put up a fight
• Like the Titanic
• Camper`s gift from home
• Emancipation Proclamation first name
• "__ No Sunshine": Bill Withers hit
• Many a Monopoly rd.
• Scottish denials
• Workplace social event
• Illegal diamond pitch
• Golf lesson subject
• Start of something?
• Madison or Jackson, e.g.
• "My life. My card" co.
• Facts and figures
• World`s longest river
• Caen`s river
• Edmonton NHL player
• Big name in designer bags
• Suffix with Manhattan or Brooklyn
• "Victory is mine!"
• Singer Yoko
• Didn`t stand up straight
• Hat for Frank Sinatra
• Fond du ___, Wis.
• "There, look what I did!"
• 1980 one-woman comedy produced by Lorne Michaels
• Out of bed
• Soak, in dialect
• "The lady ___ protest too much"
• 2014 Jennifer Lawrence/Bradley Cooper film
• Rank above maj.
• Moves like a buoy in the ocean ... or a hint to th...
• "Tuesdays With ___" (Mitch Albom best seller)
• Don Juan types
• Nickname on the 1960s-`80s Red Sox
• Mathematician Turing and others
• One at a multiplex
• "Well, whaddya know!"
• Classic board game with a Peppermint Forest
• Elton John`s dedicatee for "Candle in the Wind 199...
• Twinings product in an orange box
• Tonsil-checking sounds
• Amal Clooney ___ Alamuddin
• Like sailing ships
• Diamond stat
• Child`s punishment, maybe
• Iris part
• "The Greatest Generation" subj.
• "The Jazz Singer" star
• 1990s Senate majority leader Trent
• Capital on the Red River
• MouthHealthy.org grp.
• Dandelion, e.g.
• Absolutely ate up
• Hallucination producer
• Not for sure
• Spanish "that"
• Neurotic condition, for short
• Two cents, so to speak
• Invites to one`s home
• Open-mouthed
• They often line up near WRs on a football field
• At the home of
• Grecian subject of a Keats poem
• Verdi opera based on a Shakespeare play
• Palindromic bird
• Gets the picture
• "... ___ lack thereof"
• Buddy of "The Beverly Hillbillies"
• "Ain`t happening"
• How a lot of Generation X`s music was released
• They may be involved in close shaves
• Item on a chairlift
• Monomaniacal mariner
• Bully`s response
• Something a software developer develops