Crossword Puzzle Answers - 12/16/2015 - 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.

• Stephen King novel
• Snail mail org
• Skin art, for short
• Old Mideast gp
• Elusive snowman
• Movie buys, briefly
• Morales of `Jericho`
• Meal with a crust
• Luau fish, for short
• Linen hue
• Chilling Chaney
• Bach composition
• `60s war zone
• Tennis star Sampras
• RBI or ERA
• Tom Sawyer`s love
• Use a ray-gun on
• Ring tossed at pegs
• Voting bloc traditionally aligned with the Democra...
• Travis of country fame
• The object of Bluto`s love
• The Joads, famously
• Sweet, spongy yeast cake
• Skin cream ingredient
• Swedish furniture giant
• Sri Lanka, at one time
• Some online reading, for short
• Site for a common vow
• Skid row denizen
• Sister of Rachel
• Shrek, for one
• Sesame pastes used in Middle Eastern cuisine
• Seasonal greeting
• Queen of Hollywood
• Quebec peninsula
• Put a stop to
• Ones honored by a DC memorial
• Olympic speed skater Ohno
• Not-so-nice look
• Move to another table
• Morlock victims
• More than suggestive
• Male dreamboat
• Like blackboard erasers
• Latin on a memo
• Joints that may need replacement
• It may be used to fill an unexpected vacancy
• Ingrid`s role in `Casablanca`
• In a few minutes
• Home of Gannon Univ
• Former Mets Darling and Swoboda
• Give it a go
• Environmental activist Brockovich
• Dines at home
• Covering all the grades, briefly
• Chopper topper
• CBS forensic drama that aired for fifteen seasons
• Capital of Latvia
• British submachine gun
• Bring to mind
• Breakdown of social norms
• Bebe`s `Cheers` role
• Abbr. on a cornerstone
• 1988 Tom Hanks film
• Uh, excuse me
• `Twilight` actress Stewart
• `Someone already told me`
• `Go Set a Watchman` novelist
• Forgive me
• glance (quickly)
• Vacations with a guide
• Use as a bed
• Triple-decker cookie
• Talks like Daffy Duck
• Spanish miss: Abbr
• Saudi Arabia neighbor
• Role in ``Rent``
• Rival of Budget
• Right-angle shape
• Resident of Belgrade
• Pond croakers
• Perform a tune
• Part of TGIF: Abbr
• Oscar winner Zellweger
• Object held on stage
• Nonwritten exams
• Neighbor of Penna
• More than needed
• Marsupial, for short
• Makes less severe
• Lake adjoining Toledo
• Lauer of ``Today``
• Loud crowd sound
• Kind of clam
• June honoree
• iPad, for instance
• In the twinkling __ eye
• Homonym for 68 Across
• Highest sundial numeral
• Hammer or wrench
• Golf pro McIlroy
• Futuristic book genre
• Fats Domino tune
• Extend one`s arms
• Driver`s license info
• Cuban leader Castro
• Crankcase parts
• Chemical suffix
• Beagle or poodle
• Campaign funding orgs
• Burger bun tidbit
• Burst of energy
• Actress Lamarr
• Part of Mao`s name
• ``Put __ on it!``
• Long-running CBS series
• ``O Come, __ Faithful``
• Like some prunes
• Fish-eating hawk
• `Candy is dandy` poet
• Novo (Benin`s capital)
• Woodworking tools
• What sleds are not
• Viennese cutlet
• Tight, budgetwise
• They pay for programs
• They make things happen
• Some military reservists
• Rosary prayer, in Latin
• Opening in the skin
• One page, at a greasy spoon
• Nuclear-energy source
• Nice to people
• Most up-to-date
• Mechanical routine
• Like the north side of a tree
• Lecher`s expression
• Kid`s "seat" on Santa
• Just a smidge
• It`s underground
• It`s a drag
• Irksome type
• Infant`s father
• Getting on one`s nerves
• Former Venetian bigwig
• Forever, it seems
• Floor cover-up
• Farmland measure
• Doesn`t anymore
• Dispatches a fly
• Cut, as a log
• Covered with soot
• Cornea`s companion
• Consumed completely
• Canal zone entrance?
• Bygone Russian despot
• Bowler`s hangout
• Bad ___, Germany
• Albany-to-Buffalo canal
• Again, freshly
• Affirm positively
• "What did I just get myself ___?"
• Adjust, as a motor
• Activate, as a bomb
• "How is he?" addressee
• "King ___" (Shakespeare work)
• "So what?" indicator
• "May I help you?"
• "Keep it down!"
• "I do," for one
• Zero, in soccer
• "Ewww, gross!"
• "Do re me fa"
• "Batman" actor West
• Winged god of love
• What the lawyers did at the luau?
• What one earns
• What 10 means on calendars, briefly
• Video chatting option
• Verdi musical genre
• Twenty-four cans, often
• Title for Galahad
• Thurman of films
• Thing often given to a detective
• Temptress`s asset
• Stimulate, as curiosity
• Sound from a dump on Halloween?
• Solo at the Met
• Riverside plant
• Remove confusion from
• Ready to be put into service
• Put on cargo
• Professional`s opposite
• Prefix with "smoking"
• Prefix meaning "four"
• Plan for a paranoid drunkard?
• Place of pilgrimage
• Like a spreadsheet
• Outside limit words
• One thing a blender can do
• O`Hara`s place
• Next best thing to a strike
• Million-millennia period
• It`s at the Getty Museum
• In (not yet born)
• Highly recommended film
• God, in the Vatican
• Functioning-computer period
• Engine lubricant
• Emulate a rooster
• Collared garment
• Employed a magnet?
• Done with a wink
• Chinese restaurant offering
• Chapter in history
• Catering dispenser
• Boy Scouts take one
• Bit of a merry refrain
• Big name in construction
• Best man who dislikes champagne?
• Autograph hound`s takealong
• "Under the Boardwalk," e.g
• And so forth, briefly
• Abbr. for the most extreme
• "Total due" document
• "The Addams Family" butler
• "Slowly" in music
• "Hello" or "goodbye" on an island
• Four score and seven years
• "Big Brother" host Julie
• the land of the free
• Firmed up, as plans
• Sit attachment?
• "Teenage Dream" singer Perry
• Microsoft Surface alternative
• Reduce, __, Recycle
• Down-and-out
• Screen door stuff
• Boss on "The Dukes of Hazzard"
• Short list shortener
• Mine entrance
• Mardi Gras follower
• Capital of Samoa
• Old Testament twin
• What a colon means, in analogies
• Short list shortener
• Eye source for a dramatic cauldron
• Word before man or maiden
• Croft of video games
• Contented sound
• Bedelia of kiddie lit
• Half a pop quartet
• "Respect for Acting" author Hagen
• Scrooge interjection
• "Star Wars" power, with "the"
• Not promising
• 2015 World Series player, for short
• Moriarty`s creator
• Spanish pronoun
• When a "Macbeth" witch says, "Something wicked thi...
• "You don`t say!"
• Gershwin`s preludes, e.g. ... and the starts of 18...
• Coleridge work
• Particle physics concept
• Vouches for
• Part of JFK: Abbr.
• Speedster`s motto
• "Make it happen"
• Selective way to order
• Beehive State college squad
• Major court rulings
• Medicinal houseplant
• Olympic event featuring a 16-pound ball
• Stop on Chicago`s Blue Line
• Best of the best
• Michael of Monty Python
• Road: WWII supply route to China
• Printing measures
• Grp. that sang 18-Down
• Mule of song
• Literary collection: Abbr
• Place to kick a habit
• Novelist Mario Vargas
• Van Gogh`s brother
• Unit of sound named for an inventor
• Property claim holder
• New Orleans university
• Exact satisfaction for
• Propellerless craft
• Took to the hills
• It can easily go up in flames
• Ambitious and unscrupulous
• Vortex in the sink
• Olive oil and nuts have this
• It`s not much
• Linear, for short
• Understanding sounds
• 1977 hit by 55-Down
• Concert venues
• Old political council
• Food item often caramelized
• Let a hack do the driving
• Member of a fraternal group
• Input jack abbr.
• Sweet white wine from Bordeaux
• Facebook had one in 2012, for short
• Stores for G.I.s
• Central Park`s ___ Boathouse
• Kitt who sang "Santa Baby"
• Asset for a gunfighter
• Is a bad winner
• Swimmer with a prehensile tail
• "You`ve got that all wrong!"
• Entry on a sports schedule
• Observe closely
• Top on official stationery
• Big brand of sports equipment
• Helluva party
• What a back door may open to
• Law grads, briefly
• Very loud, on a score
• Cul-de-sac ... or what either part of the answer t...
• Part of a student`s address
• Inner: Prefix
• New beginning?
• Aussie hoppers
• New Age Grammy winner
• Gamboling spots
• Class determinant in boxing
• Fleet operator
• Rioter`s haul
• Symbol of busyness
• Colorful North American waterfowl
• Off the ship
• Assail with expletives
• Salinger`s "For ___ - With Love and Squalor"
• Xbox alternative