Crossword Puzzle Answers - 12/17/2015 - The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more

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• Tooth-care deg
• Study like mad
• Sting or Bono
• Soprano player Robert
• Sci-fi classic with Han Solo
• Run (go wild)
• Arf`s kin
• `What a pity!`
• `Pretty Woman` co-star
• `The Good Wife` heroine
• Bacardi-spiked dessert
• Bust a gut
• E. Lansing sch
• Female protagonist
• Jo`s older sister
• Make an impression?
• Mata, the spy
• Mode lead-in
• Ness and co
• Riotous Roseanne
• `East of Eden` twin
• `Moby-Dick` first mate
• Weave together
• The Red Planet
• Sheep, at times
• Result of a bridge goof
• Quarterback Manning
• PC desktop, e.g
• Orson Scott Card`s `Game`
• Memorable time
• Litmus reddener
• Like some jackets
• Course reservations
• Blanchett of `Blue Jasmine`
• Underground band?
• Word processing option, or what happens three time...
• Tilde`s meaning in symbolic logic
• They`re pressed for cash
• Sugar Ray specialty
• Swimmers in a garden
• Slips between the covers?
• Show disrespect, in a way
• Japanese plane of World War II
• Shoplift, in slang
• She choreographed Mikhail in `Push Comes to Shove`...
• Put on one`s own blog, perhaps
• Pacific Tsunami Museum setting
• Obsession with the flaw in the Liberty Bell?
• Names on some campus buildings
• Modest reply to a compliment
• Many a soap opera plotline
• Maker of SnowMaster snowblowers
• Many a morning show personality
• Malone of the `Hunger Games` films
• Like actor Morgan`s organs?
• Last Oldsmobile model
• It may be in range
• It matures in two to ten years
• Is in agreement
• Intentionally mislabeled LP?
• Environmental concern
• Do the dishes?
• Heats up, slangily
• Headed for a playoff
• Grand Sierra Resort and Casino setting
• Fruit once marketed as a melonette
• Cry after a charge
• Cruise ship feature
• County of southern England
• Craig who played Batgirl
• Christmas candle scent
• `No more Mr. Nice Guy!`
• Cherokee, for example
• Broadway lyricist Knighton
• `I couldn`t agree more!`
• What gamblers seek
• Woman`s wide lace collar
• Voracious drinker
• Tried to put out, as a fire
• Tried one`s hand
• Tobacco farm employee
• They lead to free throws
• Takes testimony from
• Take for every penny
• Stuffed Indian pastry
• Starch derived from palms
• Square mile`s 640
• Product add-on?
• Sleep phase initials
• Sidestep, as an issue
• Sewers` conveniences
• Second name in cosmetics
• Pull-over sound
• Perform without preparation
• Pepsi or Royal Crown
• Ottoman Empire governors
• Organs males lack
• Music from Jamaica
• Muck`s companion
• More than vexation
• Margaret Mitchell mansion
• Many are deceptively simple
• Made to attack, as a dog
• Like human ears
• Kind of camp
• Joins in metal shop
• It`s usually blue, green or brown
• Hitchhikers` digits
• Highly prized item
• He floated like a butterfly
• Greenhouse area
• Green-eyed monster
• Female prophets
• Getting ready to bawl
• Enjoyed a roller coaster
• Depth charge target
• Brittle-shelled Chinese fruit (Var.)
• Close relative, for some
• Classic TV attorney Matlock
• Bullets, in Vegas
• Books containing legends
• Blockbuster offering, once
• Bit of fresh air?
• Become bone-hard
• Be a pain
• Avoided doing dishes
• Any Scottish town
• Aloha in Roma
• Allots (with "out")
• down the hatches!
• You can dig it
• to the occasion
• Word with "camp" or "care"
• Word with "buster" or "land"
• Wisconsin`s Fond du ___
• Update a factory
• What a magnet attracts
• Used food coloring
• Unwanted water on a ship
• Toward the windless side
• Tied up at a marina
• The "N" in UNCF
• Suffix with "critic"
• Storage structure
• Small, pointed beard
• Short choral composition
• Seasick sailor`s support
• San ___ Obispo, Calif
• Revenue sources, for short
• Relieves, as of a burden
• Prefix with "aholic"
• Persian Gulf nation
• Part of the big apple?
• Part of a fancy pitcher
• Palestinian people
• Pacers and Gremlins
• Old-time exclamation
• Madison, for one
• Made a goof (with "up")
• Loaded with money
• Kind of child
• Jeweler`s measure
• Hamlet`s father, e.g
• Hallucinogen, for short
• Forecast, of a sort
• Garden of Eden resident
• Financial question (Part 4)
• Financial question (Part 3)
• Financial question (Part 2)
• Financial question (Part 1)
• Figures to be crunched
• Eyeball-bending drawings
• Dummy`s support
• Draw back in pain
• Does crewel things?
• Directory contents
• Dentist`s order
• Delta-winged craft
• Dark volcanic rock
• Danson of TV
• Dancing stimulus
• Cooking instruction
• Cookie since 1912
• Computer menu option
• Clarinetlike instrument
• Clarinet feature
• Cavern comeback
• Broadway platform
• B ___ (burglary shorthand)
• American League club?
• Acred one
• Abstains from
• Abbreviated wts
• A mouse may be drawn to it
• 66, for one
• "Well done!" in Italy
• Witness affirmation
• Word on a dime
• Western sidekick
• Well-dressed guy
• Trial version
• Tollbooth area
• Suffix denoting wealth
• Succeeding through hard work
• Stunning success
• Stick-shift selection
• Spotless again
• South African golfer
• Source of pumice
• Sound starting MGM films
• Song and dance
• Sched. placeholder
• Samaritan`s offering
• Russian spacecraft
• Right-hand page
• Region of west Hawaii
• Quitting time for many
• Off a skillet
• Mouselike mammal
• Montréal assent
• Mineralogy suffix
• Meatloaf serving
• Meal with coconut milk
• Make drinkable, perhaps
• Make a macramé
• Long-legged marsh bird
• Jazz piano great
• Incorrect affirmation
• Homes for squirrels
• Home-project cable channel
• 
  
• Herring family member
• Held a follow-up session
• Golden, in Guatemala
• Free ticket
• Five-sharp scale
• Didn`t collapse
• Designer monogram
• Creator of crime solver Kinsey
• Copier supply
• Bart`s toon teacher
• Be rewarded on the job
• Addition to natural gas
• Beehive State collegian
• Can`t help but
• Carpooler`s __ lane
• Add glitter to
• Acknowledge openly
• About a hundredth of Vatican City
• Abacus parts
• ``I thought so!``
• 
  
• Prefix with con
• State categorically
• Point of connection
• Physics particles
• Pedometer button
• Skip over, in speech
• Walk like Jagger
• Proof of ownership
• Notable author of animal tales
• Peaceful protests
• Sandwich with tzatziki sauce
• Diving judge`s concern
• Like a preferred theory
• Mount near Catania
• Bestial hideaway
• Some doo-wop voices
• In a quandary
• "Project Runway" host
• The Miners of Conf.
• Gorilla, for one
• Big risk taker
• Not backing
• Back in the day
• Withdraw by degrees
• Like staccato notes
• Synthetic fabric
• Smashing, in show biz
• Dukes and barons
• Singer Redbone
• Camera feature
• Biblical preposition
• Rolled-up news magazine drifting at sea?
• Piece between steps
• One who helps break the case
• Golf bag item
• Horse-drawn wagons
• Keeping cool with a fashion magazine?
• Pleasant surprise
• Spring tide counterpart
• Newsstand selling many a human-interest magazine?
• World currency org.
• Development sites
• Credit card bill list
• Abbr. on a business card
• Earliest stage
• Financial magazine tracking device?
• A four beats it
• Musically off
• City ENE of Petaluma
• Eldest son of Cain
• Snack choice
• Eldest son on "Bonanza"
• Topics of many self-help books
• W-4 entry: Abbr.
• Greeting with a salute
• In unison, in a way
• Answer to a judge
• Worshiper of Inti
• Pupil of a snake`s eye, often
• Multihued horse
• Beach attraction
• First to break the tape
• Beatles title girl
• Dogpatch creator
• Bed intruders?
• Chicago`s ___ Planetarium
• Indian-born writer of the 1981 Booker Prize
• Go extinct
• Hawk or Hornet
• Caribbean vacation destination
• 10-Down neighbor: Abbr.
• Son of David
• Oenophile`s concern
• Things going down the drain?
• Quito quaff
• Boy toy?
• Where Nike is headquartered
• Time off, in mil. slang
• Roddick who won the 2003 U.S. Open
• House support?
• Certain foot soldier
• In the altogether
• It`s about 5 mL
• Blanche DuBois`s sister
• Bygone royals
• Trouble, in Yiddish
• Alcoholic drink so named because of its color, not...
• Calendar keeper, for short
• Perform lousily
• Biathlon need
• Racy books named after a Victorian garment
• Word repeated at the start of every "Star Wars" fi...
• "Oh yeah ... uh-huh"
• One making a lot of turns on the road?
• Piece of the N.R.A.?: Abbr.
• Outdoor feast
• Word that can be followed by any of several colors...
• Something to dispense with
• Places that may have beeches and benches
• A monster may have a big one
• Five-time Emmy-winning actress
• Moriarty, to Holmes
• More than half of all batteries sold
• Exclamations of exasperation
• Successor to Churchill
• 1813 novel made into a 2005 film