Crossword Puzzle Answers - 12/18/2015 - 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.

• `Cake Boss` airer
• War of 1812 port
• Vert.`s counterpart
• Taylor Swift song
• Thunderbolt hurler
• Tug-of-war need
• Skip, as TV ads
• Señor`s squiggle
• Paul Bunyan`s ox
• No longer working
• Mountain road shape
• Loosen, as laces
• Golfer Norman
• Held firmly, as attention
• Cry like a baby
• Fourth-yr. students
• Electrician, at times
• Designer Oldham
• Dairy counter buys
• Camden Yards team
• Close, as a jacket
• Yields from fields
• Writers` room products
• Work with Madonna
• Villainous deputy in `Measure for Measure`
• Woefully unimpressive
• Travel kit gizmos
• Overseeing a child`s development, say
• They`ve got the time
• Men`s formalwear purchase
• Make drinks last
• Made much of?
• Longtime NASCAR sponsor
• Keep pace with
• In need of a refresher
• It`s all over the newspapers
• Item under a carpet
• Its business is cards
• Like a neglected garden
• Improver of the Newcomen steam engine
• Like some lampshades
• Game featuring shapes of different colors
• Like some strength training exercises
• Galapagos birds vital to Darwin`s theories
• Eagles guitarist Glenn
• Correction to a correction
• Classic 1950 film noir
• Cavorts playfully
• Book club founder
• Besieged peninsula in WWII`s Pacific theater
• Blind spot`s spot
• Bilingual American, often
• Banderole inscription
• Bed you can`t roll out of
• Autumn Harvest Uprising leader
• `The first chapter in the book of wisdom,` accordi...
• `Help wanted` sign
• `Cake Boss` network
• Whitewater rental
• Water polo goals
• Was the judge
• Viticultural valley
• Verdi masterwork
• Twisting and turning
• Title locale of the 1957 Best Picture Oscar winner...
• Specific chances
• Some case workers
• Sloppy impact sound
• Shakespearean sprite
• Remove, as a badge
• Quirky behavior
• Kit Carson House town
• Pull together
• Piano key, essentially
• Lending officers, often
• Personal ad abbr
• Numbers after ``sechs``
• Novelist Quindlen
• Jedi Council VIP
• It`s northwest of Pensacola
• Hot-air balloon material
• Harry Potter nemesis
• Govt. health agency
• Full of difficulties
• Fjord, for instance
• E-Learning advocates
• Disappear in the sun, maybe
• Depthless, for short
• Country singer Evans
• Conceded putt
• Book before Nehemiah
• Colorful talker
• Casino exit line
• Bohemian, for one
• Biscuit filler, at times
• Big name in pro tennis
• Betray eagerness
• Angry Birds beasts
• All the same
• Alberta natural resource
• About 5 mL
• `60s sitcom stock character
• ``As Time Goes By`` requester
• Three, on some clocks
• Winged god of love
• Visa alternative, informally
• Tangy summer drink
• Spenser`s "The ___ Queene"
• Spectrum producer
• Sonoma`s neighbor
• Smith`s chore
• Shirt`s opponent
• Sea anemones and coral, e.g
• Pitchers in antique stores
• Nose-in-the-air type
• Mythical animals
• Motel convenience
• May`s her month
• Lustrous, poetically
• Long-winded sales pitch
• Like thrift shop buys
• Like some tributes
• Like some fireplaces
• Leaning Tower place
• Kind of pilot or case
• Kind of gun
• Jessica Rabbit, for one
• Incorrectly paired
• In a competent way
• In-flight details, for short
• Highway roller, for short
• Hindu holy man
• Hatchling utterance
• Hammer-shaped bone
• Half of Hispaniola
• Gross minus net, in trucking
• Golf score standard
• Gentle, as a horse
• Fleecy creature
• Garbage hauler
• Comments further
• Chromosome home
• Figure skating jump
• Elegantly stylish
• Dublin`s land
• Dakar`s land
• Confidence games
• D.C.`s Constitution, e.g
• Czech mate, perhaps
• Credit card balance
• Carry too far, as an actor
• Beloved princess
• Caffeinated drink
• Bleak film genre
• Affords temporarily
• 24 carat compared to 14 carat?
• Baba and the 40 Thieves
• "Here`s mud in your eye!"
• "Buona ___" (greeting in Italy)
• in horse open sleigh
• Worse for winter driving
• Wilkes-___, Pennsylvania
• Ugly winter forecast
• Where one is surprisingly taken?
• Truffle-hunting aid
• Southwestern watering hole
• They are not positive
• Temporary-shelter beds
• Sprinted or dashed
• Some fairy tale figures
• Something to be hoist by
• Some Chinese teas
• Smartphone program, briefly
• Resistance to change
• Scissors user
• Put holy oil on
• Preparing to exhale
• Prepare pupils for examination
• Peacock-tail spots, e.g
• Moderate to deep crimson
• Makes a cardigan
• Like boring speeches
• LXX divided by X
• Like many lifeguards
• Job seekers` advantages
• It`s protected by a goalie
• Invalidate, like a marriage
• Improve, as wine and cheese
• Insect in its final stage
• Holiday cookie "man"
• Greek letter
• First "O" of O-O-O
• Before (with "to")
• Being a participant of
• Between continents
• Bios of a kind
• Bishop`s subordinate
• Feverish condition
• Feathered stole
• Fairy tale nemesis, sometimes
• Enlightenment to Zen Buddhists
• Crowd in old Rome?
• Coffee emanation
• Christmas drop-in
• Certain bar order
• Cause of inflation?
• Can`s composition
• Butterfly prerequisite
• Buckwheat pancakes
• Bowler`s headache
• Assists in a crime
• Artist`s rendering
• African villages of huts
• A time to remember
• 2000 polling place litter
• 18-wheeler, e.g
• "Snowy" wading bird
• "AbFab" producer
• heat, ___ gloom of night
• In this emplacement
• Have the gumption
• Sting, perhaps
• Will Smith`s second son
• Stocking stuffer
• Cosine reciprocals
• Drake or Nelly
• "I found what you`re looking for!"
• Choice ballpark location
• Buddha`s Noble Eightfold
• Teachers` org.
• Key for Debussy?
• Wash. neighbor
• Between jobs
• Shoebox letters
• Tom Jones` "__ a Lady"
• Buffy, for one
• Parking places
• Court surprise
• that special?!
• Model T contemporaries
• "Blackfish" creatures
• Early 2000s "SNL" standout
• Monopoly buy
• Friend of Mary Poppins
• Spot for free spirits
• "Breakfast at Tiffany`s," for one
• Acid producer
• Energy units
• Treat badly
• What four puzzle answers need to be written in
• Get hot under the collar
• Biblical escape obstacle
• Lay waste to
• Muscle mag subject
• "WarGames" computer
• Pharm. drop-offs
• Road challenge
• AC/DC song with the words "I`m dynamite"
• Sounds from toys
• Abu Dhabi is its cap
• The Beatles, e.g.
• Early 20th-century poet Crane
• Danube tributary
• Beats Electronics co-founder
• Time of one`s life
• Says "y`all," say
• NATO member since 2009
• Big name in chocolate
• Lift one`s spirits?
• Torus-shaped gaskets
• "The Girls Next Door" co-creator, for short
• Blue Stater, for short
• Camel droppings?
• Core components
• Salon names like Scissors Palace and Curl Up & Dye...
• Sparky of the 1970s Yankees
• "Revelations" choreographer
• Curtain hangers?
• Like E.T. riding Elliott`s bicycle
• New York home of Hartwick College
• Fierce and rapacious
• Initials, perhaps
• Simmering, say
• Kind of circle
• Sign of villainy
• Capable of doing well
• Turn on the jets
• 15-Across symbol
• Tribe once along the Big Blue River
• Eponymous general
• "The gloves are off"
• Cassim`s brother of folklore
• Nickname of the dictator who created the Tontons M...
• TV host who succeeded Jimmy Fallon on "Late Night"...
• Something shown to an usher
• Coarse, per etiquette manuals
• Actress Swenson
• Coins worth 100 kurus each
• Massenet opera set in 11th-century Spain
• Lock horns (with)
• Gilbert, designer of the Supreme Court building
• Philistines, to the Israelites
• Spinach : Florentine :: ___ : lyonnaise
• Products once advertised with the slogan "Hello bo...
• Company for which Rudolf Nureyev once danced
• "Bertha" composer
• Mutual dislike
• First name in W.W. II
• Things opened by many employees, for short
• Reality show gear, informally
• Sports org. founded during W.W. I
• It`s an honour, in brief
• Virginia ___, first English child born in America ...
• Go out for a bit?
• Seventy-somethings?
• Mission directive
• High-grade sheet material
• Drove diagonally
• Nickname since 1959
• Indian drawer?
• Prison design that allows surveillance of any inma...
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