Crossword Puzzle Answers - 12/19/2015 - 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.

• `Bye Bye Bye` band
• Youngest of the Weasley boys
• Where Woolworth opened his first store
• Top country album of July 1988
• The Cratchits` Christmas dinner
• Someone who might really be into you?
• Singer of the 2015 #1 hit `Cheerleader`
• Separator in a Derby winner`s time?
• Scathing review of an orchestra performance?
• Santa`s portrayer in 2003`s `Elf`
• Payment before a deal is made
• Rimsky-Korsakov`s `Christmas Eve,` e.g
• Rabbi presiding over a king`s investiture?
• Retriever trained as a watchdog?
• One of seven gifts `a-swimming`
• Miami Hurricanes mascot Sebastian is one
• Major for civic-minded students
• Letters on O`Hare-bound luggage
• Italian city close to the Slovenia border
• It`s sometimes on the line
• Gone from a No Parking spot, perhaps
• Give a scathing review to Roseanne`s stand-up act?...
• First governor of Massachusetts
• Decorate, as the Christmas tree
• City about 120 miles north of Pittsburgh
• `The Luck of Roaring Camp` writer
• Captive lady in `The Faerie Queene`
• 1970s TV series set in New York`s 11th Precinct
• Brand name for a light-based hair-cutting tool?
• `The hopes and fears of all the years are ___ in t...
• `Santa Claus Conquers the Martians` genre
• `Here`s to my new Kate Spade` honoree?
• `Do you have Prince Albert in ___?`
• Word repeated after "Que," in song
• Word with "bred" or "advised"
• Windshield attachment
• Warbucks` henchman (with "The")
• Unaffected by passion
• The recipient of funds
• Tax-collecting org
• Target for a wooden ball
• Intestinal obstruction
• Long vehicles, for short
• Letters at the end of a proof
• Leave Her Majesty`s service, briefly
• Lovers, at times
• Man-mouse connection
• Nearest planet to the sun
• Nevada border city
• Old college cheer
• One not finishing a sentence
• Pearl of a sea-going vessel?
• Place for notes
• Presidential candidate Stevenson
• Principle or belief
• Put off, as a motion
• Proofreader`s sign
• Rope-a-dope boxer
• Skip, as a syllable
• St. Louis clock setting
• Govt. broadcasting watchdog
• Geisha`s waistband
• El ___ (Spanish hero)
• Earns after expenses
• Ducky shade of blue
• Deck just above the keel
• Con artist`s crime
• Coffeehouse serving
• Classic introduction?
• Calls, Vegas-style
• Breezing through, as a test
• Berated (with "into")
• Beet soup (Var.)
• Armed robbers (Var.)
• All-too-agreeable fellow
• Airshow crowd pleaser
• After-hours school grp
• Advanced in years
• "My Big Fat ___ Wedding"
• "Days of ___ Lives"
• male (top dog)
• With the bow, in music
• Wife and sister of Osiris
• Where some travelers come from
• Twin Falls` home
• Twelfth Jewish month
• Tug on the fishing line
• Third-quarter mo
• Theme of this puzzle
• The Beach Boys` "___ Vibrations"
• Some Japanese-Americans
• Shrink back in horror
• Palindromic Indian bread
• Poor film rating
• River through Switzerland
• Rooney of "60 Minutes"
• Self-appointed committee
• Safecracker, slangily
• Shovel`s sandbox mate
• Is impending
• Historical area in the Middle East
• It may begin with grace
• Kind of temper or treatment
• Lasting quite a while
• Like broken hearts
• Like many tabloid stories
• List of book boo-boos
• Many shows are broadcast in it (Abbr.)
• Musical closing passage
• On the qui vive
• Does high-tech eye surgery
• Granolalike breakfast food
• Fifties audiophile`s purchase
• Composer Nikolai ___-Korsakov
• One doing some wooing
• Cultivation tool
• Cover with turf
• Completely clearing a debt
• Civil wrong, in law
• Ceremonious poem
• Big blood carrier
• Cara in "Fame"
• Canine command
• Bellow and Steinberg
• Back side of a switch?
• Attack, cat-style
• Atoms with a charge
• Assistance provider
• Arabian nights total
• Analyze in English class
• Add fringe to, e.g
• The Herald Angels Sing
• "The Yankee Doodle Boy" songwriter
• "Dear old" men
• "Get it?" motion
• "Dukes of Hazzard" character
• "Cannery Row" character
• "30 Rock" network
• World`s most popular fictional language
• Word from the Latin for ``without fault``
• Where many kid-lit children lived
• Was less than explicit
• Venerable maker of round wafers
• Vegan`s gelatin substitute
• Tweets are sent out from them
• Trespassory taking + removal
• Surroundings of some small sandwiches
• Something to meditate on
• Solicits a hand
• Dublin-born essayist
• Dissertation subject
• Drawn as much as possible
• Director in black and white
• Daredevil`s credo
• Cheerleader portrayer in the ``Starsky & Hutch`` f...
• Closely following
• Ethnic triangular treats
• Especially satisfying achievement
• Essence of a certain cocktail
• Be too protective
• Bakery supply
• Name on a record 270+ opening credits of ``SNL``
• Offering on Ikea.com`s Living Room page
• Only gestured and moved
• Only palindromic top-40 song title from a palindro...
• Org. instrumental in preserving Sagamore Hill
• Origen de energía renovable
• Overseer of the purchase of Lucasfilm
• Pastimes, for short
• Sateen alternative
• Model of good behavior in Proverbs
• Large purple fruits
• Four-wheel conveyance
• Fraction of a rand
• Group of stars
• Hat tricks of titles
• Heat-storing device
• It follows many moons
• Its tones were analyzed by Pythagoras
• Annual Movie Awards presenter
• ``I don`t do fashion, I am fashion`` speaker
• What "All are architects of," per Longfellow
• "Put __ on it!"
• Lombardy city
• Gush forth
• GOLEAN cereal maker
• Ruth`s __ Steak House
• 3M sponge brand
• Torn asunder
• Unit in Ohm`s Law
• Outing led by a naturalist
• Sound of surprise
• Mount from which Moses saw the Promised Land
• Partnership-forming words
• Goodyear variety
• Resident on the Arno
• Eponymous physicist Ernst
• James Watson, notably
• K thru 12
• What some write on
• Site of ancient Greek games
• Ventricle neighbors
• "Not for me"
• Change the price of
• Naval recovery ship for some Gemini missions
• Some, in Seville
• It`s hard to put down
• College of Central Florida city
• Most developed
• Treat cruelly, as another`s feelings
• Ward of "Gone Girl"
• How fries are usually served
• Make an annual change?
• Truck drivers` competition
• Split personality?
• Some airport connections
• Edmonton Eskimos` org
• High-end beer-serving eatery
• First husband of Bathsheba
• Drink with Campari and sweet vermouth
• San Francisco : BART :: Philadelphia
• Islands visited by Darwin
• Like some plugs
• Got hot for a while
• H.S. exam
• Driving forces
• Wave back?
• Word after big or bright
• It may be green
• Stone measure
• Storyteller from Thrace
• "Awesome, bro!"
• ThinkPads, e.g.
• ooVoo alternative
• Dish cooked in seasoned broth
• Left-hand page
• Childhood friend of Paul Cézanne
• Secretary of war under Teddy
• Deferential denial
• Popular tech magazine
• beard! (cry in Harry Potter books)
• Ones making collars
• Tour often featuring Black Sabbath
• Cher or Madonna
• Company with a long track record?
• Music producer: Abbr.
• Something the ink has dried on
• It contains rules for writing
• It`s about six feet long on the Statue of Liberty
• Ballet attire
• Disheveled TV lieutenant
• Leaves rolling in the aisles
• Source of sordid details
• Closer to base?
• Moby Dick, to Ahab
• Alternative to 14-Across
• Assumed thing
• Image on the back of a Canadian quarter
• "Brother" player of old TV and film
• Chinese menu possessive
• Vertigo diagnosers, briefly
• Rare Belmont winner
• Ishii, Lucy Liu`s "Kill Bill" character
• Conductor Lukas
• Santa ___ University
• Treat for one`s dogs
• Java Freeze maker
• Artery-cleaning aid
• Game named for a synonym of "strikeout"
• Any I, e.g.: Abbr.
• End of a kindergarten run
• Queen`s domain
• Rapper who publicly feuded with Dr. Dre
• Fab Four, early on
• Like some opportunities
• Foreign pronoun that sounds like a fish
• Regulus`s constellation
• Influential industrial family
• Encouragement often given with a snap
• Measured up to
• Etiologist`s study
• Delivery people, for short
• Hearty har har
• Traffic problem
• 18 (title setting of a 1961 novel)
• Comedian Nick with a self-titled Comedy Central sh...
• 1969 Alan Arkin comedy/drama
• First name of the "father of extreme sports"
• Email option
• Nonsense in a recording studio
• Gulf of Guinea metropolis