Crossword Puzzle Answers - 12/22/2015 - 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.

• Wisdom bringer
• Where there was no room
• Tim, to Bob Cratchit
• Salt Lake City player
• One under par
• One of Santa`s team
• Old English coin
• Old card game
• Methane, for one
• Homer`s neighbor
• Easter lead-in
• Conclude successfully
• Company symbols
• Christmas treat
• Christmas treat
• Baseball`s Williams
• Approached menacingly
• Baseball`s Pee Wee
• Chestnuts roasting on an open
• Treat that`s had a holiday candy cane edition
• Surprise for the unwary
• Spot for a kid visiting St. Nick
• Scott Turow memoir
• Snow fence sight
• Ryan`s love in `Love Story`
• Rip, as gift wrapping
• Resort off the coast of Venezuela
• Pupil`s surroundings
• Place with elves
• Perennial Christmas gift
• Part of the Iowa skyline
• Note above fa
• Open sleigh halter
• Maureen of `Miracle on 34th Street`
• Many a future actuary
• Like a Douglas fir
• Helen Reddy anthem
• Has a late meal
• Grand ___ National Park
• Guide for the Magi
• Feeding-time need
• Dunne of `Life With Father`
• Day after dimanche
• Copper capital of the late 1800s
• `He`s ___ find out who`s naughty or nice`
• `It`s beginning to look a ___ like Christmas`
• `Let every ___ prepare him room`
• `That shouldn`t have happened`
• `That`s really hot!`
• After-Christmas event
• Alb. joined it in 2009
• Bereite dich, Zion from Bach`s Christmas Oratorio ...
• `...while I ___ of Yuletide treasure` (`Deck the H...
• Animated clownfish
• Book righters, for short
• Carrots on snowmen, e.g
• Christmas wreath material
• Company whose business is picking up
• Contribution to a pot
• `...do you recall the ___ famous reindeer of all?`...
• Word-of-mouth
• Toothpaste holder
• Well-mannered guys
• Without assistance
• Underground plant part
• Tooth pro`s deg
• Took long steps
• Tire`s groove pattern
• See a city`s sights
• Suffix for bachelor
• Steers clear of
• Sound frightened
• Ship carrying petroleum
• Sailor`s warning sign
• Rose`s sharp part
• Ready to harvest
• Racetrack transactions
• Pull from behind
• Plow-pulling bovines
• Periods of history
• Part of speech like ``overly``
• On the summit of
• Makes a request
• Luggage attachment
• Lasting impression
• Keogh alternatives: Abbr
• Informal conversation filler
• Heart chart, for short
• Honolulu`s island
• Green pasta sauce
• Golfer`s target
• Film legend Welles
• Car for hire
• Female choral voice
• Feeling of hunger
• Container for peas
• Feast in 34 Across
• Expected to arrive
• Changed the color of
• Broccoli, cucumbers, etc
• Best-selling sandwich cookie
• Beatles animated film
• Be deserving of
• ``It`s really cold outside!``
• Work behind bars?
• On the loose
• Throat-culture finding
• Words with "mother" or "brother"
• Where the golf day ends
• Unlikely to cheat
• Some reed instruments, briefly
• Smallest positive integer
• Prepare for action
• Plane accommodation
• Refuse to comply
• Racket, to a landlord
• Place for grist
• Queen of the Olympian gods
• Mountain debris
• More, in Madrid
• Large European volcano
• Lake near Niagara Falls
• Kind of preview or attack
• Guitar relative, slangily
• Insignificant jot
• Host a roast
• Healthy vittles
• Groups of groupers
• Got a hole in one
• Giraffe`s striped kin
• Fifties record, now
• Fifteen ___ or less
• Fall month, for short
• Excessive, as force
• Empty ___ (parent of grown kids)
• Doctor`s co-worker
• Dull as dishwater
• Collectible male dolls
• Clock standard, briefly
• Chrysanthemum, often
• Between continents
• Arctic or Indian
• April 13, e.g
• Applies rickrack to
• Anagram for "ache"
• Airline predictions (Abbr.)
• "My country, ___ of thee"
• "King Kong" star Watts
• "I don`t care which"
• "Golden buttons" plant
• "Bill & ___ Excellent Adventure"
• "All the fixin`s" berry
• in horse open sleigh
• You may scratch with them
• Writer`s cramp, e.g
• Vegetable that rolls
• Unit of electrical resistance
• Unit of capacity
• Troublesome insect
• Trident-shaped letter
• Thin mineral sheet
• Tea drinker`s request
• Suffix with "lion"
• Smooth one`s feathers
• Shortened shelter in a hurricane?
• Shortened Aldous Huxley classic novel?
• Short Survivor hit?
• Short cosmetics purchase?
• Script overhaul
• Rationed (with "out")
• Pound on a door
• Portfolio part, for short
• Place in Norway
• Part of a human`s cage
• Number of Little Pigs
• Long-necked wader
• Like some streets
• Layer of coal
• Irregularly shaped stain
• Influence, as one`s decision
• Greeks` "unlucky" letter
• Graham or Preminger
• Go downhill, in a way
• Get hitched hastily
• Gangster`s lead pumper
• Form into an arch or curve
• Few and far between
• Fencing weapon
• Easter floral display
• Drug for a poison victim
• Conceited one`s problem
• Compound used in plastics
• Cats have nine
• Castor bean product
• Calculator, at times
• Bit of curvature
• Ancient lawgiver
• Attack with harsh criticism
• Attack on a fort
• Arctic Circle wear
• Airport listing, for short
• All tuckered out
• Accomplish more than
• A place for change
• A 2 may stand for it (Abbr.)
• 180 deg. from WSW
• better be good
• "For what ___ worth . . ."
• "Don`t give me that!"
• "And what have we here?"
• "At Last" singer James
• Many miles away
• String quartet instrument
• Computer fodder
• Bouquet for a señorita
• Figure of speech
• Traffic light symbol
• Buy Me Love Beatles hit
• Change for a five
• Not as simple to understand
• Five-and-__ store
• Relating to roughness or smoothness, say
• Simple to understand
• Ph.D. candidate, e.g.
• Chicago daily, familiarly
• Ingrid`s role in "Casablanca"
• Austin __: Tennessee university
• Under the weather
• Letter after sigma
• Sleeping or slot follower
• GI show sponsor
• Garden spigot attachment
• Dips for tortilla chips
• Ice cream maker Joseph
• Something to stick with?
• Davis of "Commander in Chief"
• 1980s missile prog
• They`re way more than social drinkers
• This, to Esteban
• Pitcher with a flared spout
• Film critic, at times
• Ancient France
• Warm cupful ... and, literally, what`s hidden in t...
• Trim, as a photo
• Prefix with space
• "You`re __ 30 seconds!": backstage warning
• Dropped the ball
• Delayed flight, e.g.
• Riviera film festival site
• Not throw out
• Greek sandwiches
• Adorable
• "Dexter" network, briefly
• Ark measurement
• Inventor Howe
• CVS pickups
• BBC nature series with the episodes "Jungles" and ...
• Former Russian rulers
• Pint or pixel
• Thomas __ Edison
• Kept from squeaking
• Bar in a bathtub
• Salacious look
• "Calm down"
• Stare in disbelief
• Workers who cross picket lines
• Caviar, e.g.
• Where you might wear only a towel
• When repeated, a subtle (or sometimes not-so-subtl...
• Silent ___ (presidential nickname)
• African animal you might get a charge out of?
• n(n+1)/2, for all integers from 1 to n
• Collection that, despite its name, is orderly and ...
• Wimple wearer
• "Where did ___ wrong?"
• A little night noise
• Fabled mountain dwellers
• Popular musical game beginning in 2005
• Line of latitude
• LaBeouf of "Transformers"
• Marshy valley
• Ambulance workers, for short
• Tiny adjustment to an atomic clock
• Quaint three-word contraction
• With 44-Across, 1869 romance by R. D. Blackmore
• Mont Blanc and Matterhorn
• Ballet position on tiptoe
• Relief provider for a burn
• The Black Keys and the White Stripes
• Gives two big thumbs down
• Sidestroke component
• Word with googly or goo-goo
• Clog or pump
• Certain wrinkle remover
• What the remorseful might make
• Like the population of Alaska vis-à-vis New Jersey...
• Dweller on the tip of the Arabian Peninsula
• See 8-Down
• One of the kings in the Valley of the Kings, infor...
• Atypical ... or like the first word in the answer ...
• Symbol for water potential
• Water, potentially
• Mount of the Bible
• Pianist`s practice piece
• Condensed periodical
• Something in a movie star`s frame?
• Lay`s product
• Kids` event that goes into the wee hours
• One of 10, say, in a supermarket`s express checkou...
• Weapon in Clue
• Avoid attention
• River near the Valley of the Kings