Crossword Puzzle Answers - 12/25/2015 - The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more

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• Sports contract provision abolished in 1975
• Singer with the album `Unrepentant Geraldines`
• Shakespearean character who laments the pain of ha...
• Sci-fi show that costarred Hayden Panettiere and Z...
• Richard Gere`s title role in a 2000 rom-com
• React to something unpleasant, perhaps
• Pyschoanalytically speaking, it may be just what i...
• One of Captain Hook`s band
• Move, in a real estate ad
• Moe, Larry, Curly, and Shemp
• Largest of the US Virgin Islands
• Lang. that`s a popular night school subject
• It`s lifted to `burp` Tupperware
• Hard work, metaphorically
• Garfield`s slobbering canine pal
• Favor-asker`s ingratiating lead-in
• Engaged in some ecotourism, maybe
• Couleur of the glaze atop a traditional éclair au ...
• Cookie that debuted a `Thins` line in 2015
• Confrère of Porthos and Aramis
• Communication form that`s eaten into Postal Servic...
• Collegian whose school mascot is Handsome Dan
• Character in `I, Claudius`?
• Athlete who`s not contractually bound to a team
• Alaskan products that must be cracked to be enjoye...
• Airline whose name means `To the Skies`
• `Home` key for a beginning piano student
• `Buddenbrooks` author Thomas
• #2 on a dentist`s chart
• Verdi`s ` Chorus`
• Town on Philly`s Main Line
• Swelled heads
• Some coll. degrees
• Small dollop
• Showy butterfly
• Send to cloud nine
• Same old thing
• Rainbow-like
• Praiseful poem
• On (for fun)
• Old Mideast org
• Minister`s title (Abbr.)
• In the past
• Gainsborough portrait, with `The`
• Hwy. with tolls
• Granola grain
• Draw out, as a response
• Dog on Sputnik 2
• Do-re-mi
• Chemist`s workplace
• Biden and Cheney (Abbr.)
• Baton Rouge sch
• Barcelona bull
• Anti-drug cop
• Adam`s lady
• `The Jungle` author Sinclair
• `Anna Karenina` author
• `Our Gang` girl
• `Bravo, Juan!`
• Western contest
• Utah ski resort
• Univ. or acad
• They`re set and broken
• Tehran native
• Sweetly charming
• Street borders
• Son of John and Yoko
• Service reward
• Quarterback Manning
• Printer`s flourish
• One, for Juan
• Mineo of movies
• Happen again
• Drama division
• Dissenter`s vote
• Cuisine with cayenne
• Computer novice
• Classic carol
• CIA`s forerunner
• Bull features
• Where church aisles end
• Trattoria meat sauce
• Top of a tank
• Title character for Gore
• Subject of ``The Man Who Made Lists``
• Studio structures
• Shakespearean plotter
• Shower gel additive
• She follows Wolf on CNN
• Provider of King David Lounges
• Potential legislation
• Possible MBA major
• Paltry nature
• Philosophical subgroup
• Oscar actress Julianne
• Nation near Fiji
• Mutation location
• Model judging on ``America`s Got Talent``
• Merkel, to herself
• Midwest oil center
• Means of support
• Make pricier at auctions
• Lister`s shortcut
• Large biotech company
• Like kids in kindergarten classes
• Felipe VI`s land
• Letter in 16 Across` logo
• Leaves of Grass
• Firefighter`s equipment
• Isn`t proud of
• Dangerous cargo
• Do just right
• It`s new in Naples
• Four-legged friend
• Hidrógeno/oxígeno compound
• Checkups, for instance
• Centers of pride
• As another choice
• Arena arrangements
• `70s Swedish supergroup
• ``The Daily Beast`` and ``Slate``
• ``That`s a surprise!``
• ``Ten Commandments`` setting
• ``I`m not listening to you!``
• ``Bridesmaids`` star
• Linda, California
• it (goes by foot)
• Word puzzle direction
• Watts of Hollywood
• Text necessity, often
• Shouts heard in church
• Served perfectly?
• Seed`s outer covering
• Sap source
• Rubber city in Ohio
• Palms yielding starch
• Rolls out a lawn
• Roll-call responses
• Prefix meaning "false"
• Pizza ingredient, often
• No longer fresh
• Nixed by censors
• Nikola Tesla, for one
• Longhorn, for one
• Like rom-coms, typically
• Letter-shaped skyscraper support
• In a way, prohibits
• Hard to comprehend
• Hard thing to break
• Gull-like predator
• Gossipy woman
• Flat plateaus
• Fifty percent likelihood
• Fall back from the shore
• Easily beat all competition
• Drummers keep it
• Christopher of "Superman"
• Caspian Sea tributary
• Capital on the Rhine
• Broadway stinkeroo
• spumante (Italian wine)
• Black-and-white cookie
• "Leave it be" editorially
• "Don`t make me laugh!"
• "Little Women" character
• You may be bussed under it
• "Star-Spangled Banner" preposition
• Turns, as on an axis
• & Greg (old sitcom)
• "Without further"
• Word of respect to a lady
• Abbr. akin to alias
• Steering apparatuses
• Traditional Christmas gift
• Twelve-hour shift, e.g
• Utterly lethargic
• Some of this and some of that
• Small musical combo
• Shower with praise
• See in a crowd
• Salon offerings
• Put a new surface on
• Provide with a roof
• Pro`s opposite
• One being exploited
• Office gift-exchange custom
• Noted British prep school
• Muse for poets
• Many an airline seat request
• Line at the track
• Lake trumpeters
• It`ll cure what ails you
• Heal, in a way
• It may be hand-picked
• The Duchess of Cambridge, familiarly
• Highway interchange sights
• Big name in early computers
• He rocked around the clock
• Hawaiian`s greeting
• Grain-storage building
• Glee club members
• From a distance
• Flea market unit
• Film Dr. with seven faces
• Female parents
• Fairy tale`s second word
• Ewe`s youngster
• Draws or describes
• Dips bread in gravy
• Derisive looks
• Create, as a phrase
• Colonel`s insignia
• Classic Christmas carol
• Built like a bulldog
• Bit of hardware
• Best Actress Katharine
• Baptism by fire
• Banquet with barbs
• Arrive, as darkness
• Alpha`s counterpart
• Robbins of "The Shawshank Redemption"
• "... for __ of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth"
• Home filter target
• Man Spencer Davis Group hit
• Côte d`Azur companion
• "Thrilla in Manila" boxer
• "Summer of Sam" director
• Investment initials
• Apparel with a message, perhaps
• Spoon extension?
• South American crocodilian
• Developer`s offering
• Checkup request
• Hosp. section
• 24-hour eatery, often
• Supply with, as carrots to a food processor
• Like nightmares
• Medical support
• The Python Years" diarist Michael
• UPS competitor
• Alabama label
• Kitchen gadget
• Euripides tragedy
• Rush hour improbability
• Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer
• Confident and loyal sort, so it`s said
• Wasn`t behind anyone
• Botanist Gray
• Continuous flow
• Square or slip follower
• Most piano sonatas
• One with loyal followers
• Landlocked European nation
• Green Party concern
• Female rock guitarist Strauss
• Mother-of-pearl
• Security booth site
• Liqueur made with Jamaican rum
• Memoirs of an African river explorer?
• U.S. Army award since 1918
• Indefinite pronoun
• Fate of one constantly reliving the past?
• "A Day Without Rain" artist
• Province of Catania attraction
• Penicillin, often
• Waterfront org.
• Classic role for Liz Taylor
• High priest of Shiloh
• Radial destroyed during testing?
• Metaphoric vilification
• Chancel neighbor
• Big Ben trio
• Ordinary little insect?
• Fund-raising target
• Word game for beginners?
• It starts in juin
• Great Sand Dunes National Park location
• It eludes me
• Sitcom friend of Jerry
• Goes for broke
• Sport enjoyed by Henry VIII
• One out on a limb?
• Reason to cover your eyes in the theater?
• Actress ___ Rachel Wood
• Some office printers
• Four things represented visually in this puzzle`s ...
• Dwellers on the Gulf of Aden
• 30-Down preceder on a calendar
• Gen. Pershing`s grp. in W.W. I
• Laughed gleefully
• 37-Down follower on a calendar
• What a student with a full scholarship has
• Teach myths, say
• Middle of a three-part illustrated maxim
• "Hang on to that one!"
• It can fit in a very tight parking space
• Deceptive court move
• Who said history repeats itself "the first time as...
• A right jolly old elf
• Goes around
• Literary character on whom Captain Hook is based
• First name in fashion
• Sit back and enjoy
• Traditional Yule gift
• Opposite of the point?
• Ayaan Hirsi ___, author of Infidel
• Like much court testimony
• Prime-time time, informally
• Latin American soap
• Like the Hyundai logo
• Campaign planner
• Lutheranism in 1521, e.g.
• Rain, rain, rain
• Abbr. on a car sticker
• There`s nothing more to say
• Where Puccini`s "Madama Butterfly" premiered
• Old fashioned attire at 33 Across
• Chinese dynasty following the Han
• Midwest transportation inits
• Red moles
• Not to mention
• Label for 14-Across
• Performer of the "Green Hornet" theme in 1960s TV
• Deadeye`s asset
• Hurdle for a doc