Crossword Puzzle Answers - 12/28/2015 - 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.

• Overseas
• Draw a bead on
• Eastwood`s `Rawhide` role
• Gang slang for a gun
• Gathering clouds, say
• Gender-neutral choice
• Give the slip to
• Grammy winner Khan
• Impolite dinner sound
• In danger of snapping
• John Irving title character
• Natasha`s cartoon comrade
• Pages from one`s sweetie?
• Possible consequence of bad service
• Reactions from shocked botanists?
• DDE`s alma mater
• Challenges for dune buggies?
• Cause for a pause
• Capital on the Bight of Benin
• Ben Jonson`s `An ___ to Himself`
• Adjust, as a steering wheel
• `The Thin Man` pooch
• `Lovely` Beatles girl
• `Hooked on Classics` co
• Successor of Claudius
• Useful feature for frequently called numbers
• We`re all in it together
• Steakhouse choice
• State of continual change
• Solemn notice, for short
• Sixth of a fluid ounce
• Shortly, in poetry
• Semiprecious stone used in cameos
• Scandinavian capital city
• Rapidly rotating star that emits radio waves
• Put down on paper
• Parking ticket penalty
• Oxymoronic Rodgers and Hart song from `On Your Toe...
• Org. with Form 1040
• Shaving mishap
• River to the Baltic
• Oxymoronic 1986 hit for Huey Lewis and the News
• Quick TV promo
• Possum of comics
• Oxymoronic 1979 hit for Nick Lowe
• Org. whose workers might confiscate shampoo
• Office PC grouping
• Jupiter or Mars, for example
• Lets off steam
• Suffix for sheep or bull
• Yogi Bear, e.g
• Zip- -doo-dah
• `Animal House` party wear
• It`s headquartered in the J. Edgar Hoover Bldg
• Honda`s luxury division
• Goldfish and guinea pigs
• `Hey, look over here!`
• out!` (home plate call)
• 1957 Jack Kerouac novel
• Gambler`s calculation
• One with a short fuse
• Amusement park attraction
• Best Buy buys
• Caesar`s fateful day
• Delete, as a file
• Character who says `Wilt thou not chase the white ...
• Armed conflict
• High-IQ society
• Hon, to Andy Capp
• Inscribed hieroglyphics `key`
• Judges wear them
• Mayflower landing place
• Memorial bio
• Messy eater`s need
• Ode title starter
• Odometer start
• Check of the books
• Chicago Bears founder George
• Chromosome component
• City of east central Texas
• Competitively ambitious, personality-wise
• Hayworth of `Pal Joey`
• Go up and down
• Gateway Arch city (Abbr.)
• Date-night option
• Crime lab sample
• Castle`s trench
• Actress Thurman
• -frutti ice cream
• `State Fair` setting
• `I do` setting
• `Gypsy` star Daly
• St. Louis sight
• Used a stopwatch
• School on the Thames
• Safari sighting
• Polish composer
• Person with a beef
• Pasture activity
• Looking intently
• Like some bathroom floors
• Invitation to a hitchhiker
• Greek sorceress
• Genesis garden
• Extends, as a subion
• Drake`s music
• Divisible by two
• Yemeni money
• Word sung twice after "Que"
• Vast in scope
• Woeful comment
• Toll unit for trucks
• Use a letter opener
• Take a bead on
• Supports a criminal
• Serbs and Sorbs
• Rush the passer
• Relaxed time for a sentry
• Quince or pear
• Part of the school year
• Novelist Joyce Carol
• Norse god of war
• Mushroom feature
• Mashhad`s country
• Man of rare gifts?
• Lisa, to Bart, briefly
• Light-refracting devices
• Lasagna and the like
• It`s good when common
• Has a hankering
• Harley, for one
• Group characteristics
• Greek alphabet ending
• Grade-school song start
• Glass medicine container (Var.)
• Female opera star
• Feed pigs or pigs` feed
• Dribble through an opening
• Denounce harshly
• Decides not to strike out
• Darth Vader`s essence
• Contract provision
• Cinderella had two
• Church`s central section
• Capital of Norway
• Black ink entry
• Buddhist cause and effect
• Be the king
• Be a tow truck driver
• Bakery selections
• Answer a raise
• 440-yard shape, often
• "The Gift of the ___"
• "Lion King" villain
• "Gilligan`s Island" skipper
• of one`s existence
• Word-processing reversal
• Uses a needle and thread
• Trophy-hunter`s quarry, sometimes
• Thumbs-up response
• They`re required for survival
• Stretch the truth
• They are yours for the basking
• Take forever to get moving
• Subspecies adapted to their environments
• Statistic for 11-Down
• Ship`s weight unit
• Some museum hangings
• Short story of one`s life
• Seascape sight, sometimes
• Roundup requirement
• React in shock
• Problem for grain growers
• Prison yard residents
• Prepare for mummification
• Poem with "To" in its title
• Pertaining to bone
• Passes over in pronunciation
• Partner of shock
• Muslim prayer leader
• Like a new delivery?
• Librarian`s urging
• Lead-in for "trooper" or "legal"
• Latin list-shortener
• Information about information
• Have a blast
• Hallucinatory drug
• Final chess stage
• Feeds, as hogs
• Family reunion attendees
• Extract the juice from
• Emulate Beethoven
• Electrifying swimmer
• Did refinery work
• Cow-horned goddess
• Count on both hands?
• Certain little piggie
• Causing the willies
• Belted one out
• Band`s equipment handler
• Army scout`s job, briefly
• Allow to go at full speed
• A California red
• got the whole world
• "The camera ___ 10 pounds"
• "Not to mention . . ."
• "Meet the Parents" actor
• Written promise to pay
• Woodwind instrument
• What a furnace provides
• Weed-removing tool
• Western resort lake
• Wedding vow exchanges
• Voice-mail signal
• US espionage org
• Tool-storage structures
• Some bakery loaves
• Skin-cream ingredient
• Postgame summary
• Perform at the piano
• Send out for lunch
• Prefix meaning ``against``
• Not genuine
• Maximum road speed
• Just out of the oven
• Little green veggie
• Little laugh
• Hive-dwelling insect
• Highest in quality
• Help with, as a crime
• Heavy weights
• Have to pay
• Have the deed to
• Harness strap
• Hair stylist`s shop
• Gourmet, slangily
• German auto
• Fancy feather
• Express gratitude to
• Drop __ to (write)
• Do the laundry
• Discussion venue
• Crimson and scarlet
• Catch sight of
• Business envelope abbr
• Bunch of hornets
• British ``Bye-bye!``
• Blender sound
• Be likely (to)
• Basketball or hockey
• Arrested, informally
• Approved of
• Actress Meryl
• 6:30 p.m., for example
• ``You defeated me``
• ``That`s terrible!``
• ``Don`t decide too quickly``
• Friend`s opposite
• LAPD alert
• Farm storage cylinder
• Netherlands cheese
• IRS Form 1040 calculation
• With 41-Across, Bronx ball club, familiarly
• Apply, as pressure
• Marked by intense feeling
• Quotes as a source
• Traffic jam
• Agitated state
• Be effective
• Album`s first half
• Govt. obligation
• iPhone user`s "Keep in touch"
• "The Trial" novelist Franz
• Clock radio "Shut up!" button
• Tolkien tree giants
• Competitor`s payment
• Ruling descendants of Genghis
• Diamond surface
• Unfamiliar with
• Some Oklahoma billionaires
• Comes out on top
• State as fact
• Solid baseball hit
• Insurance case
• Landlord`s charge
• Like a honed knife
• Highest peak in Ore.
• One of four in a square
• "Bad, Bad" Brown of song
• From Chicago to Boston
• Fed. power dept
• Former student
• Eponymous swindler Charles
• Weight loss plan
• Under way, to Sherlock
• Luxury apartment feature
• Highway originally from Chicago to Santa Monica
• Position in the batter`s box
• Asian New Year
• Robert E. Lee`s org.
• Catches in the act
• Slammin` Sammy of the links
• See 13-Down
• Piercing tool
• Steak sauce brand
• Altar promise
• In the thick of
• Visine dose
• 19th-century military service revolver
• "L.A. Law" lawyer
• Walt`s friend, and enemy, in "Breaking Bad"
• Vivien of "Gone With the Wind"
• Prefix meaning "god"
• Phnom __, Cambodia
• B equivalent, in music
• Fig. on a new car window
• "__, poor Yorick!": Hamlet
• Pizazz
• Where Army brass is trained, in brief
• Aves. ... or the initials of 17-, 23-, 40-, 50- an...
• Two slices of a loaf of bread
• Unit of fat
• Move, for short
• V-shaped cut
• Butter substitutes
• Four: Prefix
• One collecting merit badges
• Gear teeth
• Run ___ (rampage)
• One-named Art Deco artist
• Synonym and anagram of "note"
• Turkey and roast beef
• Excited cries
• Poe poem that concludes "In her tomb by the soundi...
• Train transportation
• "Casablanca" woman
• 2013 film queen who sings "Let It Go"
• Sporty Chevy
• Show the way
• Irish language family
• Chi-town daily
• Chris of "Jurassic World"
• What a raconteur does
• State below Okla.
• Live and breathe
• Tool with a beam
• Obama`s signature health law, for short
• Golfer Michelle
• Monica ___, two-time U.S. Open champ
• Ark builder
• "Yeah, right"
• Just O.K.
• War-torn Syrian city
• Window frames
• Capitalize on
• Completely
• and vinegar
• Pig out
• "Livin` Thing" band, 1976, informally
• Say something before immediately being proven wron...
• Mom`s forte, briefly
• Ghost`s cry
• Dollar division
• Morales of "NYPD Blue"
• Warner of danger
• "Arabian Nights" voyager
• Group of candidates running together
• Singer Del Rey
• Honey maker
• Money set aside for later years, in brief
• Sterling service for an afternoon break
• Abril or mayo
• Airport alternative to JFK
• Navy special force in the bin Laden raid
• Make a mistake
• Aid in climbing a snowy peak
• Slender woodwind
• Money and ID holder
• Breaks the Ten Commandments