Crossword Puzzle Answers - 09/02/2016 - 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.

• Sleep like a bear
• Pensioned (Abbr.)
• Sharif of `Funny Girl`
• Site of Apra Harbor
• Spanish hero of yore
• tizzy (worked up)
• Valentine`s Day mo
• Pre-owned wheels
• Opening bout, briefly
• Motorist`s org
• List-ending abbr
• Idle or Clapton
• Hester with a scarlet `A`
• Grafton`s ` for Ricochet`
• Folkloric fairy queen
• Failed at-bats
• Eventful periods
• Big-screen buys
• Bake sale orgs
• Architect I.M
• Acts like a raptor
• `Now theater near you!`
• Use a straw
• Surprised sounds
• Smooths, in a way
• Sibling, for short
• Respect, in slang
• Playful mammal
• Much of N. Amer
• Acropolis setting
• Address identifier
• Last year`s frosh
• Interstellar cloud
• Hospital area, for short
• From the Arctic
• From Oslo, say
• Cow of commercials
• Business card datum
• Baltimore player
• Spicy taco topping
• Sandwich breads
• Second afterthought on a ltr
• Slangy refusal
• Speaks unclearly
• Take care of a bill
• Hourglass contents
• Javelin or harpoon
• Worker safety org
• Salon coloring target
• Sales force, for short
• Resort lake near Reno
• Pro hoops org
• Prescription regulating agcy
• Practice boxing
• Place to play golf
• Out of town
• One-person performance
• Person on horseback
• Hot, as an angry person
• Long-eared beasts of burden
• Hot, as a fashion
• Luxury wristwatches
• Military truant: Abbr
• Gov. pollution watchdog
• Facts and figures
• Give a darn
• Luau side dish
• Espionage org
• Enjoys a magazine
• Long part of jeans
• Encroaching army
• List of actors
• Light-bulb inventor
• Largest sea mammal
• Complete collections
• Color variations
• Complete makeovers
• Cold, as a kayoed boxer
• Type of fastball
• Cold, as a grouchy person
• Wether report?
• Santa Fe brick
• Sci-fi weapon, perhaps
• Cold War adversary: Abbr
• Cobful of corn
• Superstation initials
• Husk-wrapped Mexican food
• Concrete-reinforcing rod
• Shoulder muscles, briefly
• Before, before
• Golfer with an "army"
• Deceptive move
• Makes more bearable
• Capsize, with "over"
• Song words before "with a little help from my frie...
• Using as a perch
• Were up to date?
• Cobful of corn
• Caterpillars` casings
• Some types of card games
• San Francisco vehicles
• Refrigerator drawer
• Rich, rum-soaked cakes
• Prohibit by law
• Present for sale
• Windy City commuter org
• Pluperfect, for one
• Plot size, sometimes
• Picking-up-the-tab words
• North Pole toymaker
• Mercedes or Volvo
• Melancholy instrument
• Make, as money
• Levin or Gershwin
• It`s a scream
• Key times, historically
• Capote nickname
• Involve, as in trouble
• Diving lake bird
• Inferior stuff
• Sci-fi staples
• Important mountain for Noah
• Hockey great Bobby
• Scottish cap
• Head of a monastery
• Gangland territories
• C-__ (DC cable channel)
• Four-baggers, in MLB
• Put into operation
• Foot, to a vet
• Feathered six-footer
• Discharges from the RAF
• Hourly worker`s device
• Defense in a can
• Cooling system, informally
• Opening set of TV series episodes
• Construct, as a skyscraper
• Bright spots, really
• Blue-blanket baby
• Landon who ran against
• Bit of prevention?
• Biblical verb suffix
• Being contentiously discussed
• constrictor
• Alex Haley best-seller
• Actor M. ___ Walsh
• "What do ___ think?"
• "Something Wicked This Way Comes" writer
• Kirsten of "Spider-Man"
• Pop in the mail
• "Do-Re-Mi" scale
• "Cheers" co-star`s first name
• The Browns, on sports tickers
• World`s second largest island
• Doc`s order to a pharmacist
• Early communications satellite
• Falco of "The Sopranos"
• TiVo button
• Actress Shire
• Manhattan Project creation
• "Au __": "Bye, Pierre"
• Showing strong feelings
• Texas or Ukraine city
• of transportation
• Write an open letter?
• Western movie star?
• TV studio sign
• Trunks of trees
• Tops off a room
• To whom Muslims pray
• To just a slight degree
• The Boy King
• Presidential campaign concern
• Produce an egg
• Relax, as one`s grip
• Sockeyes and chinooks
• Sweetening substance
• Take a breath
• The wordy Gershwin
• Porky of cartoons
• Place for a contestant
• Persian examiner
• Party bowlful, sometimes
• Partial paralysis
• Ozone-depleting chemical
• Out of fashion
• One of two sharing an apartment
• Makes very happy
• Like some gems
• Lettuce, escarole and such
• Large, flightless bird
• Jobs for Poirot
• Item in a sales kit
• April 15 payment
• Florida horse-breeding city
• It`s Caesar`s fault?
• A Great Lake
• Anti-DWI grp
• In every respect
• French impressionist Claude
• Horse head feature
• Cell alternative
• Rains ice pellets
• Features of many cellphones
• Eyelid afflictions
• Epitome of slenderness
• Deficient in pigmentation
• Backwoods possessive
• Country singer Patsy
• Colorless gas
• ``Who, me?`` response
• Chunk served with crackers
• ``What`s __ for me?``
• Champagne concoctions
• Shatner`s "__War"
• ``We`re in trouble now``
• Cats have nine
• ``That`s too bad``
• Carry a tune
• Card above a deuce
• Buster or chap relative
• Candy heart message
• Arrowhead material
• anglais (English horn)
• Broil over briquets
• Wrigley`s product
• Actor`s business representative
• Word from a lei person?
• Am for more than one?
• Affixed with rubber cement
• "MASH" setting
• When Katherine and Petruchio meet
• Sheep`s cry
• Turning jump on the ice
• "My Name is Asher ___"
• Side with a burger, perhaps
• "Fond du" finish
• Company abbr
• Quick points on the court
• "Fee fi fo fum" sayer
• Olympic sport with a hollow ball
• Maureen of `Miracle on 34th Street`
• Prepare for print
• Politely request
• Perfect place
• Paycheck amount
• One of two certainties, according to Franklin
• Dubai bigwig
• Novelist Lessing
• Muddled situation
• Microbrewery products
• Now you
• Photo lab abbr
• Lacking slack
• Jeremy of `Entourage`
• Palms-down call
• Jackie`s second hubby
• "You don`t ___!"
• Italian luxury goods brand
• .S. asbestos regulator
• Dry-climate landscape option
• Tool with teeth
• Long-distance swimmer Diana
• Unlikely to get rain
• One-ups
• Fist-up call
• Diminutive suffix
• Southern region of ancient Palestine
• Diabolical sort
• Proper medicine amount
• Unwelcome sign for latecomers
• See 40-Across
• Stop the flow of
• Big name in trucks
• Teeny bit
• Statues, often
• Clip or snip
• Bratty retort
• Hustle and bustle
• Musketeers and blind mice
• Celebrity
• Purposeful misdirection
• Home of Iowa State
• Harsh cry
• Great strength
• Grain grinders
• "Dig in!"
• Gourd family fruits
• Goals of congressional candidates
• Recipe direction ... and a literal hint to what yo...
• Cultural center on 53rd St
• Foe of the Philistines
• Doesn`t split
• Features of Nike shoes
• Energy provider in the southeastern U.S
• Honest prez
• Math comparison
• Island wreath
• CBS sitcom set in Chicago
• Mount Etna emission
• Creator of Vader and Kenobi
• Takes part in a bee
• Exuberant flamenco cries
• Skunk`s defense
• Cousin of rust
• Diarist Frank
• Combine to create an ensemble
• Sally Ride, e.g.
• Athletically lean
• Transport for William Kidd or Jack Sparrow
• Christmas tree, often
• Choice at a movie theater concession stand
• Catch sight of
• Call from the curb
• Boxer portrayed in `Raging Bull`
• James Cameron megahit of 2009
• Laura Hillenbrand best-seller about a racehorse
• Sounds from pounds
• Bantu speaker of southern Africa
• Woman in a Beethoven piano title
• Wine or cheese concern
• I told ya
• Classic sports cars
• Hustle and bustle
• Musketeers and blind mice
• Celebrity
• Purposeful misdirection
• Home of Iowa State
• Harsh cry
• Great strength
• Grain grinders
• "Dig in!"
• Gourd family fruits
• Goals of congressional candidates
• Recipe direction ... and a literal hint to what yo...
• Cultural center on 53rd St
• Foe of the Philistines
• Doesn`t split
• Features of Nike shoes
• Energy provider in the southeastern U.S
• Honest prez
• Math comparison
• Island wreath
• CBS sitcom set in Chicago
• Mount Etna emission
• Creator of Vader and Kenobi
• Takes part in a bee
• Exuberant flamenco cries
• Skunk`s defense
• Cousin of rust
• Diarist Frank
• Combine to create an ensemble
• Sally Ride, e.g.
• Athletically lean
• Transport for William Kidd or Jack Sparrow
• Christmas tree, often
• Choice at a movie theater concession stand
• Catch sight of
• Call from the curb
• Boxer portrayed in `Raging Bull`
• James Cameron megahit of 2009
• Laura Hillenbrand best-seller about a racehorse
• Sounds from pounds
• Bantu speaker of southern Africa
• Woman in a Beethoven piano title
• Wine or cheese concern
• I told ya
• Classic sports cars
• Network for market monitors
• Citrus supply at a bar
• Oscar night rides
• Be nuts about
• Maguire of "The Great Gatsby"
• W.W. II turning point
• Boiling point?
• Came in first
• Saved for later
• 1960s sitcom set at Fort Courage
• Al Gore and Joe Biden, e.g
• Beringer Vineyards` county
• Oft-minced bulb
• 1966 Jerry Herman musical
• Cops` crook-catching hoax
• Scrutinizes the underworld?
• 14-time All-Star Jeter
• Parts of hearts
• `Smooth Operator` singer
• Out for the night
• Puts up with one`s family?
• `Broca`s Brain` writer
• Australian bird
• Over there, quaintly
• Landing spot for Santa
• Camera attachment, often
• Where some athletes need guards
• Get along
• Give in
• Cuts up little bloodsuckers?
• Something calamine lotion alleviates
• Actor Beatty
• With 43-Down, Apple C.E.O. beginning in 2011
• Tuber made into poi
• They all lead to Rome, it`s said
• Branch of Islam
• Clocks trainees for a fabled race rematch?
• Campaign display
• Junkyard jalopies
• Adjust, as a watch
• Candidate`s quest
• Pep rally shout
• By all means
• Raises the price of some pastries?
• Came about
• Detonates a weapon in the underworld?
• Gore who wrote "Lincoln"
• Malarial fever
• Valhalla`s ruling god
• Ohno on skates
• Soapy powder mineral