Crossword Puzzle Answers - 23/02/2016 - 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.

• Wolf Blitzer`s channel
• Wedding-day jitters
• Wagerers` site (Abbr.)
• Use a blowtorch
• Supreme Court count
• Say it isn`t so
• Plays 18 holes
• Part of UNLV
• Oyster bar order
• Opposite of `fer`
• Mrs. Nick Charles
• Italian wine region
• Hunk of cheese
• Evening, in an ad
• Burns and Jennings
• Beetle and Rabbit
• `Old Mother` of rhyme
• ` and Janis` (comic strip)
• West Point student
• Summer spot for some
• Shrek, for one
• Seer`s specialty
• Produced, as a play
• Prepare to propose
• Not fooled by
• Manx, for one
• In the past
• Costume store offerings
• Was still standing
• Trap for snaky swimmers
• Tommy Hilfiger competitor
• They offer 24-hr. banking
• Theme park lure
• Teutonic turndown
• Swindle using con games
• Suffix denoting devotees
• Serve as the first act
• Sci-fi hoverer
• Red Bull stimulant
• Polynesian finger food
• Place to buy a pie
• Peninsula south of San Diego
• Peace, in Nazareth
• Part of a Mayberry address, on classic TV
• Objective in musical chairs
• Noninvasive medical procedure
• Mountain-scaling aid
• Midsummer Day month
• Mardi or foie follower
• Many Pop Warner coaches
• Made like Humpty Dumpty
• It`s no slow poke
• Hyde Park buggy
• Hockey statistic
• Hector or Paris
• He voiced Dr. Seuss`s Horton in 2008
• Fed from, as a plate
• Explosive experiment, for short
• Everglades wader
• Espionage novelist Deighton
• Email`s landing spot
• Double play twosome
• Diner`s faux pas
• Demon dispeller
• Concerning, on office reminders
• Child`s cry for attention
• Brigham City`s state
• Bobby who amassed 645 23-Acrosses
• Blueprint detail, for short
• Birthstone for most Libras
• Big Apple theater award
• Being displayed, as in a museum
• Bay Area footballer, briefly
• Awake past the usual bedtime
• Automatic tournament advances
• Arafat successor Mahmoud
• Activity in which love means nothing
• 1990-`94 sketch show that featured 20-, 29-, and 4...
• Academy Award winner for Best Actor of 2004
• `Opposites Attract` singer Abdul
• `Nothing`s wrong with me`
• `Maid in Manhattan` star
• Sub in WWII
• Washington`s veep
• Two in Mexico
• `La Cage ___ Folles`
• Water-loving nymph
• `It just came to me!`
• `Explore Beyond Limits` computer company
• Sordidly unpleasant
• Smoothed feathers
• Puts in a whole new light
• Prepares to eat an orange
• Plant with two seed leaves
• Patch of lawn
• Org. in "The Bourne Identity"
• Mount Vernon, for one
• Mississippi formation
• Malcolm`s sitcom dad
• Longtime Chinese Chairman
• Little piggie, for one
• Like some jackets or belts
• Like lemon juice
• Large male deer
• Kind of wit or view
• Keep the subscription
• Is on the go
• Investment firm T. ___ Price
• In step with the times
• High flier`s home
• Hidden obstacles
• Heavy, inert gas
• Hardly an angel
• Hammer and anvil users
• Gold coin of old
• Get in one`s sights
• Gather intelligence
• Full-grown sheep
• Fix deeply and firmly
• Fix deeply and firmly
• Film ___ (bleak movie)
• Film featuring dark humor
• Feel pain, perhaps
• Earns after taxes
• Dream period, for short
• Cut of meat
• Criminologist`s clue, for short
• Create an obstruction, in a way
• Colorful bird of prey?
• Chick-to-be
• Champagne title
• Bar, legally
• Article lengths, in printing
• Annapolis freshman
• Animal that beats its chest
• "Three`s Company" landlord
• "Much ___ About Nothing"
• "Life of Riley" character Digger
• "101 Dalmatians" Dalmatian
• Word with "candy" or "sugar"
• What a lightbulb symbolizes
• Walks like Frankenstein
• Unclothed sculpture
• Type of naked
• Trigonometric function
• They last a long time
• Teases mercilessly
• Subtle vibe around a person
• Study or den
• Sound boomerang
• Science fair judges, e.g
• Sanskrit`s language group
• Salmon variety
• Reserved or preserved
• Repair a wrong
• Renders unreadable, as data
• Refer to, as a research paper
• Present-day Persia
• Prepare, as a salad
• Pitching great Martinez
• Optimist`s motto upon waking
• Oft-stated phrase in May
• Offensive-smelling
• Notorious Roman emperor
• Not near at all
• Native American group
• Mint family member
• Mend by stitching
• Large, double-edged broadsword
• In a demure manner
• Campus cadet org
• How some sit by
• Honky-___ (dive bar)
• Familiar and cozy (var.)
• Dust particle
• Complete a contract
• Communicate by PC
• City near Dallas
• Cheese in a red coat
• Changed, as wallpaper
• Carpenter`s support
• Bone in the human arm
• Bit of barbering
• Baby`s night spot
• As a whole
• An unfledged or nestling hawk
• Airport stat
• Adjective for a fox
• Action star Chuck
• Accepts the cost
• Yoga practitioner`s need
• 90-degree extension shape
• 1/6 of an ounce (Abbr.)
• Wolf pack member
• "Meet Me ___ Louis"
• Twisting force
• Took steps
• They deal in checks and balances
• Star State (Texas)
• Swiss hero who took a bow
• What a detergent removes
• about (approximately)
• Take the first step
• Stiff-upper-lip type
• Take it easy
• Toys on strings
• State of the art
• Tra-__ (song syllables)
• Soviet labor camp
• TV host Trebek
• Vietnam`s capital
• Some online communications, for short
• Smelter waste
• Slanted edge
• Shearer of `The Red Shoes`
• Table supports
• School in which ideally there are no classes
• Summer camp boat
• Put an end to
• Strongly recommend
• Power trouble
• Poseidon`s place
• Started, as a lawn
• Story that might be ``tall``
• Perry Como song with the lyric `Cling to me like a...
• Pendant shape
• Sound of relief
• PBS-funding org
• Small role for a star
• One who asks `Paper or plastic?`
• Slanted typeface: Abbr
• Sequoia or sycamore
• Oil industry prefix
• Safe and __ (out of danger)
• Prefix meaning ``opposed to``
• Playful aquatic mammal
• Pharmacy purchase
• Piece of china on a saucer
• McGregor of Moulin Rouge
• Omelet essentials
• NBC show since 1975
• Pay to participate
• Mystifying hoverers
• No longer owed, as a debt
• Moving performers
• Natural underground chamber
• Movie soldier who took a bow
• Most competent
• Mind-numbing routine
• Long-ago period
• Leans to one side
• Madrid museum
• Magnate Onassis
• Keep from happening
• Make a knight
• Many email attachments
• In __ straits (needing help)
• In good __ (physically fit)
• Highway off-ramp
• Highly impressed
• Have a feeling about
• Flashes of lightning
• Loire contents
• First full mo. of spring
• Loafer`s suggestion for handling a task
• Exact duplicate
• Like highlighter colors
• Computer operator
• Legendary outlaw who took a bow
• Car with a meter
• It`s verboten
• Calvin of fashion
• In the vicinity
• By way of
• Builder`s blocks
• Heroine of YA fiction who took a bow
• High-hemmed garment
• Break of day
• Bottom-line amount
• Bottom of a statue
• A __ for sore eyes
• ``It`s the truth!``
• ``Do __ others . . .``
• Hand over
• ``Beware the __ of March``
• Guitar lesson basics
• Give a little ground
• Futbol score
• Frost creation
• Freudian topic
• Foe for Frodo
• Finish off
• Fear associated with drilling
• Elvis song `A Fool Such
• Dunkable snacks
• Dorky person
• Disco ___ (character on `The Simpsons`)
• Decisive defeats
• DC Comics billionaire who took a bow
• Collect, as benefits
• Chichen Itza inhabitant
• Cheesesteak topping, often
• Cake maker, at times
• Bullet train technology
• Boot camp order
• Black cattle breed
• Biblical betrayer
• Adrenaline injector brand
• Abandons amateur status
• `So that`s your game!`
• `No ___!` (`Sure thing!`)
• Incidentally in texts
• Honest` president
• Cool beans
• Pilot`s prediction: Abbr.
• Band equipment component
• Lit. collection
• Stomach problem
• Deliver a speech
• Curved moldings
• Seasonal gift giver
• Part of NBA: Abbr.
• "Peer Gynt Suite" dancer
• James of jazz
• German cries
• Indian metropolis
• Small talk
• Paintbrush bristles material
• Change course suddenly
• James of the Old West
• Composer`s creation
• Window framework
• Belgian city where the In Flanders Fields Museum i...
• Dog-__: folded at the corner
• Drawer openers
• Washington MLB team
• Microwave beeper
• Video game pioneer
• Gets the better of
• "Bee`s knees" equivalent
• Tennis period since 1968
• Attach with string
• Likely will, after "is"
• Puncture prefix
• Actor Gibson
• Sermon giver: Abbr.
• Seek divine intervention
• Ranch group
• Course with ratios
• Genealogy diagram
• Colorful tropical fish
• What seven puzzle answers are with reference to ab...
• Below, poetically
• Part of USDA: Abbr.
• Word in a fair forecast (FL)
• At an earlier date (OK)
• One of the Musketeers
• Coeur d`__, Idaho
• `60s radical gp.
• Fictional Korean War surgeon Pierce (IA)
• Piled-high hairdo (UT)
• Abbr. for some Garden State senators
• Milk: Pref.
• Hockey legend Bobby et al.
• Motel charges
• Many California wines
• Byzantine or Roman (NY)
• Wedge-shaped arch piece (PA)
• More confident
• Playful trick
• Part of DOS: Abbr.
• Suffix with north
• Suit on a board
• Plumber`s piece
• One raising a hand (TN)
• Nutmeg-topped drink
• Summer on the Seine
• Egg-shaped tomato
• Molecule part
• Winter outerwear
• Pedro`s "I love you"
• Muscles above the abs
• In ___ paratus (ready for anything)
• Black flower in a Dumas title
• Carne ___ (Mexican restaurant order)
• See 13-Down
• "Can`t do it"
• Slap handcuffs on
• "The Metamorphosis" protagonist
• Drop heavily
• Tiny storage unit
• Virgil described its eruption in the "Aeneid"
• Southwest Indian
• H.M.O. doctor designations
• Big name in luxury bags
• Another nickname for the Ocean State
• Golfer Palmer, informally
• Passport certification
• With 51-Down, description of the shaded answers?
• Belly button type
• Problem with lifting?
• Direction opposite nord
• Fights, as war
• Hide in the shadows
• Goes in up to one`s knees, say
• Dulles airport designer Saarinen
• Skiing event with gates
• Nurse settings, briefly
• Beijing`s river basin
• Military authority: Abbr.
• BlackBerry, e.g., briefly
• Stick : punishment :: ___ : reward
• It`s a small whirl after all
• Epoch when modern mammals arose
• Office PC setup
• Evil "Get Smart" group
• Aids for some urban commuters
• Former ember
• One terminus of a Japanese bullet train
• Pink shade
• Countless centuries
• One for Caesar?
• Makeshift ghost costume
• One of two in a Big Mac
• 2012 election name
• Ones watching their plates?
• Tiniest leftover
• Call on a dairy farm
• Come out on top
• Inquires about
• Word with cream or cutie
• "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" blonde
• Loved, as archaeological work?
• Remove from practice
• Bone parallel to the radius
• Characters on a wanted poster
• Medium for Michelangelo
• Black & Decker competitor
• Madrid-to-Lisbon dir.
• It`s often said with a smile