Crossword Puzzle Answers - 05/03/2016 - The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more

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• Yellow-disked flowers
• Vast amount of money
• Wide-mouthed earthenware jar
• Trellis feature
• Topics in topology
• This puzzle`s hidden theme
• Thinly layered mineral
• Spanish lady`s title
• Sesame-seed-and-honey confection
• Sam in "Cheers"
• Rise to one`s feet
• Remove a metal from
• Quest for a shopper
• Ran in neutral
• Org. quoted on toothpaste tubes
• No longer in the USAF
• New Zealand bird
• Melodious composition
• Male in the armed forces
• Looked at lustfully
• It`s behind the altar
• Licorice-flavored liqueur
• In progress, to Sherlock
• Home sweet home
• Hit the horn
• Herb for flavoring
• Three more `A` games
• Two `A` games
• Word before recall or eclipse
• Workplace of Snow White`s dwarfs
• Word processing command
• Give a large donation
• Fill to the max
• Woman with social distinction
• Giraffe`s striped kin
• West African republic
• Filbert, for one
• Colorful aquarium fish
• Two more `A` games
• Collection of poetry
• Chops finely, as potatoes
• Tribe famed for kachina dolls
• Check, as a bill
• Traffic jam sounds
• Bury in a pyramid
• Burden or responsibility
• Born prematurely?
• Sotomayor`s appointer
• Solo at La Scala
• Assailed on all sides
• Sign on a clearance rack
• "___ to a Nightingale"
• Newspaper article`s first paragraph
• Player at Buffalo`s First Niagara Center
• Pose, as a riddle
• Ryan with 5,714 strikeouts
• Short-lived obsession
• Shocks, as a perp
• "___ got an idea ..."
• Service that`s made some cabbies crabby
• "___ do" (faint praise)
• Rara ___ (unusual item)
• "The Bellboy" star Jerry
• Radio`s station changer
• "It`s now or never" time
• Post-workout complaint
• "Buona ___" (Italian greeting)
• "An Iceland Fisherman" author Pierre
• Pasta in some Italian soups
• Partnership for Peace gp
• Nuclear reactor area
• Miami Dolphins uniform hue
• Music licensing acronym
• Mr. Spacely, to George Jetson
• Mountain road feature
• Word with up, bake or chowder
• Mischievous type
• Word with believer or love
• Type of beach
• Wanted poster word
• Extemporaneous exams
• Miami Dolphins uniform hue
• Thrift shop stipulation
• Matter for a doctor or a detective
• The very notion
• Take a short-term job
• Like Santa Claus
• Sue Langdon`s middle name
• Literary tea party attendee
• Sub or Santa chaser
• Start for do or due
• Like Santa Claus
• Sentry`s command
• Squirrel`s nest?
• Standing out of the water
• Letter-shaped structural piece
• Hollywood premiere, e.g
• Fencing thrust
• Julia`s role in the `Ocean`s Eleven` films
• Remains of a no-good pharaoh?
• Its flag bears a red dragon
• Projecting edges
• Isn`t kidding about
• Identical in value
• Precisely, with "to"
• Part of "Q and A"
• Having a need to feed
• Gaze unblinkingly
• Opposite of paleo-
• Fonzie`s grooming aid
• Like a newly installed fan belt
• Flying speed unit
• Not in agreement
• Derby material
• Mil. hero`s decoration
• EMT`s `Immediately!`
• Light greenish-blue
• Donkey ancestor
• Does a washday chore
• Legendary captain
• Did laps, perhaps
• Jazz legend Carmen
• Gum-producing plant
• Going from port to port
• Composers` acronym
• Eleanor Roosevelt`s first name
• Female operatic star
• Communist-hunting senator Joe
• Defendant`s response
• Chitterlings chef?
• California Chrome handler
• Curly-leafed cabbage
• Calhoun in "Bad Jim"
• Corn syrup brand
• Burned-out post office?
• Coordinate, briefly
• Bighead`s voyage?
• Coffeehouse containers
• Caught in the act
• Beau`s song
• Casts aside heartlessly
• Carried out, as a task
• Aitches in Athens
• Advances against earnings
• Bubbly brown beverages
• 51-Down in hot water?
• Antelope with long, straight horns
• Abbesses and prioresses
• 1958-61 alliance, initially
• 1949 Tracy/Hepburn classic
• "___ came a spider . . ."
• `The Raven` starter
• "To Kill a Mockingbird" author
• `Keep ___!` (`Don`t quit!`)
• "Is that a ___?"
• Tourists` waist pouches
• Wine-label datum
• Prefix for dermis
• Play a part
• pas (social error)
• Oz creator L. Frank
• Name derived from a person
• Mrs. Nick Charles
• Theda of the silents
• Unspoiled paradise
• Khan (`The Jungle Book` tiger)
• Yammer endlessly
• Wrinkle-resistant material
• Use Brillo on
• Unsupportive one
• Undo, in a way
• Turns to slush
• Tourist destination in the Ionian Sea
• Tough nut to crack
• They 60-Across
• Theda of the silents
• Test site
• Swirled in a stream
• In the past
• Stimpy`s pal
• Cookbook author Rombauer
• Gun lobby org
• State of agreement
• Counterfeit cash
• Spanakopita ingredient
• 50-Across`s dog
• `One-L lama` poet
• Sought-after star for `The Codfather`?
• Words to live by
• Was a nomad
• Sought-after star for `Kill Brill`?
• Sought-after star for `Porgy and Bass`?
• Sought-after star for `Mad Mackerel`?
• Hawaiian volcano
• Free of additives
• Kind of bliss
• Miles of film
• New Hampshire town
• Ready for print
• Left at sea
• Stocks the party
• Sought-after star for `Gar With the Wind`?
• Sought-after star for `Die Another Dace`?
• Sought-after star for `Cool Hand Fluke`?
• Many a godparent
• Minute Maid Park team
• Sitcom storyline
• More than giggles
• Singer O`Connor
• Minimal remnant
• Shells and such
• Mileage meter prefix
• Continental coin
• Santa sketcher Thomas
• Magic Kingdom`s neighbor
• Ache battler
• San ___, Italy
• Like old recordings
• Lass who loved Lancelot
• Winner of some Olympic competitions
• Sandwich with pork, cheese and pickles
• Largest nation of northern Eur
• plié (ballet movement)
• Revealing cry
• Kingdom mentioned in 1 Kings
• Word from the Italian for ``cherish``
• It`s slower than larghetto
• Resident of a certain farm
• It may be purple
• In need of stimulation
• What some looks cure
• Ref. that recently added `locavore` and `phablet`
• What often tops jambalaya
• Two-time Explorers Club president
• Horace`s `___ Poetica`
• Title first used for shoguns
• Pungent cheese
• Race participant
• Reassuring words on a train station board
• Targets of some fundraising campaigns
• Hollywood figure seeking to `reel in` the actors i...
• Reached base, in a way
• Symbol of spring
• Florence`s ___ Vecchio
• RAF award for gallantry
• Small-screen swan song of 2015
• Have lunch, casually
• Show renewed energy
• Hall who sang `Maneater`
• Possible punch accompaniment
• Gourmet fare it`s not
• Part of many valentines
• Gordon Ramsay, e.g
• One of the top four automakers, circa 1907
• Future physician`s hurdle: Abbr
• Protein synthesis participant
• Ferdinand`s wife
• One of its ``Welcome to`` signs is a giant gold pa...
• Private entertainers` initials
• Friend and influencer of Calder
• Morals-for-money
• Priestess in Bizet`s `The Pearl Fishers`
• Modern hospital staffer
• Prayer starter
• Metaphorical danger zone
• Pasta sauce ingredient
• Man-cave must-have
• Plus much more
• Farm team connectors
• Maker of the first curved-front fridge
• Drunk as a skunk
• Play to the back row
• Doctor who creates a dangerous serum
• Desktop release of 1998
• Play stations
• Maker of the first cell-phone color displays
• Lower yourself, in a way
• Dark, to Shelley
• Lott successor as Senate majority leader
• Picky kid`s peeling
• Checkout scanner part
• Con artist`s dream
• Livorno-to-Florence dir
• Letters on some ``Welcome to`` signs
• Company with a four-ring logo
• Cohort of Luciano and Placido
• One of a car quartet
• Most talked-about, say
• Churchill Downs event
• Intimate quiz purveyor
• Org. overseeing diamonds and clubs
• Chest components
• Important reign, perhaps
• One who might deem a picture worth a thousand word...
• Iguana predator
• Charlemagne`s realm: Abbr
• Heart-shaped sewing machine parts
• Harry ally in ``Deathly Hallows``
• One often accompanies a trench coat
• 401(k) alternatives
• Forte __ (strong-minded: Fr.)
• `Look before you leap,` for one
• Capital on the shores of Lake Xolotlan
• First female prof at the Sorbonne
• California`s Santa ___ winds
• Not topical, perhaps
• Burmese utterance
• Fairbanks, for Teddy Roosevelt
• Exemplar of kitschy art
• Bishop in `Aliens,` for one
• Boy, to his padre
• Not merely unlocked
• Ending like -aceous
• Book flap feature
• Blanket refusal
• Nobel Peace Center city
• Drilling expert, for short
• Deceived, as a Duck
• National Museum of the Great Lakes setting
• Benjamin, alternatively
• Cry before you spill
• Coauthor of Bogart`s Oscar role
• Arkansas River city
• Cocktails named for a mayor of Dijon
• `We Are the Champions,` e.g
• Canyon Vistas Ride transportation
• `That was really uncalled for`
• Bathe in light
• `Marley ___` (2005 bestseller)
• Apt to start
• All NFL uniforms, since 2012
• `I Try` singer Gray
• 45 Down rival
• man put asunder
• ``Iliad`` divine messenger
• Discontented cry
• Plane`s longitudinal rotation
• Voice mail sound
• Hawaiian-born head of state
• Proceeded in a carefree manner
• Tonic component
• Firth of Forth outlet
• Beer container
• Ends unsuccessfully, as a computer search
• Amtrak unwinding area
• Six minus deux
• Mideast party
• Dana __, co-star of the original "Invasion of the ...
• Like granola
• "Can`t fool me!"
• Prominent elephant seal features
• Poland Spring parent
• Michael of "Michael Clayton"
• Longtime Mississippi senator Cochran
• Virginia Cavaliers` org.
• Source of inside info?
• GPS display
• Millinery blocks
• Mount __ Nicolosi, Italian ski area
• Fed. auditing agency
• Most senseless
• High state
• Discontinue
• Gene Vincent`s "__ Lovin`"
• One looking up to his listener?
• Tiny sucker
• They`re observed
• March winds, perhaps
• Like most circus performers
• File system`s master directory
• More mawkish
• Certain retiree`s title: Abbr.
• Parade honoree, briefly
• FBI Academy site
• WWII correspondent Reynolds
• Influential capitalists
• Handshake relative
• City between Algiers and Casablanca
• Dairy Queen Blizzard option
• Where ends may meet?: Abbr.
• Deli request
• Skull Island notable
• Losing scheme
• How some myths are taken
• "Can`t fool me!"
• Precedent sources
• Brother competitor
• One with a tender heart?
• Software developers` get-together
• Metaphorically dull
• What la Tierra orbits
• Give the ax?
• Stuff in a backpack
• "Leavin` on Your Mind" singer, 1963
• Like theater seating
• Theater stage
• With very little hope
• 20th-century novelist who shared first and middle ...
• Pale yellow
• Spring break preceder, often
• Barfly`s request
• "Bewitched" witch
• See 23-Across
• Consoling gestures
• Weight allowance
• Jimmy Carter`s mother
• "Great" sleuth of kid-lit
• Department in Picardy
• Song played at Staples Center after every Lakers v...
• Really embarrassed, maybe
• Coming in waves?
• A head might go over the top of it
• Level in an org.
• Sevilla-to-Granada direction
• Reacts to a bombshell
• Quiet after the storm, maybe
• Magic, on a sports ticker
• Lead-in to "Los Angeles" or "New Orleans"
• Capital in 1979-80 headlines
• Ill-conceived
• Body undergoing desertification
• Choices in the baby department
• Try to win hands down?
• Present reality
• Trusting someone you don`t know, e.g.
• Olivia de Havilland`s Best Actress film, 1949
• Lack of punch
• Wow"-producing look
• "Engineered for life" corp.
• Party divider
• Animal shelter
• Gym bunnies work on them
• Get down to nothing?
• Bush native to the South
• Overseas court figure
• Husky food?
• "Murder, Inc." Oscar nominee
• Dictatorial type
• Dictatorial dispatcher on "Taxi"
• One speaking the language Plautdietsch
• Spock, e.g.: Abbr.
• Heavy duty
• With 33-Down, same old offerings
• No-goodnik
• Film director ___ C. Kenton
• She played Phyllis on TV`s "Phyllis"
• 1970 #1 hit with the lyric "Just call my name"
• Tie securely
• What may hold a body of evidence?
• Former education secretary Duncan
• "Forget about it!"
• Like a drumhead