Crossword Puzzle Answers - 09/03/2016 - The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more

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• a happy note
• Yankee legend who passed away in 2015, familiarly
• Words that increase the size of a pot
• With 25-Down, Italian veal dish
• Try a little tenderness
• Teen`s room, to many a mom
• Start of many book and movie titles
• See 24-Down
• Seaquake aftermath, often
• Ring decision, briefly
• Some July babies
• Tiny blood vessel
• Wife of Geraint
• Reason for sneezin`, perhaps
• Orchestra conducted by John Williams from 1980-199...
• Provide a schedule slot (for)
• Same old same-old
• Pudding choices
• On the wagon, so to speak
• Potpourri bag
• Pilgrimage to Mecca
• NBC show since 1975
• Nick and Nora`s pooch
• Massachusetts college
• Ms. McEntire
• No longer working
• Mensa contender
• Man of La Mancha
• Huff and puff
• Mark of a successful retail venture
• Haydn nickname
• Goatee`s spot
• Maine university town
• Glitz partner
• Longest river in France
• Farmer`s place
• Like some dictionaries (abbr.)
• Legendary seamstress
• Dead Sea documents
• Conversation starter
• Clothing, informally
• Chill in the air
• Black Hills metropolis
• Bit of butter
• Almost black
• Japanese seaport featured in `Godzilla Raids Again...
• Allen or Frome
• It falls between the third and fourth prime number...
• 1973 McQueen/Hoffman film
• Ho Chi ___ City
• `Gee, ya think?`
• High point of a European vacation?
• ` a Song Go Out of My Heart`
• Hide-hair connector
• Zeus or Apollo
• Yale students
• Flattened at the poles
• They may clash
• Fictional archaeologist Croft
• Steers clear of
• Extra periods, for short
• Ringed planet
• Research site
• Ending with idiom and system
• Do some prepublishing work
• Groom`s garb
• Bridge suspender
• Composer Rorem
• Dog show category
• Golden Rule word
• Poseidon`s domain
• Louisiana university
• Do some hemming, but not hawing
• Let off steam
• Decides not to cook, say
• Landed folks
• Component of many science classes
• Classic theater name
• Funny fellows
• Franc`s replacement
• Canadian rapper whose 2011 song `The Motto` helped...
• Cajun cooking staple
• Director Renoir
• Basketball tactic that often leads to an assist
• Derisive calls
• Decrepit horse
• Acronym for a pitching statistic
• Curmudgeon`s habit
• Babysitters, at times
• Apple debut of 1998
• Alternative to Aetna
• Bat abode
• `Pride and Prejudice` novelist
• `Night` writer Wiesel
• `It`s somebody ___ problem`
• Yoko of the music world
• World standard clock setting (Abbr.)
• Word with "jerk" or "slapper"
• Wet winter nuisance
• Vidalia, for one
• Tolkien`s Legolas, for one
• Timeline divisions
• Sweltering, as a summer day
• Spanish munchies
• Spaces on a schedule
• Some old Chryslers
• Some New Zealanders
• Six-Day War nation
• Single-celled organisms
• Scratch the surface of
• Repairman`s reading
• One whose property is claimed legally
• Not glossy, as a photo
• Needing to be aired out, as a basement
• Muscle connectors
• Muhammad the legend
• More vinegary
• Marcia, to Greg
• Many Democrats
• Maglie or Mineo
• Line of combat?
• Left one`s feet
• Leader in the polls
• Large stain
• Landed property
• Knight`s protection
• K or Wal- follower
• It may be forged
• It could cause a demonstration
• Zig`s companion
• Scot`s "not"
• Grand instrument
• serif (font choice)
• In for the night?
• What a cow chews
• Upside-down sixes
• Ice-cream container
• Type of lens
• Two or more eras, in geology
• TV star Danson
• Food that`s stuck on a plate?
• Turkish high official (var.)
• Trudges through mud
• Fashionable flair
• Tie ___ (get smashed)
• Taunting exclamation
• Fly like an eagle
• Taken off the stove too soon
• Take in, as a stray cat
• Dash measures
• Speak in the Senate
• Should have said
• Cry crocodile tears on stage
• Satie or Estrada
• Creole cooking staple
• Metal-in-the-raw
• Get ___ for effort
• Opposite of apex
• Questions at school?
• Certain investment, for short
• Fast vibrato, in music
• Luau instrument, briefly
• Pitcher`s stat
• Put on a pedestal
• Play the guitar, in a way
• California/Nevada lake
• Cable sports award
• Lt. Columbo, e.g
• Make a copy of
• Another Creole staple
• "___ now or never!"
• "Ahoy" recipient
• Live, in a TV studio
• "Able was I ___ I saw Elba"
• Keanu in "The Matrix"
• It may have an attachment
• Animal that beats its chest
• Hawaii`s Mauna ___
• Go beyond mere accomplishment
• Twitter message
• Erin of "Happy Days"
• Very high grade
• Vatican City language
• Tyrannical bosses
• Character actor Wynn
• With 22 Down, poker dealer`s query
• 3 fatty acids
• Brooks Brothers buy
• 90-degree letter
• Brilliantly smart people
• Complexion affliction
• Doberman`s warning
• Electrical resistance units
• Dusk, poetically
• Disrespectful expression
• Crucial soccer position
• Certain sword
• TV evening news time
• Bulb that makes one cry
• Tours of duty
• To the center
• Thyme or oregano
• "Enchanted" girl in a 2004 movie
• Strong-willed people
• Store-window light
• Billy and nanny
• Steal, as cattle
• Back of a saddle
• Stage manager`s collection
• Author of "Little Women"
• Solo for a diva
• Sharpshooter Oakley
• Accelerate, as an engine
• Sharpness of sight
• A diet soda may have one
• See 24 Down
• A 30-day mo
• Sap of energy
• (alternate sp.), in crossword clues
• Period of history
• Part of UNLV
• Pampering, for short
• "Dawn of the mammals" epoch
• Own up to
• Old West sheriffs, for example
• Newspapers review them
• Make free of frost
• Negotiator`s arsenal
• With 16-Across, embarrassing way to be caught
• Muscle soreness
• Violent struggle
• They`ve been framed
• Make a run for it
• Heath bar innards
• In the company of
• Ice-hockey arbiter
• Laurence who headed CBS from 1986 to 1995
• Market indicator, briefly
• In one`s house
• Target of a pick
• Homeland Security org
• High-IQ group
• Some whistle blowers
• Some jackets or collars
• Head of the Huns
• Sinuous swimmer
• French Riviera city
• Salute to Caesar
• French painter Claude
• Princess-turned-general of film
• Fathers of foals
• People on a rack, e.g
• Fabled wish granter
• Opening day starter, usually
• Music rights gp
• Eliot of the Untouchables
• Capital of Vietnam
• Capital of Ukraine
• Much-discussed topic
• Mossad agents, e.g
• Bend, as biceps
• LGBT rights advocate
• ``ZZZ!`` sounds
• Letter before omega
• Less outgoing
• Laurence who headed CBS from 1986 to 1995
• ``Don`t touch that!``
• It`s high praise indeed
• Hip-hop`s ___ Rida
• Neat ending?
• King of Spain
• Have control of
• Hip-hop`s __ Yang Twins
• Gotham City butler
• Avis modifier
• Gets support from
• Gender-changing suffix
• Pacific Rim continent
• Full commitment
• For this purpose
• Falcons defensive end Beasley
• Thing to run
• Eponymous physicist Georg
• Tax time VIPs
• Email address ender
• 1983 film whose iconic line starts the answers to ...
• `Watch it, mister!`
• "Maude," "Phyllis" and "Rhoda"
• Service pro
• "You`re on!"
• Dir. assistance info
• Frozen floater
• Allowing a peek
• Beale and Bourbon: Abbr.
• Dating site goal
• Canine care gp.?
• Deck of wands, swords, cups and pentacles
• Devil`s domain
• Auxiliary group
• Eagle mascot of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
• ISP option
• Utility abbr.
• Feathery neckwear
• Crescent shapes
• Color, hippie-style
• Contentious border happening
• Cash for a hit?
• Brother of Virgil and Morgan Earp
• Big word on a buck
• Bear mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympics
• Tear to pieces
• Chihuahua cheers
• Sentry`s question
• Country mail svc.
• Bikini part
• Member of Robin Hood`s band
• Word with bud or flap
• Cameron Crowe`s directorial debut
• With Love (#1 hit of 1967)
• Scrubbed, at
• Ontario/Quebec border river
• Talk, talk, talk
• Noah of "Falling Skies"
• Shipping unit
• Gave the wrong idea, say
• Six-time Nascar champion Johnson
• Films that usually had live music
• Botox target
• Woman`s name that sounds like two French letters
• Give ___ on the back
• Newborn`s natural insulator
• Med. school subject
• The Big Easy
• Online provider of study guides
• Foul tip?
• Ornamental columns
• Early anesthetic
• Took to task
• Cold War initials
• Complete reversal
• Table extension
• Digression lead-in, in texts
• Legislative oversights
• President before Sarkozy
• Mother figure
• At no cost
• Days long past
• Brown ermine
• Karaoke need
• Scratch, say
• Something to go out in
• 52 Pickup need
• Having five sharps, musically
• Place to set a candle, maybe
• Not an original thought
• "Don`t look at me"
• Fourth element on the periodic table
• Hard to box in, ironically
• Egg containers
• Abrupt realignment of policy priorities
• Some canines
• River to the English Channel
• What polemology is the study of
• Permanent place, and a hint to the ends of the ans...
• Like Jane Eyre or Harry Potter
• More than chubby
• Chow line?
• Brand created in Toronto in 1904
• Longtime Vermont senator
• Nev. neighbor
• Noted gift giver
• Chinese menu general
• Hometown of the Ivy League`s Big Red
• Mensa concerns
• 1956 Mideast crisis site
• More angry
• Nurse at a bar
• Firmly plants
• Roman who originated the phrase "What fools these ...
• Weight-training exercise
• Prohibition of strip mining, e.g.
• "Blue Bloods" actor Will
• #1 hit of 1975 and 2001
• Director Kazan
• Readers of the Daily Mirror or the Sun, mainly
• Miller who directed "Deadpool"
• "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is p...
• Beer purchase
• Crashed ignominiously
• Hill-building stinger
• Capable, jocularly
• Medical screening system
• Author Silverstein
• No-goodnik
• Improvised rap
• R&B/soul ballad
• 13-Down actress Normand
• Colorado county or its seat
• Seriously indoctrinate
• Latin dance in 3/4 time
• Kind of turn
• Go on either side of
• Jeweler`s tool
• Eel, to a sushi chef
• Midterm, e.g.
• Part of rock`s
• "Dulce et Decorum ___" (Wilfred Owen poem)
• Rum-soaked cakes
• Partner of Simon and Theodore, in cartoons
• Down in the mouth
• Translucent sea creature that drifts with the curr...
• Computer whose 27-inch version has a Retina 5K dis...
• Pulls a certain prank on, informally
• Word that becomes its own synonym when its first l...
• Protected area
• Wildlife refuges
• Place where you need an ID to get mail?
• "The Hares and the Frogs" writer
• Took a turn on "Wheel of Fortune"
• Gift from 1-Down