Crossword Puzzle Answers - 12/03/2016 - The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more

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• Throat clearer
• Zodiac feline
• Under-the-table flirtation
• The Scales of the zodiac
• Tarzan portrayer
• Swiss canton
• Spring flower
• Spelling or Amos
• Speedy steed
• Quarterback Manning
• Poetic tributes
• Narrow strip of land
• Many millennia
• Highly ornate
• Group of actors
• Green, in a way
• Good-looking
• Gift from Santa
• Dwarf planet
• Bigfoot`s cousin
• Big name in scat
• Barn roof adornment
• Bake sale org
• `That sounds beautiful!`
• `A Bell for `
• Waker-upper
• Underboss`s subordinate
• Type of salad that sounds like it should contain c...
• Too mature to merit a PG-13
• Practical applications
• out at (scolded harshly)
• borealis (northern lights)
• Yellow parts of eggs
• Won ___ soup
• Went out with socially
• Waterway with the same alternating letter
• Unwanted weight
• Undergoes a metamorphosis, as an insect
• The `S` of RSVP
• TV schedule section
• Tablet for random notations
• Went cycling
• Table salt, to a chemist
• Trans-Siberian Railroad city
• Taco Bell offering
• Sweater style named for its Irish pedigree
• They light up
• Tropical fruit
• Sub-Saharan flying threat
• Stiff and sore
• Take, as a bus
• Sprint Cup org
• Studies all night
• Speak off the cuff
• Moon features
• Soul sisters` relatives?
• Loser to Dwight
• Smooth one`s feathers
• Josephine, for one
• Sexual chemistry
• Haul into court
• Successor to Arafat
• Requests payment from
• Golf bag group
• Registered names (abbr.)
• Deadline for some
• Ref on the diamond
• Solo in a space flick
• Batter`s low hit
• Play the horn?
• 2006 Winter Games setting
• Simple bed
• `The Sands of Mars` author
• Shown on television
• `East of Eden` brother
• Santa ___, Calif
• Russian bigwig, pre-1917
• Radioactivity unit
• Poi ingredients
• Physique, in slang
• One who imitates
• One completing a sentence
• Non-earthling
• Nest-egg builder, briefly
• Naples noodle dish
• Mythical blood of the gods
• Mandela`s party, for short
• Make taboo
• Major blood vessel
• Magnifying capacity
• Loss due to slow leaks
• Large, grassy plain
• Language of Iran
• Labor leader`s cry
• Flee quickly
• LaBeouf of movies
• Pindaric output
• Jackass` Asian relative
• Penny or Lois
• Heat, as pottery
• Oscar-winning movie about William Wallace
• Having two equal lobes
• Groups of students
• From Cuzco, e.g
• ragrant Chinese blossom
• Flier`s concern, for short
• Words on a lite salad dressing label
• Order at Ruth`s Chris
• Yosemite of "Looney Tunes"
• One who frosts your cupcake
• Distorted imitation
• Drunk, in slang
• Fan part
• NFL Hall of Famer Anthony Muñoz, for one
• Where Joan of Arc died
• ET transporters
• Neo`s portrayer, in `The Matrix`
• Weighty volumes
• Emulate a snake
• Natural burn remedy
• Unappreciative one
• Dweller in a fancy cellar
• Trench-digger`s tool
• Mechanical repetition
• Linus and Fabian
• Drug movers
• Touch up, as text
• Like Travolta`s cowboy
• Sticky, like hot fudge
• Tell a whopper
• Jazz great Fitzgerald
• Like some colors or parties
• Take a photo of
• Deliver an impassioned speech
• Kanga`s creator
• Cupid`s boss
• Starbucks orders
• Common three numbers before seven?
• Scheduled to arrive
• Soccer fan`s chant
• Colored portion of the eye
• Spiral-horned antelope
• Color commentator, e.g
• Specialized market segment
• Chubby Checker`s dance
• Canyon`s edge
• Baba who tangled with thieves
• Autumn implements
• Removed paint from, say
• Astronomer Hubble
• Queen of ___ (Solomon`s visitor)
• Quaker possessive
• 12-point types
• Antacid target
• Pull the plug on
• Price-to-earnings ___
• Allied nations, collectively
• Pop singer Taylor
• Air pump letters
• Part of an altar exchange
• A quarter of eight
• One-named New Ager
• 1/20 ton (Abbr.)
• on Down the Road
• "The ___ Cometh" (O`Neill play)
• Off the wall
• Make a selection
• Like the Antarctic
• Mad Hatter`s drink
• Like dessert wines
• Geek Squad geek
• It might be yellow-bellied
• Helpers, briefly
• Home of the girl from Ipanema
• Height enhancers
• Like new recruits
• "Do re me fa
• "The Star-Spangled Banner" preposition
• Gangster`s gun
• Feeling of foreboding
• Laundry worker
• Feature of some radial tires
• Back to the Future" vehicle
• Exercises one`s suffrage
• Exams for college-bound H.S. juniors
• European country that`s less than 125 square miles...
• Hosp. sections
• Erstwhile sunscreen ingredient
• Japanese game akin to chess
• Dogie catcher
• Conduit of a sort
• Have a pizza delivered, say
• Hair tie, e.g
• Guinness serving
• Guffaw syllable
• Ghostly apparitions
• Go out with
• Class for M.D.-wannabes
• Carvey who portrayed the Church Lady on `Saturday ...
• Central Florida city
• Chicago business district, with `the`
• Give the go-ahead
• Cetacean prized for its oil
• Get a smile from
• Gershon of "Cocktail"
• Calvados`s nonalcoholic American cousin
• English cathedral city
• Battery size for most TV remote controls
• Donut-shaped geometrical surfaces
• Defeated at chess
• Agcy. that issues driver`s licenses
• Danced a la Chubby Checker
• Accumulate, as debt
• Absorbed by
• ABBA`s genre
• Crowd, proverbially
• `John Brown`s Body` poet
• Computer code that runs forever
• Come up again
• Unequivocal renouncement
• Closest advisors
• They may be rallying
• Chaney Jr. of "The Wolf Man"
• Wise about
• Capek play that coined the word "robot"
• Cake brand that "nobody doesn`t like"
• What a leak might ruin
• Cagney`s TV partner
• Bob who sang "Like a Rock"
• Unpleasant fuss
• Birth certificate entry
• Big name in elevators
• Aussie bounder, for short
• Unbridled episode
• Athlete`s negotiator
• At no time, to poets
• Subject of a sports-blog article subtitled ``Hindu...
• Art-film theater
• Air Force heroes
• Station worker
• Aglow, like a star
• Station often difficult to leave
• Mrs. Unger, in the ``Odd Couple`` intro
• Some fowl, or what to cook them in
• Middle of a winning trio
• Sold, with ``over``
• She led Munich`s unsuccessful bid for the 2018 Win...
• S, as symbolized on some stationery
• Revered gatekeeper
• Raisers of young `uns
• Quickly, shortly
• Quadrants, in geometry
• Plied (between)
• Plans for the future
• Picks out
• Person who never teethed, per Twain
• People working on wallets
• Part of New England`s Knowledge Corridor
• Palm products
• Oxidizing agent in explosives
• Opposite of ``retain``
• On the schedule
• Numbers posted on pumps
• Not quite express
• Name first seen on a 1955 transistor radio
• NFL linemen
• Circle`s lack
• Glare reducer
• FedEx Cup awarder
• Desire of some dancers
• Category for languages or literature
• Be the chair
• Get played online a lot
• Green stuff in rolls
• Cleaning product with two periods in its name
• Guacamole-making tools
• Incomplete Wikipedia article
• "__-Willow": "The Mikado" song
• Benchmark: Abbr
• Toque spot
• Sellecca`s "Intelligence for Your Life TV" co-host...
• Cry akin to ``Hallelujah!``
• Change in appearance
• Brushed up on
• Old beehive oven product
• Blue toon that is ``like the wind``
• Beverly Hills sighting
• Join the cast of
• As trim as possible
• Bun element
• Arranged like train cars
• Agent-only tour of open houses
• Jam component
• A question of promptness
• Dirty rat
• `70s rider of the Skycycle X-2
• Get __ the record
• Deferred payment
• Hambletonian events
• ``Everyone needs more __`` (``Star Trek: Generatio...
• Surfing mecca
• You should avoid getting on a dangerous person`s
• One (vodka brand)
• Keystone Studios character
• Like some statesmen
• Wriggly swimmer
• Levi`s Stadium team
• Without a resumption date
• La Scala, e.g
• Where the heart is
• Justice Dept. org
• What the weary get, so they say
• Watson`s portrayer on `Elementary`
• Indifferent reply
• Honeydew cousins
• Item used by a Detroit player autographing footbal...
• Was acquainted with
• Waldorf salad bit
• Isn`t upright
• Unwelcome visitor
• TV screen array
• Trigonometry focus
• Half the radius times the circumference
• Hebrew letter after lamed
• Checked out, feline-style
• Headey of `Game of Thrones`
• Tom`s `Mission: Impossible` role
• He got an Oscar for `An Officer and a Gentleman`
• Time when shoplifting was the rage?
• Engine rebuilding jobs
• Tightening muscles
• Grounds for a poor penmanship grade?
• Spiffy attire
• They might be tight or loose
• They go downhill
• Orchard Field, today
• Spanish count start
• Alpaca relative
• Source of fossilized iMammoths?
• From Vientiane, say
• Grafton`s `___ for Lawless`
• 1960s Interior secretary Stewart
• Get the measure of
• Close, as a parka
• French director Resnais
• Another name for bluegill
• Flying Cloud, e.g
• Energetic reporter
• Flyers landing in the Sahara?
• Historian Nevins
• Fictional thief Arsene
• Etiquette expert Baldrige
• "The Kiss" was her last silent film
• Sounds signaling telephone surveys?
• alking excitedly
• Soprano Tebaldi
• Electrically excitable cell
• Dust Bowl figure
• City in California`s wine country
• Snickering sound
• Elvis`s birthplace
• Orchard pest
• Skateboarders catch it
• Word in a readiness metaphor
• Sistine ceiling figure
• Rose team, on scoreboards
• Shoe store purchases
• Shade suppliers for baseball players and coaches?
• Comedy player at first
• Cry from the bleachers
• Quickly, in the emergency room
• Searched thoroughly
• Character with a TV playhouse
• Directional suffix
• Powerful bunch
• Pound inhabitant
• "If wishes __ horses ... "
• Count`s equivalent
• Crème brûlée preparation
• Common Market initials
• Port at the mouth of the Red Sea
• Kett of old comics
• Pledge drive giveaway
• Come to understand
• Paste-up piece
• Old PC monitor
• First of September?
• Christian from Normandy
• Chip available in Jacked flavors
• Prepare for a ball
• Nickname of Haiti`s Francois Duvalier
• Neighbor of Sierra Leone
• Blockhead prone to jabbing people?
• Doesn`t care for
• Midweek occasion for great foolishness?
• Burlesque accessories
• Massage recipient`s output
• Bruce Banner`s alter ego
• Security employees
• Man of morals
• Brigadier general`s insignia
• Makeup kit item
• Certain summons
• Low-carb plan
• Blade in a boat
• Cricket official
• Love, to Latin lovers
• Karate: old aftershave
• List-shortening abbr
• Incidentally, briefly
• They`re frequently tapped
• Biotech material
• Bathwater tester
• Athlete`s words to the camera
• Early 17th-century pope
• Letter-shaped beam
• Act the vamp
• Abbr. often under a zero
• `Vissi d`arte` singer
• Mad man of film
• `Take ___ from me...`
• Likely to skid
• `O patria mia` singer
• Org. with a WaterSense program
• `My lips ___ sealed`
• `Hello, Young Lovers` singer
• Iolani Palace locale
• `Always in motion is the future` speaker
• Train puller
• `...partridge in ___ tree`
• 15th-century golfer, probably
• `70s congresswoman known for wearing wide-brimmed ...
• Thickening agent
• Word on some dipsticks
• Shows frugality
• Caning material
• Doesn`t do anything
• Holding capacity
• Where to see pop-ups
• One of the 63-Across: Abbr
• Start to function?
• Like the answer "No."
• Home of the real-life House of the Seven Gables
• Does a virtuoso guitar solo, slangily
• Keen-eyed fisher
• Make a flying jump in the winter
• "No problemo"
• Morale booster on base
• Vial that a villain might withhold
• Target of a trap-neuter-return program
• Alpine region
• Not having many different parts?
• Get together
• Dome of the Rock, e.g.
• Horror movie locale
• Piggy bank contents
• Once-common Times Square establishment
• Targets on a hunt
• Source of the word "saga"
• Keep lubed, say
• Canyon maker
• Piggy bank contents
• Personification of Turkey`s Weeping Rock
• "The fool ___ think he is wise": Shak
• Bright yellow bouquet
• Golden Globe winner for "The Wrestler"
• Where dogs may be put in the backyard
• All but the outer columns, typically
• Twos in the news
• 1 going in
• Sagal of "Married ... With Children"
• Once-popular free computer download
• Big inits. in podcasting
• One of the 12 tribes of Israel
• Robert of "The Girl Who Knew Too Much"
• Grateful Dead bassist Phil
• Oakland`s Bill ___ Climate Lab
• Something off the wall?
• Office drudge
• "Hang on, hang on"
• "Hell, yeah!"
• Bush junior?
• Joint issue
• Pushes to the limit
• Sound of moving water
• The world`s largest one is in South Korea, the sec...
• Works on the strip?
• Something a mother wears
• "Tonight Show" bandleader with a signature `fro
• Ancient manuscript
• Big scrap
• Old-fashioned affair à la "Oklahoma!"
• Shipping quantity