Crossword Puzzle Answers - 01/04/2016 - The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more

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• Minor (Little Bear)
• Word before "wave" or "basin"
• Where Cockney is spoken
• Vodka brand, for short
• Uses a Taser on
• Trouble for Pauline
• Tim of "Home Improvement"
• Tillis of country
• Osso buco meat
• Thanksgiving kitchen gadget
• Tampa gridder, for short
• Shimon of Israel
• Seltzer, tonic, etc
• Rowlands of "Gloria"
• Reed section member
• Reason for a decoration
• Paparazzo`s wares, for short
• Oscar superlative
• Not strict at all
• Most like Solomon
• Mariner`s "Halt!"
• Marching perfectly
• Map initials until 1991
• Making all stops
• Klensch of fashion
• Kind of consonant sound
• Ides of March word
• Hypnotist of fiction
• House paint option
• House of Henry VIII
• Hors d`oeuvres spread
• Gibson __ Paul guitar
• Easy to slice
• "What`s the __?" ("Who cares?")
• Duvall`s "The Godfather" role
• Descartes quote word
• All wired up
• Axel and lutz
• Certain vocal range
• Cartoonist Addams, familiarly
• Basis for a suit
• Boxcars, in dice
• "The Odyssey" temptress
• "Not today, sorry"
• "King of the road"
• Under-oath words
• Vitamin bottle fig
• Year-end mall worker
• Took for a ride
• Thin, like cirrus clouds
• This and that
• Tesla, for one
• Take flight to unite
• Slogan writers, e.g
• Spice with which nutmeg shares a source
• Suffix with butyl
• X, in a love letter
• Well versed in
• Report card mark
• Utah national park
• Popular tattoo word
• Urgent dispatch
• Pep rally cry
• Unappreciated worker
• PC troubleshooters
• Tool used to make a baseball bat
• On the warpath
• Tony Hillerman detective Jim
• NFL analyst Collinsworth
• Toms, bucks, and jacks
• Things to shoot for
• Moved like goo
• Theater guide
• Moved like a crab
• Start of a rumor
• Medicos, informally
• Signs, as a deal
• Macklemore`s music
• Roast hosts, for short
• Like a wading pool
• River to the North Sea
• Ready for a cease-fire, perhaps
• Lie ahead for
• Person with a handshake buzzer, say
• Latish lunchtime
• List-ending abbr
• One of Ken Kesey`s band of psychedelic drug promot...
• Hit the big time
• Ocean predator
• Having no ethics
• Medieval entertainer
• Makeshift weapon
• Grid star who starred in "Father Murphy"
• Long mollusks
• Like something that can`t be put down, in a way
• Kin of -kin
• Indiana neighbor
• Grid star portrayed in "The Blind Side"
• CBS forensic drama
• Discouraging words from the crowd
• Electoral map part
• Earth-friendly prefix
• Game show group
• Have because of
• Groundskeeper`s tool
• Diamond spots
• Formal guidelines to follow
• Dept. of Labor org
• Deepened, as a canal
• Building annexes
• Current strength
• Conductor Seiji
• Brunch cocktail
• Born, in bios
• Backboard attachment
• Bullring cheers
• Bana of "Black Hawk Down"
• Arrow-proof suit
• Aetna competitor
• Appointer of Kagan and Sotomayor
• Aerodynamically shaped
• Annapolis student (var.)
• Actor Ben, to actor Jerry
• 2013 movie in which Alan Rickman plays NYC club ow...
• 1960 #1 hit for the Everly Brothers
• Adorable sort
• the ramparts
• $20s dispenser
• `Survivor` locales
• "Wuthering Heights" star
• "Well, ___ you clever!"
• "Paper Roses" singer
• "Just ___" (anti-drug slogan)
• "Hud" star Patricia
• "House" actor Epps
• Yemen __ Republic
• Wild porker
• Word before seat or stereo
• Wahine`s gift
• With modesty
• Utter disorder
• With finesse
• Ugandan despot
• What early PCs ran on
• Tic-tac-toe win
• Warsaw money
• Small barrel
• Strindberg, by birth
• Skater`s leap
• Spiff up, perhaps
• Six-pack units
• Something sworn
• Pussycat`s partner
• Screamingly unsubtle
• Publishers` expo
• Rush-hour observation
• Render null
• Prehistoric toon barker
• Polar bear`s resting spot
• Points a finger at
• Point a finger at
• Pinkish yellow
• Partner of Edward Jones
• Out of favor
• Nutrition Facts info
• National Geographic __ (annual grade-school contes...
• Minor misjudgment
• Mac seen with cheese
• Keeps in a hold
• Keep from spreading
• January PGA Tour locale
• Is par for the course, perhaps
• Hopkins` role in ``Thor``
• Hits with lightning
• Highway alert
• Highly skilled
• Helping hand
• Harbor hauler
• Grammy category, for short
• Goody two-shoes
• Gold in a Krugerrand
• Mine, in Montreal
• Form of rain
• Mideast gulf
• Forget to use
• Man of morals?
• Force an exit, in a way
• Joplin piece
• Latin 101 word
• Dietary descriptor
• First of September
• Data holders
• End of the first Millhone novel title
• Crooner Perry
• Comfy seat
• Elton John theater score
• Edwardian, for one
• Clothing protector
• Dragon`s home
• Citi Field team
• Choreographer de Mille
• Coin depicting Ataturk
• Booze, facetiously
• City southeast of Vero Beach
• Bet both ways
• `The Jungle` author
• ``A Jug of Wine . . .`` writer
• ``The Tempest`` character
• Angler`s device
• Chicken feed
• `The Good Earth` heroine
• Certain calendar page`s coverage
• The Da Vinci
• Cab company alternative
• Bestow kudos on
• Spatula cousin
• `I never man I didn`t like`
• `Fresh Air` airer
• What many people hold down
• Whipped-cream-and-fruit dessert
• TV journalist Rita
• Very popular
• Taxi pickup spot
• Take exception
• Some crime evidence
• Radioer`s acknowledgment
• Singer Orbison
• Possible score after deuce
• Pitcher Ryan
• Not difficult to grasp
• Singer McLean and racer Foyt
• Son or daughter, often
• Outside the rules
• Search engine query
• Orange tuber
• Scene of many jokes
• Ruby in the movies
• Italian painter
• Producer of Snoop`s `Doggy Dogg World`
• Barbarous group
• Pre-ring promise
• It`s worth ten sawbucks
• Pre-reunification capital
• Poetic start, often
• A Gulf State
• Hams it up
• Pisa playhouse
• ``Seeing red`` and ``Going green``
• Pepper in an olive
• Ham it up
• ``Fancy`` follower
• Org. responsible for travelers` checks
• Greet the general
• One of the simple machines
• Frank`s second wife
• Fireplace tool
• Mocking remarks
• Diamond club
• Mean at MIT
• Latin for `works`
• JPEG alternative
• Cold showers?
• Item on the stage
• In ___ to the finish
• Ho from Honolulu
• Casual top
• His goals were the poles
• Bring close to boiling
• He hit #1 with `April Love`
• Behaved comically
• Fringe benefits
• Facebook post count
• Bears` lairs
• Bakery buys
• Bakery buy
• `Very funny!` online
• Ending for Boulder or Brooklyn
• Eastern balance
• Gay (historic plane)
• Dogpatch teen
• Debate club fodder
• Country with the second-highest average elevation
• Cleanup hitter`s goal
• City called `the Athens of South America`
• Canadian prime minister who won the 1957 Nobel Pea...
• Part of 40-Down: Abbr.
• Big brown birds
• Altar constellation
• Addams family member
• Like French toast
• Capital of Turkey
• Gross subj.?
• Church lineups
• Beloved elephant
• Bank acct. addition
• Musical with "jr." and "KIDS" versions for young p...
• Errant golf shots
• Mayflower figure
• Algeria neighbor
• `I don`t remember many details`
• Start one`s law practice
• Co. merged into Verizon
• `...heat ___ gloom of night...`
• Lombardy`s capital
• Stradivari`s tutor
• Teed off
• Reichenbach Falls setting
• Noah of "The Librarian" TV films
• Like much of Australia`s interior
• Hosp. personnel
• Hard-to-miss signs
• Powder room containers
• Places to clean and press
• Word with coin or ring
• Evil follower?
• Carlisle Cullen`s wife in the "Twilight" series
• Some evidence
• Journalist son of Mia Farrow
• Formal phone call response
• Winner of all three tug-of-war medals in the 1904 ...
• Its slot always pays
• Poetic "previous to"
• Design for some MacDonalds
• "Honor Thy Father" author
• Conventioneer with antennae, perhaps
• Exercises displaying great strength
• Sir Edward Elgar composition whose title has never...
• Columnist Barrett
• Chanel No. 1
• Light, colorwise
• First 12 children of Gaia and Uranus
• Concluded, with "up"
• "The Soul of a Butterfly" memoirist
• Smoke and mirrors
• Minuteman, e.g.
• Lunch order
• Swimmer`s option
• At a minimum
• Rail transport landmark
• Oldest of the gods, in Plato`s "Symposium"
• Biblical birthright seller
• Pound denizen
• Reprimand to one not picking up
• Taps, essentially
• Derby racers
• Sold for, as a stock
• Pâtisserie cake
• Bay or gray follower
• His .366 lifetime batting average is the best ever...
• Yahtzee category
• Quinceañera invitee
• Shouts of support
• Taking unauthorized R&R
• Drinker`s bender
• Military group
• Pulls out
• Online course
• Thing with a filament
• Curiosity org.
• Winter X Games host city
• Comedian who married Joyce Mathews in 1941, divorc...
• Goes up, up, up
• Sandwich topped with tzatziki sauce
• Capital of the Roman province of Africa
• Later in the text
• Patronize, as a hotel
• 1980 Oscar nominee directed by Roman Polanski
• Closet organizer
• Long-range guided missile
• Fancy fabric
• Marquis de Sade, e.g.
• Parimutuel calculation
• Collects a DNA sample from, say
• "___ Darkness Fall" (L. Sprague de Camp novel)
• Cardio option
• Large marine fish tanks
• Make less flat
• Vigorous reprimand
• Make less flat
• Inability to sense smells
• Pennsylvania and others: Abbr
• Gloaming, to a sonneteer
• You might put stock in it
• Agrostologists` study
• Shield from the elements
• Actress Issa ___ of "The Misadventures of Awkward ...
• The Gaels of collegiate sports
• See 17-Across
• Fruit with yellow skin
• Feet, in slang
• Letters before Kitty Hawk
• Led astray
• With 34-, 40- and 60-Across, a somber message for ...
• Athlete who uses steroids
• Feature of a modern zoo
• Like blackjack hands with an ace counted as 11
• Sister brand of Scope