Crossword Puzzle Answers - 23/04/2016 - The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more

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• Worthless stock contract?
• Word after "road" or "'roid"
• Welles who played Kane
• Walking tour carry-along
• Waiting uncomplainingly
• Waited in line, say
• Volunteer's cry
• Very quickly
• Vending machine inserts
• Truth or __ (party game)
• Stock valuation phrase
• Slackens off
• Target at a fiesta
• Shorthand similar to "IMO"
• Winter 'no school' times
• Shakes down
• Where Lux. is
• Water tester
• Sci-fi master Isaac
• Washington, D.C. tree that blooms in spring
• Rich, chocolaty dessert
• Ship-related (Abbr.)
• Pueblo tribe
• Prefix with natal
• Private employer
• Pelvis part
• Painter of ballerinas
• Prepared to shoot
• Phone no. adjunct
• Performed brilliantly
• Like of bricks
• P on a frat pin
• Like a pine fragrance
• Mined asset
• Loss caused by a pothole strike
• Lyricist Lorenz
• Mardi Gras king
• Matt of "The Martian"
• Largest U.S. state
• Hawaiian 'thank you'
• Footnote symbol
• Fall flower
• Coffee bar orders
• Bonfire residue
• Kinsey research topic
• Actress Adams
• Hurricane of 2011
• Accra's country
• Hinge holder
• 'Serpico' star
• 'Fresh Air' airer
• Greenish-blue shades
• Grueling exams
• Weds in secret
• Transport for Ellington
• Took a part
• Great Lakes tribe members of old
• Teller of tales
• Fifth Avenue retailer
• Sculpting medium
• Rues, for sure
• Favorable times
• Elbow guards
• Old capital of India
• Neighbor of Tibet
• Dress designer Donna in a frenzy?
• Dropped for a 10-count, for short
• Moved stealthily
• Makes sound
• Had a gabfest
• Difficult burdens
• Greased the palm of
• Deli counter call
• Crow's nest support
• Giving gentle reminders
• Crockett's last stand
• Church replies
• From Istanbul
• Crate of exploding cigars?
• Football spiking spot
• Comedian Philips
• Florida extension
• Eighth avatar of Vishnu
• Cheers from the grandstands
• Comic Wanda
• Be the king
• Barton of the Red Cross
• Bush's successor
• Barbering tool
• Bearnaise sauce ingredient
• Barbarian who creates a buzz?
• Automaker Benz
• 'Water Music' composer
• After a while
• B'way "no seats" sign
• Admirer from afar, maybe
• "The Four Seasons" composer Vivaldi
• "La-la" lead-in
• Wicked one
• "Good Will Hunting" sch
• Yacht wood
• Wear down slowly
• Watermelon coverings
• "Glee" actor Monteith
• lily (Utah's state flower)
• Valuable strings, briefly
• "Chocolate" dog, for short
• Wide-ranging
• Wedding invitation encs
• TV athletic award
• "Brainiac" author Jennings
• Took inventory?
• Use a swizzle stick
• Super Bowl opener
• Transcript fig
• Scottie, of a sort
• Young milquetoast's cream and butter?
• Chodesh (first day of a Jewish month)
• Place for a rug?
• Sheds feathers, e.g
• Place for a cup and a crumpet
• Peel, as an apple
• Words With Friends, e.g
• Some early PCs
• Party disciplinarian
• Part in a play
• Range through Chile
• With an Alaskan accent?
• Philbin of talk TV
• Paramedic's skill, briefly
• One way to fly
• Optimist's limit?
• Western ski resort
• Numbered composition
• When the gate is supposed to close: Abbr
• Nut with a cupule
• North Carolina's ___ Banks
• One in a suit
• Newspaper VIPs
• Walked all over
• Nighttime disturbances
• Upright alternative
• Vitals collectors, for short
• It might have a twist
• Last of a Greek series
• Mercedes follower
• Made the wild mild
• Unthought-out behavior
• Luggage-inspecting org
• Mammoth feature
• Trips, in a way
• Naval rank (Abbr.)
• Japanese dish in a savory sauce
• Napoleon Solo's org
• Think of, accidentally
• Trending marker
• It can make a speedometer inaccurate
• Kardashian in-law Lamar
• Trainer's order to a dog who wasn't intimidating e...
• Greek who posed paradoxes
• Joy of "The View"
• Jazz trombonist Kid
• Going ___ (battling)
• Israeli hero Moshe
• Get slippery, in a way
• They're used for twists
• In that case
• Islands visited by Darwin
• Star's surrounding
• Start from square one on
• Gen-___ (boomer's kid)
• Ford model of old
• Head Untouchable
• Fruitcake ingredient
• Formally change
• Fitted with footwear
• Early Atlantic crosser
• Female prison guard
• They include a couple of kings and queens
• Carson City neighbor
• Explosive letters
• Entrepreneur-aiding org
• Casino gratuity, slangily
• Euro preceder, in Spain
• Explosive Sicilian landmark
• Field measurement
• Court declarations
• Spanx founder Blakely
• Some doctor visits
• Comic Margaret
• Dumfries dissent
• Clear, as a tape
• Door pounder's cry
• Clambake locale
• Some are hidden
• Desert region of Israel
• Cheyenne shelter
• Come in, and a hint to what 17-, 39-, and 62-Acros...
• Soccer great Messi
• Checked out
• Cause of overtime
• Cat of many colors
• Smartwatch brand
• By way of, informally
• Slogan for some flashers at Mardi Gras?
• Bluesy Washington
• Slaw or salad, e.g
• Aussie bounder, for short
• Situation that doesn't call for drawing
• ATM receipt datum
• Shooting match
• Answer to "Who's there?"
• She's big in bags
• She was Time's 2015 Person of the Year
• Sees eye to eye
• 1970 Santana cover
• Saddle projection
• 1968 song by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Rice University mascot Sammy, e.g
• 1966 song by Neil Diamond
• Quite the amount of debt, metaphorically
• Place where bodies are checked out?
• Prime minister before Sharon
• "The Crucible" setting
• "Sacred Arias" tenor Andrea
• "Heartburn" author Ephron
• Performing at one's peak
• Palindromic carrier in the Star Alliance
• Page of Alphabet, e.g
• Organized crime law, for short
• One might peek out from under a blanket
• Network that morphed into Spike
• Mykonos surrounder
• Mosaic square
• Mini-burgers
• Meat on a stick
• Many a Snapchat user
• Linchpin location
• Like a saint in a sprint?
• Like 'Inside Out' and 'Frozen'
• Lethal injection provider
• Largest city in the Cornhusker State
• It's heard at the beginning of celebrations
• Is no longer here
• Invader of Britannia
• In vitro items
• Hupmobile contemporary
• How many sports stats are measured
• His iconic catchphrase came from 'Rocky III'
• His and her
• High point of a European vacation
• Headline about a musician volunteering at a magic ...
• Gray-colored
• Have a sense
• Goal-oriented group?
• Got off the ground
• French fathers
• Fielding novel
• Fetty Wap's genre
• Explosive demo
• Drink that often has a design on it
• Even matchup in Vegas
• Called the shots
• River to the Baltic
• Show with Kenan Thompson, briefly
• Forms a union
• Budget, in brand names
• Cracker spread
• Demand from one being abducted?
• Brooks from Tulsa
• The Aragón feeds it
• Bring on
• Copy from a CD
• Legal claims
• It may precede a deal
• Banjo support of song
• Ball game interruption
• Cosmopolitan group
• Airport VIP sections
• Art ___ (Chrysler Building's style)
• You're lyin
• Yet to be fulfilled
• Apple pie order
• Compass meas
• All tucked in
• Tangle up
• City on Osaka Bay
• What's on the menu
• 'You've Got Mail' director Nora
• City known for its sparkling wines
• Cholesterol letters
• 'You think I won't?!'
• City east of Syracuse
• Kitchen tool
• China anniversary
• Oscar winner for "Skyfall"
• Like jousters
• Cervine creature
• Cause of the buzz surrounding northern Illinois?
• "Rock or Bust" band
• Card player's call
• 'Lost Horizon' figure
• 'Star Wars' princess
• Pangolin snack
• Calculus homework
• 'Star Wars' creator
• Appliance brand owned by Electrolux
• 'New World Symphony' composer
• Bubble up?
• Bygone food package inits
• Tasmanian-born Flynn
• 'LA Ink' body pic
• Remove roughly
• Bug on the road
• 'House' actor Epps
• Booze holders
• Brief chuckle
• 'Full Metal Jacket' setting, briefly
• Popular side
• 'Fame' actress Irene
• Pecan pie syrup
• Statement before taxes are dealt with?
• Blog entry
• Where Excalibur was forged
• Best Picture winner directed by its star
• Staples Center, e.g.
• Wallpaper descriptor
• Big name in little suits
• Yawn-inducing
• Corny stuff
• Vital outlet
• Below, to bards
• USPS designation
• Aretha's gospel-singing sister
• Dormant Turkish volcano
• They're often seen on a schedule
• Quite a distance
• Use a recorder
• Archenemy of the Flash
• Tip for writers
• Animal keepers
• Plays nice
• Ever so slightly
• Adspeak or journalese
• Grant factor
• Add to threads?
• They're close to clarets
• Shell collection
• Act super-syrupy
• Swank's spouse in ''Amelia''
• Fusible alloys
• Abbr. on a slowing passage
• Popinjay's purchase
• Scripted drama second only to ''SVU'' in current l...
• Sturm und Drang novelist
• A couple of kings and queens, maybe
• Sound pattern in some languages
• Strings often given a noble name
• Tangled up
• Sulfate in styptic pencils
• 86-pounder who's been eighty-sixed?
• 9/11 heroes, for short
• Leave alone
• Subject of the bio ''The American Leonardo''
• They often drive people home
• Stronghold of eastern feudalism
• Dog with a typically blue-black tongue
• 72-Down's home: Abbr
• 2013 Wimbledon champ Murray
• Spurn subtlety, in a way
• 1981 World Series MVP Ron
• be my pleasure'
• 'You got that right!'
• Pizza-box symbol
• 'That's what people tell me'
• 'U so funny'
• Parcel division
• "Ocean's 11" co-star
• Old Navy favorite, fittingly
• Harder to hold
• 'The Playwright of the Midwest'
• Not so easy
• Dig for hard-to-get clams?
• Side with waves
• Sister of Dakota
• Name on the cover of ''Mambo Birdland''
• Rapper Nate
• Second-century date
• Much-talked-about TV
• 'That's gotta hurt!'
• Material for the screen
• 'Paint It Black' instrument
• Maneuver investigated by antitrust lawyers
• 'I've Got the Music in Me' singer
• Main part of a tree
• Leakage evidence
• 'Empire' airer
• Former Italian statesman Moro
• Subatomic particle
• Weapon with a nock
• Fix, as a toy
• Key of five Mozart symphonies
• LBJ theater
• Jump-on-tail skateboarding trick
• How Wiener Schnitzel is served
• Four-time Australian Open winner
• 1954 film based on the short story "It Had to Be M...
• Frequent ESPN topic
• Gather for stitching
• Action figures?
• Exchange at some pig roasts
• 2015 World Golf Hall of Fame inductee
• Emancipation Proclamation catalyst
• Dorset port birthplace of le Carré
• Batter's dream
• Eldest ''Despicable Me'' sister
• Company that annually honors "Women of Worth"
• Sudden and swift
• DVD bonus feature, perhaps
• Loves to solve, say?
• Descent of about 5% of Americans
• Cream pitched by John Stamos in the '80s
• Captain Hook went there
• Brief enumeration
• Brewery that owns Schweppes Australia
• Bilbao-to-Pamplona dir
• Betrays the effect of
• Basketball Hall of Famer who backed up Bird
• Atomic clock timekeeper
• Ancestor of Romulus and Remus
• Ilusiones (Rivera painting)
• ''Welcome to the 60's'' singer in ''Hairspray''
• ''Not with a bang, but a whimper'' source
• ''Come again?''
• Results of some four-year programs, for short
• Word that sounds like a letter of the alphabet tha...
• "A Series of Unfortunate Events" villainess
• City captured during the Six-Day War
• Like some arguments
• "The Twilight Zone" episode, usually
• Yo-yos
• Island, Fla.
• Black hat wearer
• Things played on the floor
• 1987 #1 hit with the lyric "Soy capitán, soy capit...
• Go together
• Tomb Raider weaponry
• Self-described "Family City U.S.A."
• Jason of "How I Met Your Mother"
• One of the 12 gifts of Christmas
• College athlete wearing blue and gray
• Went unchecked
• Panama Papers revelation
• Pericles' domain, in Shakespeare
• Need for sabermetricians
• The New Yorker cartoonist Edward
• Parent's reproof
• Winners at the Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, for shor...
• Citi Field icon
• Astronomers' std.
• Highlanders, e.g.
• How soda may be sold
• Like all contestants on "The Bachelor"
• Learning center
• Piece of den furniture
• Some home remedies
• Hall of fame on TV
• In the future
• Portia de ___ (Ellen DeGeneres's wife)
• Frowned-upon construction material
• Sitcom character whose dancing is described as "a ...
• Relationship in many a Seth Rogen film
• Chocolaty treats introduced in 1932
• "Aladdin" setting
• Partners of 44-Across
• Some party wear
• Shop item
• Novel character with "a comfortable home and happy...
• Cheese dish
• Intl. org. that was the first to land a probe on a...
• "CSI" setting
• Partners of 58-Across
• Wander around Hollywood, maybe
• Paris suburb that holds the tombs of numerous Fr. ...
• Counterintelligence grp. in 007 novels
• Ideal height for some contact
• Banded status symbols
• 1936 novel family
• Ingredient in a Dark 'n' Stormy
• Acronym in 1990s news
• Table material
• 10/15, e.g.
• "The Glass Bead Game" author
• Look inside
• Lose support
• Blogging site owned by Yahoo
• Very much
• Person with pressing things to do?
• Give up out of frustration, in slang