Crossword Puzzle Answers - 09/05/2016 - The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more

• Crossword Puzzle Answers - Solutions for daily newspapers: The NY Times, LA Times, Usa Today, Newsday, Universal and more.

• Family Singers (group whose origins were portrayed...
• Toughest command on a driving test, for many
• Tossed, as a grenade
• The Last Frontier
• Tart relative
• Terrible time in the nursery, they say
• Target with a beam
• Stat on a JFK monitor
• Year, on monuments
• Shakespeare's moniker
• Sporty auto roof
• Shankar piece
• Worst possible score
• Word in a letter sign-off
• Role that launched Calista Flockhart's star
• Vast area
• Riotous way to run
• Right-angled structural supports
• Tyrolean peak
• Really stinks
• Tour transportation
• Texas flag symbol
• Telly watchers' network, with "the"
• Quinoa cultivator of old
• Support, with "up"
• Popular site for techy gadget reviews
• State one's views
• No-no for a vegan
• Place for a stud
• Ready to pluck
• Rapper on "Law & Order: SVU"
• Pierce's portrayer, on TV's 'M*A*S*H'
• Plastic pipe material
• Red Scare lawyer Roy
• One of a trident's three
• One who's bad looking?
• Plant used as a ground cover
• Redding of R&B
• One of four US presidents to win a Nobel Peace Pri...
• Religious principle
• Place to jot things down
• Oily skin can cause it
• Say "yea," say
• Some deli loaves
• Marseille maiden (abbr.)
• Solo at a recital
• Maidenform competitor that shares a name with a no...
• Small pooches, briefly
• Lobster shack attire
• Like a slightly deflated sphere, perhaps
• Show host
• Set of morals
• Self-confident words
• See 5-Down
• Poupon mustard
• Xenon and krypton, for two
• Winding ski path
• What you will
• Web address punctuation
• Use sandpaper on, say
• Top-secret org
• Tank-top opening
• Thief during a riot
• Swivel on an axis
• Sudoku solver's skill
• Start the kitty
• Speculation-starting words
• Match, as a bet
• Money-managing exec
• Not fancy at all
• Satellite TV receiver
• Napoleon on Elba
• Scolded severely, with "out"
• Soft & ___ (antiperspirant brand)
• Mischief-making Norse god
• Item carried by Diogenes
• Ride the ump
• Loud, like a crowd
• Handout to Junior, perhaps
• Image used for scene segues on 'The Big Bang Theor...
• Like one end of many pools
• It's used to test the waters
• Report card array
• Irwin or George Bernard
• Like a broken bronc
• Human rights attorney and noted 2014 bride Alamudd...
• Raise, as a child
• Li'l Abner's surname
• Honey wine
• Home state of the Volunteers (abbr.)
• Prefix with surgeon or transmitter
• Hawkeye's home
• Pooch-walking need
• Horse that hasn't won
• Played a role
• Greet casually
• Ostriches, emus et al
• Greek letter that looks like a 'P'
• Part of R&R
• Go out with
• Glistening, like a Mr. Universe contestant's skin
• Once around the track
• Basketball player, informally
• Betrayer of Othello
• Duran Duran frontman Simon
• Enticing emanation
• Movie spy Austin
• Do some parasailing
• Emotion of the shouting reindeer of song
• Genealogist's map
• Most August babies
• El ___ (the USA and Canada, to Central Americans)
• Mont Blanc, e.g
• Full of vim and vigor
• Former NBA star Ming
• Directional signal
• Feed, as a furnace
• Dashboard fig
• Mind reader's skill, briefly
• Expected outcome
• Milo of "Heroes"
• Colorado ski resort
• Mature on the vine
• Driver's license requirement
• Like a young lass
• Light as a feather
• Lesley of "60 Minutes"
• Domino's deliveries
• Cartesian name
• Brief life story
• Just out of the box
• Director Snyder
• Discriminatory, in a way
• In need of company
• Basket for a brook trout
• Highly admired woman
• Bed-and-breakfast, often
• Hard-to-achieve goals
• Daly of "Cagney & Lacey"
• Adrian's portrayer in the 'Rocky' franchise
• Hard tennis shot
• Cougars or Bobcats, to auto buffs
• Gibbon or orang
• Computer command under "File"
• Former NBA star ___ Ming
• Chicago paper, familiarly
• Actor McKellen
• Cessna or Lear product
• Catch, in a way
• Banana concoction
• Burlesque bit
• Fleet defeated in 1588
• 7UP's tagline, with 'the'
• Eddie who won five Kentucky Derbys
• 2012 Oscar-winning film with a title taken from Gr...
• Dutch cheese town
• 'What ___ can go wrong?'
• 1992 Tom Selleck sports comedy
• Driver's lic. et al
• Character flaw, say
• Dr. Leary's drug
• Curiosity victim, in a saying
• 'I'm with you on that!'
• Arizona tribe
• 'How ___ Your Mother'
• 'Doctor Zhivago' protagonist
• Arboreal street name
• 'A Walk in the Woods' costar Nick
• Air quality org
• A choirmaster may toot one
• "You asleep?" response
• Well, aren't you the perfectionist
• That was close
• "Star Trek" genre
• More than I want to hear
• "Fiddler on the Roof" matchmaker
• Cross my heart
• "And others," briefly
• browned potatoes
• sauce (Chinese condiment)
• out a living (just gets by)
• Zap in the microwave
• Winnie-the-__
• Visual aid worn for reading
• Uses a straw
• Twelfth of a foot
• The typical Syrian
• The Loch __ monster
• Takes advantage of
• Cause of an unearned run
• Table-tennis implement
• Blaster's compound
• Suffix for kitchen
• Batters' stats (Abbr.)
• Stinging insect
• Align the crosshairs
• Baskin-Robbins offering
• Steinway seating
• Arty Big Apple area
• Stash away
• Prima donna
• Spots of land in the ocean
• Vendors' wagons
• Sports cable channel
• Western resort lake
• Sir Walter Scott novel
• Song for one person
• Sing without words
• Sharif of film
• Shoelace snarl
• Runs off to wed
• Rescued cat, e.g
• Right away, in a memo
• Pretzel seasoning
• Relative by marriage
• Place to get a tattoo
• Really feel the heat
• Next-day delivery, perhaps
• On the briny
• Piece of hardware
• Portray the role of
• Like some humor
• Popular thesaurus, familiarly
• Like some humor
• One of the Great Lakes
• Grammy-winning cellist
• French actress Brigitte
• Novel's story line
• For fear that
• New Haven university
• Next-day delivery, perhaps
• Most foolhardy
• Half of dos
• More achy
• For fear that
• Grammy-winning cellist
• French actress Brigitte
• Midterm or final
• Manuscript enclosure: Abbr
• Looking like Swiss cheese
• Little veggies in pods
• Highest in quality
• Hedge plant
• Happen earlier than
• Had lunch
• Group helping the sheriff
• Fill with joy
• Dog's tail movement
• Ceramic flooring piece
• Feeling remorseful
• Football throw
• Government's revenue department
• Folkloric fairy queen
• Go from bad to __
• Cold and damp
• Gets a glimpse of
• Carte lead-in
• Bribe of a sort
• 'The Matrix' character
• 'Adam Bede' author
• Ceiling painter's climbing aid
• Western resort lake
• Word-for-word
• Taj Mahal city
• Take the bus
• Divide up with others
• Distorts, as data
• Close by
• Spaghetti extras
• Profitable discovery
• Loafer, for one
• Gardner of movies
• Kerry's 2004 running mate
• List-shortening abbr
• Kevin of 'In & Out'
• Capital of Italy
• Brief halt
• Bit of sunshine
• Dangerous pitches
• Circus structures
• Burns with water
• Book of maps
• ''You've got mail'' service
• boy!'' (''Way to go
• Backdrop of a Broadway play
• Book cover feature
• Bedroom blanket box
• 'My country of thee'
• Former soldier, briefly
• Outlawed pesticide
• Lays eyes on
• Springs for lunch
• Steamy writing
• Clean-out-the-fridge warnings
• Persuade gently
• The Count of __ Cristo
• ''Over here!'' whisper
• "West Side Story" love song
• Boxer's stats
• By all means
• All kidding
• Fictional fox's title
• Women's hybrid golf garment
• Membership list
• Sound of horror
• Wild parties
• Prefix with term or town
• Things up in the air
• Wide street: Abbr
• Arctic hazard
• Weapons in a colorful war game
• Door-to-door cosmetics seller
• "Both Sides Now" singer Mitchell
• Used a broom
• '20s-'30s skating gold medalist Sonja
• Understand intuitively, informally
• Tiger's gripper
• Two cubed
• Not fooled by
• Back of the boat
• They're often purchased from a registry
• Many a Mumbai man
• The scenter of your face?
• Succulent plants
• On the fence
• Source of wise answers
• Vaulted church recess
• Yoked team
• Sign of boredom
• Fruit stand buys
• Sound from a contented cat
• Quilting squares
• Sing like Bing
• "Tell me the truth!"
• Self-storage compartment
• Palindromic fashion magazine
• Law force in 1960s-'70s TV's "Ironside"
• Scotch tape unit
• Kazan who directed "On the Waterfront"
• Sandy brown color
• What one often wears out?
• Pusher buster
• Car with a cat logo, briefly
• Live and breathe
• Rocker Kravitz
• "We want more!," at a concert
• Surgery memento
• Rock used in cameos
• Once-sacred snakes
• Isaac's older son
• Proof for a printer
• Sam for whom Georgia Tech's School of Internationa...
• Pop art's Warhol
• Problems for some job applicants
• Welcomed, as the new 32-Down
• Furniture chain that sells Swedish meatballs
• Small jazz group
• Prefix for mania or chrome
• Give, as a passport or parking ticket
• Like a gift of chocolates
• Potential oak tree
• Post-shower need
• Golf standout McIlroy
• Volume enhancers
• 1937 Marx Brothers film and, based on words that b...
• Davis of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
• Arizona home of the nation's largest public univer...
• Pint in a pub
• DVR button
• Periods of lessened hostilities
• Snap out of it
• Feature of a neat drink
• Shrewd bargaining
• Orangutan, for one
• What can follow week or rear
• Parisian's 'thank you'
• Bach's Mass in
• Out of the way
• Help for one stuck in a rut, perhaps
• Funny business
• One not to be believed
• Mortgage change, briefly
• Stand up to
• Number after deux
• Madame Bovary
• Not at home
• Roadside retreat
• Mercantile exchange offerings
• Joint with a cap
• Returned call?
• All over again
• Party lacking ladies
• Not go bad
• Crimp-haired critters
• It's shared by family members
• Elbow poke
• Moldable kids' stuff
• Bygone vehicle known for its bad fuel economy
• Impressionist artist Claude
• Get naked
• Favorable rise
• Grain used for pumpernickel
• Have trouble focusing, from intoxication, say
• Coop group female
• Hubby's brother, for one
• Keep tabs on a shipment
• High-ranking USN officer
• Hold 'em fee
• Conservative investments, briefly
• Beat handily
• With 1-Across, Kentucky Derby drink
• "You can say that again!"
• Convention center event
• Harry Truman's wife
• Soul singer Baker
• Little scissor cut
• Haunted house sound
• La-la lead-in
• Give an edge to
• Want badly
• Norwegian capital
• Discontinued Swedish car
• Whole lot
• Gather from the fields
• Faithful sidekick of old TV
• Did laps in the pool
• Superbright colors
• Cowboy of the pampas
• Seized vehicle, informally
• Biblical idol
• County adjacent to London
• Dressed to the
• Detective's lead
• Burger add-on
• Secretariat's father, for one
• Lee, creator of Spider-Man
• Apartment part
• Emergency worker
• Alpha male
• Algebra or trig
• Ad section in a Sunday paper
• 1945 conference site
• 'The Sound of Music' song about an Alpine flower
• A-1 tennis server
• Punk rock subgenre
• 'Ocean's Eleven' setting
• Boise's state: Abbr.
• Officer below a captain, slangily
• Hold your horses
• Hold on
• 'A Death in the Family' writer James
• Secretariat's mother, for one
• Naval leader: Abbr.
• Samsung Galaxy, e.g.
• Designer's degree, for short
• 1/24 of a day
• Catchphrase shouted in "Jerry Maguire"
• Sought legal redress
• Facebook ___ (collection of posts)
• Go from one social gathering to another
• Julie ___, portrayer of Claire on "Modern Family"
• Arthur who was king of the court?
• Article of tropical apparel ... whose start is a s...
• Arsenic and Old
• "Tiny Bubbles" singer
• "Wait ___!" ("Hold on!")
• Nursery school, informally
• Protein-rich bean