crosswords puzzle answers 05/04/2017

crosswords puzzle answers 05/04/2017

___ the finish (having potential to win)
Year, in 43-Down
Word after motion or lie
Warm Pacific current
Vehicles with medallions
Vehement rejection
Tupperware topper
Tuned too high
Tomorrow, in 43-Down
Tiptop
Tiny bit
They're broken at parties
Theater, dance, etc
Soak up the sun
Set, as a price
Rod at a pig roast
Rock scientists
Roald who wrote 'Fantastic Mr. Fox'
Result of a sock in the eye
Profile-altering plastic surgery
Prefix with violet or violent
Pothook shape
Persona ___ (welcome guest)
Peppers milder than habaneros
Pavlov with a Nobel
Parts of hypodermics
Partner of circumstance
Parks of the civil rights movement
Pacific battle site of 1945
Outfield-patching need
Ooze
One of the eight in a V-8
Okra units
Northeast Corridor express train
Naps south of the border
Mo. when the N.F.L. season starts
Mister, in 43-Down
Mexican president Enrique
Message left on a hotline, perhaps
Many an eligible receiver
Lowest-voiced choir members
Log craft
Log construction
Language that utilizes the letter 'ñ'
Is in the hole
Ill-gotten goods
How butterflies might be caught
Highest point value for a Scrabble tile
He placed the sun at the center of the universe
Greek poet who wrote 'The Distaff'
Gave the go-ahead
Forrest Gump's C.O
Eyes, to bards
Exceptional ability
Drink often served with a miniature umbrella
Drink made from frozen grapes
Devices that prevent fumes from escaping
Cowboy boot accessory
Count in music
Colorful, warm-blooded fish
Cola wars competitor
Change with the times
Biceps and hamstrings
Bic or Gillette offerings
Beer drinkers' utensils
Bathrooms, in 43-Down
Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dikembe ___
Attaches, as a carnation
Air pump fig
43-Down, in 43-Down
1987-94 'Star Trek' series, briefly
'___ luck!'
'Wow!,' in Internet-speak
'Puh-lease!'
'Crypto City' at Ft. Meade
'Cheers' setting
'Buy It ___' (eBay option) – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/New-York-Times-Crossword-Answers—Apr-5-2017#sthash.Q2JMFrNw.dpuf

Worry
Winner of four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics
Waxer's target, at times
Trattoria topping
Trap at a lodge, say
Tour worker
Total jerk
Tony of 'Taxi'
To boot
Time for giving up?
They'll have you walking tall
There are seven in una semana
Team with a flaming basketball logo
Team with a basketball-bearing-a-B logo
Tapered tuck
Somewhat, suffixally
Somewhat, informally
Sign in Anytown, USA
Scorch
Science class setting
Sad trumpet sound
Resistance figures
Resident assistant's residence
Put away
Practical intelligence
Pirate's purview
Pie crust ingredient
One of eight in V8
Not in a private area?
Naptime nuisance
Morphine source
Metropolitan
Manipulated one
Majors in broadcasting?
Letter before theta
Letter after theta
Kyoto quaff
Join a jury
Jessica of 'Sin City'
It spans eleven time zones
Incredibly divisive
Holiday celebrated by Kramer and Frank Costanza
High-tech obstacles in caper films
Great Leap Forward leader
Game involving on-screen drawing?
Final offer words
Extremely
Exterminator's target
Expected
Emmy winner Alan
Edit menu option
Dump feature
Crumbling car
Clears
Class where you'd use the SOHCAHTOA mnemonic
Chow ___
Chemistry subject
Cecilia Bartoli, for one
Cattail setting
Can
Bunker or stream
Bleachers level
Bee-based
Bathroom at a pub
Avignon article
Ankle bones
All competition
ABC Family series about teen gymnasts
A very long time
2013 biopic starring Naomi Watts
'Outta my way!'
'La Bamba' singer
'Grease' character who sings 'There Are Worse Things I Could Do'
'Do the ___' (soft drink slogan) – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/Wall-Street-Journal-Crossword-Answers—Apr-5-2017—Choice-Words#sthash.ULbxG15m.dpuf

Yore's 'before'
Wrap up securely
Worshiped object
Without difficulty
What makes Len lean?
What a bull does
Valdez cargo
Unobstructed, on a traffic sign
Two presidents
Tora ___ (Afghanistan battle site)
Tanlike color
Stirring utensil
St. kin
St. John's herb
Some seeded breads
Smallish salamander
Short rest
Send a check
Seed cover
Salk's conquest
Rummaged through
Rectangular paver
Really involved with
Pyromaniac's crime
Pumpkin-eater of rhyme
Prove beneficial
Prefix with 'European'
Places to be pampered
Pinocchio feature
Picture to click
Perpetual bane, essentially
Part of a drum sound
On the briny
Norse war god
Milk-producing animal
Mayberry self-jailer
Margin jotting
Major French river
Like the word 'hangry' or 'bae'
Like a hot online video
July's third?
It can make you sweat
Is mistaken
Inuit's glider
Interruption, as of a subscription
In a safe place, at night
Head-turning 'over here' sound
Has debt
Give reparations
Full metal jacket?
Feeling of low spirits and sadness
Equine female
Distinction between multiple things
Diagonal nautical pole
Cry like a baby
Creative concept
Cooking utensil
Coil anagram
Cherry center
Certain sword
Carrying or holding
Card game expert Edmond
Captain Nemo's creator
Capital of Western Australia
Blazing
Black billiard ball
Beer varieties
Barn nestling
Amigos
A real bloodsucker
.45 half
'Wait, there's more …'
'Pet' cause for complaint
'Let us know if you're coming' on an invitation
'If it's all the ___ to you …'
'And Then There Were ___' – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/Universal-Crossword-Answers—Apr-5-2017#sthash.hyP3fEdp.dpuf

___ the Great (kid-lit detective)
___ Queen (Blizzard server)
Western New York financial legislation?
Voice above tenor
Twist the arm of
Turkey ___ (Thanksgiving 5K, perhaps)
Try to hit, as a fly
Trousers, in some ads
Track or swimming events
They've gone splitsville
Text requesting an RSVP
Sun or moon, to a bard
Start of a football play
Spin doctor's org
Spa offering, briefly
Something to debate
Some senate votes
Sedentary occupation
Saloon sing-along
RPM part
Request from the Rolling Stones to their accountant?
Reed sections?
Rains cats and dogs
Prom rental, informally
Plants in 24-Across
Plan offered by 3-Down (Abbr.)
Pillow prettifiers
One who's 21-Across
One of the Jenner girls
Nabisco cracker since 1934
Nabisco cookie since 1912
Morales of 'NYPD Blue'
Merrimack crewmen, for short
Menu phrase
Many Eng. degrees
Like a raw recruit
La ___ (San Diego area)
Juicy part of a fruit
Jeddah's waters
Jackie O's son
iTunes buy
Image burned in protest
Idol's perch
HOMES part
Help in a heist
Helen ___ ('The Miracle Worker' role)
Health insurance giant
Handle word
Gardener, while weeding
Fertility clinic cells
Fat-removal procedure, for short
Ear-related
Did a Triple-A job
Cry from the flock
Creditor's claim
Corrodes, in a way
Cornerstone abbr
Coated with a precious metal
Churchill Downs events
Challenge for the IRS?
Caster of evil spells
Bronx attraction
Blunted blades
Arthur of 'Maude'
Archaeological fragment
Aqua Velva rival
An awfully long time
63-Across distance, perhaps
'Transformers' actress
'Somebody in this room . . .'
'Hogwash!'
'Don't Know Why' singer Jones
'Breaking' news stories
'America's Got Talent' group – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/USA-Today-Crossword-Answers—Apr-5-2017#sthash.wa4gyHO5.dpuf

__-in-cheek (insincere)
__ out a living
Want-ad placer
Walk back and forth
Vicinities
Veterans' Day mo
Upscale Honda
Tip over
Tip of a sock
Taper off
Superior grade
Sunbather's shade
Subtle difference
Spiny houseplant
Soup veggie
So far
Shout of disgust
Shout of disgust
Secure with a knot
Sculptor's work
Saudi or Jordanian
S&L, for one
Roadside rescuer
Remove from office
Remainder
Read leisurely
Rather mean
Rainbow shape
Picks up the tab
Per person
Operatic solo
Office plant
Nutmeg spice
Molecule part
Mine rock
Mine passageway
Medicinal measures
LP-playing machine
Lowest-quality
Lowest royal-flush card
Likewise not
Like a house __ (vigorously)
Joyful
Jamaican liquor
Incoming-plane stat
Hurry away
Hot beverage
Horse-handling cowpoke
Heavenly rescuer
Gathered leaves
Fill with joy
Fairway vehicles
Excessive
Equestrian rescuer
Early afternoon
Dutch cheese
Diluted, with "down"
Customary practice
Crime lab evidence
Comic Carvey
Color gradation
Co. designation
Chain of hills
Center of activity
California neighbor
Butter portion
Bother nonstop
Bistro
Before, in verse
Beetle or bee
Bear's home
Batter's stat
Bad-mouth
Approximately
Apartment dweller
Anglo-__ (ancient Brit)
Actress Witherspoon
Abounds – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/Newsday.com-Crossword-Answers—Apr-5-2017#sthash.RNPVW4E7.dpuf

__-la-la
__-Bismol
Workplaces for LPNs
Webpage index
Watches late TV until a teen comes home, say
Takes off the shelf
Start of a preschool song
Snapchat upload
Show up
Sailor's 'Halt!'
Post-op therapy
PC key
Oldest Brady boy
Not as much
Nikkei index currency
Most severe
MapQuest output: Abbr
Like kindling when lit
Lets up
Lay eyes on
Last Super Bowl won by the Giants
Lacking the skill
Kirk __, first movie Superman
Killer whale
Katy who voiced Smurfette in 'The Smurfs'
Judge's setting
Insulate, as a jacket
Hotel room amenity
Holy smoke
Highly recommends
High behind a front, e.g
Have a bawl
Gull relative
Green Gables girl
Golfer Michelle
Golf game spoiler
Geeky sort
Former Education secretary Duncan
Flip over
Falling-out
Each answer to a starred clue begins and ends with identical ones
Does business with
Diabetic's concern
Danish shoe company
Cruciverbalist Reagle of 'Wordplay'
Con man's target
Compete in a sack
Chickens (out)
Cereal with lemony lemon and orangey orange flavors
Capital of Barbados
Campsite shelters
Bus. card info
Bryn Mawr undergrads
Bit of chess action
Big bunch
At the center of
Asian rice porridge
Amount to pay in Calais
Ambien, vis-à-vis sleep
Advil target
Accessory for Mr. Peanut
Absorb the loss
*Process of electron gain or loss
*London subway system, with 'the'
*Eating
*Beneficial substance in berries
'__ who?'
'The Martian' genre
'Tell __ story'
'Monday Night Countdown' airer
'Jeopardy!' creator Griffin
'Into Thin Air' peak
'Hamlet' courtier
'From my perspective … ' – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/The-Washington-Post-Crossword-Answers—Apr-5-2017#sthash.aI4zSypS.dpuf

__-la-la
__-Bismol
Workplaces for LPNs
Webpage index
Watches late TV until a teen comes home, say
Takes off the shelf
Start of a preschool song
Snapchat upload
Show up
Sailor's 'Halt!'
Post-op therapy
PC key
Oldest Brady boy
Not as much
Nikkei index currency
Most severe
MapQuest output: Abbr
Like kindling when lit
Lets up
Lay eyes on
Last Super Bowl won by the Giants
Lacking the skill
Kirk __, first movie Superman
Killer whale
Katy who voiced Smurfette in 'The Smurfs'
Judge's setting
Insulate, as a jacket
Hotel room amenity
Holy smoke
Highly recommends
High behind a front, e.g
Have a bawl
Gull relative
Green Gables girl
Golfer Michelle
Golf game spoiler
Geeky sort
Former Education secretary Duncan
Flip over
Falling-out
Each answer to a starred clue begins and ends with identical ones
Does business with
Diabetic's concern
Danish shoe company
Cruciverbalist Reagle of 'Wordplay'
Con man's target
Compete in a sack
Chickens (out)
Cereal with lemony lemon and orangey orange flavors
Capital of Barbados
Campsite shelters
Bus. card info
Bryn Mawr undergrads
Bit of chess action
Big bunch
At the center of
Asian rice porridge
Amount to pay in Calais
Ambien, vis-? -vis sleep
Advil target
Accessory for Mr. Peanut
Absorb the loss
*Process of electron gain or loss
*London subway system, with 'the'
*Eating
*Beneficial substance in berries
'__ who?'
'The Martian' genre
'Tell __ story'
'Monday Night Countdown' airer
'Jeopardy!' creator Griffin
'Into Thin Air' peak
'Hamlet' courtier
'From my perspective … '