crosswords puzzle answers 22/12/2016

crosswords puzzle answers 22/12/2016

Zilch
Writes on a blog
Word cried 15 times in a row by Meg Ryan in 'When Harry Met Sally …'
Women's beauty magazine
With 42-Down, home construction material … or a hint to this puzzle's theme
What may be dispensed from a dispenser
Whales like the one in 'Moby-Dick'
Victor's cry
TV character who says 'You know I wouldn't talk in front of anyone but you'
Took potshots (at)
Things that may all be off
Teacher's handfuls
Taverns and such
Support group for adolescents
Steelers' grp
Some aerial show formations
See 45-Across
Rennes rejections
Region in western Germany
Punk
Prudish
Prepare for framing again, say
Pirate captain mentioned in Poe's 'The Gold-Bug'
Pilgrims John and Priscilla
Phone button
Perfect
Peeved, informally
Part of Q.E.D
One of the founders of Westworld, on HBO's 'Westworld'
Not dressy
Not a knockoff
Neutral shade
Narrow valley
Moon of Saturn that's a French woman's name
Modest skirt
Melancholy
Lounging slipper
Like some sex
Like arrangements for some wedding receptions
Leave rolling in the aisles
Leader between Mao and Jiang
Islands attire
International prize first awarded to Stephen Hawking in 1979
Inner: Prefix
Huge
Hitchcock, for one
God, in Granada
Girder also known as a rolled-steel joist
From abroad?
Fingered
Fencing option
Fairy tale sister
Dog in the funnies
Divulge
Database manager's option
Course requirements?
Conclude negotiations
Competitor of Sapporo
Competitor of eBay
Competent
Claim
Checks for the ex
Certain football pass
Bungles
Buildup behind a dam
Buddy
Brunch option
Bright-eyed
Big-selling Procter & Gamble product
Army V.I.P
Arctic shipping hazard
Actress Sophia
Actor Ken
Act out
A penny is a small one
A party to
'To Live and Die ___' (1985 film) – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/New-York-Times-Crossword-Answers—Dec-22-2016#sthash.8XtHyeNu.dpuf

World Trade Organization headquarters
Where the Senato della Repubblica meets
Welcoming wreath
Waterproofing target
Type of testimony
Turn green?
Tuning fork makeup
Tiffany buy
They have tail lights
T-bar rows work them
Swimmer Ledecky
Subordinate Clauses?
Stretched shapes
Spot to jot
SpaceX founder
Slightly
Sites for sweaters
Silver owner
Samuel Adams White Christmas and the like
Royals manager Yost
Rigorous
Poor box beneficiary
Pianist-singer Buddy
Pay stub section
Pastoral poem
Pass over
Painted tinplates
Organisms with pseudopods
Oozy stuff
One might take a bow
Most profound
Makes more exciting
Long wait
Like the Kentucky Derby trophy
Item in a stocking?
It starts in Mar
It comes from the hearth
Hit a dinger
Group of female seals
Goggles
Goggles
Gauze makeup
Gaelic language
Frames
Foot, in the Forum
Flower with a citrus scent
Fits to the bowstring
Dunn of 'Three Kings'
Designer Michael
Danson of 'The Good Place'
Crepe pan's kin
Contractor's concern
Con man's target
Clean Air Act org
Cataloging abbr
Cary of 'The Princess Bride'
Cardinal cap letters
Canceled callously
Briskly
Board
Ann Darrow's admirer
Amazon Prime comedy set at a country club
'___ we come a-wassailing…'
'Tiny ___ with their eyes all aglow will find it hard to sleep tonight'
'Redemption' writer
'Mississippi Masala' director Mira
'In the meadow we ___ build a snowman…'
'Fallen Angels' playwright
'Buon Natale' lang
'A Christmas Carol' setting
'…___ pear tree' – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/Wall-Street-Journal-Crossword-Answers—Dec-22-2016—Variations-on-a-Christmas-Theme#sthash.IFmGjFXS.dpuf

___ Lanka
Word that makes people smile
Word after 'nitrous' or 'iron'
Widow with old money
What Conceited Will calls thousands of years?
Washington town, if said twice
Wallach of the silver screen
Uppercut target
U.S. and U.S.S.R. standoff
Type of ball or language
Toward the side away from the wind
Thing flipped in the home
There's no rest for them
Tattle
Synagogue attendee
Sultanate in Borneo
Suggestion from a financial adviser
Strategic board game
Standard golf score
Sounds of pleasure or discovery
Sick
Second-in-command execs
Region whose capital is Florence
Readies potatoes
Prop given away in Hawaii
President Lincoln, informally
Popular flavor of ice cream
Orchestral section
Online diarist
One way to get one's message across
Not just portly
Not at all suitable
Nonalcoholic beer brand
News-shouter of yore
Needing something to do
Mythological god of war
Muslim's god
More despicable and wicked
More aged
Martini insert
Like some starts at the racetrack
Leg part
Large grazing field
Kipling's 'Gunga ___'
Karate presentations?
Joint ailment
Jacketed former Indian prime minister?
Is rewarded for sowing
Indianapolis pros
In Conceited Will's linen closet are ..
Holder of cherished ashes
Hit on the wrist
Hawaiian island
Have a cow, really
Goof
Gliding ballet steps
Feminine pronoun
Feeling of anger
Facilities
Evil angel
Esau's twin brother
Court
Conceited Will's country bumpkin relatives?
Conceited Will is rich. He's a ..
Clean and organized
Chop, as limbs
Canister part
Calamities
Bygone bird
Bring upon oneself
Black gold
Before, at the fore
Be tempting
Banishes from a country
Antelope with spiral horns
'Where ___?' (query of the dazed)
'Duchess of ___' (Goya painting) – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/Universal-Crossword-Answers—Dec-22-2016#sthash.8XnG5zX5.dpuf

___ off (angry)
Young fellows
Yacht club competition
Unrestricted, as a mutual fund
Trigonometry ratio
Tic ___ (tiny mint)
Thomas who twitted Boss Tweed
Tennis great Lendl
Swelled heads
Stare slack-jawed
Spread far and wide
Spirit in a lamp
Slapped the cuffs on
Skelton's Kadiddlehopper
Simon and Garfunkel, e.g
Silly sort
Share a border with
Shade similar to teal
Sauce in bloody mary mixes
Ranger's eye test?
Puts into words
Pro ___ (in proportion)
Prefix meaning 'the same'
Plumped-up fowl
Picked from the deck
Philippine native
Parts of quarter notes
Orson Welles' 'Citizen'
Orca's prey
On a slant
Old flatboats
Of the pre-Easter period
Nuns' garb
Musial in Cooperstown
Mister Rogers of old TV
Match.com's Amsterdam office?
Mai ___ cocktail
Lyric poem type
Love, in a Dean Martin song
Lose one's mind
Like a saved seat
Like a milquetoast
Lawrence of Arabia's mount
King who sang 'It's Too Late'
Jotted down
Gymnast Korbut
Go in a leisurely way
Globetrotters' home
Garfield's canine pal
Former GM make, for short
Fit for a king
Faux fat brand
Family females
Family female, for short
Epps of 'The Mod Squad'
Director Kazan
Diploma holder, for short
Defeatist's word
Coty of France
Cook up
Comics bark
Cole Porter's 'Bingo ___ Yale'
Christina of 'Monster'
Checked by airport security
Causing wear
Brownie morsels
Brought into pitch
Brought dishonor to
Bomb-defusing machine
Beach formation
Basis for a lawsuit
Ayatollah's capital
007's tavern tab?
'Rag Mop' singers the ___ Brothers
'Give Kids a Smile' org – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/USA-Today-Crossword-Answers—Dec-22-2016#sthash.UWecwyQA.dpuf

Zealous
Utility device
TWA competitor
Trojan War hero
Tree knot
Tongue, to Tacitus
Threw out
Sydney salutation
Sundance Festival film
Stage trophy
Sounds at a shearing
Sort of art print
Sodium hydroxide solution
Skycam locale
Silver State city
Short fuse
Shape with no end
Ruckuses
Rhinelander's refusal
Restarting fresh
Plywood source
Plane-seat selection
Per __ expenses
Parts of Santa costumes
Parts of overalls
Palm-tree berry
One standing in a 51 Across
Oklahomans
Office apprentice
Obi-Wan in three films
Not __ many words
Nissan rival
Naval commandos
Mystery tale
More delicate
Made broader
Lyricist, essentially
Lobster habitat
Loathsome ones
Less than pleased
Irish singer
Inventor Rubik
Hurricane product
Humanities course, for short
Horse color
Heckle
Ft. Worth summer setting
Forster novel setting
Food-stamping agcy
Fire starter
Expand, as a compressed file
Electrical system
Egg-timer contents
Disney's "concert feature"
Defeats easily
Certain bun filler
Brings on
Bowls over
Big name on "Wheel . . ."
Betting setting
Bench-press muscle
Beguile
Beast of burden
Bard's "before"
Bake sale orgs
Antarctic vista
Amp (up)
Amalgamates
Admission of fault
A month of Sundays
"Horrors!" – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/Newsday.com-Crossword-Answers—Dec-22-2016#sthash.yBCC1MeR.dpuf

With 'out,' attain with difficulty
What many service providers work for
Veggie from Vidalia
USS Enterprise helmsman played by George Takei
Upon
Totally nuts
Tittles
Texter's bosom buddy
Ten or higher, in bridge
Tangles up
Spring in one's step
Small thrill
Sitar relative
Shaq's sneakers, widthwise
Seeming eternity
Rosebud, for one
Roman wrap
Queen Elizabeth II's only daughter
Put down
Pop
Opportunist that takes advantage of the other sheep?
Odafin Tutuola's portrayer on 'Law & Order: SVU'
Not barefoot
Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George who cameoed on 'The Big Bang Theory'
Musical Mr. Dogg
Musical key with five sharps (abbr.)
Moon goddess
Modeler's wood
Method a cow uses to relocate from pasture to pasture?
Maximally, in a way
Lunch counter alternative to American
Lose vitality
Like some pickings
Like an uncommon Latin bird?
Leaves out
Leaning on one's shovel, perhaps
Largest organ, anatomically
Landlocked African nation whose capital is Lilongwe
Land and buildings thereon
Huge, to a poet
How someone who jumps bail might be tried
Harsh reality of a horse's life?
Goat that makes offers the others can't refuse?
Frenziedly
Fortune's partner
FBI operatives
Eponym of an alternative anthology magazine
Enhanced radiation weapon, for short
Dwell
Drop ___ (moon someone)
Drench
Director Lee
Cutter's kin
Cunning
Consume
Concede
Communicate manually
Commit Fido-filching upon
Catcalls
Canterbury can
Calendar squares
Brand of grape pop
Bounce like a bunny
Big oxes
Bibliographer's 'and other folks'
Beat in an auction
Balto's destination in the 1925 Great Race of Mercy
Assessed, as a tax
Answer to the question, 'Fritz, does 5 plus 4 equal 8?'?
Airline that would never serve scampi
Academic degrees for which the candidates' hood color is dark blue (abbr.)
'Son of,' in Arabic names
'Right now,' in the ER
'Douglas' evergreen
'Dire' places – See more at: http://crosswordpuzzleanswers.net/clue/The-Washington-Post-Crossword-Answers—Dec-22-2016#sthash.8o0Z5CEj.dpuf

With 71-Across, event for today's puzzle's circles
Want-ad letters
Verbal shrug
Up to, commercially
Unit of work
Unable to make ends meet
Turkmenistan neighbor
Titled rapper
Teen superhero's family
Tally
Subdue, perhaps
Starters
Staffers of Apple's Genius Bar
Southwestern plain
Soup container
Slasher film sequel of 2005
Singer Payne of One Direction
Send
See 5-Across
Sea that's a shrinking lake
Sacks
Roast, in Rouen
Reformed demon on 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'
Really enjoyed
Radical '70s org
Pupil's place
Proverbial deserter
Proverb ending?
Prize for today's puzzle's circles
Places
Place to find bullets
Perfume
PBS funder
Oxygen network co-founder
Outlaw Belle
Org. with a snake in its logo
Ordeal at the dentist's office
NFL Network analyst Michael __
Nantes nothing
Modest skirt
Mete out
Melville novel
Mantegna's 'Criminal Minds' role
Least lit
Late 19th-century presidential monogram
Jazz Age toon
Introductory words for each set of puzzle circles
Hard-rock link
Grilled, in Mexican fare
Golfe de la Gonâve country
From the top
Fishing, perhaps
Fireworks reaction
Family babysitter
Disencumbers
Dignify
Detestable sort
Cut
Curaçao's capital
Conductor Klemperer or an emperor
Conclusion preceder
Commercial prefix meaning 'long-lasting'
Comes (from)
California's __ Verdes Peninsula
Butte-to-Helena dir
Blood system letters
Beyond silly
Beginning of space?
Become a member, in Manchester
Andean tuber
Altar in the sky
Akhenaten's queen
Ages
'You __ one!'
'Tricked you!'
'Miss __ Playhouse': jazz CD for kids
'Cuchi-cuchi' celebrity