| Clue | Answer |
| Take ___ (1994 Madonna hit that was #1 for seven weeks) | ABOW |
| Formal, maybe | PROM |
| Formal wear accouterment | STUD |
| St. Petersburg's river | NEVA |
| Peanuts kid with a security blanket | LINUS |
| Build muscles, with "up" | TONE |
| Genre of Verdi's "Jérusalem" | GRANDOPERA |
| Lens holders | RIMS |
| Come in! | ENTER |
| Fist of Fury star, 1972 | BRUCELEE |
| Chapter 52, formally | LII |
| Guacamole base, in British lingo | AVOCADOPEAR |
| Making the rounds? | INORBIT |
| Yang's go-with | YIN |
| Cause of a blowup? | TNT |
| Cannes showing | CINE |
| Sound from a window ledge | COO |
| Do some housekeeping | DUST |
| Used a crowbar on, say | PRIEDOPEN |
| ___ facto | IPSO |
| Crime lab sample | DNA |
| Amt. of cooking oil, maybe | TBSP |
| Spanish she-bear | OSA |
| Face the pitcher | BAT |
| Boorish | UNCOUTH |
| Robert Redford's "great" 1975 role | WALDOPEPPER |
| Vote for | YEA |
| Where you might pick fruit while it's still green | LIMETREE |
| Palliates | EASES |
| Something false in the Bible? | IDOL |
| Lowdown ... or a hint to 17-, 24-, 36- and 53-Across | INSIDEDOPE |
| Tizzy | SNIT |
| Please, I can do it | LETME |
| Violinist Leopold | AUER |
| Hey, José! | HOLA |
| Tire swing part | ROPE |
| Appalachians, e.g.: Abbr. | MTNS |
| Good-looking? | ANGELIC |
| Apollo and Daphne sculptor | BERNINI |
| Warm response from a crowd | OVATION |
| Decline | WANE |
| Gaza grp. | PLO |
| Engraved letters? | RIP |
| End of an ancient period | ONEBC |
| Lexicographer James who was the O.E.D.'s first editor | MURRAY |
| ___ throat | STREP |
| Facilities | TOILETS |
| Accidental | UNMEANT |
| Much of Arabia | DESERT |
| ___ Arabia | SAUDI |
| In need of some color | DRAB |
| Publisher Nast | CONDE |
| End of a famous boast | VICI |
| Platte Valley native | OTOE |
| Workout count | REPS |
| Screwy | ODD |
| Golden rule preposition | UNTO |
| Bomb squad member | ROBOT |
| Movin' ___ | ONUP |
| Glazier's unit | PANE |
| Words before "... and that's final!" | ISAIDNO |
| Soap ingredient | PALMOIL |
| Takes over the assets of, as a partner | BUYSOUT |
| Make more inclined | STEEPEN |
| Star Trek weapons | PHASERS |
| Studious-looking | OWLISH |
| Shower time | APRIL |
| Many a Taylor Swift fan | TEENER |
| Tribe of the Canadian Plains | CREE |
| What a big mouth might have | DELTA |
| Basil-flavored sauce | PESTO |
| Singer Lambert | ADAM |
| Little handful | IMP |
| Syllable repeated after "fiddle" | DEE |
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New York Times Crossword Answer - Oct 1, 2014
New York Times Crossword Solutions - Oct 1, 2014
The Times - Concise Crossword Answer- September 30, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| Badly behaved child | BRAT |
| Crystal structure | LATTICE |
| Dismiss (from a job) | SACK |
| Ditch; earthwork | DYKE |
| Drive away | REPEL |
| Earnest request | ENTREATY |
| Element; poison | ARSENIC |
| English county | SOMERSET |
| Expert | SKILFUL |
| Fancy | CAPRICE |
| Fancy | FANTASY |
| Fancy | IMAGINE |
| Fancy | CHIMERA |
| Fill (a suitcase) | PACK |
| Formal attire | BLACKTIE |
| Inner ring score (darts) | TREBLE |
| Item of bedlinen | SHEET |
| Map | CHART |
| Most recent | LATEST |
| Not illegal | LAWFUL |
| One living off another | PARASITE |
| People working together | TEAM |
| Quote (a reference) | CITE |
| Respond (to a stimulus) | REACT |
| Rodents | RATS |
| Secret, esoteric | OCCULT |
| State north of Ethiopia | ERITREA |
| Stave pitch symbol | CLEF |
The Times - Cryptic Crossword Answer - September 30, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| A lot of cards fell | DECK |
| Adam's wife, almost pliant after first couple's reproduced? | LILITH |
| Become emotional without being held by boy | SWOON |
| Blues tune mostly played without nuance | UNSUBTLE |
| Bribe to hold over and keep from going under | BUOY |
| Campaign funds wife, Foot sides with Left finally | WARCHEST |
| Closely follow time and speed | TRACE |
| Communication using customised cloud services? | SMOKESIGNAL |
| Conform, having synchronised sport to twice-daily events? | SWIMWITHTHETIDE |
| Crafter forced to do light bending | REFRACT |
| Demure Mary, sharing Bethlehem's ultimate star | PRIMADONNA |
| Designation for heads of Vatican City, or of any city | URBAN |
| Destroy heroin, cutting heroin back | ENDORSE |
| Exaggeration of highway's verges in proportion to trunk? | HYPERBOLE |
| Failing to respond to Bill's antonym, pen novel | NONPAYMENT |
| Feeling about different hospital for maternity | MOTHERHOOD |
| Fitzgerald, for one, noted scatter | ELLA |
| Germany's certainly against a language widely used online | JAVA |
| Gold is better than yttrium for late analysis | AUTOPSY |
| Grass indicated (orally) by gingivitis symptom? | SORGHUM |
| Methodical reorganisation of messy attic | SYSTEMATIC |
| Michaelmas term indirectly involves this architect | MASTERMIND |
| Power cut that was close | PHEW |
| Reindeer actually happen to dismiss regret | COMET |
| Rejecting privilege, say, settled song name | EGALITARIAN |
| Tailless hawk that's last one to excite gull | KITTIWAKE |
| Test site backed chemist's centre producing skin cream | BALM |
| West Indies recently found island queen who serves whites, etc | WINEWAITER |
| Wooden container made of conifer family | FIRKIN |
The Guardian - Quick Crossword Answer - Oct 01, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| Be overly fond | DOTE |
| Clean by rubbing hard | SCRUB |
| Closed plane figure with three or more straight sides | POLYGON |
| Confectionery from a Lancashire resort | BLACKPOOLROCK |
| Country, an enclave of South Africa, capital Maseru | LESOTHO |
| Enemy | OPPOSITION |
| Every single one | EACH |
| Fat — fatten | PLUMP |
| Leonardo da Vinci mural in Milan | THELASTSUPPER |
| Lower house of the Irish parliament | DAIL |
| Madness | LUNACY |
| Member of the dynasty ruling England 1485-1603 | TUDOR |
| Nigerian city | LAGOS |
| Part of a horse's mane growing forward between the ears | FORELOCK |
| Relating to coats of arms | HERALDIC |
| Serve — do | SUFFICE |
| Shopping carrier? | PLASTICBAG |
| Snooty type? | PRIG |
| Teat | NIPPLE |
| Thrust suddenly forward (and upwards) | CATAPULT |
| Unimaginative | PROSAIC |
| Verse where certain letters in each line spell out a word or phrase | ACROSTIC |
The Guardian - Cryptic Crossword Answer - Oct 01, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| Before a fight have pork pie in lounge | LIEABOUT |
| Brutal ace found out, put in cell? | TRABECULA |
| Chum with a cord securing foot of awkwardish bird | PHALAROPE |
| Country retreat given visible sign | DENMARK |
| Cry from queen nipped by mammal | SQUEAL |
| Education expert's method in local authority | MEDWAY |
| Glad to be spoilt when one's caught cold | ALGID |
| Gosh! Cosy place is visible from coastal road | CORNICHE |
| Hawkish type in row with half the Scottish team | TIERCEL |
| Impertinence that the head's on top of | NECK |
| Interrupting major or minor star, seize drug | CANNABIS |
| Later, when darkness comes on, drunk hangs round | TONIGHT |
| Like amphibian in river, when it's very misty outside | FROGGY |
| Lure of French, affectedly shy | DECOY |
| Musician from Australia in the marketplace | MOZART |
| New style identification has revolutionised biblical city | HASHTAG |
| One anxious when making digital contact | NAILBITER |
| Passage that is lined with rolled gold | THROAT |
| Publishing employee left page out, modern technology getting nothing right | ARTEDITOR |
| Religious book of knowledge, origin undiscovered | RUTH |
| Report of wee animal or a much bigger one | MOOSE |
| Rigorous to the end, letting nothing get in the way | THOROUGH |
| Snack with traditional jam providers brought into school | SANDWICH |
| Sound of extra nonsense | RHUBARB |
| Spring fashion treated with contempt | SPATON |
| Survive defeat, admitting inadequate notion | RIDEOUT |
| The definition of this sounds rude! | REGRETTED |
| Tries somehow to hold tricky line, reluctant to cave in? | RESILIENT |
| Without love it's a strange upsetting liaison | AMOUR |
| Worried about English litres left in wine store | CELLARED |
Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword Answer - Oct 01, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abusive, bitter speech | DIATRIBE |
| Advise strongly | EXHORT |
| Altered, qualified | MODIFIED |
| Bitter fluid from the liver | BILE |
| Commander of a fleet | ADMIRAL |
| Completely destroyed | RUINED |
| Continuous dull pain | ACHE |
| Devices with moving parts | MACHINES |
| Empty, unoccupied | VACANT |
| Envy, resent | BEGRUDGE |
| Floor-coverings | CARPETS |
| Foot-soldiers | INFANTRY |
| It was known as Persia until 1935 | IRAN |
| Meal at which people help themselves | BUFFET |
| Medium, average, fair | MIDDLING |
| Mixture of red and blue | PURPLE |
| Money available to borrow | CREDIT |
| Narrator and bank clerk | TELLER |
| One manages money or property for someone else | TRUSTEES |
| Order to attend court | SUBPOENA |
| Path of a river or a set of lessons | COURSE |
| Plant that grows up a support | CLIMBER |
| Position or way of thinking | ATTITUDE |
| Rough, jagged | UNEVEN |
| Substance to curdle milk | RENNET |
| The Enterprise in Star Trek is one | STARSHIP |
| The practical use of science, in short | TECH |
| Torn and ragged | TATTERED |
| Walk as if about to fall | STAGGER |
| Wanted, required | NEEDED |
| Young hares | LEVERETS |
| Zodiac twins | GEMINI |
Irish Times (Crosaire) Crossword Answer - Oct 01, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| Accommodation restricts parking around new and old Greek capital | LEPTON |
| Adrian wed model in early twentieth-century London, for example | EDWARDIAN |
| Audacity from one behind note is a thing of beauty when high | CHEEKBONE |
| Broadcast Titanic from Sky | AIRLINER |
| Broker discovered in Copenhagen tavern | AGENT |
| Coast Act rewritten with detached notes | STACCATO |
| Dress up in period before Easter? It's for rubbing people up the right way! | LINIMENT |
| Fawning over manuscript with one of those portrayed in Saving Private Ryan | SMARMY |
| Finishes stadium in Saskatchewan with Belorussian capital | MINSK |
| God in the heavens? | ABOVEALL |
| Informer with form, to begin with, on one of the rounds is fairly slow | MODERATO |
| Keen Stringer has one of the essentials for a good gossip? | ANOSEFORNEWS |
| Little thanks to second-class member of royal family with Spike - that's a topic of conversation! | TALKINGPOINT |
| Looking back, trainspotter drops middle bag in Scandinavian capital | KRONA |
| Money problems over a guy fighting on ship | YEOMAN |
| Munro leaves nom de guerre for the bachelor | DEGREE |
| Parents, for example, backing out of vandalism | DAMAGE |
| Place where old Greek gardeners worked and cracked my clue | LYCEUM |
| Real cool person goes around with motive | REASON |
| Remarkable anger around lightweight perhaps in narrow escape | NEARTHING |
| Shock describing good books to mother of fall guy | STUNTMAN |
| Small lunch at one, put back for a few words from boxing referee | BREAKITUP |
| Somewhere for loading trucks carrying seeds has strong associations for the Americans with Cologne | BAYBERRY |
| Sum paid in second ransom for Shergar? | AMOUNT |
| The Cat and the Fiddle in Limerick? | RHYME |
| They are great judges of potential ballpark figures | TALENTSCOUTS |
| They clean up after clerics in family castle on riverside at the centre | HOUSEKEEPERS |
| To give a shot in the arm to Greene is stupid | ENERGISE |
Jonesin Crosswords Crossword Answer - Sep 30, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Born Free" rapper | MIA |
| "Ceci n'est pas ___ pipe" (Magritte caption) | UNE |
| "Open" author Agassi | ANDRE |
| "Stupid Flanders," to Homer | NED |
| "The same place," in footnotes | IBID |
| "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" author Carle | ERIC |
| "Your Moment of ___" ("The Daily Show" feature) | ZEN |
| "___ got a golden ticket..." | IVE |
| 0, in soccer scores | NIL |
| 1970s soul group The ___-Lites | CHI |
| 1980s duo | WHAM |
| 2000s Iraq war subject, briefly | WMD |
| Academic period | TERM |
| Acapulco assent | SISI |
| Actress Sorvino | MIRA |
| All over again | ANEW |
| Altar exchanges | IDOS |
| American wildcat | OCELOT |
| Amount equal to a million pennies | TENGRAND |
| Asian wrap | SARONG |
| Blind ___ bat | ASA |
| Born to be wild? | FERAL |
| Broadway backer | ANGEL |
| Canal to the Red Sea | SUEZ |
| Chow's chow, perhaps | ALPO |
| Cloister sister | NUN |
| Comedian Margaret | CHO |
| Country singer-songwriter who wrote hits for Merle Haggard | LIZANDERSON |
| Cuatro y cuatro | OCHO |
| Dons, as clothes | PUTSON |
| Downloadable show | PODCAST |
| Dr. Frankenstein's gofer | IGOR |
| Ending for psych | OSIS |
| Film on ponds | SCUM |
| First name in b-o-l-o-g-n-a | OSCAR |
| Florida city, familiarly | BOCA |
| Goes diving, casually | SCUBAS |
| Gram's nickname | NANA |
| Harriet's husband | OZZIE |
| He plays Tom Haverford on "Parks and Recreation" | AZIZANSARI |
| High school wrestling team equipment | GYMMATS |
| Inbox stuff | |
| Item in a nest in barn rafters | OWLEGG |
| JFK Library architect | PEI |
| John on the Mayflower | ALDEN |
| Light, in La Paz | LUZ |
| Like an infamous Dallas knoll | GRASSY |
| Long time period | EON |
| Made it into the paper | RAN |
| Madhouse | ZOO |
| Miata maker | MAZDA |
| Ms. Thurman | UMA |
| New York silverware city | ONEIDA |
| Number in the upper left of this grid | ONE |
| Nutella flavor | HAZELNUT |
| Ogled | EYED |
| One-horse carriage | SHAY |
| Party with glow sticks and pacifiers | RAVE |
| Persian poet Khayyam | OMAR |
| Put into law | ENACT |
| Put up with | STAND |
| Reuben's home | DELI |
| Ruckus | TUMULT |
| Second man to walk on the moon | BUZZALDRIN |
| Sent a quick note online | IMED |
| Sliver of hope | RAY |
| Sneaker problem | ODOR |
| Superhero in red and yellow | THEFLASH |
| Teatro alla ___ (Milan opera house) | SCALA |
| The Who's "Baba ___" | ORILEY |
| They're all set to play | RADIOS |
| Too far to catch up to | LONGGONE |
| Total jerk | ASS |
| Vegas headliner? | LAS |
| Verb finish | ING |
| Ward, to the Beav | DAD |
| Wednesday's father | GOMEZADDAMS |
| Western loop | LASSO |
| Work on your biceps? | TAT |
| [Your comment amuses me] | LOL |
L.A. Times Daily Crossword Answer - Sep 30, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "And now, without further __ ..." | ADO |
| "Congratulations!" | WAYTOGO |
| "Family Guy" creator MacFarlane | SETH |
| "Hawaii Five-O" nickname | DANO |
| "Nothing special" | SOSO |
| "Star Wars" princess | LEIA |
| "Stormy Weather" singer Horne | LENA |
| "Thick & Fluffy" breakfast brand | EGGO |
| "__-haw!" | YEE |
| 1993 film about a novice Olympic bobsled team | COOLRUNNINGS |
| 2000s first lady Bush | LAURA |
| 2001 bankruptcy filer | ENRON |
| Actor Danson | TED |
| Any minute now | SOON |
| Approximate figs | ESTS |
| Assets-and-liabilities statement | BALANCESHEET |
| Astronaut Armstrong | NEIL |
| At lunch, say | NOTIN |
| Be a contender | VIE |
| Beginning | ONSET |
| Bete __ | NOIRE |
| Big barrels | CASKS |
| Bit of Google success | HIT |
| Blessing ender | AMEN |
| Checkmate victim | KING |
| Churn up | ROIL |
| Copper-plated coin | CENT |
| Crime family boss | DON |
| Cross in some hieroglyphics | ANKH |
| Dance movements | STEPS |
| First lady? | EVE |
| Flower pot filler | SOIL |
| For what __ worth | ITS |
| Guinness of "Star Wars" | ALEC |
| Hair goo | GEL |
| Hop out of bed | GETUP |
| Ice cream buy | PINT |
| Incoming flight info: Abbr | ARR |
| It's a gas in Canada | ESSO |
| Judge at a base | UMPIRE |
| Large cross | ROOD |
| Like "The X-Files" cases | PARANORMAL |
| Magazine subscription period | YEAR |
| Maine campus town | ORONO |
| Many microbrews | ALES |
| Millionaire's accumulation | WEALTH |
| Most of its panhandle is in the Pacific Time Zone | IDAHO |
| New recruit | HIREE |
| Nursery rhyme tart taker | KNAVE |
| Part of LAPD | LOS |
| Perform perfectly | NAIL |
| Pond growth | ALGAE |
| Pre-owned | USED |
| Prom attire | GOWN |
| QB's scores | TDS |
| Rear end | TUSH |
| Reminder to be polite | MINDYOURMANNERS |
| Repaired, as a shoe | SOLED |
| Right in front of one's face | ATEYELEVEL |
| Road trip stopover | INN |
| Rollerballs, e.g | PENS |
| Rower's blade | OAR |
| Sci-fi transports | UFOS |
| Something to brag about | FEAT |
| Source of legal precedents | CASELAW |
| Stand-up individual? | COMIC |
| Tasted, with "of" | HADABIT |
| Thumbs-up vote | AYE |
| Ties the knot | WEDS |
| Veggie platter's lack | MEAT |
| Verboten things | NONOS |
| Wash-and-__ | WEAR |
| Weighty gold bar | INGOT |
| Weighty work | TOME |
| What risktakers have ... and what the starts of 17-, 23-, 40- and 51-Across can be? | SOMETHINGTOLOSE |
| Without ice | NEAT |
| Word with whisper or fright | STAGE |
| __ mater | ALMA |
USA Today Crossword Answer - Sep 30, 2014
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Answer, please" (Abbr.) | RSVP |
| "Fifteen Miles on the ___ Canal" | ERIE |
| "For Whom the Bell ___" | TOLLS |
| "Merchant of Venice" heroine | PORTIA |
| "Oompah" instrument | TUBA |
| "Rubber Capital of the World" | AKRON |
| 1981 Beatty film | REDS |
| 58-Across is one | TIRE |
| Advantage for strikers | UNITY |
| After-dinner wine | PORT |
| Again from square one | ANEW |
| Agenda for the future | PLANS |
| Alexandra's husband | TSAR |
| Be shaky on one's feet | TOTTER |
| Beat | OUTDO |
| Boldness in battle | VALOR |
| Bottom of a shoe | SOLE |
| Breath fresheners | MINTS |
| Brook | RILL |
| Cameo shape | OVAL |
| Caress | PET |
| Carry a balance | OWE |
| Comic-book gunfire sounds | RATATATS |
| Controversial weapon | UZI |
| Convent residents | NUNS |
| Copier necessity | TONER |
| De-squeak | OIL |
| Desert caravan stops | OASES |
| Devoid of moisture | SERE |
| Earned, as money | MADE |
| Eleanor's follower as first lady | BESS |
| Fawlty and Rathbone | BASILS |
| Fireplace remnant | EMBER |
| Grass appendage | AWN |
| Grimm beginning? | ONCE |
| Guarantee (with "for") | VOUCH |
| Gunshot at a track meet | START |
| Hooch | BOOZE |
| Imperturbable one | STOIC |
| Intricacy | ELABORATEDETAIL |
| It's softer than quartz | OPAL |
| Itty-___ | BITTY |
| La ___ (Italian opera house) | SCALA |
| Laundry emanation | ODOR |
| Lennon's wife | ONO |
| Like a storied piper | PIED |
| Like Professor Moriarty | EVIL |
| Lunch-box cookie | OREO |
| Mantra chanter | LAMA |
| Mayberry teacher Helen | CRUMP |
| More in need of a workout regiment | FLABBIER |
| Morocco's capital | RABAT |
| Most congenial | NICEST |
| Navigation aids | CHARTS |
| Opera highlight | ARIA |
| Peru's capital | LIMA |
| Pie a la ___ | MODE |
| Poker dealer's requirement | ANTE |
| Role in a play | PART |
| Run without rushing | TROT |
| Sink as low as one can | TOUCHROCKBOTTOM |
| Some turkeys | TOMS |
| Spa feature | SAUNA |
| Started the fire over | RELIT |
| Suffix with "sect" | ARIAN |
| Target the bar code | SCAN |
| They show you where you've been | REARVIEWMIRRORS |
| Thing in a trunk | SPARE |
| Trampled | TROD |
| Underground edibles | TUBERS |
| Verdi opera | AIDA |
| Vietnam's capital | HANOI |
| Wait patiently | ABIDE |
| When doubled, a Pacific island | BORA |
| Word with "help" or "serve" | SELF |
| Writer Fleming | IAN |