L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Answer - Jan 31, 2015

 L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solution  - Jan 31, 2015

Clue	Answer
"As wicked dew as __ my mother brush'd": "The Tempest"	EER
"Every Moment Counts" gp	USO
"What have we here?!"	HELLO
"You Must Love Me" musical	EVITA
1965 Nobel Peace Prize recipient	UNICEF
1979-'80 Fleetwood Mac hit	SARA
31-day mo	JAN
8-Down and others	SIGNS
A carve turn may be taught in one	SKILESSON
Adams who shot El Capitan	ANSEL
Anthologies	ANAS
Beaux-arts venue	MUSEE
Big name in bar code scanners	NCR
Book ending	ISH
Brandy designation	VSO
Bridge overseas	PONTE
Bring forth	EDUCE
Champion of the common man	POPULIST
Company with antlers in its logo	DEERE
Cosmo, for one	MAG
Diets, with "down"	SLIMS
European travel pass	INTERRAIL
Fingers	NAMES
Food stabilizers	AGARS
Four-stranded DNA structure	TETRAPLEX
Four-time Emmy-winning actress	EDIEFALCO
Goat __: chaotic situation, in slang	RODEO
Highway closer, perhaps	WRECK
Highway lane, for short	HOV
Highway warning	CLICKITORTICKET
How a stage line might be spoken	ASANASIDE
Internal walls	SEPTA
Jerry who wrote lyrics for many Presley songs	LEIBER
Kirkuk native	IRAQI
Like 23 of Haydn's symphonies	IND

Clue	Answer
Like-minded orgs	ASSNS
Lindbergh nickname	LONEEAGLE
Lizard that can shed its tail	SKINK
Media section	PRESSBOX
Not laughing	UNAMUSED
Novelist Hammond __	INNES
Number of single-syllable U.S. states	ONE
NYC travel org	MTA
Object	END
One Direction singer Zayn __	MALIK
Passing event?	FAD
Plant reproductive structure	SPORESAC
Project	JUT
R&B artist Des'__	REE
Rabble-rouser	DEMAGOGUE
Repeat exactly	QUOTE
Run	FLEE
S-shaped sofa	TETEATETE
School hallway warning	USEINDOORVOICES
Scoundrels	SOANDSOS
Sharpens	WHETS
Signifies	ADDSUPTO
Slated	ONTAP
Sports commentator Olbermann	KEITH
Spruces (up)	TIDIES
Standing losses?	LAPS
Successor to Anwar	HOSNI
Things to obey, like 36-Across and 8-Down	THERULES
Tin __	EAR
Tommy Pickles' dad in "Rugrats"	STU
Trig function	ARCSEC
Vow taker	NUN
West end?	ERN
Where "Hamlet" opens	ELSINORE
__ Bannon, Paul Newman role	HUD

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Answer - Jan 30, 2015

 L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solution - Jan 30, 2015

Clue	Answer
"Downton Abbey" title	EARL
"Heavens to Betsy!"	YIPE
"Look at this!"	CHECKITOUT
"Right Now (Na Na Na)" artist	AKON
"The Seven-Per-Cent Solution" author Nicholas	MEYER
"Truth in Engineering" automaker	AUDI
"Who, me?"	MOI
"Who, me?"	NOTI
1,000 G's	MIL
1980s surgeon general	KOOP
Adler of Sherlock Holmes lore	IRENE
Alley wanderers	MUTTS
Alternative strategies, literally	LLAFPLANS
Apple variety	IMAC
Aware of	INON
Battleground	ARENA
Big brass	TUBAS
Block (up)	STOP
Blockhead	SCHMO
Bothersome parasites	LICE
Buck	RESIST
Californie, for one	ETAT
Certain Middle Easterner	IRANI
Churchill, for one	TORY
Collapsed	GAVE
Courses taken consecutively?	MEAL
Crossword component	GRID
Deep-sea creature, literally	PMUHWHALE
Dennings of "Thor"	KAT
Depressing atmosphere	PALL
Downed	ATE
Draped garment	TOGA
Energy	STEAM
Fire proof	ASH
First place?	EDEN
Former "Fashion Emergency" host	EMME
Fusion, for one	ECOCAR
Goal for a runner	SEAT
Goes out for a bit?	NAPS

Clue	Answer
Half a philosophical duality	YANG
Infomercial offers, literally	YENOMGUARANTEES
It's frowned upon	NONO
Layered snack	OREO
Like some popular videos	VIRAL
Look down	POUT
Majestic display	POMP
Michael Jackson, e.g	POPICON
Mozart's "King of Instruments"	ORGAN
Numerical prefix	OCTA
One on the other side	FOE
Ones calling the shots?	REFS
Pass over	SKIP
Piles	TONS
Pioneers' journey, say	TREK
Pirouette, essentially	PIVOT
Preflight purchase, literally	REPAPBOOK
Really, really cool	EPIC
Receptionist on "The Office"	ERIN
Renaissance painter Veronese	PAOLO
Rock blasters	AMPS
Rogers Centre team, on scoreboards	TOR
Seat of Dallas County, Alabama	SELMA
Settled down	ALIT
Snideness	SNARK
Start over, in a way	RESET
Steals, with "off"	RIPS
Stir	TODO
Surface fractures	FAULTLINES
Sushi seaweed	NORI
The first "A" in A.A. Milne	ALAN
Time to say "áFeliz año nuevo!"	ENERO
Tip off	WARN
Toddler's transport, literally	YGGIPRIDE
Unpopular spots	ACNE
Venue involving a lot of body contact	MOSHPIT
Where many subs are assembled	DELI
Yellowish tone	OCHRE
__ lane	HOV

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Answer - Jan 31, 2015

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - Jan 31, 2015

Clue	Answer
''Physician, heal thyself'' book	LUKE
''Visit from St. Nicholas'' preposition	ERE
2012 Emmy winner as Hatfield	COSTNER
ABC Sports' ''Greatest Athlete of the 20th Century''	THORPE
Always going	NONSTOP
Assesses, with ''up''	SIZES
Autograph requests, effusive compliments, etc	FANMAIL
Boil	SEERED
Boil	STEAM
Buyer of HotJobs.com in 2010	MONSTER
Calabria, vis-à-vis Italy	TOE
Chamber groups	SENATES
Check from the government	IRSAUDIT
Close encounter	ONEONONE
Court proceeding	ACTION
Court proceeding	PLEA
Dietary staple of Colonial America	ALES
Draw	ENTICE
Enclave or Encore	SPORTUTE
Engages oneself	COMMITS
Frat letters	CHIS
Getting a check from the government, perhaps	ONRELIEF
Good Seasons freebie offering	CRUET
Hazard 41 Across	MALDEMER
Historical period	TIMES
Iconic Kraft Foods mascot	MRPEANUT
Insensitive	NUMB
International Date Line crosser of 2011	SAMOA
It's south of Limerick	CORK
Kind of crossbar	RUNG
Less zesty	TAMER
Letter to Liverpudlians	ZED
Literally, ''by signaling''	INNUENDO
Look forward to	FACE
Low class	PEONS
Matt's ''Elysium'' adversary	JODIE

Clue	Answer
Most frequently used Atlantic storm name since 1959	ARLENE
Not grounded?	ATSEA
Overly sensitive	TENDER
Pabst's Pablo was one	NEARBEER
Panini need	CIABATTA
Perfect	OPTIMIZE
Place under water	RINSE
Plywood source	FIR
Popular pizza topping in Japan	EEL
Promise in writing	IOU
Ralph Ellison alma mater	TUSKEGEE
Ravens' rivals	STEELERS
Rear-axle neighbor	GASTANK
Retirement venue	BED
Sawhorses, essentially	AFRAMES
See 39 Across	JONES
Ski-boot binding clip	FLANGE
Small six-footer	ANT
Specialty of Beverly Hills' Sprinkles shop	CUPCAKES
Stand out	POP
Standout	GEM
Stars of tomorrow	COMERS
The origin of civilization	SOFTC
They're seen on Canadian silver dollars	CANOES
They're short on material	MINIS
Traditional rebel	TEENAGER
Tropical-country custom	SIESTA
Unchanging	INARUT
Under a strain	TAXED
Volunteer	UNPAID
What strong acids dissolved in water do	IONIZE
With 47 Across, knighted coach on ''The Voice UK''	TOM
Work (out)	PAN
Yarn-hair doll turning 100 in 2015	ANN
Youngest Cooperstown electee	KOUFAX
__ pocket	AIR

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Answer - Jan 30, 2015

 Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Answer - January 30, 2015

Clue	Answer
''A Bug's Life'' characters	ANTS
''I'm stumped!''	GOTME
''It's a Wonderful Life'' villain	POTTER
A life sci	ECOL
Actor Epps	OMAR
Arches National Park locale	UTAH
Auction purchase	LOT
Brush aside	DISCOUNT
Campus figure	SOPH
Centers of pride	EGOS
Certain railroad crossing	TRESTLE
Certain stage solo	ARIA
CFO, often	CPA
Collection of writings	CORPUS
County of Hawaii	MAUI
Cycle starter	UNI
Disney theatrical production	AIDA
Don't blink	STARE
Dramatic opener	ACTI
Employee extra	PERK
Eventuate	OCCUR
Exclamation of frustration	AWHECK
Factions	CAMPS
Far into the night	LATE
Film genre	FANTASIES
Gwen in ''The Amazing Spider-Man''	EMMA
Hagiology subj	STS
Haitian official language	CREOLE
Handed out	DEALT
Helping hand	AID
Iconic attorney	DARROW
It has an Amsterdam hub	KLM
Kilmer poem	TREES
Kimono, for instance	ROBE
Knock over	AWE
Latino Walk of Fame neighborhood	EASTLA
Light brown	ECRU

Clue	Answer
Long-ago past	OLDDAYS
Madonna film role	EVITA
Narrow the gap	GAIN
NHL Atlantic team	SABRES
Not so bad	ENDURABLE
Novelist Waugh	ALEC
On a break	IDLE
On target	TRUE
On the hook	LIABLE
Part of a spine	VERTEBRA
Piece of hair	TRESS
Place for pigeons	COTE
Possible place for autographs	CAST
Punishment, so to speak	LUMPS
Renewable energy source	WIND
Restraint of a sort	LAPBELT
Revel in	SAVOR
S&L offering	IRA
Salt source	MINE
Sign of confusion	FURROWEDBROW
Sign of disgust	WRINKLEDNOSE
Sign of displeasure	PURSEDLIPS
Sign of hostility	BAREDTEETH
Source of some USAF leaders	ROTC
Space-station ''outings''	EVAS
Sportscast coda	RECAP
Stepson of Claudius	NERO
Suffix like -ule	ETTE
Swarming	RIFE
Total, with ''to''	AMOUNT
Towering	LOFTY
W cabinet member	CONDI
What falls from an icicle	DRIP
Wool-coat owner	EWE
Word following baby or bucket	SEAT
World Teachers' Day sponsor	UNESCO
Yard access of a sort	DOGDOOR

Thomas Joseph - King Feature Syndicate - Jan 31, 2015

Thomas Joseph - King Feature Syndicate - Jan 31, 2015

Clue	Answer
'Crazy in Love' singer	BEYONCE
Add zest to	LIVEN
Alley item	PIN
Baltimore team	RAVENS
Bank worker	TELLER
Came down	RAINED
CEO's kin	PRES
Cherished	DEAR
Claire of 'Homeland'	DANES
Colander's kin	SIEVE
Commotion	ADO
Computer screen sight	MENUBAR
Copes	MAKESDO
Destroyed	UNDONE
Drink cooler	ICECUBE
Exemplary	IDEAL
Fall flower	ASTER
Film excerpts	CLIPS
Foot-wiping spots	MATS
Fumes	SEESRED
Kitchen come-on	AROMA
Late hour	ELEVEN
Lend a hand	AID
Long for	CRAVE

Clue	Answer
Midway sights	RIDES
Nick of 'Gracepoint'	NOLTE
Olympics chant	USA
One of the Nixons	TRICIA
One with a pick	MINER
Onions' kin	LEEKS
Opposite of 'sans'	AVEC
Out of control	BERSERK
Peaceful	SERENE
Pentagon bigwigs	BRASS
Pig part	SNOUT
Placesfor the pampered	SPAS
Plunder	RANSACK
Reason	SENSE
Sadat's predecessor	NASSER
Strut	SASHAY
Swift work	SATIRE
Tall tale	LIE
Thailand, once	SIAM
Toppers	HATS
Trolley's kin	TRAM
Troubling sign	OMEN
Very dry	BRUT
Yale student	ELI

USA Today Crossword Answer - Jan 31, 2015

USA Today Crossword Solution - Jan 31, 2015

Clue	Answer
"A Nest of Simple ___" (O'Faolain novel)	FOLK
"Buffalo" Bill	CODY
"Cheers" character	NORM
"M*A*S*H" character	RADAR
"Upon this rock" apostle	PETER
A single time	ONCE
African carnivore	HYENA
Arabian Sea gulf	ADEN
Archaeologist's milieu	DIG
Author Loos	ANITA
Bamako's country	MALI
Beat the pants off	TROMP
Becomes more complex, as a plot	THICKENS
Boehm, for one	FLUTIST
Booed	JEERED
Card-game authority Edmond	HOYLE
Chatter idly	PRATE
Cheesemaker's product?	MILKYWHEY
Chef's phrase	ALA
Chocolate tree	CACAO
Choice word	ELSE
Christmas carols	NOELS
Cleaning cloth	RAG
Dental problem	DECAY
English novelist Bagnold	ENID
Father, informally	DAD
Flaxlike fiber	RAMIE
Flue collection	SMUT
Fourth of July?	WYE
Front for metric or bar	ISO
Go backwards in time?	EMIT
Gratuitous herb?	FREETHYME
Hall of Famer Lajoie	NAP
Having a hard time deciding	TORN
He crosses the line	SCAB
Inheritor right out of the shower?	CLEANHEIR
Largest tree stump?	SUPERBOLE
Loll about	LAZE
Luxuriously soft and satiny	SILKEN

Clue	Answer
Machinations	SCHEMES
Manner	STYLE
Mighty trees	OAKS
Mimicking one	APER
More healthy-looking	HALER
Nephrite	JADE
Objects intuited but not seen	NOUMENA
Olympic sword	EPEE
One being exploited	USEE
One who walks purposefully	STRIDER
Pahlavi, for one	SHAH
Parker and Waterman	PENS
Part of a cheerleader's routine	YELL
Participate in an auction	BID
Plant swelling	EDEMA
Poet St. Vincent Millay	EDNA
Prado display	ART
Put on the market	OFFER
Refusals from the Pope?	ROMANNOES
River of eastern Germany	SPREE
Rugrat	TOT
Rx measures	DOSES
Scratch out a living	EKE
Shaving-cream additive, sometimes	ALOE
Singer Waters	ETHEL
Stage of development	PHASE
Star observer	GAZER
Sting	SMART
Stir up	AGITATE
Straighten	ALIGN
Tackle's partner	BLOCK
The first "L" of L.L. Bean	LEON
The sour taste of Robespierre's tenure?	ACIDREIGN
Therefore	THUS
They make spots	ADMEN
Try to obtain	SEEK
Unable to appreciate the symphony	TONEDEAF
Wine classification	SEC
___ of Troy	HELEN

Universal Crossword Puzzle Answer - Jan 31, 2015

Universal Crossword Puzzle Solution - Jan 31, 2015

Clue	Answer
"CD" follower	ROM
"The Purloined Letter" author	POE
18-wheeler, e.g	RIG
Aden's country	YEMEN
Assess	RATE
Away from home	OUT
Barely cooked	RARE
Bath sponge (Var.)	LOOFA
Bee Gees brothers	GIBBS
Big bash	GALA
Big guy AKA "The Great Communicator"	RONALDREAGAN
Big guy from Milton	GEORGEHWBUSH
Big guy on sax	BILLCLINTON
Big guy who used to say "Aloha"	BARACKOBAMA
Big hunk of beef	SIDE
Bovine noise	MOO
Buddhist shrines	DAGOBAS
Bullfighter	TOREADOR
Campus cadet org	ROTC
Cause for nose pinching	ODOR
Christian's last name	DIOR
Co-___ (condo kin)	OPS
Cologne ingredient	MUSK
Conjunctivitis	PINKEYE
Digs in the ice?	IGLOO
Editor's "Let it stand"	STET
Eggs in bio labs	OVA
Enclosure for swine	STY
Everglades wading bird	EGRET
FDA concern	ECOLI
Food stabilizer	AGAR
Freight unit	TON
Furtive and crafty	SLY
Gambler's money	STAKE
German WWII submarine	UBOAT
Globular jar	OLLA
Gondola's route	CANAL
Humpback, e.g	WHALE
Idyllically pastoral	ARCADIAN

Clue	Answer
It makes the cut	KNIFE
Italian lawn bowling	BOCCE
Khan's title	AGA
Kind of fly	BOT
Least bit of rain	DROP
Like a gymnast	AGILE
List ending, often	ETC
Little rascal	SCAMP
Macs or dudes, old-style	BUBS
Male possessive pronoun	HIS
Mammoth trio?	EMS
Method conclusion?	OLOGY
Nat King or Natalie	COLE
Nobel-winning UN agency	ILO
Order to a dog	BEG
Org. depicted in "Apollo 13"	NASA
Part of an eyelid	LASH
Period of mourning in Judaism (Var.)	SHIVAH
Queen's subject, often	ANT
Queens, for one	BOROUGH
Rum-soaked cake	BABA
Run ___ (go crazy)	AMOK
Set up house together	COHABIT
Short story of one's life	OBIT
Short-lived hot stuff	FADS
Sib to Sis	BRO
Ski hill	SLOPE
Some wild goats (Var.)	IBICES
Southwest driver?	PILOT
Spherical hairstyle	AFRO
Stir up, as sediment	ROIL
Suit size designation	LONG
They can be caught on the beach	RAYS
Tire-puncturing strip	CALTROP
Unethical	IMMORAL
Unit of parsley	SPRIG
Vietnam's capital	HANOI
Vote to accept	ADOPT
Wise men or women	SAGES