USA Today - December 1 2016 Thursday Crossword Puzzle Answer

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solution - December 1 2016 Thursday 

Clues	Answers
"__ or plastic?"	PAPER
Adjective for Methuselah	OLDEST
Amorphous mass	BLOB
Bar mitzvah figure	RABBI
Bother to no end	HARASS
Bratty kid in "Blondie"	ELMO
Bug planter	SPY
Canadian tribesman	CREE
Cavern effect	ECHO
Checkroom item	COAT
Cheese in spinach pie	FETA
Come down with	CATCH
Compulsive gambler's woe,often	DEBT
Coral information	REEF
Craiglist posts	ADS
Current unit, for short	AMP
Cut of beef or pork	LOIN
Dead-end job	RUT
Director Kurosawa	AKIRA
Doesn't exist	ISNT
Dr. Dre and Kanye West, for two	HIP HOP PRODUCERS
Dustin in "Midnight Cowboy"	RATSO
Epeeist's score	TOUCH
Equestrian's handful	REINS
Erie Canal mule	SAL
Explorer girl of kids' TV	DORA
Fabulous shape	TIP TOP CONDITION
First lady before Michelle	LAURA
Fountain of Youth site, in legend	FLORIDA
Four-star review	RAVE
Fruit used to flavor sign	SLOE
Get the goat of	ANGER
Get the point of	SEE
Girl Scouts unit	TROOP
Hay unit	BALE
High point	APEX
House member (Abbr.)	REP
In charge of	OVER
In play	LIVE
In tough spot	TREED
Initial stage	ONSET
Instruments for Parker and Coltrane	SAXES
Ivory or Coast	SOAP
Like 8-Down	TART
Like die-hard rooters	AVID
Like Tabasco sauce	TANGY
Like well-worn jeans	FADED
Likely to mouth off	PERT
Linen source	FLAX
Many a summer worker	INTERN
Many Rx writers	MDS
Musical break	REST
None-of-the-above choice	OTHER
Online shopping center	EMALL
Opposite of "to"	FRO
Pillager's take	LOOT
Poolside footwear	FLIP FLOP SANDALS
Promontory Point's state	UTAH
Reason to drink	THIRST
Renovation of a sort	FACELIFT
Route-suggesting iPhone app	MAPS
Runs on TV	AIRS
Salary limit	CAP
Shakespeare-based Verdi opera	OTELLO
Shaving stuff	FOAM
Sits precariously	TEETERS
SpaceX CEO Musk	ELON
Take a chance	DARE
The yoke's on them	OXEN
They help you stand tall	STILTS
Turf's menu partner	SURF
Unwrap impatiently	TEAROPEN
Urban front steps	STOOP
Wanted-poster letters	AKA
Wrestler Hulk	HOGAN
Yuletide treat	NOG

Newsday.com - December 1 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - December 1 2016 

Clues	Answers
''M*A*S*H'' role	RADAR
''Nixon in China,'' for example	OPERA
''Rubber Duckie'' singer	ERNIE
Absent oneself	BAIL
Add on	APPEND
Angry outburst	TIRADE
Angry outburst	RANT
Architect	MAKER
At one with	WEDTO
Bamboozles	SNOWS
Be contingent	HINGE
Be immoderate with	OVERDO
Ben in ''The Big Short''	BRAD
Besmirch	SOIL
Bowed	BENT
Brazil borderer	PERU
Brightness measures	IQS
Civil rights leader Medgar	EVERS
Civil War-era photo tint	SEPIA
Container weight	TARE
Criticism, so to speak	FLAK
Devonshire dessert	AFTERS
DNA match	CLONE
Edible tubes	ZITI
Firmly established	STABLE
Full of enthusiasm	AFIRE
Gentle prods	TAPS
Google competitor	BING
Grocery frozen fare	BAGELS
Guy that guys admire	MANSMAN
Harasses from behind	NIPSATONESHEELS
Have fond hopes	DREAM
High anxiety	PANIC
Ill-gotten gains	BOOTY
Javelin paths	ARCS
Kate Middleton, in 2011	BRIDE
Lanai lady	WAHINE
Leave in a galley	STET

 

Clues	Answers
Leaves for seasoning	SAGE
Like lawns at dawn	DEWY
Make an entrance	GOIN
Makes it through adversity	LANDSONONESFEET
Misses nothing	KEEPSONONESTOES
Month before mai	AVRIL
More packed	DENSER
Most Spartan	BAREST
Much of a dollar sign	ESS
Neurology readouts	EEGS
Novelist Murdoch	IRIS
Nun's superior	ABBESS
On pins and needles	EDGY
Online mag	ZINE
OPEC member	IRAQ
Oscar actress Swinton	TILDA
Pine Tree State	MAINE
Puts down	ABASES
Quite a while	AGES
Retweets, perhaps	SHARES
Rise majestically	SOAR
Rushmore nickname	TEDDY
Scale (down)	PARE
Sci-fi captain	KIRK
Show of hands, e.g	VOTE
Skillful	ABLE
Some cats	MOUSERS
Square-mile fraction	ACRE
Student no	GPA
Tedious task	ONUS
Term of endearment	BABE
Trait carrier	GENE
Tries to get sold at	ASKS
Turn topsy-turvy	UPEND
TV twins' surname	OLSEN
What may finish a fight	TKO
Where the Cavs reigned last season	NBA
__ out a victory	EKE

L.A. Times Daily - December 1 2016 Thursday Crossword Puzzle Answer

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solution - December 1 2016 Thursday 

Clues	Answers
"... Bug in __"	ARUG
"Blah, blah, blah," for short	ETCETC
"Bor-r-ring"	HOHUM
"But __ got high hopes ..": song lyric	HES
"Check"	NO BET
"Hurry!" letters	ASAP
"I used to be Snow White, but I __": Mar West	DRIFTED
"Jeepers!"	GOSH
"Once upon a midnight dreary" poet	POE
"Ugh!"	ICK
"You there!"	PSST
"Zip it!"	SHH
Additional information?	SUM
Asset for Sherlock	LOGIC
Bay sound	NEIGH
Brutish one	OGRE
Consider	DEEM
Court promise	I DO
Crude smelting product	PIG IRON
CSA soldier	REB
Curry favor with, with "to"	KISSUP
D.C. player	ROL
Daydreamed, with "out"	ZONED
Distance runners	MILERS
Eat into	ERODE
Eclipse shadow	UMBRA
Elaborate costume parties	MASKED BALLS
Enjoy Orbit	CHEW GUM
Fast	RAPID
First name in folk	JONI
Fish with vermilion fins	OPAH
Form a coalition	UNITE
Former Mideast ruler	SHAH
Fragrances	ODORS
Golden __	AGER
Green shade	PEA, OLIVE
Groups with a piece-keeping strategy?	CHESS CLUBS
Heat meas.	BTU
How it's always done, initially	SOP
Hustle of shuffle	DANCE
Ill-mannered	UNCOUTH
Important period	EPOCH
In essence	MAINLY
Incredulous dying words	ETTU
Inland Asian sea	ARAL
Like angel food cake	SPONGY
Like many a stray dog	MANGY
Lot	DESTINY
LPGA great Lopez	NANCY
Masonry-reinforcing rod	REBAR
NASA vehicles	LEMS
Neutral tone	BEIGE
New Orleans' __ Street	BOURBON
Nonsense talk, whose circled letter is the start of what might be done with items in the four longest puzzle answers	JIVE
One following the nus?	XIS
Pack animal	ASS
Part of the pelvis	SACRUM
Personalized collection of love songs, say	MIXCD
Pickle	FIX
Picky details	NITS
Places for seeing stars?	BOXING RINGS
Prefix with -gram	PENTA
Prosperity	WEAL
Rare blood type, briefly	ANEG
Set-for-life set	IDLERICH
Shakespearean barmaid	WENCH
Snooped (around)	NOSED
Storied loch	NESS
Stuffed shirt	SNOB
Times in ads	NITES
Tops	AONE
Toronto Argonauts' org.	CFL
Tried to make it on one's down	WENT SOLO
Two-checker piece	KING
Veers suddenly	ZIGS
What can help you avoid getting stuck changing diapers?	SAFETY PINS
What makes a deal ideal?	ANI

New York Times - December 1 2016 Thursday Crossword Puzzle Answer

New York Times Crossword Puzzle Solution - December 1 2016 Thursday 

Clues	Answers
___ goes the neighborhood	THERE
2004 film about artificial intelligence	IROBOT
About 45 miles of it touch Canada	IDAHO
Airport monitor datum	ARRIVAL
Audiophiles' purchases	CDS
Bask (in)	GLORY
Beam bent at 90 degree	LBAR
Cardinals' home	ARIZONA
Classic novel about an orphan girl mistakenly sent to Prince Edward Island	ANNEOFGREENGABLES
Cry feebly	MEWL
Deteriorates	ERODES
Dish topped with bacon, cheese and sour cream	LOADEDBAKEDPOTATO
Dominates, informally	OWNS
Drains (from)	SAPS
Edutainment cartoon featuring a teacher named Ms. Frizzle	THEMAGICSCHOOLBUS
Ending with fan	ZINE
Fictional character who says "I'd strike the sun if it insulted me"	AHAB
Field of Jean-Luc Godard	CINE
Fight stopper, for short	TKO
Football Hall-of-Famer Newsome	OZZIE
Gillette razors	ATRAS
Go slower	EASEUP
Growth along a ski run	FIR
Home to a famous mausoleum	AGRA
How some bonds are sold	ATPAR
Instructed	BADE
Kentucky's Fort ___	KNOX
Labor day class?	LAMAZE
Lay on thick	OVERDO
Like the rotation of the earth	AXIAL
Low-pitched part of a song	BASSLINE
Make a sudden turn	ZAG
Museum piece	RELIC
Nacho accompaniment ... or a feature of 17-, 35- and 52-Across?	BEANDIP
Neighbor of Burkina Faso	MALI
Not dive in, say	WADE
Of the open sea	PELAGIC
On the double!	ASAP
One blowing off steam?	KETTLE
One filling out personnel forms, say	HIREE
Pitiful bunch	SADLOT
Pulls down	EARNS
Quetzalcoatl, e.g.	GOD
Seussian environmentalist	LORAX
Skimobiler's wear	ANORAK
Slew	SCAD
Sloppy smooch	WETKISS
Smooth over	IRON
Soldier's assignment	UNIT
Sonoran Desert river	GILA
South American territory in the game Risk	PERU
Stringed instrument usually played sitting down	SITAR
Subject of the 2011 book "These Guys Have All the Fun"	ESPN
Suffix with klepto-	CRAT
Suit	EXEC
Supermodel Lima	ADRIANA
Supershort skirts	MICROS
Surprised exclamations	OHOS
Swiss tourist destination	INTERLAKEN
Tamed, as a bronco	RIDEABLE
Tear violently	REND
Trapshooting targets, informally	SKEETS
Trick out	ADORN
Valedictorian's pride, for short	GPA
Vibe	AURA
Welcomed at the doorstep	ASKEDIN
White out	SNOWY
Winter respite	THAW
Withdrew	RECEDED
Word with stick or gun	GLUE
Yosemite runner	IMAC

The Telegraph - Toughie - November 30 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solution - November 30 2016 

Clues	Answers
American's last in ramble for military governors	JUNTA
and 26 Actress wanting issue penned by first-rate English publicist	ALISON
and 6 Across: Rotten tree dug around river by literary doctor's gardener	GERTRUDE
Asian food -- it repeats, when eating bones	SAMOSA
Chester neighbourhood contains authoritarian	STERN
Corporation open to all mostly longing to see burial-place	TUMULUS
Delay expression of triumph with new-style fringe	HANGFIRE
Did lounge at the front illuminate date / clock display?	IDLED
Diplomat's retired relative providing approval	KOFIANNAN
Great books featuring constant intensity	ACCENT
Learner on bend, with little space and time, clipping a fence support?	LARCENER
Manually deleted pages showing former partner in married situation	TIPPEXED
Maritime chief that's seen in hold	NELSON
Mum managed to save fly -- that's sweet	MARZIPAN

 

Clues	Answers
Novelist's brave, battling with showers to keep number one dry	VERABRITTAIN
Official keeps bottom statement delivered to counter	REBUTTAL
Perhaps Cologne newspaper's available in neighbouring country	FRAGRANCE
Plant beer in hands of jazzman at intervals	AZALEA
Prepare letter at college	TEEUP
Rising, tip hat as old mathematician appears	EUCLID
See 1 Across	JEKYLL
See 25	STEADMAN
Singer playing rag later embraces another musical genre	ARTGARFUNKEL
Spiny creature's concealed amongst cane, camouflaged	ECHIDNA
Spirit-like drink chokes that lady in middle of paella	ETHEREAL
Sporting racetrack Button unconfined by time occupies endlessly	UTTOXETER
Tennis club's powerful men on board	QUEENS
Wonder about revolutionary artist having head for knowledge	AWARENESS

The Telegraph - Cryptic - November 30 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solution - November 30 2016 

Clues	Answers
A famous actor runs to take the lead as religious follower	RASTA
A very old cheese and dill ordered for starters -- and fruit	AVOCADO
Book is excellent -- a source of happiness	ISAIAH
Boundary dispute -- back both sides to come first	HEDGEROW
Branch of police HQ that may be rigged?	YARDARM
Call for help interrupted by British politician's tale of woe	SOBSTORY
Coming a day before opening	ADVENT
European country backed by money from Yorkshire eatery	BRASSERIE
Fancy it, say, with her neurotic disorder	HYSTERIA
Female pinched by many in the air	ALOFT
First part of site to be in leaf	HOMEPAGE
Gloomy American's angry about graduate physician	SOMBRE
Heard beer includes acceptable offer turning up	AUDIBLE
I need bill to be adjusted, but it's fixed	INDELIBLE
Leader of Tories with excuse for disloyalty	TREASON

 

Clues	Answers
Lost title? Right to have kittens	LITTER
Never look for mourners here	OVERMYDEADBODY
People not satisfied with answer given in dodgy sermon	MOANERS
Picture review printed within cover of issue	IMAGE
Rave around sites for development is unaffected	RESISTANT
Saucy embellishment of haute couture?	FRENCHDRESSING
Screamed head off about tag and put a coat on	ENAMELLED
Sketched river during daybreak	DRAWN
Solicitor's unexpected approach?	COLDCALL
Study in bed, covered in crumbs!	BREADED
Super oddly breaking laws -- lies awkwardly	SPRAWLS
Synthetic hair worn by mother and daughter	MANMADE
Unable to sleep needing a wash	AWAKE
Vagrant's gone round for policeman	DEADBEAT
Women needing assistance, seeing impudent young lad	WHELP

The Telegraph - Quick - November 30 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Quick Crossword Puzzle Solution - November 30 2016 

Clues	Answers
Anger	IRE
Beat	THROB
Bind	TIE
Chief	RULER
Cold	ICY
Cover	LID
Daft	INANE
Dashes	HURRIES
Detectives	SLEUTHS
Devotee	LOVER
Disgusting	GROSS
Faithful	LOYAL
Family land	ESTATE
Hairdresser's	SALON
Hurled	THREW
Ice mass	GLACIER
Large tub	VAT
Male sheep	RAM

 

Clues	Answers
Mature	AGE
Message	TEXT
Musical drama	OPERA
Objective	AIM
Of the nose	NASAL
Operator!	SURGEON
Over there	YONDER
Overt	OPEN
Part of eye	RETINA
Primate	GORILLA
Remarkable	NOTABLE
Respect	HOMAGE
Spicy sauce	SALSA
Spoils	RUINS
Track	PATH
Turkish (hist.)	OTTOMAN
Unfair treatment	RAWDEAL
Variety of agate	ONYX

The Times - Concise - November 30, 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Concise - Times2 Concise 7197 - November 30, 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
Aggressive insect	KILLERBEE
Beautiful young man	ADONIS
Belch	ERUCTATE
Clear mineral, eg, quartz	CRYSTAL
Creator of the world	DEMIURGE
D.H. —. novelist	LAWRENCE
Document writer	SCRIBE
Fourscore	EIGHTY
Go back (on a promise)	RENEGE
Greek letter	THETA
Heavily weighed down	LADEN
Insubstantial; insult	SLIGHT
Jewish headgear	YARMULKE

 

Clues	Answers
Leaves, greenery	FOLIAGE
Live in	INHABIT
Man's name meaning'valley' in Welsh	GLYN
Of urgent interest	BURNING
Predatory fish	MORAYEEL
Relation of the llama	ALPACA
Royal residence	PALACE
Stage mist	DRYICE
Take no notice of	IGNORE
Tilting truck	DUMPER
Undo; exposed to attack	OPEN
Untrue	FALSE
— di Caprio, actor	LEONARDO

The Times - Cryptic - November 30, 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Cryptic - This puzzle was one of three tackled in 60 minutes by the 80 competitors in Heat Two of the 2016 Times Crossword Championship, 37 of them solving it correctly; 28 competitors managed three all-correct solutions. - November 30, 2016

lues	Answers
Before noon I wired message that's friendly	AMICABLE
Book stopping anger is good book	BIBLE
Brave woman, maybe married in bliss after jilting bachelor	LIONESS
Cockney's trouble in Hampstead?	TOOTHACHE
Crazy about Labour's leader? In my view that's faulty!	MALFORMED
Defence starts to address legal issue behind injunction	ALIBI
Delicate quality of radiance over headland	LIGHTNESS
Expert on waves that break skin	SURFACE
Fine female in time becomes foolish	DAFFY
French always backed love goddess	FREYA
Gathered material, following stream	FRILL
Heathen cool with arcane field	INFIDEL
Home to welcome one much enraged mongoose	ICHNEUMON
Homer's wife shuns author to leave with lover	ELOPE
Husband in cloak left union group	CHAPEL

 

Clues	Answers
Indian stooge here used regularly	PAWNEE
Jog on to get forward	REFRESH
Kept appointment with fate in legendary town	CAMELOT
Language from two daughters, in race, bashed in legs by horse	MIDDLEENGLISH
Line added to grant form: one of several?	ALLOTROPE
Literary culture from landlords?	LETTERS
Maybe worried about Nazi force's mission	EMBASSY
No talking, because digesting article abroad	SILENCE
Party activity shows where seat must be held	MUSICALCHAIRS
Powerful man, head, restraining sailor	NABOB
Record of proceedings in EU is initially earning praise	EULOGISE
Second XI shows power	STEAM
Signed agreement whip keeps attached to tie	CONCORDAT
Third-rate actor along with the writer call for noisy work	HAMMERING
WC allocated to staff — does that make point?	FIELDSMAN

The Guardian - Cryptic - December 1 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Guardian - Cryptic crossword No 27,056 - December 1 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
'Gosh!' = 'ok'	ISAY
Vessel's crew (émigrés in part, returning)	EWER
Allow time to take on outsiders in race	AGREE
Backed favourite vainly, lacking enthusiasm	TEPIDLY
Backs the last runners, not the first	ENDORSES
Boatman could be one better?	PUNTER
Clue: the pastern's broken, but this horse won with certainty; it's better than gambling (1,4,2,3,4,2,5,3,2,3,4)	ABIRDINTHE
Condone taking a gamble	ABET
Each-way stake	PUTUP
Eliot told fantastic tale of a friend to animals	DOOLITTLE
Features in rows, not a single one	NOSES
Fix odds in Derby fraud — no trial?	DRYRUN
Having no fun from creativity in one's lifetime	SPARTAN
How a dark horse doesn't appear to be at stake	PALE
Improved view, adapting plane details (just the wings) with CAD	LANDSCAPED
Initial cutting replacing tip, to dead-head	CAPUT
Makes smooth pieces for pianist drawn from plain inspirations	IRONS

 

Clues	Answers
Marketplace for anyone gambling on races and using tips	AGORA
Model here reveals a bit of leg — heavenly!	ONHIGH
North Americans' casual California hideaways reported	CANUCKS
Old IT device in BASIC wordplay to check	KEYPUNCH
Old King Boatman seen in pseudomorphs	OEDIPUS
Pinions perhaps by firm force with parts of feet	COGWHEELS
Report on drugs used for relief	EASE
Revived with oxygen after backing first horse in wet conditions	BORNAGAIN
See 15	INTHEBUSH
See 15	HANDIS
See 15	WORTHTWO
Takes a risk, being seen in a dress	SARI
They help gamblers and prostitutes missing out having a flutter	TIPSTERS
Time being the end of season formerly	NONCE
Tried syncopated beat	TIRED
Wins clearly initially, if at length criticises umpire's call	KOS