Newsday.com - April 1 2017 Saturday Crossword Puzzle Answer

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solution - April 1 2017 Saturday 

Clues	Answers
#7 on the Fortune 500, 2001	ENRON
''Absolut nicht!''	NEIN
''Friendship,'' for Texas	MOTTO
''Short'' suffix in music	ETTA
''Some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head'' singer	SUE
. . . Birchard, __, Alan, . .	ABRAM
5-to-500 banknote	EURO
Adjective in a recent game-show title	SMARTER
Admonition	CAVEAT
Ado	HOOPLA
Agility	SPRYNESS
Automated miner	BOT
Big name in matzos	MANISCHEWITZ
Carload lot	TON
Casting director's criterion	TYPE
Chapter or verse	PART
Comes to conclude	ARRIVESAT
Competitive challenge	TOPTHAT
Cop op	STING
Crete's highest point	MOUNTIDA
Crop grown on the most land worldwide	WHEAT
Dawning	ONSET
Dermatological vexation	ITCH
Diane on ''Oz''	EDIE
Don't take it literally	IDIOM
Drove home	STRESSED
End of ''The Crucible''	ACTIV
Exalted, in Islam	ALI
Fall/winter observance	ELNINO
Fire-in-a-can brand	STERNO
Gathers dust	SITS
Glitch	BOOBOO
Hamlet directive	HARK
Hardwood floor maintenance	RECOAT
He danced with Temple in a '36 film	EBSEN
How most people can be classified	ASIAN

 

Clues	Answers
In good taste	SEEMLY
Incentivize	SPUR
Instrument Bach wrote for	VIOL
Iota	OUNCE
Its seal depicts a pelican	LSU
Job with ''nutritious'' in its etymology	NURSE
Long to take back	RUE
Medical decision of a sort	TKO
Middle name on a 2010 Technical Grammy	ALVA
Millstone	ONUS
Nab	HAULIN
Old-style oath	MERCY
One who feels what you feel	EMPATH
Opposite of ''keeps in the dark''	APPRISES
Oxes	OAFS
Physicist's name inscribed on the Eiffel Tower	FOUCAULT
Pole-vault thing	ZLOTY
Precursors to scoring	ASSISTS
Request for repetition	WHAT
Restraining order	HUSHUP
Senseless	DAFT
Shelley's ''unacknowledged legislators of the world''	POETS
Shrink or start	WINCE
Significant	NOSMALLTHING
Some making 42 Down	NHLERS
Sounds unhappy	SNIVELS
Teen __	IDOL
Tickle Me Elmo introducer	TYCO
Unbundled	APOP
Welcome respites	OASES
West Point superintendent, 1852-1855	LEE
What gin might be	APERITIF
Whom element #107 was named for	BOHR
Woodstock or Sedona	ARTCOLONY
Working together	INSYNC
__ center (C, for Ravel's ''Boléro'')	TONAL

USA Today - April 1 2017 Saturday Crossword Puzzle Answer

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solution - April 1 2017 Saturday 

Clues	Answers
"My Wau" lyricist Paul	ANKA
"Selma" director DuVernay	AVA
"The Plague" city	ORAN
__ John's (pizza chain)	PAPA
Abbr. on a business sign	ESTD
An earth tone	OCHER
An ore of tin	STANNITE
Auction unit	LOT
Bacterium in the GI tract	ECOLI
Bergen dummy Mortimer	SNERD
Bill, the Science Guy	NYE
Blues legend wolf	HOWLIN
Brass instrument player	HORNIST
Bryant who coached 32-Down	BEAR
Bugling beast	ELK
Clumsy sort	OAF
Coca-Cola's worldwide sales effort, e.g.	GLOBAL MARKETING
Component of brown rice	BRAN
Condensed version	DIGEST
Country center	SEAT
Cowardly beast of Oz	LION
Deputy __ (cartoon canine)	DAWG
Discharge, as light	EMIT
Distribute in shares	ALLOT
Drug-induced sleeps, perhaps	COMAS
Emotion in much emo music	ANGST
Evidence of an injury	SCAR
Free-for-__ (melees)	ALLS
Gauchos or clam diggers	PANTS
Goldman's brokerage partner	SACHS
Grannies	NANAS
Greet the day	ARISE
Henri who painted "The Dance"	MATISSE
Hider in a haystack	NEEDLE
In the midst of	AMONG
Line with a Star of David logo	ELAL
Lines equidistant from planets' poles	EQUATORS
Make porter, say	BREW
Many Eng. degrees	BAS
Mars vehicle	ROVER
Model who was married to Bowie	IMAN
Munch on chips, say	NOSH
Neighbor of Latvia	ESTONIA
One of AA's 12	STEP
Out of reach	FAR
Patch up	MEND
Peron of Argentina	EVA
Place for an espresso	CAFE
Pull a scam on	CON
Reagan's tax policy, to Bush in 1980	VOODOO ECONOMICS
Repair, as a lawn	RESEED
Right triangle ratio	SINE
Rough-__ (lacking refinement)	HEWN
Rub the wrong way	RILE
Rushed toward	RAN AT
Saying nothing	MUM
Seasoning in stuffing	SAGE
Seismograph detection, briefly	QUAKE
Siouan speaker	OSAGE
Skin care brand	OLAY
Sleek, in car lingo	AERO
Smart-alecky	WISE
Snake venom's deliverer	FANG
Stereotypical boxcar rider	HOBO
Submits, as a ballot	CASTS
T.S. who wrote "The Sacred Wood"	ELIOT
The Bard's river	AVON
The Crimson Tide, for short	BAMA
The O'Hara estate	TARA
Thick, creamy soup	POTAGE
Tony Soprano's field, ostensibly	WASTE MANAGEMENT
Toyota logo shape	OVAL
Underwater sandbank	SHOAL
Unjust conviction	BUMRAP
Vaper's need, informally	ECIG
What a blood thinner may prevent	CLOT

The Telegraph - Toughie - March 31 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Toughie Crossword Puzzle Solution - March 31 2017 

Clues	Answers
After male leaves, dregs of society're going to row	SCULL
Article dropped by Sotheby's unexpectedly generating lots of orders?	BOSSY
Banks of Oder overcome by river in its rush	TORRENT
Be more than affected by general anaesthetic -- and local more so?	OUTNUMBER
Cast iron's founders to make a roll	CROISSANT
Core of centrism to benefit Labour	TRAVAIL
Damage to be deposing leader based on class struggle?	MARXIST
Doctor meeting Irishman with amputated foot? That's hardly likely	DREAMON
Dollar per seed-head quoted for chancer	BUCCANEER
Dull hack produces first of new books	MATTHEW
Fellow feeling 'thimple' when representative makes an entrance	EMPATHY
Ill-defined personal appeal backs retiring	TIMID
Incompetent conservative Republican houses rejected Communist name	BLUNDERER
Jazzman Ronnie, namely, Barker	SCOTTIE
Larger amount of Italian poet, never seeing English as incisive	MORDANT
Make a lot of noise about constant fog	BECLOUD

 

Clues	Answers
Mitigate report that covers support being withdrawn	SWEETEN
Note almost discordant sound in revolting release	UNCLASP
Poor donkey, having the wrong part doubled!	NEEDY
Pub chain, each putting end to second simple eating-house	BRASSERIE
Regular specks of ketchup also put over dressing	SAUCE
Resident departs with Pickwick's man	DWELLER
Ring and baronet lacking refinement become painfully obvious	OBTRUDE
Rio must put in order one of its major industries	TOURISM
Second note had animal securing tail for Christopher Robin	REDBREAST
Secure not to have a clerical role?	BELAY
Shakespearean contemporary volume introducing soldier possibly imprisoned by goddess	CERVANTES
Show annoyance in SW city when duck has flown east	BRISTLE
Soldiers having gathered around old token for remembrance	MEMENTO
Substantial job as hired muscle?	HEAVYDUTY
Suffer before dog's home	INCUR
Thin good-for-nothing hasn't succeeded	WATER

The Telegraph - Cryptic - March 31 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Cryptic Crossword Puzzle Solution - March 31 2017 

Clues	Answers
After success, priest goes on street -- one may have champagne	WINELIST
Artist in part of London producing something very colourful	RAINBOW
Chemical that gives one brilliant mood	ACETONE
Country is given king coming from the south	ISRAEL
Deceive with trick to ensnare heart -- not right!	CHEATON
Devon-born gents in new deal to secure thousand financial certificates	GOVERNMENTBONDS
Directions fit for use to bypass capital's business area	RECIPE
Disloyal type's act against company -- heartless act	TURNCOAT
Everyone involved in rows? They should know the score	TALLIERS
Friends at home entertained by Charles	CHINAS
Goodness repeatedly shown by runner in race?	GEEGEE
Land that gives a player a try	TOUCHDOWN
Like seeker of knowledge producing coarse material, penning article	FAUSTIAN
Look after troublemaker creating damage	IMPAIR

 

Clues	Answers
Lords showing discrimination against the elderly?	BARONAGE
Love and money enthralling hero in the west	OCCIDENT
Male put into prison as one of no fixed abode?	TRAMP
Man and wife not well very early in the morning	WILLIAM
One male beast repelled the enemy by the sea	MARITIME
One of 2 providing marijuana	GRASS
Places with fine material where trolls will not be welcome?	WEBSITES
Preservative that is starchy much favoured	FORMALIN
Proceed enthusiastically with Dorothy's dog wrapped in garment	GOTOTOWN
Quiet dog without lead seen in conference	POWWOW
Rats risen from ground	Informers
Small room backing on to bigger one, a blissful situation	VALHALLA
Very little for learner in place offering career?	VOCATION

The Telegraph - Quick - March 31 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Telegraph - Quick Crossword Puzzle Solution - March 31 2017 

Clues	Answers
A thousand thousand	MILLION
An explosive	CORDITE
Be aware of	KNOW
Bluish purple	MAUVE
Bobby --, chess champion	FISCHER
Cosy retreat	NEST
Court excuse	ALIBI
Court offence	PERJURY
European principality	MONACO
Fashion anew	RESTYLE
Felines	PUMAS
Flowering plant	LUPIN
From Dublin maybe	IRISH
Gaseous element	XENON
Invalidates	CANCELS
Made of units	MODULAR

 

Clues	Answers
Minister	RECTOR
Moderate	TEMPER
Mythological river	STYX
Of the moon	LUNAR
Offence taken	PIQUE
Polish dance	MAZURKA
Post-death investigation	INQUEST
Resident	DENIZEN
Riddle	SIEVE
Rodents	GERBILS
Saying	MAXIM
Skew-whiff	AWRY
Specialists	EXPERTS
Tease	CHAFF
Wants	NEEDS
WI music	REGGAE

The Times - Concise - March 31, 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Concise - Times2 Concise 7301 - March 31, 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
Berkshire racecourse	ASCOT
Burdensome, oppressive	ONEROUS
Discharge; expulsion	EJECTION
Doctor Who enemy	DALEK
Dutch humanist and scholar	ERASMUS
Eating area	DINETTE
Game like bingo	LOTTO
Golfer's support	TEE
Highest point	ACME
Mariner	SAILOR
Of poor quality	BAD
Persistently annoy	PESTER
Quality of a sound	TIMBRE
Ramp up	ESCALATE

 

Clues	Answers
Ran away	FLED
Relating to races	ETHNIC
Robbery	HEIST
Seven-sided figure	HEPTAGON
Severe in manner	AUSTERE
Sign of the zodiac	PISCES
Small packet (of, eg, shampoo)	SACHET
Small vessel	BOAT
Stoat-like mammal	WEASEL
Team game	HOCKEY
Thicket; playwright	SHAW
University teacher	LECTURER
Valuable possession	ASSET
West Side Story heroine	MARIA

The Times - Cryptic - March 31, 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic 26687 - March 31, 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
A good composer filled with wine abroad is distressing	Aggrieving
Accordingly dressed in pants in case it's warm	ENTHUSIASTIC
Adversary of Chartist in wanting reform	ANTICHRIST
Back away from national flag	IRIS
Cheers about error from defence giving cover for Caesar	TOGA
Choice between wood and bird is problem for rambler in US?	LOGORRHEA
Cops occupying room for very low rate	SNAILSPACE
Cricket side misses the deadline to make rules	LEGISLATE
Fancy a beer, getting in round when trouble starts	FLASHPOINT
Firm notice about closing bars	CODA
Go astray, admitting touching femme fatale	SIREN
Grand entertainers and party person providing chilling entertainment?	GHOSTSTORY
I'm not impressed, getting over River Don	TUTOR
Insolence from two Nazi groups	SASS

 

Clues	Answers
Maybe Shylock, with fury, going after society's privileged youth	SLOANERANGER
Moguls' capital invested in bargains from the east	AGRA
No trouble covering stone and pottery with a mass of water	EASTCHINASEA
Nothing stops just fight	BOUT
Notion about future tense restricting new sentence	PRESENTIMENT
Old boy's drunk malt whiskey, putting away litres	WYKEHAMIST
One cutting hair in a state	MAINE
Perhaps she's governed India?	RANI
Reason to fight roughly, with suspicion libel involved	CASUSBELLI
Rolling in cash, yet exhibiting doubt	HESITANCY
See-through clothing for dancers worn by extremely prudish clergymen?	SHEPHERDS
Socially progressive article in French paper	LEFT
Top symbol of home ground,	EARTH
Try to prevent dance craze gripping university	DISCOURAGE

The Guardian - Quick - Mar 31 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Guardian - Quick crossword No 14,633 - Mar 31 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Clues	Answers
Agile	SPRIGHTLY
Bent on one sole purpose	SINGLEMINDED
Best time of youth	SALADDAYS
Careless mistakes	LAPSES
Chinese criminal gang	TONG
Completely insane	MADASAHATTER
Completely unfathomable	ASCLEARASMUD
Devotee of a cause	PARTISAN
French city — her carts (anag)	CHARTRES
Get to know	LEARN
Insecurely positioned	UNSTEADY

 

Clues	Answers
Inventor of the telephone, d. 1922	BELL
Large bird	PELICAN
Make business contacts socially	NETWORK
Old Greek city state	SPARTA
Overcast	DULL
Quantity of paper	REAM
Short coat	JACKET
Sky blue	AZURE
Slim — fit	INTRIM
Tiny acts (anag) — godliness	SANCTITY
Town in Australia's Northern Territory	ALICESPRINGS

Irish Times (Simplex) - April 1 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword Puzzle Solution - April 1 2017 

Clues	Answers
A light gentle breeze	ZEPHYR
Alleviated, lightened	RELIEVED
Alloy of copper and tin	BRONZE
Clearly outlined and easy to see	DISTINCT
Clinging vine	IVY
Conclude, wind up	FINISH
Court proceeding	TRIAL
Exhaustive, complete	THOROUGH
Fish with hook and line	ANGLE
Gloucester or Gubbeen, say	CHEESE
Group of fish	SCHOOL
Groups or bunches of similar things	CLUSTERS
Imitate the primate	APE
Impairments of organisms	ILLNESSES
Impressive displays	ARRAYS
Jug with filter to make coffee	CAFETIERE
Large US deer	MOOSE
Local taxes on commercial property	RATES

 

Clues	Answers
No part of this line is straight	CURVE
Nuance, nicety	SUBTLETY
One licensed to fly	PILOT
One suffers for the sake of principle	MARTYR
Pester the old horse	NAG
Precise, not vague	SPECIFIC
Rank or position in society	STATUS
Reject bluntly	REBUFF
Restate from one language into another	INTERPRET
Riesling-producing region eastern France	ALSACE
Saudi capital	RIYADH
Slowly and gracefully, in music	ADAGIO
Suddenly and unexpectedly	ABRUPTLY
Team selected, to judge a competition perhaps	PANEL
Tool for shaping metal or wood	LATHE
Travel along with	ACCOMPANY
Way in	ENTRANCE
Young of canines	PUP

Irish Times (Crosaire) - April 1 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Irish Times (Crosaire) Crossword Puzzle Solution - April 1 2017 

Clues	Answers
& 13 across & 20 down: What to expect immediately after march for a period of time? That'll appeal to spoofers! (5,4'1,3)	APRIL
A train wreck in the European capital	TIRANA
Bird only makes appearance at certain times	CUCKOO
Cargo in complex is all natural	ORGANIC
Carrying on in Turkey in government more or less	FOOLINGAROUND
Characters hiding in Idaho bordering with drifter	HOBO
Confirm clip is of leading rider	PROVISO
Crazy old Poe has a dog's life	POODLE
Dad's in trouble over current contempt	DISDAIN
Does nothing for banks on the way out	DOOR
Frenchman is a tad old writing role for one of those in The Ring	MATADOR
Fruity sort lifts lid off disaster for a party	AVOCADO
Functions in Cairo - not in Costa Rica?	ACTS
Half open content from The Dandy	FOP
Hard at work and not out with first hundred - that'll help one's self esteem	ONTHEGO
Homeland drops old guy with the macho reputation	HEMAN
In spite of casing for split screen	SPLEEN
Integrated part of compression engine	ONE
It's a yarn that local paper returns all the letters	ORGANZA

 

Clues	Answers
Leave port and gin cocktails out of Lisa's cocktailing	SAIL
Marlin holds gents up and one bloke with dope	FOOLISHPERSON
New player reminds viewers of what they might have missed	REPLAY
Pleaded with the man upstairs to remove Grant from Garden Party	PRAYED
Presumably it's ink, in theory	ONPAPER
Put down covered up by Mao Tse-tung	SET
Red-tailed black sharks sound almost vicious!	FISHES
Rues mistakes by employer	USER
Sample from Michelin eatery fed to actor	LINE
See 30 across	DAY
See 30 across	FOOLS
Settled most of the distress at party	PAIDUP
Sick rival gets type of infection	VIRAL
Small drink for dotty type hitting the ceiling	STIPPLE
Spins track for orchestral leader by one of The Stones	OPAL
Take a look at link to health and safety authority review by coquettish flutterer	EYELASH
Take in small procession around island to point in blissfully ignorant state (4'1,8)	FOOLSPARADISE
That's the way to embrace Catalan enclave	LANE
Traditional sheet produced by comics from Cork is some piece of writing	FOOLSCAPPAPER