| Clues | Answers |
| "Boola Boola" school | YALE |
| "Casablanca" pianist | SAM |
| "Fantasia" unit | CEL |
| "I'm innocent!" | NOTME |
| "It's on the level!" | NOLIE |
| 51-Down collegians | ELIS |
| Backer on Broadway | ANGEL |
| Basis of a whodunit | CRIME |
| Bean in much chili | PINTO |
| Befitting a monarch | REGAL |
| Bjorn Borg, for one | SWEDE |
| Bolt, the world's fastest man | USAIN |
| Business bigwig | MAGNATE |
| Carpet feature | PILE |
| Classic kid-vid clown | BOZO |
| Cornell of Cornell University | EZRA |
| Cream-filled treat | ECLAIR |
| Cries like a kitten | MEWLS |
| Cuisine with lemongrass and peanut sauce | THAI |
| Decathlon event | POLEVAULT |
| Did in, mob-style | OFFED |
| Discounted by | LESS |
| Docket entry | COURTCASE |
| Epps of "House" | OMAR |
| Fan's sound | WHIR |
| Goalie's protectors | PADS |
| Gregory of "Tap" | HINES |
| Hellenic H | ETA |
| Home to most of Turkey | ASIA |
| It sells, in the ad business | SEX |
| It's closed for the night | EYELID |
| Judas' act | BETRAYAL |
| Keep tabs on | OVERSEE |
| Kimono or cassock | ROBE |
| Lacking a mate | LONE |
| Like a snake's skin | SCALY |
| Like a wasp's nest | PAPERY |
| Marathoner's woe, perhaps | SOREFEET |
| Markka's replacement | EURO |
| Oklahoma city on the Chisholm Trail | ENID |
| On a caffeine buzz | WIRED |
| Org. with Titans and Giants | NFL |
| Pained looks | GRIMACES |
| Parts of drum kits | SNARES |
| Pocket protector inserts | PENS |
| Popular sans-serif typeface | ARIAL |
| PowerPoint output | CHART |
| Pugsley, to Morticia Addams | SON |
| Put into alignment | TRUEUP |
| Quick flash of light | GLINT |
| Red, Black and Yellow | SEAS |
| Reflex hammer targets | KNEES |
| Rent payer | TENANT |
| Rock candy, essentially | SUGAR |
| Satanic doings | EVILS |
| Screen window displaying prompts (var.) | DIALOGBOX |
| Showed mercy | RELENTED |
| Sighed words | AHME |
| Sighters of pink elephants | SOTS |
| Site with restaurant ratings | YELP |
| Sound from Sneezy | ACHOO |
| Speed unit on the 39-Across | KNOT |
| SpongeBob's home | OCEAN |
| Spot for carved initials | TREETRUNK |
| State called the "Mother of Presidents" | OHIO |
| State with assurance | AVOW |
| Stunt pilot's maneuver | LOOP |
| Subway rider's handful | STRAP |
| Sudden outpouring | SPATE |
| Tollbooth barrier | GATE |
| Torah holders | ARKS |
| Very steep, as a cliff | SHEER |
| What the fourth little piggy had | NONE |
| Win four of four games, say | SWEEP |
| Worse than fair | POOR |
| Zellweger of "Bridget Jones's Baby" | RENEE |
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USA Today - May 1 2017 Monday Crossword Puzzle Answer
USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solution - May 1 2017 Monday
Newsday.com - May 1 2017 Monday Crossword Puzzle Answer
| Clues | Answers |
| "Come in!" | ENTER |
| __ Canaveral, FL | CAPE |
| __ in handy (be useful) | COME |
| __-day (vitamin dose, often) | ONEA |
| Actor Spacey or Costner | KEVIN |
| Ages and ages | EONS |
| Allude (to) | REFER |
| Be deserving of | EARN |
| Biblical garden | EDEN |
| Black-and-white cookie | OREO |
| Boast | BRAG |
| Born earlier | OLDER |
| Capable of | UPTO |
| Clothes-pressing appliance | IRON |
| Concludes | ENDS |
| Constructed | BUILT |
| Contract's details | TERMS |
| Courteous fellow | GENT |
| Dry as a desert | ARID |
| Dug for gold | MINED |
| Elm or maple | TREE |
| Espresso with milk | LATTE |
| Family room | DEN |
| Felony or misdemeanor | CRIME |
| Female choir voices | ALTOS |
| Film's camera-crew chief | CINEMATOGRAPHER |
| Film's gown creator | COSTUMEDESIGNER |
| Football officials, for short | REFS |
| Free tickets | PASSES |
| From then | SINCE |
| Geek | NERD |
| Give a reprimand to | SCOLD |
| Give off | EMIT |
| Highways: Abbr. | RDS |
| Honeybee's home | HIVE |
| Honeydew or cantaloupe | MELON |
| Human beings | PEOPLE |
| In addition | ALSO |
| Keogh plan relatives: Abbr. | IRAS |
| Kingly address | SIRE |
| Lubricates | OILS |
| Makes very happy | ELATES |
| Melody | TUNE |
| Most confident | SUREST |
| Must | HASTO |
| Neighborhood | AREA |
| Nevada city | RENO |
| On __ and needles | PINS |
| On, as a machine | INUSE |
| One who chooses a film's actors | CASTINGDIRECTOR |
| Open up, as toothpaste | UNCAP |
| Opera solo | ARIA |
| Orders of pancakes | STACKS |
| Oregon or Florida | STATE |
| Pear variety | BOSC |
| Perched on | ATOP |
| Piano practice piece | ETUDE |
| Poetic daybreak | MORN |
| Point opposite WNW | ESE |
| Pub serving | ALE |
| Religion of the Koran | ISLAM |
| Roll-call response | HERE |
| Sci-fi characters: Abbr. | ETS |
| Scorch | SEAR |
| Ship captain's spot | HELM |
| Shopping binge | SPREE |
| Show to a 72 Across, informally | USH |
| Sleep in a tent | CAMP |
| Spot in the audience | SEAT |
| Take care of | SEETO |
| Uncle Sam's country | THEUSA |
| University sports org. | NCAA |
| Very hard to find | RARE |
| Wagers | BETS |
| Weighing device | SCALE |
| Well-to-do | RICH |
| Winfrey of TV | OPRAH |
| Wistful sound | SIGH |
Universal - May 1 2017 Monday Crossword Puzzle Answer
| Clues | Answers |
| "___ Antonio Rose" | SAN |
| 33-Across minus 950 | LII |
| Almost sing | HUM |
| Ambulance letters | EMS |
| Any ball-shaped object | ORB |
| Bitterly regret | RUE |
| Boston's Bobby, the hockey legend | ORR |
| Brings into harmony | SYNCS |
| Car with plenty of room | SEDAN |
| Car's rate of speed | MPG |
| Causes of bad air days | SMOGS |
| Chinese chairman, once | MAO |
| Chinese or Filipino | ASIAN |
| Cleverly crafty | SLY |
| Clingy seed shell (var.) | BUR |
| Clusters or bunches | GROUPS |
| Coffee go-with, sometimes | CREAM |
| Common street-lining tree | ELM |
| Company with Wile E. Coyote's address | ACME |
| Dispute | ARGUE |
| Ear- or hearing-related | AURAL |
| Earlier in time, a long time ago | ERE |
| Elder statesman | DOYEN |
| Extremely gaunt one | SCRAG |
| Fizzy drinks | SODAS |
| Flummoxes or baffles | STYMIES |
| Frighten | STARTLE |
| Gaping pie-hole | MAW |
| Geisha's waist tie | OBI |
| George W.'s first lady | LAURA |
| Good relations | AMITY |
| Grab (with "onto") | GLOM |
| Grade A thing | EGG |
| High school galas | PROMS |
| Hound about trivial things | NAG |
| It may take a bow | GIFT |
| Lad in a revolving door? | SPINNINGBOY |
| Like many basements in the '80s | PANELED |
| Like the virgin in "Silent Night" | YON |
| Melancholy | SAD |
| Members of nobility | PEERS |
| Mexican Mrs. | SENORA |
| Mild ones are not obscene | OATHS |
| Mischievous little rascals | IMPS |
| Necessity for a rock guitarist | AMP |
| Not in the same place | APART |
| Old burner used in labs | ETNA |
| One way to write 1,002 | MII |
| Ones known for wisdom | SAGES |
| Palindromic name among artists | ONO |
| Participants in a play war? | BOYSOLDIERS |
| Place for a pin | LAPEL |
| Plaything that gets blamed for everything? | WHIPPINGTOY |
| Poisonous | TOXIC |
| Positioned correctly | INPLACE |
| Put in prison, in law | IMMURE |
| Puts a picture on a wall | HANGS |
| Shortstop's wild throw, e.g. | ERROR |
| Signals to those waiting in the wings | CUES |
| Small amount of sun | RAY |
| Some blown instruments | SAXES |
| Something tested with a little hammer | REFLEX |
| Sorvino who won an Oscar | MIRA |
| Source of a neighbor's child's envy? | TOYNEXTDOOR |
| Standing straight | ERECT |
| Street lighter of old | GASLAMP |
| Student assignments? | CLASSES |
| Succeed with a pitch | SELL |
| Suffix meaning "approximately" | ISH |
| Taps in the kitchen | SPIGOTS |
| Thick fruit skins | RINDS |
| Things people play | GAMES |
| Toupee, in slang | RUG |
| Vanilli's lip-synching partner | MILLI |
| Weird, irregular stain | SPLOTCH |
| What a ticket permits, often | ENTRY |
| What you are when caught off base | OUT |
| World war sub | UBOAT |
L.A. Times Daily - May 1 2017 Monday Crossword Puzzle Answer
| Clues | Answers |
| "__ idiot!": "Doh!" | IMAN |
| "__ of Green Gables" | ANNE |
| "Beware the __ of March" | IDES |
| "Cut corners" or "slash prices" | IDIOM |
| "Drinks are __!" | ONME |
| "Exactly!" … and a hint to where 20-, 36- and 43-Across' ending words may be found | THATSTHETICKET |
| "Fingers crossed" | IHOPE |
| "Green Acres" co-star | EVAGABOR |
| "No need to tell me" | IKNOW |
| "Rubber Duckie" singer on Sesame Street | ERNIE |
| Apple music players | IPODS |
| Back of a hit 45 record | BSIDE |
| Band with a voltage symbol in its logo | ACDC |
| Be concerned | CARE |
| Bed size | TWIN |
| Big gulp | SWIG |
| Big name in pineapples | DOLE |
| Bird's nest component | TWIG |
| Bygone airplane area | SMOKINGSECTION |
| Chaps | LADS |
| Cinnamon roll lure | AROMA |
| Coffee lightener | CREAM |
| Composer Stravinsky | IGOR |
| Designed to minimize junk email | ANTISPAM |
| Electric car brand | TESLA |
| Experiment | TEST |
| Forgetful moment | LAPSE |
| Geometry calculation | AREA |
| Grand-scale film | EPIC |
| Home for mil. jets | AFB |
| Info | DOPE |
| Jamie of "M*A*S*H" | FARR |
| Landlocked African republic | MALI |
| Largest city in North Africa | CAIRO |
| Licorice-flavored seed | ANISE |
| Line up | STANDINAROW |
| Llama habitat | ANDES |
| Make cryptic | ENCODE |
| Mexican "Hi!" | HOLA |
| Mix | STIR |
| Mocking remark | GIBE |
| Mop, as decks | SWAB |
| North Pole worker | ELF |
| Not just a talker | DOER |
| Notes to staff | MEMOS |
| Nuremberg no | NEIN |
| Paintball impact sound | SPLAT |
| Part of a relay race | LEG |
| Pass, as a law | ENACT |
| Patriot Allen | ETHAN |
| Phoenix suburb | TEMPE |
| Position behind the steering wheel | DRIVERSSEAT |
| Puccini opera | TOSCA |
| Radiate | EMIT |
| Read electronically | SCAN |
| Sacrificial __ | LAMB |
| Schuss or slalom | SKI |
| Scrubbed, as a NASA mission | NOGO |
| Slam dunk or lay-up | BASKET |
| Soft French cheese | BRIE |
| Some surrealist paintings | DALIS |
| Some toy dogs, for short | POMS |
| Spoken | ORAL |
| Staggering | AREEL |
| Statutes | LAWS |
| Subsided | EASED |
| Symbol of sanctity | HALO |
| Take the wheel | STEER |
| Tupperware covers | LIDS |
| Twinge of hunger | PANG |
| Unit seized by a narc | KILO |
| Weekend-starting letters | TGIF |
| Wide-spouted pitcher | EWER |
| Word with bar or torch | TIKI |
| Works with a needle | KNITS |
| Yule song | NOEL |
Irish Times (Simplex) - May 1 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ''The tumult and the shouting dies / The ... and the Kings depart'' (Kipling) | CAPTAINS |
| Ancient stringed instrument | LYRE |
| Become visible | APPEAR |
| Bought and sold | TRADED |
| Call for a repeat performance | ENCORE |
| Circulated, a statement perhaps | ISSUED |
| Continue, move ahead | PROCEED |
| Crucial stage or turning point | CRISIS |
| Explain the meaning of | DEFINE |
| High-handed, supercilious | CAVALIER |
| Imaginary place of great wealth and opportunity | ELDORADO |
| Instalment in a series | EPISODE |
| Italian cured pork | PANCETTA |
| Large cities and large letters | CAPITALS |
| Late repast | SUPPER |
| Loud cries | SHOUTS |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Mollified, appeased | PLACATED |
| Overnight bag | VALISE |
| Porches outside buildings | VERANDAS |
| Quick and skilful | DEFT |
| Refuse, litter | RUBBISH |
| Road raised above water | CAUSEWAY |
| Seats of learning | COLLEGES |
| Small circular movement of water | EDDY |
| Stop doing something | DESIST |
| Subject to disagreement and debate | DISPUTED |
| Summoned with a gesture | BECKONED |
| The main circus tent | BIGTOP |
| To a certain extent | RATHER |
| Tools for household use | UTENSILS |
| Turn upside down in a search | RANSACK |
| Worry about the woodwork? | FRET |
Irish Times (Crosaire) - May 1 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| At the end of the day, calls time on one of those behind bars perhaps | LICENSEE |
| Baker bakes first of muffins inside to put on board | EMBARK |
| Con English opens party | DUPE |
| Country taking lead from the beginning - the local head-bangers love it | HEAVYMETALMUSIC |
| Cycle the route the organisers of the Easter Rising took | REVOLUTION |
| Fear and trembling on first tee with inaccuracy | TERROR |
| Get overseas phone card containing tungsten | SWIM |
| Golf professional perhaps is one of those at the end of 9 across | ACEOFCLUBS |
| Herb and Josephine consumed by grass | MARJORAM |
| In favour of initial talk to serve notice to security | PROTECTION |
| Joker isn't a bit civilised joining Board | WILDCARD |
| Let that be a lesson to train leaders in a Lyceum | TUTORIAL |
| Little relative with colic freaks out in the vegetable shop | BROCCOLI |
| Mix-up memoir from retail store | EMPORIUM |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Old Testament book on Seventh Heaven by church writer | JAMESJOYCE |
| Oliver Gavroche wandering around Paris? | URCHIN |
| Press club can't be found going around Spain | CLOSET |
| Sensitive type is alarmingly looking for drugs perhaps | DETECTOR |
| Sets up nightspot on square with borrowed capital | DEBT |
| Shady type upset in bishopric with Roman council | SENATE |
| Shows one's appreciation to a minister at prayer service | APPLAUDS |
| Some control a temper - it's long overdue | LATE |
| Some paid leave for one of those out of work | IDLE |
| Some part of Jericho meaningful to where one lives now | HOME |
| Source from abroad provides information originating from Frenchman left on board? | IMPORT |
| Take advantage of cold starter with a cut of beef | CASHIN |
| Ted's a problem for potential partners | DATES |
| Upsets a staff colleague at the centre with loud type of hat | FEDORA |
Eugene Sheffer - King Feature Syndicate - May 1 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| 'Act now!' | DOIT |
| 'Batman' publisher | DCCOMICS |
| 'Ditto' | SAME |
| 'Gee, ya think?' | DUH |
| 'Madam Secretary' actress | TEALEONI |
| 'The jig !' | ISUP |
| 'The Waste Land' poet | TSELIOT |
| Actor Danson | TED |
| Amorphous sci-fi villain | BLOB |
| Ancient | PRIMEVAL |
| Attorney's field | LAW |
| Auction | SALE |
| Blows one's top | ERUPTS |
| Blue dye source | ANIL |
| Buddy | MAC |
| Bug on a highway | VWBEETLE |
| Burden | ONUS |
| Carpets | RUGS |
| Castle defense | MOAT |
| Casual shirt | TEE |
| Caustic solution | LYE |
| Cavort | ROMP |
| Celeb-promoting agencies | PRFIRMS |
| Colleen | LASS |
| Composer Stravinsky | IGOR |
| Corn core | COB |
| Crazy | NUTS |
| Dad's bro | UNC |
| Daly of 'Judging Amy' | TYNE |
| Evergreens | YEWS |
| Faucet problem | DRIP |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Flightless birds | EMUS |
| French cleric | ABBE |
| Gave as an example | CITED |
| Golf's Ernie | ELS |
| Good loser? | DIETER |
| Gore and Franken | ALS |
| Granola morsel | OAT |
| Hindu royal | RANI |
| Huge | BIG |
| Lampoon | SATIRE |
| Like ganders | MALE |
| Like some humor | WRY |
| London (beef dish) | BROIL |
| Medical breakthroughs | CURES |
| Nile queen, familiarly | CLEO |
| Norm (Abbr.) | STD |
| NRC predecessor | AEC |
| On the briny | ASEA |
| Pickling herb | DILL |
| Riga resident | LETT |
| Runs off to wed | ELOPES |
| Scout unit | TROOP |
| Set (down) | PUT |
| Seth's son | ENOS |
| Shakespearean villain | IAGO |
| Sit for a photo | POSE |
| Squad | UNIT |
| Temper tantrum | HISSYFIT |
| Tree-dwelling | ARBOREAL |
| Vienna's river | DANUBE |
| Wretchedness | MISERY |
Thomas Joseph - King Feature Syndicate - May 1 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Auction nods | BIDS |
| Barber symbol | POLE |
| Basketball's O'Neal, for short | SHAQ |
| Bean curd | TOFU |
| Boo-boo, to a tot | OWIE |
| Border | EDGE |
| Bug's kin | WIRETAP |
| Burning | AFIRE |
| Campus area | QUAD |
| Comic Mandel | HOWIE |
| Cross-reference direction | SEENOTE |
| Famous London prison | NEWGATE |
| Fencing sword | EPEE |
| Finishes a golf hole | PUTTS |
| Fish eggs | ROE |
| Foundation garment | CORSET |
| Furniture between full and king | QUEENBED |
| Gifts for kids | TOYS |
| Go by | ELAPSE |
| Golf goal | PAR |
| Golf peg | TEE |
| Grassy plant | SEDGE |
| Hive VIP | QUEENBEE |
| Knight's title | SIR |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Leave empty | VACATE |
| Mine rock | ORE |
| Moved slowly | EASED |
| Opposite of 'yup' | NAW |
| Pirate's place | OPENSEA |
| Pushes away | REPELS |
| Put through the paces | TESTOUT |
| Puts away | STOWS |
| Sea birds | TERNS |
| Set free | RELEASE |
| Sex | GENDER |
| Shoulder ornament | EPAULET |
| Spirited horses | STEEDS |
| Stage comment | ASIDE |
| Store business | RETAIL |
| Suit pieces | VESTS |
| Title paper | DEED |
| Tourney pass | BYE |
| Trait carriers | GENES |
| Treat derisively | SNEERAT |
| Used a shovel | DUG |
| Violinist's need | ROSIN |
| Visitors from space | ALIENS |
| Wed in secret | ELOPE |
The Telegraph - Quick - April 30 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Apt | RELEVANT |
| Attendant | USHER |
| Balance | SYMMETRY |
| Besotted | SMITTEN |
| Bike for two | TANDEM |
| Bread grillers | TOASTERS |
| Circle | RING |
| Creamy colour | MAGNOLIA |
| Fabric | TEXTILE |
| Female relative | AUNT |
| Flowerless plant | FERN |
| Grotto | CAVE |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Huge | GREAT |
| Narrow passage in sea | STRAIT |
| Now | TODAY |
| Pastries | CAKES |
| Real | ACTUAL |
| Refectory | CANTEEN |
| Remove | DELETE |
| Stand motionless | FREEZE |
| Stop work | RETIRE |
| Summerhouse | GAZEBO |
| Task | ERRAND |
| Type of falcon | KESTREL |
The Guardian - Cryptic - April 30 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| A car in fabrication is inexpensive | AFFORDABLE |
| A sceptical attitude is time-saving, oddly enough | NEGATIVISM |
| A vessel does when about to tilt | DECANTER |
| Admonition for salesman having a bit of a spliff | REPROACH |
| An inclination to stop working in the allotment | GRADIENT |
| Chaperone expected girl to be upset | DUENNA |
| Cut free | GASH |
| Dead woman said to be heartbroken | DEVASTATED |
| Discourage study about a politician | DAMPEN |
| Drove detectives off | RANCID |
| Exploding grenade creates disorder | DERANGE |
| Goes on about Tory leaders in disagreement | ATODDS |
| Have a cigarette in shelter of the greenery | LEAFAGE |
| Isaac's mum turned up on Sunday to be troublesome | HARASS |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Jam Penny set aside | PRESERVE |
| Just fine | FAIR |
| Lofty is glad about English victory | ELEVATED |
| Make it appear false? The patient scoffed! | INVALIDATE |
| Medical procedure shown in hygiene manual | ENEMA |
| Mum's cooked liver is to dry up | SHRIVEL |
| Old tray I renovated with skill | ADROITLY |
| One understanding perfection | IDEAL |
| Opportunity arises in high-lying country | MOOR |
| Set off for school in time | DETONATE |
| Sextet entering competition that's inconsequential | TRIVIAL |
| Spoil lake popular for fish | MARLIN |
| Tough German conceals apprehension | GANGSTER |
| Try to get publicity to provoke | GOAD |