Newsday.com - January 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Newsday.com Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jan 1 2018 

Clues	Answers
''That's too bad''	ALAS
Actress Angelina	JOLIE
Ages and ages	EONS
Ancient	OLD
Animal docs	VETS
Anxiously impatient	EDGY
Apple's music player	IPOD
Attention-getting sound	PSST
Became soaked	GOTWET
Becomes inedible	ROTS
Bouquet container	VASE
Bullfight cheer	OLE
Chilly	COLD
Clay pigeon sport	SKEET
Don't play fair	CHEAT
Drop by unexpectedly	POPIN
Edible ice-cream holder	CONE
Elizabeth II and Victoria	QUEENS
EMT's skill	CPR
Farm's storage tower	SILO
Fidgety	ANTSY
Full of lather	SUDSY
Gentle quality	TENDERNESS
Give a speech	ORATE
Great Britain terrier, for short	SCOTTY
Green citrus fruit	LIME
Handicrafts website	ETSY
Hapless guy, informally	SCHMO
Harbor marker	BUOY
Have the lead role	STAR
Himalayan land	NEPAL
Husband or wife	SPOUSE
Interstate stopping place	RESTAREA
Letters on an invitation	RSVP
Mailbox opening	SLOT
Medical school subj	ANAT
Mythical tale	LEGEND
Nary a soul	NOONE
Nashville's state	TENNESSEE
Natural dispositions	TENDENCIES
Not definite yet	TENTATIVE
Not easy to lift	HEAVY
Not fooled by	ONTO
Number inside a sneaker	SHOESIZE
Ocean movement	TIDE
Off the right path	ASTRAY
Painting and sculpture	ARTS
Parcel (out)	METE
Parking attendant	VALET
Place to park	SPACE
Poems of praise	ODES
Ponder on	MUSE
Prayer ender	AMEN
Raises, as morale	BOOSTS
Raw mineral	ORE
Regarding	ASTO
Repetitive learning method	ROTE
Rotisserie rod	SPIT
Shout out for one's team	CHEER
Spinning toys	TOPS
Staying cool, as wine	ONICE
Stubborn farm animal	MULE
Tarzan's girlfriend	JANE
Tennis great Evert	CHRIS
Throw in the towel	QUIT
Tiny spot of land in the sea	ISLET
Tire pressure meas	PSI
Took to court	SUED
Traditional Easter hat	BONNET
Was able to	COULD
Water balloon sound	SPLAT
Where Lima is capital	PERU
Whole bunch (of)	SLEW
Wild guess	STAB
Zest	ZING
__ and crossbones (pirate flag)	SKULL
__ and raves (carries on)	RANTS
__ fish sandwich	TUNA

Universal - January 1 2017 Monday Crossword Puzzle Answers

Universal Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jan 1 2017 Monday 

Clues	Answers
"___ La Douce" (MacLaine film)	IRMA
"Pieces of You" musician	JEWEL
___ noire (pet peeve)	BETE
___ spumante	ASTI
4,000 quarters	THOUSANDDOLLARS
Arrow groove	NOCK
Assign a wrong year to	MISDATE
Be a boisterous actor	EMOTE
Beam for prices	SCAN
Big rig	SEMI
Catcher's gear	MITT
Central meaning	GIST
Colored, as fabric	DYED
Controls, as the helm	MANS
Custard concoction	FLAN
Draw upon	USE
English university town	LEEDS
Expelled matter, as lava	EJECTA
Fair barker	CARNY
Ferrell Christmas movie	ELF
Fishhook part	BARB
Flowery centerpiece, e.g.	TABLEDECORATION
Food fit for a hog	SLOP
Fruit container	CRATE
Get down	DANCE
Go down	OCCUR
Heartbreak	WOE
Hinton or Jackson of jazz	MILT
Hold a grudge	RESENT
Horse gait	TROT
Incredibly unusual	WEIRD
Iraqi money	DINAR
It's bogged down	PEAT
Jackson 5 hairdos	AFROS
Kind of arrangement	FLORAL
Lab vessel of old	ETNA
Layabouts' center?	ABO
Lightly float	WAFT
Like a faster	UNFED
Like good filet mignon	TENDER
Loser to a tortoise	HARE
Make a mistake	ERR
Marina ___ Rey	DEL
Massages	RUBS
Missile type	SCUD
Mountain pack animal	LLAMA
Nancy of literature	DREW
Nelson Mandela's org.	ANC
Nonet - solo =	OCTAD
Norway's capital	OSLO
Not bright	DIM
Not feral	TAME
One waving you through	TRAFFICDIRECTOR
One's partner?	ONLY
Overnight again	RESHIP
Pad in a shoe	INSOLE
Penny, in poker	ANTE
Pistachio part	SHELL
Quieter "Over here!"	PSST
Recipe instruction	STIR
Request food	ORDER
Rocks in a freezer	ICECUBES
Rookie	TYRO
Sculpture and ballet	ARTFORMS
Sermon sign-off	AMEN
Sign gas	NEON
Singer Flack	ROBERTA
Slaughter	CARNAGE
Slithering reptile	SNAKE
Star-shaped flower	ASTER
Throbbing pain	ACHE
Thunderstruck	AWED
U.K. fliers	RAF
Umbrage	IRE
Winter mixture	SLUSH
Wood provider	TREE

USA Today - January 1 2017 Monday Crossword Puzzle Answers

USA Today Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jan 1 2017 Monday 

Clues	Answers
"Family Guy" creator MacFarlane	SETH
"Right on, preacher!"	AMEN
"Your table's ready" summoning device	PAGER
2001 Pixar movie that hints at the first parts of 20-, 33- and 40-Across	MONSTERSINC
Adhesive note brand	POSTIT
Aquafina competitor	EVIAN
Back-to-zero button	RESET
Bakery tray	COOKIESHEET
Be wearisome to	IRK
Boredom-betraying sound	SNORE
Breadstick-shaped	OBLONG
Built like Abraham Lincoln	LANKY
Cannonball material	IRON
Cheese with a white rind	BRIE
Clumsy sorts	OAFS
Common flannel pattern	PLAID
Decides on, with "for"	OPTS
Disreputable sort	BADEGG
Driver's aid, or where one may be used	TEE
Fancy-schmancy	RITZY
Fat in bird feeders	SUET
Fish-eating frolicker	OTTER
Follower of Fannie or Sallie	MAE
Garnish on a toothpick, perhaps	OLIVE
Gather over time	AMASS
Ghostly looking	PALE
Giggling Muppet	ELMO
Give away, in a way	LETON
Health Net rival	AETNA
Holiday lead-in	EVE
Initials at a sandwich shop	BLT
Long-distance haulers	SEMIS
Loose-limbed	LISSOME
Many a New Yorker article	ESSAY
Mecca natives	ARABS
Miscalculates, e.g.	ERRS
Mr. Hyde's doings	EVIL
Oceanfront atmosphere	SALTAIR
On ___ (like freelance submissions)	SPEC
Particles in particle beams	IONS
Partners' pronoun	OURS
Pasta aisle jarfuls	SAUCES
Pine exudation	RESIN
Place for a mower	SHED
Place for a skateboarder's pad	KNEE
Poet's early hours	MORN
Porcupine's protection	QUILLS
Portrayer of Gump and Sullenberger	HANKS
Prefix with corn or form	UNI
Pub pint	ALE
Pulls a swindle on	CONS
Saint's aura	HALO
San Antonio hoopster	SPUR
Searches such as Indiana Jones'	QUESTS
Secretary of Education DeVos	BETSY
Sedentary occupation	DESKJOB
Single-portion Japanese takeout meal	BENTO
Soak up the sun	BASK
Something ___ (really special)	ELSE
Sound from a contented Siamese	PURR
Source of boughs for many wreaths	FIR
Squirrel away	STASH
Stamps out	ENDS
Techie, stereotypically	GEEK
Techie, stereotypically	GEEK
Things to wear	RAIMENT
Treat with a Thins variety	OREO
Trees on the National Mall	ELMS
Tributary of the Colorado	GILARIVER
Unfinished room, perhaps	ATTIC
Unmissable putt	GIMME
Uses a treadmill, perhaps	JOGS
Video game adventurer ___ Croft	LARA
Vodka-and-juices cocktail	SEABREEZE
Wiener schnitzel meat	VEAL
Wine list section	REDS
Winning margin in a photo finish	NOSE
Zoosk.com matchup	DATE

L.A. Times Daily - January 1 2017 Monday Crossword Puzzle Answers

L.A. Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Jan 1 2017 Monday 

Clues	Answers
Teen blemish	Z I T
"__ your turn"	I T S
"Dude!"	B R O
"Gimme a __"	S E C
"No chance!"	H A H
"Spaceballs" or "Scary Movie"	S P O O F
2006 best-selling Elizabeth Gilbert spiritual memoir	E A T P R A Y L O V E
'90s presidential candidate	R O S S P E R O T
Adobe file format	P D F
Alkali neutralizer	A C I D
Biblical garden	E D E N
Brass band heavyweights	T U B A S
Breakfast-in-bed surface	L A P T R A Y
British john	L O O
Caesar's last question	E T T U B R U T E
Capital of Zimbabwe	H A R A R E
Carnivorous plant	V E N U S F L Y T R A P
Celestial bear	U R S A
Champagne flute feature	S T E M
Crumbly cheeses	F E T A S
Decimated Asian sea	A R A L
Deserved	D U E
Diva's highlight	A R I A
Dull-colored	D R A B
Edible epitomes of redness	B E E T S
Ejects	O U S T S
End-of-day photo op	S U N S E T
Fever and chills	A G U E
Fifth, often, for a manual transmission	T O P G E A R
First chip, maybe	A N T E
Fortune-telling prefix with "sayer"	S O O T H
Frozen waffles	E G G O S
Hair-coloring agents	D Y E S
Harvard URL ending	E D U
Heap praise upon	E X T O L
Hive denizens	B E E S
Honda luxury brand	A C U R A
In the dark	U N A W A R E
Insurance giant with a spokesduck	A F L A C
iPhone assistant	S I R I
iPod model	N A N O
Key & Peele, e.g.	D U O
Kindergarten basics	A B C S
Kitchen bag brand	G L A D
Knight wear	A R M O R
Like environments where you can walk on air?	Z E R O G
Lowest Scrabble tile value	O N E
Means justifier	E N D
Modify to fit	A D A P T
Mongolian tents	Y U R T S
Nickelodeon toon tot	R U G R A T
Nikon product, briefly	S L R
Off-road transp.	A T V
One signing the checks	B O S S
Ones who don't share	H O G S
Oral or final	E X A M
Oscar adjective	B E S T
Parkinson's drug	L D O P A
Part of MYOB	Y O U R
Pizza pieces in London?	Z E D S
Place to go blond	B E A U T Y P A R L O R
Political organization founded in 1995 by 35-Down ... and a literal hint to each set of circled letters	R E F O R M P A R T Y
Remote-controlled flying camera, say	D R O N E
Runs smoothly, as an engine	P U R R S
Salon goop	G E L
Self-satisfied	S M U G
Seward's __: Alaska purchase	F O L L Y
Sicilian volcano	E T N A
Sitcom title bar	C H E E R S
Streaming option for "Game of Thrones"	H B O G O
Terrif	F A B
Texter's "Egads!"	OMG
To this point	A S Y E T
Triage MD	E R D O C
Trial locale	V E N U E
Unwanted lawn plant	W E E D
Visibility inhibitor	H A Z E
Western gas chain	A R C O

The Telegraph - Quick - December 31 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Telegraph - Quick Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Dec 31 2017 

Clues	Answers
Android	ROBOT
Climb	ASCEND
Clothing	APPAREL
Competitor	RIVAL
Component	ELEMENT
Dawn	SUNUP
31-Dec	NEWYEARSEVE
Hearing, sitting	SESSION
Individualist	LONER
Keyboard instrument	PIANO
Mixtures	ASSORTMENTS
Most recent	LATEST
Narrator	STORYTELLER
Needlework	CROSSSTITCH
Perfect	IDEAL
Placate	APPEASE
Roof edge	EAVES
Rural settlement	VILLAGE
Shouting	YELLING
Skill	TALENT
Stroll	AMBLE
Tealights, for example	CANDLES
Toboggan	SLEDGE
Wash	CLEANSE

The Times - Concise - January 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
Acted obsequiously	TOADIED
Ages	ERAS
Dairy product	CHEESE
Diesel oil	DERV
Difficult; doubtful	PROBLEMATIC
Dowser's stick	divining rod
Edible tuber	POTATO
Greatly respect	look up to
Hooded jacket	CAGOULE
Imitating an older style	RETRO
Introduced gradually	phased in
More chilly	ICIER
Naturally	of course
Notable	EMINENT
Object belonging to a past age	period piece
Pairs	DUOS
Prepared raw dish	tossed salad
Protein in wheat grains	GLUTEN
Purloined	TOOK
Relating to vision	OPTIC
Study of Greek and Roman	CLASSICS
Tool; training	DRILL
Unassuming; small	MODEST
Very dry period	DROUGHT

The Times - Cryptic - January 1 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Times - Cryptic - Times Cryptic No 26923
Clues	Answers
Almost engage with wise text	MESSAGE
Arab enemy I shot	YEMENI
Conservative search for gain	CONQUEST
Cooked seafood in hold without oxygen, not with it	old-fashioned
Cut off a bit, like	of a piece
Endless wine is knocked back, boding no good	SINISTER
England regularly failing, dammit	EGAD
Free beer drunk in turn — got it down, not for the first time	RELAID
Fresh out of good books, one may be under one’s feet	INSOLE
Girl comes to a celebration of workers of mine	GALA
Hated being dropped from international match?	DETESTED
In your study, barely noticeable	THREADY
Making possible showy accessories woman put on	ENABLING
Monster deity’s worse, we hear	GODZILLA
Old craft has special terminology, but no tips	ARGO
One not going off with European dandy	DUDE
Oriental canoe changes hands, that’s the last you hear	EPILOGUE
Paper in which John played good game	mah-jongg
Pole who has only three fellow employees?	QUARTERSTAFF
Rays steadily caused damage? Not sure yet	its early days
Smoother, crossing hands here to play	rubber bridge
Sorry there’s no proper leader for the paper	ASHAMED
Special one from among a number ceased to exist: one less	INTENDED
The very thing dividing boy and girl is splitting sides?	HILARITY
Took, say, cooker and sank teeth in	HOBBIT
Trouble-making horse, one ladies at hotel backed	HOOLIGAN
Turned up miserable, chilling line in poem	LYCIDAS
Wizened personnel in a sort of garden	SHRUNKEN
The Times - Cryptic - Times Quick Cryptic No 995
Clues	Answers
A place to sleep, some say, in California's big cities	CAPITALS
Adult articulated complaint before the judge	grown-up
Close relatives are visiting home	NEAREST
Do away with prison cell briefly	CANCEL
Effective medicine? Criticise one with added vitamin	PANACEA
Famous person suffering setback in Arab elections	CELEB
Fellow author's work oddly included in erotic novel	co-writer
Food and drink always provided after church	CHEER
How to water a bunch of flowers?	SPRAY
Inclined to steal lamp, getting rumbled	light-fingered
Initially bored as you view US TV series	BAYWATCH
Job for which the charges are small?	baby-sitting
Lady performing with trio in skilful way	ADROITLY
North Africans affected by rain and gales	ALGERIANS
Opportunist has change of heart, becoming poet	CHAUCER
Portion of oil in this dressing	LINT
Royal Engineer's forged papers	SAPPER
Sailor's expression of gratitude, reaching harbour at last	TAR
School transport	TRAIN
Ship — large one — with name “Queen Elizabeth”	LINER
Sound made by dove and another bird mostly	COO
There's no time for Morocco's mountains, unfortunately	ALAS
Tread the boards at Criterion theatre, taking leading parts	ACT
Vicious gossip's molar?	BACKBITER
Woman left home with American attorney	LINDA
Wonder Woman's first admitted to A & E	AWE

The Guardian - Speedy - December 31 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Guardian - Speedy crossword No 1,161 - Dec 31 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
Actionable words	LIBEL
Announcement of an event or piece of news	TIDING
Being about to publish	GOING
Bo -----, co-star of Dudley Moore in '10'	DEREK
Bound up	BALED
Content of cognition	THOUGHT
Crest or crown of an upland area	HILLTOP
Delay	TIMELAG
Field of vision?	OPTICS
Florida key: musical slow movement	LARGO
Ice cult? (anag)	CUTICLE
International Call Sign: appreciation shown at the opera	BRAVO
Leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip: excuse for underwear	THONG
Originally an alpine cowherd's hut	CHALET
Pertaining to the ice ages	GLACIAL
Place, site	LOCUS
Precise detail; small, trivial matter	MINUTIA
Reveal	BRINGTO
Revolution, ie one complete turn	CYCLE
Roman coins	DENARII
See 1	LIGHT
See 24	TOPRESS
Skids, bringing a vehicle's back-end around	SLEWS
Small cucumber pickled whole	GHERKIN
Softly bright or radiant; flickering	LAMBENT
Surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade: pointed Gothic arch	LANCET
Turkish port, formerly Smyrna	IZMIR
Vocation	CALLING