Premier Sunday - King Feature Syndicate - December 17 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Premier Sunday - King Feature Syndicate Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Dec 17 2017 

Clues	Answers
'Botch- --' (Rosemary Clooney hit)	AME
'I'll second that'	DITTO, AMEN
1,051, in old Rome	MLI
2009 'Star Trek' director J.J	ABRAMS
53-Across containers	KEGS
A Trump ex	IVANA
Accept a Facebook request from a fish?	FRIENDREDFIN
Actor Stiller	BEN
Actress Davis of 'The Matrix Reloaded'	ESSIE
Actress Sarandon	SUSAN
Al -- (pasta preference)	DENTE
As to	INRE
Atlanta-to-Miami dir	SSE
Aussie critter	KOALA
Bards' A.M	MORN
Barely obtain, with 'out'	EKE
Baseball Hall of Famer Ralph	KINER
Baseball stat	ATBAT, ERA
Boarding school student, informally	PREPPIE
Boat in Genesis	ARK
Bow of 'It'	CLARA
Bud	MAC
Catches a fish in a net?	TRAPSSPRAT
Cheeky	INSOLENT
Cheese type	BRIE
Choose (to)	OPT, ELECT
Clamor	DIN
Conceal	VEIL
Concert stage items	AMPS
Cover thickly	COAT
Creole cooking pod	OKRA
Crock-Pot meal	STEW
Cures a fish by salting and drying?	KIPPERSSKIPPER
Declines	FALLS
Disgrace	SHAME
Divinity sch	SEM
Dog part	TAIL
Early Andeans	INCAS
Earthworm, e.g	ANNELID
Eightsome	OCTET
Ending for Bronx	ITE
Envoy's building	EMBASSY
Erté's style	ARTDECO
Expulsion	HEAVEHO
Eye parts with irises	UVEAS
Fair shelter	TENT
Fake ID	ALIAS
Fish covered with more grit?	SANDIERSARDINE
Fish drifting about aimlessly?	ROAMERREMORA
Fish smeared with black gunk?	TARREDDARTER
Fish that's a sainted guardian?	PATRONTARPON
Flee to get hitched	ELOPE
For fear that	LEST
Free (of)	RID
Free-for-all	MELEE
French river to the Rhone	ISERE
Furniture finishers	STAINERS
Give a fish medication?	TREATTETRA
Got along	FARED
Grabs hold of a fish?	TAKESSKATE
Gratify, as a base instinct	PANDERTO
Grid stats	TDS
Had to admit an error	ATECROW
Have bills	OWE
Heavyweight great	ALI
Hide -- hair	NOR
Holy tables	ALTARS
Honey-colored fish?	AMBERBREAM
Hoppy quaff	ALE
Hubbubs	UPROARS
Hyundai compact	ELANTRA
In general	ASARULE
Informer	RAT
It precedes Sept	AUG
It's south of Can	USA
Just clear of the bottom, as an anchor	ATRIP
Lance cpl.'s org	USMC
Larch, e.g	TREE
Leaf-gathering tool user	RAKER
Light meal	NOSH
Like spoiled cooking oil	RANCID
Long side up	ONEND
Lovingly, in music	AMOROSO
Makes a fish more softhearted?	MELTSSMELT
Max. or min	LIM
Mineo of 'Giant'	SAL
Modifies	ADAPTS
Music styles	GENRES
No more than	MERE
Not a soul	NOONE
Not as cruel	NICER
Not as much	LESSSO
Notice	SEE
O'er there	YON
Of the ear	AURAL
Old horse	NAG
Old man	POP
Old's opposite, in German	NEU
On Soc. Sec., often	RET
On-the-nose	PRECISE
Operated on smaller than a national level	STATERUN
Palette part	HUE
Perfumery oil	ATTAR
Philly's train system	SEPTA
Put on TV again	REAIR
Puts more ammo in	RELOADS
Q-U queue	RST
Rapa --	NUI
Rd.'s cousin	AVE
Runner Bolt	USAIN
Samantha Bee's station	TBS
Score -- with (impress)	AHIT
Seafarer	MARINER
Seafarer	TAR
Seepage of methane, e.g	GASLEAK
Sell for	FETCH
Singer Anita or Aubrey	ODAY
Sleeveless casual shirt	TANKTOP
Some china ensembles	TEASETS
Splits	RIPS
Spruced up	NATTY
Stephen of 'Utopia'	REA
Suffers	AILS
Suffix for an enzyme	ASE
Super- --	DUPER
Teach a fish privately?	TUTORTROUT
Texter's 'Didn't need to hear that!'	TMI
Theoretical things	IFS
They support teeth roots	GUMS
Transforms, as larvae	PUPATES
Triplets of adjacent nucleotides	CODONS
Turn liquid	THAW
Twilled fabrics	SERGES
Unclothed	NAKED
Ushered in	LEDUPTO
Wash. bigwig	SEN
Went unused	SAT
Western treaty inits	OAS
Writer Zora -- Hurston	NEALE
Wrongful act, legally	TORT
Yellow tropical fruit	GUAVA