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crossword answers
Clue Answer
EARLIER IN TIME AGO
BEFORE, BEFORE PRE
Body of water that sounds like a bestie BAY
Brandon Stanton's blog featuring photos and stories about the people of the Big Apple, informally HONY
Bread used by a U.K. Pizza Hut during 2015's National Curry Week (alongside mini papadums, chutney, and raita) NAAN
Company behind 'Asteroids,' 'Centipede,' 'Gauntlet,' 'Missile Command,' 'Pong,' and 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial' (they can't all be winners) ATARI
Confusing first baseman of fiction WHO
Early union alliance headed by Samuel Gompers for most of their 70 years AFL
Elgort of 'The Fault In Our Stars' ANSEL
Film speed abbr ISO
Genre for most 'SNL' sketches PARODY
Org. that was the 1967-76 home to the Nets, Nuggets, Pacers, and Spurs ABA
Phrase yelled at Howie Mandel thousands of times from 2005 to 2010 NODEAL
Pope Francis's birthplace: Abbr ARG
Quantity of bricks that one may be metaphorically hit by ATON
Sean who voiced Samwise Gamgee in 'Lego Lord of the Rings' (and some bigger releases too) ASTIN
See-through fossilized tree resin that like all the popular girls from the '90s were named after AMBER
Serve that isn't sent back ACE
Short lines at the checkout counter? UPC
Sit in the water BATHE
State with a lot of MLB spring training ARIZ
Stereotypical facial hair for '70s pornstars, informally STACHE
Stereotypical facial hair for devilish characters GOATEES
Where 'Sesame Street' begins airing this year HBO
Yesterday, impossibly ASAP
PREFIX WITH -SCOPE PERI
STATUS ___ QUO
RUN OUT ELAPSE
Organized NEAT
LARGEST MEMBER OF THE GRASS FAMILY BAMBOO
Zora ___ Hurston, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' author whose Barnard years included work with anthropologists Margaret Mead & Franz Boas NEALE
___ Balls (coconutty snacks) SNO
Bills rarely passed? TWOS
Australian boot style purportedly responsible for an 80% jump in sheepskin's price from 2010 to 2012 UGG
Gillette ___ II (two-blade razor parodied on SNL's debut episode) TRAC
Insect that emerges for a few weeks every 13 or 17 years to mate and make obnoxious-ass noise all the damn time CICADA
Open-ish, as a door AJAR
Old-timey curse I imagine was an edit of 'Oh God!' EGAD
Network that could've had 'Firefly' and 'Malcolm in the Middle' and did have 'Love Boat: The Next Wave' and 'Shasta McNasty' UPN
Microsoft FPS videogame series centered on Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John-117 HALO
Member of a short-lived and inconsequential rebellion, usually TEEN
Kylo of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', who kills [REDACTED] (who is his [REDACTED]) REN
Input your username and password LOGON
Global warfare buzzword NUKE
Indian-born Music Director for Life (since 1981) of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra MEHTA
Group of South Pacific islands that includes Micronesia and Polynesia OCEANIA
Great grade for an assignment you crammed for BPLUS
Graders, lecturers, and/or question-answering pros TAS
Goodman who serves as head judge on both 'Dancing With the Stars' and its fancy U.K. counterpart, 'Strictly Come Dancing' LEN
Boat propeller, perhaps OAR
'Glee' gym teacher Sylvester SUE
'Him' in French or Italian or... umm...'to rent' in Esperanto LUI
Guy who probably got the part as Man With Knife in 'Chinatown' because he'd known the director since birth ROMANPOLANSKI
PERSIAN, FOR ONE CAT
CORP. MONEY MANAGERS CFOS
'There was no other choice!' IHADTO
'I'm trying to watch 'The Force Awakens' here, shut up!' SHH
'Master Melvin' who led the Giants in homers every year from 1928 to 1945 OTT
Portrayer of Man Outside Real Estate Office in 'Psycho' who regularly spent nights in the director's bed ALFREDHITCHCOCK
'That's kinda funny' HEH
'You' in Rick's reminiscence 'I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.' ILSA
Physician Haing whose performance in 'The Killing Fields' led to him becoming one of two nonprofessional actors to win an Oscar for acting NGOR
Alternative to a sequel or an adaption, in Hollywood regurgitation REMAKE
Animal subject to much early American trapping OTTER
Announcer Bob whom Johnny Carson called 'Mr. Baseball' UECKER
Any of three who prophesy Macbeth becoming king, e.g HAG
Super Bowl-winning #1 overall draft pick quarterback Manning who fits in this entry ELI
Thespian whose gig as Bennett in 'The Fog' likely came thanks to years of living at the same address as the director JOHNCARPENTER
Thrice Emmy-nominated not-exactly-normal-dad role for Bryan Cranston HAL
Van Halen song that seems to have a lot more to do with cars than Central America PANAMA
What you are if you 70-Across WET
World capital whose name comes from Arabic for 'the conqueror' CAIRO
Gets into, as a weird hobby, like pannapictagraphy, philately, or plangonology TAKESUP
Dir. from Intercourse, Alabama, to Climax, Georgia ENE
Cranky oldsters GEEZERS
Canonical exclamation of dismay for Charlie Brown AAUGH
Butterfield who took on the title role in 'Hugo' and 'Ender's Game' ASA
Bit player whose casting as Dr. Hill in 'The Sixth Sense' was hardly a surprise twist since he was pretty much always on the set MNIGHTSHYAMALAN
'I Am ___' (documentary series whose 2015 premiere included a visit from Kimye) CAIT
'THAT MARC MARON PODCAST IS TOTAL BS' WTF
Actor whose role as First Scalped Nazi in 'Inglourious Basterds' might have had something to do with being in the director's family QUENTINTARANTINO