BuzzFeed - Crossword Answers | 2016 01 15

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