BuzzFeed - Crossword Answers | 2016 01 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Goodman who serves as head judge on both 'Dancing With the Stars' and its fancy U.K. counterpart, 'Strictly Come Dancing' LEN
Graders, lecturers, and/or question-answering pros TAS
Great grade for an assignment you crammed for BPLUS
Group of South Pacific islands that includes Micronesia and Polynesia OCEANIA
Guy who probably got the part as Man With Knife in 'Chinatown' because he'd known the director since birth ROMANPOLANSKI
Indian-born Music Director for Life (since 1981) of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra MEHTA
Global warfare buzzword NUKE
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Kylo of 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens', who kills [REDACTED] (who is his [REDACTED]) REN
Member of a short-lived and inconsequential rebellion, usually TEEN
Microsoft FPS videogame series centered on Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy John-117 HALO
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
Open-ish, as a door AJAR
Insect that emerges for a few weeks every 13 or 17 years to mate and make obnoxious-ass noise all the damn time CICADA
Gillette ___ II (two-blade razor parodied on SNL's debut episode) TRAC
Gets into, as a weird hobby, like pannapictagraphy, philately, or plangonology TAKESUP
Genre for most 'SNL' sketches PARODY
Australian boot style purportedly responsible for an 80% jump in sheepskin's price from 2010 to 2012 UGG
Bills rarely passed? TWOS
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
Boat propeller, perhaps OAR
Body of water that sounds like a bestie BAY
Bread used by a U.K. Pizza Hut during 2015's National Curry Week (alongside mini papadums, chutney, and raita) NAAN
Butterfield who took on the title role in 'Hugo' and 'Ender's Game' ASA
Canonical exclamation of dismay for Charlie Brown AAUGH
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
Cranky oldsters GEEZERS
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
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
Physician Haing whose performance in 'The Killing Fields' led to him becoming one of two nonprofessional actors to win an Oscar for acting NGOR
Pope Francis's birthplace: Abbr ARG
Portrayer of Man Outside Real Estate Office in 'Psycho' who regularly spent nights in the director's bed ALFREDHITCHCOCK
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
Super Bowl-winning #1 overall draft pick quarterback Manning who fits in this entry ELI
EARLIER IN TIME AGO
PREFIX WITH -SCOPE PERI
Organized NEAT
PERSIAN, FOR ONE CAT
BEFORE, BEFORE PRE
CORP. MONEY MANAGERS CFOS
RUN OUT ELAPSE
STATUS ___ QUO
LARGEST MEMBER OF THE GRASS FAMILY BAMBOO
'There was no other choice!' IHADTO
Thespian whose gig as Bennett in 'The Fog' likely came thanks to years of living at the same address as the director JOHNCARPENTER
Where 'Sesame Street' begins airing this year HBO
Yesterday, impossibly ASAP
Zora ___ Hurston, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' author whose Barnard years included work with anthropologists Margaret Mead & Franz Boas NEALE
___ Balls (coconutty snacks) SNO
'Glee' gym teacher Sylvester SUE
'Him' in French or Italian or... umm...'to rent' in Esperanto LUI
'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
'That's kinda funny' HEH
'You' in Rick's reminiscence 'I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.' ILSA
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
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
Dir. from Intercourse, Alabama, to Climax, Georgia ENE
Brandon Stanton's blog featuring photos and stories about the people of the Big Apple, informally HONY
Actor whose role as First Scalped Nazi in 'Inglourious Basterds' might have had something to do with being in the director's family QUENTINTARANTINO
'THAT MARC MARON PODCAST IS TOTAL BS' WTF
'I Am ___' (documentary series whose 2015 premiere included a visit from Kimye) CAIT