BuzzFeed 2016 02 17 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Creature involved in taking the Hobbits to Isengard	ORC
Contraction seen only during 'the season'	TIS
'Adios, caiman!'	LATER
Word used by a person who's confused between a channel that broadcasts the proceedings of the U.S. Federal government with the most erogenous area of the vagina	CSPOT
Nicole who was famous for being famous long before the Kardashians	RICHIE
Word with lag or pack	JET
Made raucous fun of	JEERED
When doubled, on the DL	HUSH
Treated like a piece of meat	OGLED
Way more frustrating alternative to Lego	KNEX
Use a deuce to stop a flush?	CLOG
*'Well, honesty is* the best policy'**	ICANTLIE
Vote in favor of	YEA
Pet from 'The Magic School Bus'	IGUANA
Participate in a dance craze popularized by Cam Newton	DAB
Ones smuggling 'influential' secrets inside them...like the answers to the starred clues?	DRUGMULES
Off-rd transport whose name HAS to be an exaggeration	ATV
Michael who played Wise British Father Figure in 'Every Christopher Nolan Movie'	CAINE
Little ladies?	GFS
Match with someone who just wants to hurt you :(	BOUT
SHINDIG	BASH
The one who ochoed nueve	SIETE
Their music was the soundtrack to Olivia Newton-John's 'Xanadu'	ELO
The ______ Legg (aptly named dance move created by the GS Boyz)	STANKY
The safe end of a sword	HILT
Teach a younger generation how to Dougie, for instance	PASSON
Put a quick end to	NIX
Story of my life?	DNA
Recipient of an awkwardly placed flower, usually	PROMDATE
Really get at something	ALLUDE
Someone you might dread if you're a barber?	RASTA
Put in a position of power	ELECT
Sneakily and on one's own, in slang	DOLO
Skype home	PALOALTO
QUICK THINKING	ACUITY
LEND A HAND	AID
Got mildly annoyed by once, in modern slang	HATED
Hawaiian isle that's geologically the oldest one	KAUAI
Environmentally friendly org	EPA
Either a sushi ingredient or an ineffectual self-defense mechanism, 'Friends' left me unsure	UNAGI
___ LANKAN	SRI
Reasons your company might fold?	FUTONS
Sir's equal in deference	MAAM
Rate of how rekt your opponents are getting in MMORPG video games	DPS
Partner to Alex in the jewelry business	ANI
'Quoth the raven,' quoth this guy	POE
Show Donald Trump - yes, presidential candidate Donald Trump - recently hosted	SNL
SEE 25-ACROSS	WHALE
Instead of a clue, I'll just tell you this is either AGE, EON, or ELI	ELI
'I ___ you...'	SEE
Fuckton	SCAD
Ketchum who never actually caught 'em all but how realistic a goal was that anyway	ASH
Goal-oriented grp	NHL
Get a [100 emoji]	ACE
Itchy-skin-causing	EERIE
Italian restaursant owner Jimmy from 'Bob's Burgers' who is probably named for a basil-based sauce..	PESTO
Intro givers, for short	MCS
Him saying 'Oppan Gangnam Style' was entered into the Yale Book of Quotations	PSY
SHADE	TINT
Young panda	CUB
What might diversify a sausagefest by being wrapped around the sausages	BACON
Spread dirt everywhere?	GOSSIP
Pro ___: filling in TIP here will give you one letter in three other answers	TIP
_____-turvy	TOPSY
App where you can take a picture and it WON'T last longer :p	SNAPCHAT
An accident you want people to forget about, according to you	NONEVENT
According to Flo Rida, one who got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low	SHAWTY
* Absolutely, no-turning-back committed	BALLSDEEP
A 54-Across and all his friends, collectively	POD
2013 film for which Scarlett Johansson was cast during postproduction	HER
2014 Clean Bandit hit (and when I am listening, there's no place I'd, uh, prefer to occupy)	RATHERBE
2012 French Michael Haneke film which I, uh, loved	AMOUR
___ tee dubs	BEE
* 'Hmmmmmm...'	LETMETHINK
* 'G'day, first Irish person I've met!'	TOPOTHEMORNIN
* 2014 B.o.B. song and an incredibly apt theme entry for this puzzle	HIGHASHELL