" U" : 7 answers – Crossword-Clue

__ a seat (act as usher) __ in "unusual" __ of a kind (unique) __ union __ up (deplete) __ up (prevent from falling) __ US Pat. Off. ___ ___ upswing ___ -American (Latino U.S. resident) ___ -la (utopia) ___ -upon-Avon ___ & Brown (Unilever brand of bread spread) ___ & Sons ("Six Feet Under" funeral home) ___ 4 update (recent Apple release) ___ 48 (the U.S. except Alaska and Hawaii) ___ 500 (event for Al Unser) ___ a climax (built up) ___ a kind (unique) ___ Abbey, U.S. painter ___ acid (corrosive liquid used in making explosives) ___ acid, used as a vitamin ___ acid, used for synthetic resins ___ acid, used in bleaching ___ Affair (1797-8 incident involving the U.S. and France) ___ Affair: 1798-1800 France/USA dispute ___ Age (1870-98 in U.S.) ___ al-Khaimah (one of the United Arab Emirates) ___ alba (clay used to make pipes) ___ alba (gypsum used in paper making) ___ Amin, Ugandan exile ___ and tired (fed up) ___ armor (unwieldy ironclad) ___ around (fail to queue up) ___ at ease (uncomfortable) ___ Australis, star in Ursa Major ___ avail (useless) ___ avail (uselessly) ___ aves (uncommon ones) ___ aves (unique individuals) ___ avis (uncommon find) ___ avis (uncommon thing) ___ avis (unique person) ___ avis (unusual species) ___ avis (unusual thing) ___ B. (univ. degree) ___ Bank (U.S. loan guarantor) ___ Bay, former U.S. base in the Philippines ___ bean, used in perfumes ___ Bear: Ursa Minor ___ bell (easily understood) ___ better (improve upon) ___ Bieber, U.A.W. head ___ bomber (new U.S. plane) ___ Booker (Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law graduate, and New Jersey's first African-American US senator) ___ box (computer screen pop-up) ___ brace (device used to immobilize the head and neck) ___ branch (utterly) ___ breakfast (uncooked meal) ___ Brzezinski, national security advisor under Jimmy Carter ___ Cajun: University of Louisiana at Lafayette athlete ___ Canyon (Utah attraction) ___ Canyon in Utah ___ capital (up-front money) ___ card (removable mobile phone storage unit) ___ Carolina University ___ Carver, botanist who discovered many uses for peanuts ___ Chi Ch'uan ___ chi ch'uan (Chinese exercise) ___ chi ch'uan (Chinese martial art) ___ chi ch'uan (martial art) ___ chore of habit (usual job in Canea?) ___ City (Ohio town named for a U.S. president's moniker) ___ City, Utah ___ Clark, U.S. Atty. Gen.: 1967-69 ___ Classical Library (Harvard University Press series) ___ code (CB user's slang) ___ code (set of numbers used by CBers) ___ concern (unimportant) ___ concours (unrivaled: Fr.) ___ consequence (unimportant) ___ corda: using the soft pedal, in piano music ___ cordiale: friendly understanding ___ corn (cob's unit) ___ cow (blew up) ___ Dame (Indiana university) ___ Dame University ___ Darya, U.S.S.R. river ___ de coeur (pained utterance) ___ de Jouy (upholstery fabric) ___ de la Réunion ___ de Unamuno (Spanish writer) ___ debt: Baltic i.o.u.? ___ del Este, Uruguay ___ diagram (illustration used in logic) ___ dixit (unproven assertion) ___ dixit: unfounded assertion ___ dixit: unfounded claim ___ dixit: unproven claim ___ dog (U.S. Marine) ___ domain (state's right to take private property for public use) ___ Dome (home of the Indianapolis Colts until 2008) ___ down (made up for) ___ ear and . . . (unconcerned) ___ earnings (phrase used when comparing a current and upcoming paycheck) ___ ease (uncomfortable) ___ Empire, in NW U.S. ___ et ubique ___ et ubique (here and everywhere) ___ Falls, Nile dam site in Uganda ___ fence (undecided) ___ Field (O'Hare, until 1949) ___ fighter (early name for a UFO) ___ fire under ___ fire under (urged to action) ___ fire under (urged to take action) ___ fit (blew up) ___ fixe (unchanging restaurant option) ___ fixe (unvarying menu charge) ___ for (ultra yummy) ___ for (washed up) ___ Fox (Uncle Remus character) ___ Fox of Uncle Remus tales ___ From Mars (Ziggy Stardust's back-up band) ___ Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967) (juveniles accused of crimes in delinquency cases must be given Due Process) ___ Glory (U.S. flag) ___ Gorbachev, last first lady of the USSR ___ grise (person having unofficial power) ___ gum (used in lacquers) ___ gum, used in varnishes ___ Hall (Catholic university in New Jersey) ___ Hall (New Jersey university) ___ Hall Univ. ___ Hall University ___ Hall University, in N.J. ___ Hall, N.J. university ___ Harte, U.S. writer ___ helicopter (air transport to a MASH unit) ___ help (useless) ___ hill (washed up) ___ Hopkins University ___ ice (be unimpressed) ___ in "uncle" ___ in (get under control) ___ in (pipe up) ___ in U.S.A. ___ incognita (unexplored land) ___ incognita (unexplored region) ___ incognita (unknown land) ___ infaustus (unlucky day) ___ Institute (UFO-monitoring org.) ___ Institute, org. that makes use of the Allen Telescope Array ___ ipsum (faux-Latin phrase frequently used by publishers in placeholder text blocks) ___ Island, site of a U.S. navy yard ___ Island, U.S.M.A. training base ___ it (speed up) ___ It Leaked? (website to check if that upcoming record is on torrents) ___ it up (celebrate noisily) ___ it up (celebrated) ___ it up (celebrates noisily) ___ it up (dress flamboyantly) ___ it up (hot-dog) ___ it up (ties one on) ___ it up: dress elegantly ___ Jong-un ___ kill (doll up) ___ knot (finish lacing up) ___ knot, used in rug weaving ___ Kooser, former U.S. poet laureate ___ Kundera, author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" ___ land (where unreality reigns supreme) ___ Land of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" ___ land: unreality ___ Lars (Luke Skywalker's "uncle") ___ law, used by the Franks ___ layer (upper atmosphere part) ___ leaves (Eden cover-ups) ___ leg up (lent a hand) ___ legomenon (word or phrase used only once in a document or corpus) ___ Lesser (actor who played Uncle Leo on "Seinfeld") ___ Lewis, 2006 winner on U.K. talent show "The X Factor" ___ light (arc lamp used in moviemaking) ___ Lily (Utah Native Plant Society newsletter) ___ lily (Utah state flower) ___ lily (Utah's flower) ___ lily (Utah's state flower) ___ Line (owners of the "unsinkable ship") ___ Long, Union general in the Civil War ___ Maj. (top-ranked USMC noncom) ___ Malenkov, former U.S.S.R. prime minister ___ Marshall, U.S. historian ___ Mawr University ___ merit in (deemed unworthy) ___ Middlecoff, 1949 and 1956 U.S. Open champ ___ Mist (7 Up competitor) ___ money (start-up's need) ___ monster (large southwestern US lizard) ___ Mountains, in the U.S.S.R. ___ Mountains, Utah ___ Mountains: central U.S. range ___ Mountains: south-central U.S. range