The Chronicle of Higher Education – Feb 12 2016 Crossword Solution
The Chronicle of Higher Education – Feb 12 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues | Solutions |
|---|---|
| ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’ dad | MATT |
| ‘In the Bedroom’ Oscar nominee | TOMEI |
| ‘More ___ a Feeling’ (1976 Boston song) | THAN |
| 16 Across, from 1850 to 1896: Abbr | TERR |
| Aarhus resident | DANE |
| Alley ___ | OOP |
| Amarillo-to-Abilene dir | SSE |
| App purchaser | USER |
| Archaeologist’s finds | RELICS |
| Bailiwick for 14 Across | GAMES |
| Blue dye source | ANIL |
| Byrnes who played Vince Fontaine in ‘Grease’ | EDD |
| Cab alternative | ZIN |
| Change for a five | ONES |
| Chinese menu general | TSO |
| Couturier Saab | ELIE |
| Cry often made with jazz hands | TADA |
| Cyclotron ‘fodder’ | ATOM |
| Desert and swamp, e.g | HABITATS |
| Dog classification including the malamute and keeshond | SPITZ |
| Element of a Scottish accent | BURR |
| Flotsam or Jetsam in ‘The Little Mermaid’ | EEL |
| Frays | RAVELS |
| Gardner of ‘The Night of the Iguana’ | AVA |
| Get acclimated to intelligence work at Langley? | ADJUSTINAGENCY |
| Ginnie or Sallie follower | MAE |
| Had a pizza delivered, say | ATEIN |
| Hankering | URGE |
| Hans Gruber portrayer in ‘Die Hard’ starring in a movie set at a sheep ranch? | HERDERRICKMAN |
| Happy Meal special request | SODA |
| Havens for ravens | NESTS |
| Hollywood ending? | DEE |
| How many deli items are sold | BYTHEPOUND |
| Impetuosity | ELAN |
| In the Black? | ASEA |
| It comes out of a fiasco | VINO |
| It needs a pilot | GASSTOVE |
| Judges’ garb | ROBES |
| Clues | Solutions |
|---|---|
| Kindle rival | NOOK |
| Letter in the Hammett equation | RHO |
| Like a loupe | OPTIC |
| Longoria of ‘Telenovela’ | EVA |
| Loose lips fail to keep them | SECRETS |
| Make an error calculating Kobe Bryant’s net pay? | UNDERTAXLAKER |
| Many Tim Burton characters | ECCENTRICS |
| Minuteman’s weapon | MUSKET |
| Most populous nation in Caricom | HAITI |
| Nickname for the Vietnam War’s F-105 fighter plane | THUD |
| No longer in stock | GONE |
| Noise from the bleachers | ROAR |
| Panasonic subsidiary | SANYO |
| Part of Fred’s attire in ‘Scooby-Doo’ cartoons | ASCOT |
| Part of TGIF | ITS |
| Pontiff quizzing cardinals-in-training? | POPETESTMASTER |
| Pre-pinning hold | NELSON |
| Princess who wielded a chakram | XENA |
| Proverbial settler of card-table disputes | HOYLE |
| Razzed | JEERED |
| Sch. with the most NCAA Division I championships | UCLA |
| Shiite honorific | AGAKHAN |
| Simplicity | EASE |
| Sink or swim, e.g | VERB |
| Sounds of ambivalence | ERS |
| Speech replaced with a grawlix in the funny papers | OATH |
| Sport-___ (versatile vehicle) | UTE |
| Strained to get, with ‘out’ | EKED |
| The ‘she’ in Oscar Wilde’s ‘She is a veil, rather than a mirror’ | ART |
| These, to Thierry | CES |
| Tom Jones’s beloved, in literature | SOPHIA |
| Touch and Shuffle, e.g | IPODS |
| Tyke | TOT |
| Unembellished | BARE |
| Where Leland Stanford drove the ‘golden spike’ | UTAH |
| Whodunit maven Rendell | RUTH |
| ___ cow | CASH |
| ___ kwon do | TAE |