The Chronicle of Higher Education – Feb 5 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues | Solutions |
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‘Better Call ___’ (‘Breaking Bad’ spinoff) | SAUL |
‘Borrow Cupid’s wings, / And ___ with them …’: ‘Romeo and Juliet’ | SOAR |
‘Hey, ewe!’ | BAA |
‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring,’ e.g | OILS |
‘Nessun dorma,’ e.g | ARIA |
‘Now we’re in for it!’ | UHOH |
‘Omnia vincit ___’ | AMOR |
‘Royals’ hitmaker | LORDE |
‘That gently, ___ perfumed sea …’: Poe | OERA |
10-digit no | TEL |
Adages | SAYINGS |
Assignation | TRYST |
Avails oneself of | USES |
Bar mitzvah highlight | HORA |
Baseball family name | ALOU |
Ben Jonson composed one to himself | ODE |
Bolger : Scarecrow :: ___ : Cowardly Lion | LAHR |
Celebration with many self-important guests? | UPPITYPARTY |
Chopin’s ‘Waterfall’ and ‘Tristesse,’ e.g | ETUDES |
Clickable address, for short | URL |
Commit a faux pas | ERR |
Consumed | EATEN |
Cook up a scheme (with) | COLLUDE |
Country on the south side of Everest | NEPAL |
Dallas Cowboys helmet feature | STAR |
Deckhands | ROUSTERS |
Delivery maker of yore | ICEMAN |
Emulate Vito Corleone, in a way | RASP |
Execs | SUITS |
Face-off | DUEL |
Function associated with a right-pointing arrowhead icon, often | PLAY |
Game-night milieu, maybe | DEN |
Groucho Marx specialty | PUN |
Heart | MIDST |
Hedging words | ANDYET |
Huff and puff | PANT |
Industrial espionage involving Teflon or Kevlar? | DUPONTWORRY |
It’s tested to determine paternal lineage | YDNA |
Largest of the Greater Antilles | CUBA |
Clues | Solutions |
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Like some potential | UNTAPPED |
List of donors in a theater program? | SUPPORTSPAGE |
LPs, collectively | VINYL |
Msgs. from McGruff the Crime Dog, e.g | PSAS |
Objectives | ENDS |
One arriving ‘ex machina’ | DEUS |
Opposite of baja | ALTA |
Org. that made Harper Valley famous | PTA |
Outlawed orchard spray | ALAR |
Photographer Goldin | NAN |
Procrastinator’s mantra | MANANA |
Prohibitions | BANS |
Put into piles, as laundry | SORT |
Raw-bar adjective | TARTARE |
Reattach a button, e.g | SEW |
Recipients of divine intervention? | MIRACLEGROUP |
Render worthless | VOID |
Rent out | LET |
Rocket’s forward section | NOSECONE |
Serpico, for one | COP |
Sharper than 90 degrees | ACUTE |
Snoopy’s red opponent | BARON |
Sound from a muted trumpet | WAWA |
Stag’s defense | ANTLER |
Strikers’ demand | MOREPAY |
Tacky | CRASS |
Team that doesn’t inspire confidence, perhaps | SORRYLOT |
Tech on display in ‘Avatar’ | CGI |
Twiddle one’s thumbs | IDLE |
U.N. worker-protection agcy | ILO |
Vegas sign filler | NEON |
Walden or Golden | POND |
What makes Shrek shriek? | ANI |
What some scouts discover | TALENT |
Where ‘A Room With a View’ opens | ITALY |
Whoops | CRIES |
Word with hygiene or vaccine | ORAL |
Writer of ‘Exodus’ and ‘Trinity’ | URIS |
___ of omission | SIN |