The Chronicle of Higher Education – Jan 29 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Solutions |
| ‘If ___ be the food of love …’ |
MUSIC |
| ‘Il était ___ fois …’ (French fairy-tale opener) |
UNE |
| ‘It must have been something ___’ |
IATE |
| ‘The ___’ (Munchkinland movie) |
WIZ |
| Avignon affirmative |
OUI |
| Becomes less jiggly, maybe |
SETS |
| Beginning of technology? |
NANO |
| Big Ten school |
IOWA |
| Block at the bird feeder |
SUET |
| Bordelaise and hollandaise, e.g |
SAUCES |
| Bradley with five stars |
OMAR |
| Calculus pioneer |
EULER |
| Capri, to a Capriote |
ISOLA |
| City on California’s San Gabriel River |
AZUSA |
| Computer function often represented by a counterclockwise arrow |
UNDO |
| Con artists may adopt a succession of them |
ALIASES |
| Crowning architectural feature at a soft-drink bottling plant? |
PEPSICUPOLA |
| Denial without a subject? |
AMNOT |
| Descriptor in many a rap moniker |
LIL |
| Disparage, informally |
RIPON |
| Dried chili pepper of Mexican cookery |
ANCHO |
| Dubai dignitary |
EMIR |
| Famous restaurant-review aggregator |
ZAGAT |
| Fare rated poorly by 53 Across |
SLOP |
| First dynasty in traditional Chinese history |
HSIA |
| Frugal types dedicated to clipping and saving? |
COUPONHOUNDS |
| Garden decoration |
GNOME |
| Gomer’s spouse, in the Old Testament |
HOSEA |
| Guts, oddly |
SPINE |
| Hotel chain that has everything? |
OMNI |
| In ___ of (replacing) |
LIEU |
| Italian city boasting one of the world’s 10 oldest universities |
PADUA |
| Kind of compound comprising most of the earth’s crust |
SILICATE |
| Language heard along the Volga |
TATAR |
| Lassitude |
ENNUI |
| Madrid’s ___ Sofia Museum |
REINA |
| Mensa metrics |
IQS |
| Mesmerized |
RAPT |
| Clues |
Solutions |
| Motorcade array |
LIMOS |
| Nail-pulling hammer part |
CLAW |
| On the Adriatic, e.g |
ASEA |
| One may be proper and concrete |
NOUN |
| One of the racing also-rans in 1963’s ‘Hey Little Cobra’ |
XKE |
| Online current-affairs mag since 1995 |
SALON |
| Open the door to |
ADMIT |
| Opposite of brick-and-mortar |
ETAIL |
| Pack it in |
QUIT |
| Percentage of people who sleep on their backs? |
SUPINERATIO |
| Pictorial puzzle |
REBUS |
| Pique |
ROUSE |
| Plagiarize |
CRIB |
| Pre-1917 despots |
TSARS |
| Quizmaster, e.g |
EMCEE |
| Remove any trace of |
ERASE |
| Search exhaustively |
SCOUR |
| Seeger or Townshend |
PETE |
| Show whose final episode featured a Tony Awards ceremony |
GLEE |
| Small stand of trees |
COPSE |
| Some low-aimed beams |
FOGLAMPS |
| Some shepherds |
CANINES |
| Spanish I infinitive |
ESTAR |
| Starbucks’s Grande or Venti, e.g |
SIZE |
| Start of two Henry Miller titles |
TROPIC |
| State of constant change |
FLUX |
| Sty cry |
OINK |
| Taverna liqueur |
OUZO |
| They intersect at a jct |
RDS |
| They’re up for grabs on Election Day |
SEATS |
| Trade punches |
SPAR |
| Trapped congers |
EELED |
| Uglify |
MAR |
| Unanimous vote on the first course? |
SOUPSAYWEALL |
| Yom Kippur War arms |
UZIS |
| Youngest recipient of a competitive Oscar |
ONEAL |
| ___ a soul |
NARY |
| ___ Berenices (constellation now distinct from neighboring Leo) |
COMA |