The Chronicle of Higher Education – May 6 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘Cross my heart!’ |
NOLIE |
‘Kid’ who rode Diablo |
CISCO |
‘Songs of a Wayfarer’ composer |
MAHLER |
‘___ of One’s Own’ (Virginia Woolf classic) |
AROOM |
Actuarial datum |
AGE |
Amazon squeezers |
BOAS |
Automotive monogram of yore |
REO |
Backdrop in a famous 1969 broadcast |
MOONSCAPE |
Best Musical Tony winner after ‘A Chorus Line’ |
ANNIE |
Big name in lawn care |
SCOTTS |
Bond creator Fleming |
IAN |
Bouquet |
AROMA |
Bring about |
BEGET |
Call at home |
SAFE |
Catholic dignitary’s title: Abbr |
MSGR |
Central character of a Bengali film trilogy |
APU |
Chilean pianist Claudio |
ARRAU |
Chowderhead |
NINCOMPOOP |
Clown for the camera |
MUG |
Competes on a course |
GOLFS |
Crony |
PAL |
Doctor who invites you to take his word for it? |
ROGET |
Dutch master who painted ‘The Cat Family’ |
STEEN |
El Al destination: Abbr |
ISR |
Enclosure with a rebate request |
PROOFOFPURCHASE |
Erstwhile detergent that pledged ‘white white washes without red hands’ |
DUZ |
Event where seals are put through their paces? |
TUPPERWAREPARTY |
Face off |
DUEL |
Fictional interlocutor with a caterpillar |
ALICE |
Field or power follower |
TRIP |
First lady from 1946 to 1952, familiarly |
EVITAPERON |
Greek H |
ETA |
Group at the bar |
TAPS |
Hardly a free spirit? |
GENIE |
Honoree of a D.C. monument unveiled in 1997 |
FDR |
Island where many visit the Blue Grotto |
CAPRI |
Jonathan Swift specialty |
IRONY |
Junkyard stain |
RUST |
Lake where Victor and Elizabeth Frankenstein plan to honeymoon |
COMO |
Clues |
Answers |
Machines running Panther or Leopard |
MACS |
Makes less unruly |
TAMES |
Mark for life |
SCAR |
Mine opening |
ADIT |
Mobile-to-Birmingham dir |
NNE |
Mogul |
NABOB |
Music genre with much teen angst |
EMO |
Noguchi sculpture in Philadelphia that pays tribute to Benjamin Franklin |
BOLTOFLIGHTNING |
Not dilly-dallying, say |
ONIT |
Origami bird |
CRANE |
Pair on the résumé of Linda Lavin |
OBIES |
Part of a superhero’s garb, sometimes |
CAPE |
Peregrinate |
ROAM |
Place to insert a bulb, say |
BED |
Pops |
DAD |
Prefix like mal- |
DYS |
Prize to be grabbed |
BRASSRING |
Promote an album, in a way |
TOUR |
Pronoun representing Pierre or Philippe, perhaps |
LUI |
Purple fruit from a palm |
ACAI |
Radio toggle switch |
AMFM |
Red summoned to many oil-well blowouts |
ADAIR |
River to the Baltic Sea |
ODER |
Round-skipping advantages |
BYES |
Sanctioned |
OKD |
Shimmery food fish |
OPAH |
Shipwright’s shaping tool |
ADZE |
Sierra Nevada, for one |
ALE |
Spilled salt, to some |
OMEN |
Stand |
RISE |
Stockpile |
AMASS |
Swinelike creature in the ‘Dawn of Man’ sequence in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ |
TAPIR |
Top Qatari, e.g |
EMIR |
UFO crew |
ETS |
Venus Flytrap’s milieu, on TV |
WKRP |
Virus spreader, at times |
EMAIL |
When many workdays end |
ATFIVE |
Wild guess |
STAB |
YouTube acquirer of 2006 |
GOOGLE |