The Chronicle of Higher Education – Aug 5 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| $200 Monopoly acquisitions: Abbr |
RRS |
| ‘A Book of Nonsense’ poet |
LEAR |
| ‘A special laurel ___ go’: Walt Whitman |
EREI |
| ‘La Belle Dame Sans ___’ (Keats classic) |
MERCI |
| ‘The Library of Babel’ author Jorge ___ Borges |
LUIS |
| 12th-century London Bridge construction material |
ELM |
| Abridgment on British bows |
HMS |
| Accompaniment of many a Hilo hello |
LEI |
| Acts skittish, as a horse |
SHIES |
| Aisle walker with a flashlight |
USHER |
| ALABAMA (minted 2003) |
HELENKELLER |
| Au pair’s night-class subj., perhaps |
ESL |
| Book with almost 2,500 verses |
PSALMS |
| Bottom |
FOOT |
| C. Everett Koop and others: Abbr |
SGS |
| Champagne substitute from Italy |
PROSECCO |
| Coup |
FEAT |
| D-Day beach near Cherbourg |
UTAH |
| Dance-company founder Alvin |
AILEY |
| Darth Vader grandson Kylo ___ |
REN |
| Dedicatee of a Beethoven bagatelle |
ELISE |
| Dispirited |
SAD |
| Evidence of damage |
SCAR |
| Famed Moorish palace of southern Spain |
ALHAMBRA |
| Frank Capra, by birth |
SICILIAN |
| Grand Rapids-to-Ann Arbor dir |
ESE |
| Gumption |
SPINE |
| Heracles’ captive princess |
IOLE |
| Import banned from the U.S. since 1972 |
SEALSKIN |
| IOWA (minted 2004) |
SCHOOLHOUSE |
| Keeps track of |
MONITORS |
| Lint brushes often remove them |
PILLS |
| Looks convincingly like |
PASSESAS |
| Mascot of the Houston Texans |
TORO |
| Mishmash |
OLIO |
| Multi-octave singer Sumac |
YMA |
| NEBRASKA (minted 2006) |
CHIMNEYROCK |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Niccolò Paganini’s birthplace |
GENOA |
| Nice one? |
UNE |
| NORTH CAROLINA (minted 2001) |
Firstflight |
| Not sufficiently equipped with |
SHORTOF |
| One of the M’s in the MMRV vaccine |
MUMPS |
| Oracular woman of ancient Greece |
SIBYL |
| Ornamental plant with tubular flowers |
LOBELIA |
| Poe work declaring ‘These were days when my heart was volcanic’ |
ULALUME |
| Popular soy-milk brand |
SILK |
| Prefix signifying ‘muscle’ |
MYO |
| Priebus’s predecessor chairing the Republican National Committee |
STEELE |
| Punch or party follower |
LINE |
| Right-angled iron brace |
LBAR |
| Roman Cath. title |
MSGR |
| See 37 Across |
DETRE |
| Seemingly forever |
EONS |
| Silent-film actresses Marsh and Murray |
MAES |
| Slovenia neighbor |
AUSTRIA |
| Small falconry birds |
MERLINS |
| Soothe |
CONSOLE |
| Space-scanning org |
SETI |
| Summers at the Sorbonne |
ETES |
| Surname of country-music brothers who sang ‘All the Gold in California’ |
GATLIN |
| Sweep’s setting |
FLUE |
| Swiss city where Albert Einstein completed his secondary education |
AARAU |
| Take a winding route |
SNAKE |
| Target of urban renewal |
SLUM |
| Tasmania, e.g.: Abbr |
ISL |
| Tie up the phone, say |
YAK |
| Titular resurrected wife in a Poe story |
LIGEIA |
| Toshiba rival |
NEC |
| Tupperware piece |
LID |
| Under control |
INHAND |
| Uris or Panetta |
LEON |
| Welsh equivalent of the given name ‘Jane’ |
SIAN |
| With 47 Down, mission |
RAISON |
| [This couldn’t be more boring] |
SNORE |
