The Chronicle of Higher Education – Mar 17 2017 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘Accept that nothing can be done’ |
LETITGO |
‘News has a kind of mystery’ in ‘Nixon in China,’ e.g |
ARIA |
‘Requiem for ___’ (Faulkner work) |
ANUN |
‘The Theory of Everything,’ e.g |
BIOPIC |
‘UR so funny!’ |
LOL |
‘Wise up!’ |
GETACLUE |
Actor Jon of ‘Chicago P.D.’ and ‘Chicago Justice’ |
SEDA |
Add up to |
TOTAL |
Addressee of the advice ‘To thine own self be true’ |
LAERTES |
Band that won five VMAs in 1988 |
INXS |
Boeing 2707 et al |
SSTS |
Certain museum piece |
OIL |
Cheat |
SWINDLER |
Childlike fruit-eaters of fiction |
ELOI |
College ___ |
DEBT |
Comics dog in a Viking helmet |
SNERT |
Common computer-file extension |
DAT |
Company in the midst of a much-scrutinized merger with Dow |
DUPONT |
Complement of Stooges |
THREE |
Concern of fry cooks and painters |
SPLATTER |
Counselor of Picard |
TROI |
Dance move added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2015 |
TWERK |
Deep Throat, for one |
CODENAME |
Divinity-school subj |
REL |
Drop-ceiling component |
TILE |
Early obstacle for Jay Leno |
DYSLEXIA |
Eggshell or almond cousin |
ECRU |
Enticement in the air |
AROMA |
Escape-route port in ‘Casablanca’ |
ORAN |
Fall-foliage shade |
OCHRE |
Grab a bite |
NOSH |
Gun in the Suez Crisis |
STEN |
Handed-down stories |
LORE |
Hangar? |
PILOTSTOP |
Hebrides isle |
SKYE |
High-altitude country that straddles the meeting place of two tectonic plates |
NEPAL |
How many freelancers work |
ONSPEC |
Clues |
Answers |
Hugh’s co-star in ‘Four Weddings and a Funeral’ |
ANDIE |
Isn’t right |
ERRS |
Lamb handle? |
ELIA |
Lights |
IGNITES |
Long-distance swimmer Diana |
NYAD |
Longing |
ACHE |
Lounge lizard, at times |
LEERER |
Martha who often appeared with Bob Hope |
RAYE |
Mgrs.’ helpers |
ASSTS |
Monastic quarters |
CELL |
Most profanity-laced, say |
SALTIEST |
Mythical lover of her own voice |
ECHO |
Neighbor of 1 Down |
INDIA |
Noel Coward wrote an introduction for an edition of his complete works |
SAKI |
Not domestic: Abbr |
INTL |
Observance that falls on the anniversary of Einstein’s birth |
PIDAY |
One-eighties |
UEYS |
Oracles |
SEERS |
Park ride, perhaps |
TRAM |
Play pool, say |
SHOOT |
Prefix with efficiency |
ECO |
Slide show set to repeat? |
PHOTOLOOP |
Some sentences pronounced in court |
OATHS |
Stamp for an incoming pkg |
RECD |
State where 44 Across formed: Abbr |
NSW |
Tiny-capped mushroom |
ENOKI |
Tone in a Ken Burns documentary? |
SEPIA |
Took a card |
DREW |
Transmitter of some off-script remarks |
HOTMIC |
Trash talk from the peac*ck with the best courtship display? |
TAILGLOATING |
TV sports innovator Arledge |
ROONE |
Untroubled |
ATPEACE |
Well-ventilated plastic shoe |
CROC |
What a cow might do in heaven? |
CHEWITSCLOUD |
Wilson of ‘Wedding Crashers’ |
OWEN |
Writer of the Waverley Novels |
SCOTT |
___ Pointe, Michigan |
GROSSE |