The Chronicle of Higher Education – Sep 22 2017 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘A Death in the Family’ author James |
AGEE |
‘As I was going to St. ___ …’ |
IVES |
‘I didn’t expect that!’ |
OHMY |
‘Love Is a Hurtin’ Thing’ crooner Lou |
RAWLS |
‘The chief function of the body is to carry the ___ around’: Thomas Edison |
BRAIN |
‘The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’ co-star |
DENEUVE |
2007 tennis-related play that marked a Broadway comeback for Angela Lansbury |
DEUCE |
50% of moral indignation, per Vittorio De Sica |
ENVY |
Alphabetize, e.g |
SORT |
Award won by a documentary about volcanologists in Sicily? |
MTETNAEMMY |
Brownish purple |
PUCE |
Businesses with monthly memberships |
GYMS |
CD-___ |
ROM |
Classical musician behind the nonprofit Silkroad |
YOYOMA |
Colonial college founded by Ben Franklin, informally |
PENN |
Comedian Wright who said ‘I intend to live forever. So far, so good’ |
STEVEN |
Commandeer |
GRAB |
Cumberland Gap trailblazer |
BOONE |
Demagnetize, possibly |
ERASE |
Dork |
DWEEB |
Doxology word, often |
GLORIA |
England’s Newcastle upon ___ |
TYNE |
Feel below par |
AIL |
First name of Tina Turner and Patty Duke at birth |
ANNA |
Flimflam object |
DUPE |
Florida senator who said ‘Donald Trump is not a Republican’ |
RUBIO |
Give air kisses, say |
GREET |
Harvard, when it’s hot? |
INVOGUEIVY |
He sealed Solo in carbonite |
VADER |
Hugging twosome |
ARMS |
Italian city famous for its gingerbread-like ‘panforte’ |
SIENA |
Kemo ___ |
SABE |
Kindle Fire alternative |
IPAD |
Lose concentration |
ZONEOUT |
Love interest of Trinity in a film franchise |
NEO |
Lyft competitor |
UBER |
Moldavia or Armenia, once: Abbr |
SSR |
Name-dropper’s shortcut? |
ETAL |
Navy engineer who bellyaches about his job? |
CRYBABYSEABEE |
Clues |
Answers |
Nearly closed |
AJAR |
No longer disheveled, say |
GROOMED |
Noisy with activity |
ABUZZ |
Noogie-giving ‘SNL’ nerd ___ DiLaMuca |
TODD |
Nutty |
LOCO |
Officer who busts Arlo for littering in ‘Alice’s Restaurant’ |
OBIE |
Open wide |
GAPE |
Place of warship? |
PIER |
Porcine utterance |
OINK |
Proportion |
RATIO |
Reach the maximum |
PEAK |
Record label for the Go-Go’s’ ‘Beauty and the Beat’ |
IRS |
Reservations |
BUTS |
Reverberated, as thunder |
ROLLED |
Reviewer of books, briefly |
CPA |
Save-the-theater animated film of 2016 |
SING |
Single-mom sitcom of the 2000s |
REBA |
Something expunged from a selfie with Photoshop |
ZIT |
Sports gp. with the Dream and the Mystics |
WNBA |
Spot on your screen |
TVAD |
Squirt or Slice |
SODA |
Staples package, perhaps |
REAM |
State south of California, familiarly |
BAJA |
Strummed instrument |
LYRE |
Take a stab at |
TRY |
Temple neighbor |
EAR |
The ‘O’ in FAO Schwarz |
OTTO |
The first one was convened in Chicago in 1905 |
ROTARYCLUB |
Top-notch |
AONE |
Underwater cave dweller |
EEL |
Vessel included in the so-called ‘Plan Z’ |
UBOAT |
Wad of tobacco |
PLUG |
Wedding-reception hiree who hits on the bride? |
DONJUANDEEJAY |
When Juliet asks ‘Wherefore art thou Romeo?’ |
ACTII |
Where people tour the Ring of Kerry |
EIRE |
Where the buffalo roam |
PRAIRIE |
Wielder of the hammer Mjölnir |
THOR |
Work with the second-highest total number of Metropolitan Opera performances |
AIDA |
Writer who turned down an invitation to play the title role in 1962’s ‘Dr. No’ |
NOELCOWARD |