The Chronicle of Higher Education – Oct 20 2017 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘Brokeback Mountain’ Oscar nominee |
HEATHLEDGER |
‘Feeder’ for Oxford and Cambridge |
ETON |
‘Good fences make good neighbors’ poem |
MEND |
‘Kilroy ___ here’ |
WAS |
‘Possessing what we still were unpossessed by’ poem |
THEGIFT |
‘Rats!’ |
DANG |
‘Silas Marner’ foundling |
EPPIE |
‘The ability to describe others as they see themselves,’ per Abraham Lincoln |
TACT |
‘The Princess Bride’ character ___ Montoya |
INIGO |
‘Yet knowing how way leads on to way’ poem |
THEROAD |
— |
OTTAKEN |
— |
UTRIGHT |
— |
WALL |
1998 buyer of Netscape |
AOL |
Abbr. in a birth announcement |
LBS |
Aboveboard |
ETHICAL |
Announcer of a 15 Across: Abbr |
CAPT |
Any |
EVENONE |
Argument-ending letters |
QED |
August |
REGAL |
Big name in cough drops |
HALLS |
Boomer’s gp., nowadays |
AARP |
Canful under a chafing dish |
STERNO |
Certain bottom line |
COLUMNTOTAL |
Chart-topping Glenn Miller tune |
INTHEMOOD |
Common thing to fib about |
AGE |
Competitor of Spalding and Wilson |
VOIT |
Conventioneer’s clip-on |
IDTAG |
Crime in much insurance fraud |
ARSON |
Dosage amt |
TSP |
Dr. treating laryngitis |
ENT |
Durable ribbed fabric |
SERGE |
Exact retribution for |
AVENGE |
Excited and then some |
AFIRE |
Exile of 1979 headlines |
SHAH |
Falstaff’s royal companion |
HAL |
Goddess who rescued Odysseus |
INO |
Grub |
EATS |
Gummed holder in a stamp album |
HINGE |
Haggis necessity |
SUET |
Hold fast |
ADHERE |
Impart |
LEND |
It’s crisp at Super Bowl parties |
HDTV |
Clues |
Answers |
JFK posting |
ETA |
John McCain, notably |
EXPOW |
Keep from falling, as trousers |
HIKEUP |
Ladies of the lea? |
EWES |
Mamie Eisenhower ___ Doud |
NEE |
Mao ___-tung |
TSE |
Mark as significant |
FLAG |
Material in mortars and pestles |
AGATE |
McGregor of ‘Moulin Rouge!’ |
EWAN |
Monarch in Netflix’s ‘The Crown,’ informally |
QEII |
Nongreen paper in a pot, say |
IOU |
Old ‘Go from flat to fluffy’ shampoo |
PRELL |
Opposite of post- |
ANTE |
Oust |
EXPEL |
Pacific tuna |
AHI |
Perch |
ROOST |
Preschooler |
TOT |
River near the Leaning Tower of Pisa |
ARNO |
Runs with an easy gait |
LOPES |
Scandalous |
APPALLING |
See 1 Across |
HEAVE |
Sierra Nevada, e.g |
ALE |
Sled in a chute |
LUGE |
Solar-wind particle |
ION |
Something drawn on in a den |
OPIUMPIPE |
Sound from a water cooler |
GLUG |
Source of 24, 44 and 64 Across … or, with 9 Across, factor in pothole formation that’s a hint at the visual irregularities of those three entries |
FROST |
Start of a verbal RSVP, maybe |
IPLANTO |
Suffix with Caesar |
EAN |
Support |
AID |
Texter’s ‘That’s hysterical!’ |
ROFL |
The Destroyer, in Hinduism |
SHIVA |
This and that |
BOTH |
Timid chuckle syllable |
HEE |
To boot, quaintly |
WITHAL |
Towel inscription |
HERS |
Traveled on a 74 Across, e.g |
SPED |
Twitch at the poker table, say |
TELL |
Uris or Panetta |
LEON |
Way to move docs. over a network |
FTP |
___ Fridays |
TGI |
___ gentry |
LANDED |