The Chronicle of Higher Education – May 11 2018 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘Argo’ Oscar nominee |
ALANARKIN |
‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ setting |
DEPRESSIONERA |
‘That was a close shave!’ |
PHEW |
‘The Miser and His Gold,’ e.g |
FABLE |
‘Your turn,’ to a walkie-talkie user |
OVER |
‘___ my doubts’ |
IHAVE |
‘___ Sides Now’ (Joni Mitchell classic) |
BOTH |
1974 pension-guarding law, briefly |
ERISA |
2007 Alicia Keys album |
ASIAM |
36 Across mishap |
SNAG |
About to collapse, perhaps |
TEETERING |
Admissions interviewer, often |
ALUM |
Airer of the ‘Sharknado’ series of TV movies |
SYFY |
Area of interest |
SPHERE |
Big name in power tools |
STIHL |
Bird on Canada’s dollar coin |
LOON |
Bit in a playbill |
BIO |
Certain Wall St. maneuvers |
LBOS |
City on Lake Erie |
TOLEDO |
Coeur d’___, Idaho |
ALENE |
Cognizant |
AWARE |
Collage application |
PASTE |
Commercial prefix with -matic or -gram |
INSTA |
Conniving |
SLY |
Contents of Pandora’s box |
ILLS |
Denmark’s ___ Islands |
FAROE |
Desert steeds |
ARABS |
Doublet and ___ (Elizabethan costume) |
HOSE |
Evolutionary intermediate |
APEMAN |
Fiona voicer in the ‘Shrek’ franchise |
DIAZ |
Gateway Arch designer Saarinen |
EERO |
Gen.’s seagoing counterpart |
ADM |
Go off script |
ADLIB |
Hamlet’s ‘To be,’ e.g |
IAMB |
Harbinger |
OMEN |
Hike |
RAISE |
Lagoon encloser |
ATOLL |
Clues |
Answers |
Morale-weakening activities, in military shorthand |
PSYOPS |
Normandy’s ___ Saint-Michel |
MONT |
Outcome of many a Tinder connection |
DATE |
Pearl Harbor locale |
OAHU |
Period of space-shuttle radio silence |
EARTHREENTRY |
Pest |
PAIN |
Pop group with a backward letter in its logo |
ABBA |
Present opener? |
OMNI |
Puss in Boots voicer in the ‘Shrek’ franchise |
BANDERAS |
Ramble |
ROVE |
Return from a climb in the Alps? |
ECHO |
River to the Caspian |
URAL |
San Diego State athlete |
AZTEC |
Sch. with an annual Mystery Hunt |
MIT |
Short and sweet, e.g.: Abbr |
ADJS |
Sidestepped |
EVADED |
Skeptic’s mantra, maybe |
THATWONTWORK |
Smucker’s brand |
JIF |
Sound of the surf |
ROAR |
Still rumpled, as a bed |
UNMADE |
Streamlined, informally |
AERO |
Suggest otherwise about |
BELIE |
Swiss name in graph theory |
EULER |
Tests for pros on the DL, perhaps |
MRIS |
Text-scanning tech |
OCR |
Throw out water |
BAIL |
Time since Christ, datewise |
YEAROFOURLORD |
Tree valued for its long-burning firewood |
BEECH |
Twain on the radio |
SHANIA |
Undermine |
ERODE |
Unit of memory |
BYTE |
Way off |
AFAR |
Went sightseeing |
TOURED |
Westernmost body of land east of the International Date Line |
ATTU |
When both hands point up |
ATMIDDAY |
Wolfish expression |
LEER |
___ Trinket (‘The Hunger Games’ chaperone) |
EFFIE |