The Chronicle of Higher Education – May 25 2018 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘For want of ___ the horse was lost’ |
ASHOE |
‘Harlequin’s Carnival’ painter |
MIRO |
‘I forgot … how annoying!’ |
DOH |
‘Take a Chance on Me’ quartet |
ABBA |
‘Where, how, how oft, how long ___ …’: Iago |
AGO |
20th-century blight victim |
ELM |
Agcy. at the heart of David Foster Wallace’s ‘The Pale King’ |
IRS |
Animal known for its trademark fat-storage structures |
CAMEL |
Archaic human who foreshadowed the Three Stooges? |
POKINGMAN |
Archaic human who was voted into leadership? |
HOMOELECTUS |
Archaic human with refined tastes in beef? |
CROMIGNON |
Backed up by facts |
TENABLE |
Bill with barbs |
MAHER |
Blender element |
ROTOR |
Brio |
ELAN |
Calendar model |
PINUP |
Cartoonist who created the Shmoo |
CAPP |
Chip, perhaps |
MAR |
Dagger-shaped editing mark |
OBELUS |
Do better than |
TOP |
Donald, to Dewey |
UNCA |
Dr. J’s first pro league |
ABA |
Expressionist Chaim ___, known for distorted portraiture |
SOUTINE |
First class |
INTRO |
First tribe encountered by Lewis and Clark |
OTO |
Fitness-regimen choice |
TAEBO |
Footwear with swooshes |
NIKES |
Franken and Gore |
ALS |
Good source of potassium |
BANANA |
Gooey layered treat |
SMORE |
Gregory Peck’s character in ‘Spellbound,’ for one |
AMNESIAC |
Group activity, at times |
HUG |
Group of the best and the brightest |
ATEAM |
Heavy |
BADGUY |
Immature egg |
OVULE |
It’s complete from A to Z |
PANGRAM |
Itinerary word |
VIA |
Clues |
Answers |
Kvetch |
MOAN |
LAX-to-JFK flight shortener |
JETSTREAM |
Lester of NBC News |
HOLT |
Marseilles : encore :: Madrid : ___ vez |
OTRA |
Metalloid element |
BORON |
Mischief-makers |
IMPS |
Mystical character |
RUNE |
Nabob in the Ottoman Empire |
BEY |
Natural emollient |
ALOE |
Nice place to study? |
ECOLE |
Nonexistent |
NIL |
Ominous sign |
PORTENT |
One demanding satisfaction, once |
DUELIST |
One on a conger line? |
EELER |
Pass, on the Hill |
ENACT |
Raring to go |
AVID |
Room in une maison |
SALLE |
Ruminate (on) |
CHEW |
Score notation for two singers |
ADUE |
See 10 Across |
ALAI |
Side in golf’s Ryder Cup: Abbr |
EUR |
Simplistic theories disregard them |
NUANCES |
Solitudinarians |
RECLUSES |
Somewhat aimless archaic human? |
MEANDERTHAL |
Sorrowful mother of myth |
NIOBE |
Stacks like Tupperware |
NESTS |
States of pique |
IRES |
Statuary site, perhaps |
ALCOVE |
Study feverishly |
CRAM |
Stylist’s array |
COMBS |
Tend the garden, in a way |
WEED |
To whom the rhinoceros was ‘prepoceros’ |
OGDENNASH |
Trattoria dumplings |
GNOCCHI |
Troupe clad entirely in black and white, maybe |
MIMES |
Where Velázquez’s ‘Las Meninas’ is on view |
PRADO |
With 24 Across, the Guinness Book’s ‘fastest moving ball sport’ |
JAI |
Wrap around? |
ENDAT |