The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2015 11 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
'Rumor ___ it ...' HAS
Nab, in a rodeo LASSO
CONFESSIONAL TOPIC SIN
Adjective for 18 Across PANICKY
Military slang synonymous with 'leatherneck' or 'jarhead' GYRENE
POET BANISHED BY THE EMPEROR AUGUSTUS OVID
TURN ON ACTIVATE
MAKE DO COPE
TORPEDO RUIN
ABRIDGED CUT
IT COMES WITH KINGS AND QUEENS CHESSSET
PICKED CHOSE
'The ___ Eater' (19th-century memoir describing altered consciousness) HASHEESH
___-A-Fella Records (label co-founded by Jay-Z) ROC
Gift for a diehard fan, perhaps SEASONTICKETS
___ PORT USB
Dixie corn bread, often ASHCAKE
Abbr. in a wristwatch's date window THU
CHECK RECIPIENTS PAYEES
VERDI OPERA IN WHICH HUNS ARE EXTRAS ATTILA
Charlemagne's domain: Abbr HRE
WALK WEARILY PLOD
Pelé's homeland BRAZIL
Gym shoes, colloquially SNEAKS
PREFIX WITH -PATH OSTEO
MACHINATING SLY
MONTERREY JACK? PESOS
PAL OF HARRY AND HERMIONE RON
Midlife-crisis movie of 1991 CITYSLICKERS
'Coming Up for Air' author ORWELL
CASINO CONVENIENCE, BRIEFLY ATM
INTELLECTUAL RANGE KEN
WHENCE AMBERGRIS IS COLLECTED SEA
Rolodex abbr TEL
Darn things, e.g SEW
LEGALLY IMPEDE ESTOP
'Make that two of us' DITTO
CAME TO REST ALIT
Family-friendly program rating TVG
'All ___ Years Ago' (George Harrison tune) THOSE
Where hands are kept busy SHIP
LIKE A NEGLECTED LAWN UNMOWN
DECORATIVE PATTERN FOR A LUTE'S SOUND HOLE, OFTEN ROSETTE
MARIA VON ___ TRAPP
Often-humorous impersonations APERY
PERMISSIBLE LICIT
'Seest thou ___ dreary plain ...': Milton YON
Stage name of Wu-Tang Clan's de facto frontman RZA
Bit by bit, perhaps STEADILY
MORE OBTUSE THICKER
DISCUSS GOINTO
Doomsayer of kiddie lit CHICKENLITTLE
JESSE JAMES SPECIALTY STICKUPS
Louis who often had Steve Allen in stitches NYE
SHOP OWNER WITH A SUPPLY OF HATBOXES MILLINER
Subject of 21 Down's first novel PICKWICKPAPERS
RECURRING MELODIC PHRASE OSTINATO
TWISTING SNAKY
'Benevolent' club member ELK
RAW GREEN
Creator of the fictional Pecksniffs and Peggottys DICKENS
20-OUNCE STARBUCKS SIZE VENTI
Laryngitic RASPY
CALVIN OF THE PGA PEETE
NEEDLES TEASES
NICKNAME FOR THE YOUNG DARTH VADER ANI
ONE OF NEW YORK'S FINGER LAKES SENECA
Praline nugget PECAN
MAKER OF J'ADORE PERFUME DIOR
'Mr. ___ and Eve' (1950s CBS sitcom) ADAMS
SWEEPING EPIC
FLIGHTLESS BIRD OF NEW ZEALAND KIWI
Fourth-quarter mo DEC
SOME BENNY GOODMAN IMPROVISATIONS HOTLICKS
D.C. winter hrs EST
[Bo-o-ring!] YAWN