The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2018 03 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Setting for 2012's 'Argo' IRAN
ORG. FUNDED BY FICA SSA
Cpl. or sgt NCO
PREFIX LIKE PRE- ANTE
Chipotle option, for short GUAC
Like many Fr. nouns MASC
SITTING IN A CAVE, PERHAPS AGING
FLYING OFF THE SHELVES REDHOT
VLADIVOSTOK VETO NYET
COCOONED STAGE PUPA
Earl whose marbles are in the British Museum ELGIN
Seat where Junior makes a mess of his spaghetti, perhaps HIGHCHAIR
FEEL SORE ACHE
1980s cop show with lots of pastel suits MIAMIVICE
UNCLE OF ANTIGONE CREON
ABBR. BEFORE A DATE IN THE PAST ESTD
Univ. applicants, often SRS
HANG LOOSELY DRAPE
Mass with gravity REQUIEM
Takes the earliest shift, say OPENS
Acting pedagogue Hagen UTA
Jousting sites TILTYARDS
Onetime federal dietary std USRDA
Pitching ace Arrieta JAKE
2004 Tony winner for Best Musical AVENUE
SHARE THE SAME OPINION AGREE
Indian leader sworn in by Mountbatten NEHRU
Popular pome PEAR
Enron's came in 2001 DEMISE
DOG TO BEWARE OF BITER
Exam with grilling ORAL
OPERA HEROINE WHO IS AN OPERA SINGER TOSCA
2007 Tony nominee for Best Musical POPPINS
SOUND OFF RANT
SANCTIONED OKED
NEGLIGENT REMISS
Eighth son of Jacob ASHER
ROUSE BESTIR
SHOW LACK OF INTEREST, IN A WAY YAWN
Rigid social strata CASTES
2003 Tony winner for Best Musical SPRAY
OFFSHOOT ARM
2002 Tony nominee for Best Musical MAMMA
BARELY PERCEPTIBLE ANOMALY BLIP
Legendary queen whom Degas painted 'building Babylon' SEMIRAMIS
White-sheet link ASA
IDIOSYNCRATIC QUIRKY
Pseudonymous essayist who said 'The red-letter days, now become ... dead-letter days' ELIA
ANARCHIST OF 1920S HEADLINES SACCO
'The jig ___' ISUP
1991 TONY NOMINEE FOR BEST MUSICAL SAIGON
BIG D CAGER MAV
Converses with using a webcam, say SKYPES
VEGAN ALTERNATIVE TO GELATIN AGAR
Swampland flora SEDGE
Kind of care or color PRIMARY
ARC SOUND ZAP
'___ Lisa Overdrive' (William Gibson novel) MONA
FINE-TUNE ADJUST
SCARY FOLLOWER, PERHAPS ZEALOT
CONSTRAIN COMPEL
Beijing-to-Taipei dir SSE
WHAT AUTOCORRECT OFTEN DOES, IN EFFECT ERRS
EPONYMOUS FURNITURE DESIGNER EAMES
Printer-paper size: Abbr LTR
'TA-DA!' VOILA
Weapon for Oddjob in 'Goldfinger' HAT
MOVE CRISPLY BACK AND FORTH, AS ONE'S LEGS SCISSOR
Only star brighter than Sirius SOL
The Taj Mahal or the Great Pyramid of Giza, e.g TOMB
A GOOD MEMORY, FOR ONE ASSET
Conduct, as hostilities WAGE
Little dessert sandwiches OREOS
'Don't give me ___!' THAT
Motif in una sinfonia TEMA
Ref. to an earlier ref OPCIT
PENNY-PINCHING MEAN
Dark side, metaphorically HYDE