The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2018 09 28

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Put one's finger on, in a way POKE
Words said while dusting oneself off, maybe ILLLIVE
Six Degrees of Kevin ___ (cinephile's game) BACON
HEARTEN BUOY
SEAT OF MONTANA'S SILVER BOW COUNTY BUTTE
'Pac-Man Fever' spot ARCADE
Flavoring for German springerle biscuits ANISE
Wealth source in the 2007 film 'There Will Be Blood' OIL
Part of a car's steering mechanism TIEROD
FISH SERVED AT A SPEAKEASY? BOOTLEGCOD
GROKKED GOT
ENTREE ACCESS
It goes downhill fast in winter SLED
'___ trucks on every corner' (2016 election phrase) TACO
Lead story on Tennis Channel, often UPSET
Younger Obama daughter SASHA
PORTENT OMEN
GREEN LIGHTS OKS
15-year presence in space MIR
Hallmark of a tome HEFT
Island in a Napoleonic palindrome ELBA
COMMAND-Z, ON A MAC UNDO
Word before piece or pastry PUFF
Springfield-to-Boston dir ENE
FRATERNITY P RHO
Facilitate someone's date night, say BABYSIT
WELCOME CENTER? CEE
Founding member of the Byrds CROSBY
STRUCK (OUT) XED
Pink bird in a blue state? FLAMINGOLIBERAL
LAUDATORY LINES ODE
NARROW WATERWAY STRAIT
HABITUAL CHRONIC
BROODING ROCK GENRE EMO
Durham sch UNH
Burton or Russert TIM
Authority-defying dare MAKEME
AN EINSTEIN AMONG SWINE? GENIUSBOAR
Wanton expression LEER
Actress Long of 'NCIS: Los Angeles' NIA
PRESENT FROM BIRTH INNATE
EXPEL OUST
SUFFIX WITH POTTER OR TREK VERSE
SEE 29 DOWN NASH
SEE 29 DOWN LAMA
'Marat/___' (1963 play) SADE
Kinnear of 'Little Miss Sunshine' GREG
Where many concertgoers are jostled MOSHPITS
Monogram associated with Mon Paris perfume YSL
Dunham of 'Girls' fame LENA
FAILS TO INCLUDE OMITS
Producer of Aspire computers ACER
AREA OF RAPID GROWTH HOTBED
Streaming interruptions ADS
DEGREE OF SEPARATION REMOVE
Martin who wrote 'The War Against Cliché' AMIS
'A complete list would be overkill' ETCETC
HATS, SLANGILY LIDS
'Anybody home?' call YOOHOO
QUEENS'S ___ FIELD CITI
Washington ___ (NYC neighborhood on the Hudson) HTS
DROPS FROM ABOVE RAIN
Wet reaction to dry humor? SPITTAKE
Plot point in the 2017 film 'The Big Sick' COMA
Alpine holler YODEL
AMPLIFIER SETTING TREBLE
FURTHER ELSE
'SAME HERE' IAMTOO
Database at a cattle auction? THEOXFILES
Vikings Hall of Famer Tarkenton FRAN
Outcome of 'Free Willy'? ORCAVICTOR
'... with ___ a soul in sight' NARY
Dept. in the social sciences PSYCH
With 40 Down, orthographically confusable priest in a poem by 50 Across ONEL
HONOR, IN A WAY TOAST
Popular Belgian pilsner, informally STELLA