The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2011 03 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
SLEUTH, BRIEFLY TEC
“Fantastic Mr. Fox” author DAHL
Nitpick incessantly CAVIL
One who’s at home in Germany? HAUSFRAU
One punched out on Election Day CHAD
Modern Babylonia IRAQ
Mournful sound KNELL
CHEMISTRY NOBELIST HAHN OTTO
ACTRESS SKYE IONE
HOPPY BEVERAGE ALE
“Curiouser and curiouser!” speaker ALICE
Boys’ choir voice ALTO
STUD POKER? SPUR
SHEET UNDER A COVER PAGE
City ceded to Texas in the Compromise of 1850 ELPASO
IN ADDITION ALSO
GO GRAY AGE
Academic hurdle EXAM
Women’s History month MARCH
Self-referential: Prefix META
“Proud Mary” band, for short CCR
“Anything ___” (2003 Woody Allen film) ELSE
“Adeste Fideles,” for one NOEL
___ du Diable (former penal colony) ILE
MUGGER? HAM
I PIECE? DOT
Findable in the world REAL
Brutish Middle-earth resident ORC
George W.’s first Press Secretary ARI
Florida’s ___ National Forest OCALA
English king ___ Longshanks EDWARD
ATTIC PESTS MICE
EGYPTIAN ___ (BREED OF CAT) MAU
Roguish sort SCAMP
TOUCH ABUT
Film critic Kenneth TURAN
Without thinking it through RASHLY
“You said it!” AMEN
Junk man? SAILOR
Sun, to Suetonius SOL
COLORFUL CAT CALICO
FEE PAID UP FRONT RETAINER
LOSER OF A FABLED RACE HARE
COASTAL BIRD ERNE
___-JONGG MAH
Fish plates SCALES
Inner Party member in “Nineteen Eighty-Four” OBRIEN
Handle, as various tasks JUGGLE
SHYLOCK WAS ONE USURER
RICE-A-___ RONI
ENLIST AGAIN REUP
EQUINE PARENT SIRE
Patriots’ Day mo. APR
She said, “Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case” SONIASOTOMAYOR
She said, “[A] woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it” AMELIAEARHART
“Roots” author Haley ALEX
Proof finisher QED
Police drama starring Mark Harmon NCIS
FINDS A SUITABLE BRANCH ROOSTS
UNRESPONSIVE STATES COMAS
Formal courtroom statement PLEA
LIST-SHORTENING ABBR. ETAL
TOOK TO COURT SUED
LIKE HELIUM INERT
She said, “Ain’t I a woman?” SOJOURNERTRUTH
She said, “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman” VIRGINIAWOOLF
Sport-shoe brand AVIA
VITICULTURAL VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA NAPA
EURASIAN RIVER URAL
CHAPSTICK TARGET LIPS
REQUESTS ASKS
TRANSMITS SENDS
CITY THAT ATTRACTS DOCKHANDS PORT
WIND INSTRUMENT VANE
Sacha Baron Cohen creation ALIG
Invariable reply to the Little Red Hen NOTI