The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2011 04 29

crossword answers
Clue Answer
TAKE STEPS ACT
Chihuahuan Desert request AGUA
BUTTONLESS SHIRT TEE
MEMBER OF A 19TH-CENTURY CHINESE SECRET SOCIETY BOXER
SECULAR LAIC
GOES SPRAWLING TRIPS
SMOOTH TRANSITION SEGUE
FED. PROPERTY MANAGER GSA
LEATHER PUNCH AWL
SING PRAISES TO EXALT
REFERS TO CITES
CARNIVOROUS MAMMAL ALSO KNOWN AS A GLUTTON WOLVERINE
RAILROAD-CAR FEATURE AXLE
BANDED STONE AGATE
MADE LESS ONEROUS EASED
RIEMANN ___ FUNCTION ZETA
BLOCK HOUSE IGLOO
FEELING OF DREAD ANGST
'... like rain upon the ___ grass' (Psalms) MOWN
'Childhood's ___' (Arthur C. Clarke novel) END
'The Sun Also Rises' seductress ___ Ashley BRETT
'The ___ City' (nickname of Aberdeen) GRANITE
100 Acre Wood youngster ROO
1973 solo album released by Apple Records RINGO
Animal with a hood COBRA
Birling platform LOG
Bull marker BRAND
Cage constituent BAR
Château de ___ (onetime home of Louis XII) BLOIS
Conductor who won a record 31 Grammy Awards SOLTI
Dunfermline native SCOT
Frequent PBS benefactor NEA
Frightful-looking 'Alice in Wonderland' character, with 'the' DUCHESS
Harder to detach, maybe GLUIER
High Priest of Shiloh, in the Bible ELI
Judicial reprieve STAY
Lap dog, often TOY
When doubled, an American capital PAGO
What neophytes show to experts DEFERENCE
Web-based correspondence service GMAIL
Vehicle marque owned by 6 Across MINI
Ring conclusion, briefly TKO
Put into plaits BRAID
DISTURBANCES TODOS
TOOK TINY TASTES NIBBLED
EMOTIONAL QUALITY MOOD
LARGEST DIVISION OF GEOLOGIC TIME EON
STAGE NAME OF RAPPER TRACY MORROW ICET
BETRAY FALLIBILITY ERR
DICTION IMPEDIMENT SLUR
PUSHOVER DUPE
STOMACH MUSCLES ABS
DJIBOUTI NEIGHBOR ERITREA
COINED WORD? UNUM
MEATY JANE AUSTEN NOVEL? MANSFIELDPORK
Pop singer Paula ABDUL
Bullock-cart pullers OXEN
ANNOY A BEDMATE SNORE
MOUNTAIN-PASS STAT. ELEV
ROAD-RAGE INDUCER, POSSIBLY HORN
ONE FROM A SIX-PACK CAN
TOWEL HOLDER ROD
BLOW AWAY AMAZE
MEATY THOMAS MANN NOVEL? DEATHINVENISON
MEATY D.H. LAWRENCE NOVEL? SONSANDLIVERS
Metonymy or synecdoche, e.g. TROPE
Literary Nobelist ___ Bashevis Singer ISAAC
NON COMPOS MENTIS LOONY
SMALL-MINDED MEAN
Meaty James Hilton novel? GOODBYEMRCHOPS
___-Prussian War, 1866 AUSTRO
Maker of razors and lighters BIC
Munich manufacturer BMW
White American ANGLO