The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2014 12 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
WORDS BEFORE A KISS IDO
TRIUMPH WIN
ILK SORT
PLUG BLOCK
OVERWEENING VAIN
December celebration KWANZAA
TIPTOE SNEAK
BYGONE OLDEN
SPHERICAL ORBED
RUBS THE WRONG WAY IRKS
AL JAZEERA VIEWER, TYPICALLY ARAB
SEMI CONDUCTOR? CBER
BELLICOSE OLYMPIAN ARES
ESTABLISHES SETS
VICTORIA'S SECRET SPEC BCUP
CAREER FOR BLONDIE BUMSTEAD SINCE 1991 CATERER
WAS THE RIGHT SIZE FIT
SLAPSTICK PROJECTILE PIE
PLUMBER IN 2008 CAMPAIGN RHETORIC JOE
GAWKED STARED
CANADIAN BACON SOURCE LOIN
CONTENTS OF PANDORA'S BOX ILLS
ATTRIBUTE FACET
Item in a recitation to Santa, often TOY
Cadence components, sometimes TRIADS
Certain ferry destination ISLE
Attack swiftly BLITZ
Annie Oakley's forte AIM
26-page children's book, perhaps ABECEDARY
'To strive, to ___, to find, and not to yield': Tennyson SEEK
'Allegory of the Holy League' painter ELGRECO
Co-headliner of 2014's 'On the Run' concert tour JAYZ
Queen ___ (bold chess move, for short) SAC
Province created after the Hudson's Bay Company surrendered a 200-year-old charter to the British Crown MANITOBA
Pressure or review preceder PEER
Bloemfontein's nation: Abbr RSA
Philip Marlowe type, informally TEC
Only child of Mary, Queen of Scots JAMESVI
Magazine that excerpted Stephen King's 'Firestarter' OMNI
Judgmental repetitions TSKS
HBO series that ended in 2014 TRUEBLOOD
Get kinky FRIZZ
Second-guesses, maybe RUES
Father of the Mothers of Invention? ZAPPA
GROUSE MOAN
TAKE DOWN QUICKLY JOT
BALL-BEARING ARTICLE TEE
APP FOR SIX-SECOND VIDEOS VINE
SOLITARY LONE
.035 OUNCE GRAM
CLOSE ENOUGH INRANGE
Give attribution to CITE
GREEN, IN A WAY UNLEARNED
SPURRED (ON) EGGED
GRAND CHILDREN? SPINETS
THE DUCKS OF THE NHL, ON ESPN TICKERS ANA
Monopoly foursome: Abbr RRS
KUMQUAT COUSIN TANGELO
LIKE SOME COFFEE BEANS AGED
COUPLE WHO CREATED CURIOUS GEORGE REYS
BOWL OVER WOW
SKATEBOARDER'S ACCESSORY ELBOWPAD
SHORT PASTORAL POEM IDYL
PROFUSION RIOT
Helen Mirren film of 2010 RED
Crests APOGEES
AWAY FROM L'ANTARCTIQUE NORD
1987 French Open champ LENDL
CONVICTIONS BELIEFS
Tim Matheson's 'Animal House' role OTTER
'If ___ be so bold ... ' IMAY
'A Chorus Line' finale ONE
Phrase used to advertise some mixers FREEBEER
Georgia, formerly: Abbr SSR
Ravel's 'La ___' VALSE
Scenes of much practicing LAWFIRMS
LIKE FIDO AT OBEDIENCE SCHOOL, OFTEN ONALEAD
Top-ranked country in the Happy Planet Index COSTARICA