The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2018 03 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
ALTER SLIGHTLY TWEAK
NONEXPERT LAY
SKILLFUL DEFT
SCRAPE (OUT) EKE
Miami team, informally CANES
One violating omertà, say RAT
Nation with the second-most Olympic golds in swimming: Abbr AUS
MOLLIFIES CALMS
The alert are on theirs TOES
DOWNSIZED MINI
EXECUTE A BUST, SAY SCULPT
30 minutes, in the Super Bowl HALF
Tend to a risotto, often STIR
1975 Yale Law Journal editor Samuel ALITO
___ Octavius (physicist who becomes archenemy to Spider-Man) OTTO
WORKED AT HOME? UMPED
'Will it ___ in Peoria?' PLAY
'Woman With a ___' (Vermeer painting) LUTE
Went incognito HID
GAIN RIVAL ERA
Sch. in the smallest U.S. state URI
WALK ALL OVER ABUSE
FAR FROM FLAMBOYANT MUTED
OFTEN-ANTHOLOGIZED GROUP POETS
WEBMASTER'S MEDIUM HTML
SOME HISTRIONICS RANTS
'Can I get a word in?' AHEM
JAVA FREEZE MAKER ICEE
CHAMP'S CRY IWON
POKE FUN AT RIB
ASTUTE SHARP
TENDERFOOT NAIF
FURTIVE SUMMONS PSST
PIQUANT BAKERY BATCH ONIONROLLS
DIDN'T LINGER LEFT
COVERS GROUND QUICKLY SPRINTS
FUDGE, MAYBE STRETCHTHETRUTH
BRANCH OF ISLAM PREDOMINANT IN IRAN SHIA
What may inflate in a clubhouse? EGO
Slander, e.g TORT
Port considered part of the Rust Belt ERIE
Setting of the cable drama series 'Manhattan' LOSALAMOS
Repeated word in 'Ring Around the Rosy' ASHES
Places for profiles of FDR DIMES
Message board FORUM
Genesis figure called a 'cunning hunter' ESAU
Don't swing at, in a way TAKE
LATTE GO-WITH SCONE
Agcy. with quarantine authority CDC
JUICE EXTRACTOR PRESS
Glass of 'This American Life' fame IRA
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, e.g LADS
Tome's attribute HEFT
Strips in noodle bars UDON
Supply in some banks PLASMA
Starts to lose momentum FALTERS
Some December tinsel holders FIRS
Common defense mechanism DENIAL
Letters like carets LAMBDAS
DIGS FOR OYSTERS? BEDS
RANKIN WHO CREATED INSPECTOR REBUS IAN
HANG IN THERE LAST
DILAPIDATED CARS CRATES
Throw off 23 Across FACEFACTS
'SO LONG!' CIAO
Inch along laterally SIDLE
Hamlet's title PRINCEOFDENMARK
Home to 12 landlocked countries ASIA
'Children of the Albatross' author NIN
FANTASTIC BARGAIN STEAL
TEAR-ELICITING CONDIMENT, MAYBE CHILISAUCE
SOMBER TUNE DIRGE
REQUIRE ASPIRIN, PERHAPS AIL
SAMHAIN CELEBRANTS CELTS
STAND-UP PIONEER SAHL
SNOWMAN AT THE CASTLE OF ARENDELLE OLAF
ALL-AVIAN COMIC STRIP SHOE
POSEIDON'S REALM SEAS