The Chronicle of Higher Education – Jul 21 2017 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘When it rains it pours’ salt company |
MORTON |
| ‘___ 9 From Outer Space’ (1959 film turkey) |
PLAN |
| 1,000, vis-à-vis 10 |
CUBE |
| 14 pounds, in England |
STONE |
| Adept |
ABLE |
| Aid in scouting pitchers |
RADAR |
| Attention-getting body part? |
ELBOW |
| Avant-garde |
EDGY |
| Bangs but not eyebrows, say |
NOISES |
| Big-screen Joker of 2016 |
LETO |
| Bleeped word |
OATH |
| Cartoonist Hoff |
SYD |
| Cause of some tan lines |
BRA |
| Choleric blog posts |
RANTS |
| Coerced into crewmanship |
SHANGHAIED |
| Collegiate athlete from New Mexico |
LOBO |
| Common rebus animal |
EWE |
| Daimler partner |
BENZ |
| Defense Department headquarters |
THEPENTAGON |
| Departures |
EXITS |
| Disappearance site subject to much debunking |
BERMUDATRIANGLE |
| Engaged in |
UPTO |
| Extras |
ADDONS |
| Fiver |
ABE |
| Genealogical layout |
TREE |
| German car with a lightning bolt in its logo |
OPEL |
| Habituates (to) |
INURES |
| Half of an ironic pair? |
QUOTEMARK |
| It may be icy |
STARE |
| Label for Hall & Oates’s ‘Private Eyes’ |
RCA |
| Latin dating word |
ANNO |
| Letter opener |
DEAR |
| Like lots of land in the Mesabi Range, once |
STRIPMINED |
| Little shaver |
TYKE |
| Machine with a shuttle |
LOOM |
| Madison’s TV roommate |
UNGER |
| Meaning |
SENSE |
| Menacing ‘Romeo and Juliet’ prop |
VIAL |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Moss or Upton on a runway |
KATE |
| Negligible change? |
CENT |
| New Haven alumnus, informally |
ELI |
| New Year’s Eve ball-drop setting |
TIMESSQUARE |
| Not superficial |
DEEP |
| Noteworthy accomplishment |
FEAT |
| Novelist Rita ___ Brown |
MAE |
| Oft-cultivated Andean shrubs |
COCAS |
| Old Pontiac with a V-8 engine |
GTO |
| One sharing emcee duty |
COHOST |
| Open, as a cold one |
UNCAP |
| Pen |
STY |
| Polio-vaccine developer |
SALK |
| Port west of Paris |
BREST |
| Preposition often replaced with a slash |
PER |
| Probable modern-day locale of the biblical kingdom of Sheba |
YEMEN |
| Progression of numbers with a constant ratio between successive terms … or what 17, 27 and 44 Across feature? |
GEOMETRICSERIES |
| Pullers of plows |
TEAMS |
| Right on el mapa |
ESTE |
| Sch. that gave Richard Gere a gymnastics scholarship |
UMASS |
| Sight on many seafood platters |
LEMON |
| Sing full out |
BELT |
| Singer with the Blackhearts |
JETT |
| Some game-box parameters |
AGES |
| Spread |
PROPAGATE |
| Subcontract (out) |
FARM |
| Suggested |
GOTAT |
| Thinly disguised prohibition? |
IXNAY |
| Thumb, for one |
TOM |
| Toll |
COST |
| Tool with a blade set at 90° to the handle |
ADZE |
| Tool with a blade set at 90° to the handle |
HOE |
| Trunk |
TORSO |
| Two-thirds of dodeca- |
OCTA |
| Visual or aural: Abbr |
ADJ |
| Young seals |
PUPS |
| ___ Cruces, New Mexico |
LAS |
| ___-faire |
SAVOIR |