The Chronicle of Higher Education – Nov 10 2017 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘Render ___ Caesar …’ |
UNTO |
| ‘The Glory and the Nothing of ___’: Byron |
ANAME |
| ‘The Swan’ in Saint-Saëns’s ‘Carnival of the Animals’ |
CELLO |
| 1940s blockade enforcers |
UBOATS |
| Actress Feldshuh |
TOVAH |
| Ancient ascetic |
ESSENE |
| Astronomical units of distance |
PARSECS |
| Balloon-popping noise |
BLAM |
| Bar with bearings |
AXLE |
| Beaded calculators |
ABACI |
| Betray surprise |
GASP |
| Bloodhound’s clue |
SPOOR |
| Brian who composed the ‘Microsoft sound’ |
ENO |
| Cameo stone |
ONYX |
| Dentist’s concern |
ENAMEL |
| Div. of 40 Down |
LTYR |
| Drink often served with a spoon-straw |
ICEE |
| Dumbarton ___ (D.C. estate gifted to Harvard University) |
OAKS |
| Dynasty widely considered the zenith of Chinese poetry |
TANG |
| Emphasize ad nauseam |
HAMMERAT |
| Ending with switch or sock |
EROO |
| Event with booths |
EXPO |
| Faucet |
TAP |
| Filming locations |
SETS |
| Finishes that aren’t merely close |
DEADHEATS |
| Flout curfew, maybe |
STAYOUT |
| Footnote abbr |
ETSEQ |
| Founding father who said ‘All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought’ |
SAMUELADAMS |
| Hang around |
LINGER |
| Hot topic after Oscar nominations are announced |
SNUBS |
| Ideal conditions |
OPTIMA |
| Implore |
BEG |
| Important point at the dinner table? |
TINE |
| Island in a palindrome |
ELBA |
| It’s bad when it’s outstanding |
DEBT |
| It’s on one side of the Bering Strait |
ASIA |
| Katharine who starred in ‘The Stepford Wives’ |
ROSS |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Kin of -esque |
ISH |
| Large but unspecific degrees |
NTHS |
| Made like a bovine |
MOOED |
| Main storage unit? |
SEACHEST |
| Mast-to-tackle rope |
TYE |
| Muggy |
HUMID |
| Mythical founder of Carthage |
DIDO |
| Offer a charitable interpretation of, say |
SPIN |
| Overtake |
PASS |
| Perspicacious |
SAGE |
| Philistine |
CRASS |
| Practice stenciling, e.g |
TRACE |
| Pronto |
ASAP |
| Put on a pedestal |
EXALT |
| Real-life counterpart of Snowball in ‘Animal Farm’ |
LEONTROTSKY |
| Rustic |
YOKEL |
| San ___ (Bay Area city or county) |
MATEO |
| Scheherazade’s specialty |
TALE |
| Skull and Bones members |
ELIS |
| Small fry |
TOTS |
| Societal bracket |
CASTE |
| Spy’s accrual, informally |
INTEL |
| Subatomic particle |
PION |
| Subject of an Andy Warhol silkscreen held by the Art Institute of Chicago |
MAOTSETUNG |
| Suffix with consist |
ENCY |
| Take advantage of |
USE |
| They may be imperative |
SENTENCES |
| They stick around the office |
POSTITS |
| Thousands, in a heist |
GEES |
| Troop-entertaining gp |
USO |
| Votes out of office |
UNSEATS |
| What WD-40 often eradicates |
SQUEAKS |
| Whom Sartre called ‘the most complete human being of our age’ |
CHEGUEVARA |
| World capital on the Atlantic |
RABAT |
| WWI vice admiral Maximilian von ___ |
SPEE |
| Zither cousins |
LYRES |
| Zone |
SECTOR |