The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2014 04 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
ISLAND NATION IN THE PACIFIC KIRIBATI
Jessica of 'Sin City' ALBA
'What ___ the odds?' ARE
IN RESERVE ONICE
WHAT A DIFFICULT TASK MAY REQUIRE HERCULEANEFFORT
UNSPECIFIC VAGUE
'THE VOICE' NETWORK NBC
'How impressive!' OOH
'The Color Purple' setting AFRICA
FICTIONAL TEA-PARTY ATTENDEE HARE
Possible puppet SOCK
'You're preaching to the choir' IKNOW
ONE BIT ATALL
BACK IN TIME AGO
MINE OUTPUT ORE
SOURCE OF ZEST LIME
RIGEL'S CONSTELLATION ORION
Moody's top rating AAA
Told on, with 'out' RATTED
___ IDOL TEEN
JARGON SUFFIX ESE
'I only regret that I have but one life ...' speaker HALE
Four-cornered sail LUG
V-FORMATION GROUP GEESE
Word before lights or pay HAZARD
CEREMONIAL RITUAL
'BY ALL MEANS!' YES
COMMON IV FILLER SALINE
CAFETERIA DISPENSER URN
CLASSIFIED LISTING JOB
Twelve ___ ('Gone With the Wind' plantation) OAKS
Food-drive donations CANS
No Einstein NITWIT
COOKIES-AND-CREAM COOKIE OREO
Like guitar strings, often TAUT
Arduous trek ODYSSEANJOURNEY
INUIT HOME IGLOO
Science journalist Kolata GINA
LIKE THE SWANKIEST HOTELS FIVESTAR
ACTRESS WARD SELA
'First in Flight' st NCAR
DANIEL WEBSTER, FOR ONE WHIG
TOUR-BUS OCCUPANT ROADIE
CAP SITE KNEE
BIBLICAL PROPHET ELIJAH
NAVAJO HOME HOGAN
WHAT SIMILARLY CHARGED MAGNETIC POLES DO REPEL
LIKE A TEARJERKER SAD
Some birthday performers CLOWNS
FLIGHT BREAKS LAYOVERS
Christine Daaé in 'The Phantom of the Opera,' e.g INGENUE
PRESENT TIME, POETICALLY NONCE
BELOVED DEAR
Craven's creepy street ELM
Hugo winner Jack VANCE
ROLLING IN IT RICH
EXPLOIT DEED
LAILA OF THE RING ALI
WINTER-FORECAST DATUM LOW
Three-nation pact signed in 1994, briefly NAFTA
Listening to Muzak, maybe ONHOLD
STOLE, AS GASOLINE SIPHONED
'Lilies of the Field' character NUN
BRING UP, IN A WAY HEM
'Macbeth' diviners HAGS
GRIND, AS TEETH GNASH
'Live at Leeds' band THEWHO
LEX LUTHOR'S HENCHMAN OTIS
Karrie Webb's org LPGA
CHECKED OUT BEFORE A HEIST CASED
PRAISEFUL PIECES ODES
IMPOSSIBLE-TO-COMPLETE ENDEAVOR SISYPHEANTASK
Digestive chemical ENZYME
LIKE RAIN FORESTS LUSH
PRESERVES PRESERVER JAR
___ ROMEO ALFA