The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2011 03 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
City ceded to Texas in the Compromise of 1850 ELPASO
SHEET UNDER A COVER PAGE
Boys’ choir voice ALTO
CHEMISTRY NOBELIST HAHN OTTO
Mournful sound KNELL
SHYLOCK WAS ONE USURER
STUD POKER? SPUR
“Curiouser and curiouser!” speaker ALICE
EGYPTIAN ___ (BREED OF CAT) MAU
Roguish sort SCAMP
Formal courtroom statement PLEA
“Fantastic Mr. Fox” author DAHL
Modern Babylonia IRAQ
Nitpick incessantly CAVIL
One punched out on Election Day CHAD
One who’s at home in Germany? HAUSFRAU
ATTIC PESTS MICE
George W.’s first Press Secretary ARI
ACTRESS SKYE IONE
Film critic Kenneth TURAN
Florida’s ___ National Forest OCALA
Brutish Middle-earth resident ORC
___-JONGG MAH
SLEUTH, BRIEFLY TEC
English king ___ Longshanks EDWARD
Findable in the world REAL
Inner Party member in “Nineteen Eighty-Four” OBRIEN
LIKE HELIUM INERT
TOUCH ABUT
Handle, as various tasks JUGGLE
Fish plates SCALES
EURASIAN RIVER URAL
Sport-shoe brand AVIA
Sacha Baron Cohen creation ALIG
She said, “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman” VIRGINIAWOOLF
Invariable reply to the Little Red Hen NOTI
CITY THAT ATTRACTS DOCKHANDS PORT
TRANSMITS SENDS
REQUESTS ASKS
CHAPSTICK TARGET LIPS
VITICULTURAL VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA NAPA
WIND INSTRUMENT VANE
TOOK TO COURT SUED
FEE PAID UP FRONT RETAINER
COLORFUL CAT CALICO
Sun, to Suetonius SOL
Junk man? SAILOR
“You said it!” AMEN
Without thinking it through RASHLY
LIST-SHORTENING ABBR. ETAL
LOSER OF A FABLED RACE HARE
“Anything ___” (2003 Woody Allen film) ELSE
“Adeste Fideles,” for one NOEL
“Proud Mary” band, for short CCR
Self-referential: Prefix META
Women’s History month MARCH
GO GRAY AGE
I PIECE? DOT
MUGGER? HAM
___ du Diable (former penal colony) ILE
Academic hurdle EXAM
IN ADDITION ALSO
UNRESPONSIVE STATES COMAS
FINDS A SUITABLE BRANCH ROOSTS
Police drama starring Mark Harmon NCIS
Proof finisher QED
HOPPY BEVERAGE ALE
“Roots” author Haley ALEX
She said, “[A] woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it” AMELIAEARHART
She said, “Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case” SONIASOTOMAYOR
Patriots’ Day mo. APR
She said, “Ain’t I a woman?” SOJOURNERTRUTH
COASTAL BIRD ERNE
RICE-A-___ RONI
EQUINE PARENT SIRE
ENLIST AGAIN REUP