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

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