The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2012 03 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Life on earth, collectively BIOSPHERE
WORDS OF CLARIFICATION IDEST
COMPONENT ELEMENT
You can't inspect them too closely MIRAGES
GAVE VOICE TO WONDERMENT OOHED
ONLINE BROKERAGE SERVICE ETRADE
Spectacle depicted in many Picasso paintings CORRIDA
'That's sorta funny' HEH
DIGS DEEP DELVES
SMACK INTO RAM
WOOLF TITLE OPENER MRS
GM subsidiary since 1931 OPEL
WHERE YOU MIGHT LOOK FOR WORK INBOX
2010 Mark Twain Award winner FEY
SEE 17 ACROSS HAWKING
Reggae predecessor SKA
Longfellow's 'loveliest of Dacotah women' MINNEHAHA
Reason to seek counseling ANGST
Somewhat smelly RIPE
Cape Cod's Provincetown ___ SPIT
___ Ben Canaan, hero of 'Exodus' ARI
LACERATED TORE
He who first 'jumped the shark' FONZIE
FADES AWAY WANES
RUB OUT ERASE
'Banality of ___' (phrase coined by Hannah Arendt) EVIL
SUBDUE BY FORCE OF PERSONALITY OVERAWE
TAKE A CHANCE DARE
EVENTUALLY ONEDAY
AT THE FRONT OF THE LINE NEXT
Wilson of 'Midnight in Paris' OWEN
'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' theologian EDWARDS
'The Human Stain' author ROTH
Colombian currency unit PESO
German game for three SKAT
Ponytail neighbor NAPE
ROTATE RAPIDLY SPIN
CHOLER IRE
Best with one's hands DEFTEST
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum exhibit, for short SST
#1 ROLLING STONES SINGLE FEATURING A SITAR PAINTIT
EARLY BEATLES BASSIST SUTCLIFFE STU
Dayton-to-Toledo dir NNE
SMALL BELTS? NIPS
FORMER TORONTO-BASED COMEDY SHOW SCTV
In high dudgeon STEAMED
THREE-TIME NBA SLAM DUNK CONTEST WINNER ROBINSON NATE
ARC OF THE COVENANT? RAINBOW
Pricey tablet IPAD
Opposition members ANTIS
PYRAMIDE DU LOUVRE DESIGNER PEI
ITHACA, TO ODYSSEUS HOME
SEASON AFTER PRINTEMPS ETE
With 65 Across, theorist on the phenomena at and around this puzzle's central square STEPHEN
Arnaz of 'I Love Lucy' DESI
Chad-creating devices PUNCHES
'Farewell, farewell! One ___ and I'll descend': Romeo KISS
Paleozoic or Cenozoic ERA
Plan's potential drawbacks RISKS
What this puzzle's central phenomenon may have once been STAR
COMPLETE ATOZ
RIVER FORMING PART OF THE GERMANY-NETHERLANDS BOUNDARY EMS
'Invisible Cities' author Calvino ITALO
'The Secret of ___' (1982 animated film) NIMH
Composer's symbol REST
Upwardly mobile org.? NASA
What the left panel of Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights' depicts EDEN
Unshown part of a stud hand CARD
Where the One Ring was destroyed MORDOR
Notre Dame's state INDIANA
HORSERACING BIGWIG TRAINER
SOOT USED AS A PIGMENT LAMP
WHAT A SCANDAL MIGHT RUIN IMAGE
Caucus ___ (Wonderland event) RACE
Tower topper SPIRE
ORG. THAT PROTECTS ENDANGERED SPECIES WWF
Imbues with color TINCTS
Restaurant with a 'Simple & Fit' menu IHOP
VARIETIES KINDS
'What tommyrot!' BAH