The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2015 12 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Series-shortening abbr ETC
YELLOWSTONE BEAST ELK
DRINKS FROM A FLASK, SAY SWIGS
CAREFREE RELAXED
Parking surface MACADAM
WITH A SURE HAND ABLY
'___ in Ruins' (2015 Kate Atkinson novel) AGOD
TICKLE AMUSE
Shenandoah Natl. Park's state VIRG
PALINDROMIC CONSTELLATION ARA
Word with lock or trail VAPOR
Start of a short-story title (aptly rendered) that first appeared December 16, 1865 THE
Chocolate-filled Pepperidge Farm cookie MILANO
MLB SCOREBOARD LETTERS RHE
TALKING POINT? DAIS
Remain in mothballs, say LIEIDLE
URL ENDING GOV
Network that aired 'The Osbournes' MTV
'___ NOW OR NEVER' ITS
___-Ulm (Bavarian district) NEU
Spurious remedy NOSTRUM
CRUCIFIX INSCRIPTION INRI
COSMO, FOR ONE MAG
START A HOLE TEEUP
Suffix with federal ESE
Title, part 4 CALAVERAS
CARRY ILLICITLY SMUGGLE
Tear up the dance floor GETDOWN
ZHIVAGO'S BELOVED LARA
Cordial preferred by Hercule Poirot CASSIS
First Super Bowl played in prime time XII
URL BEGINNING HTTP
Anderson of 'The X-Files' GILLIAN
RIBS KIDS
ANCIENT RECITAL HALL ODEUM
Is affable, maybe SAYSHI
HARANGUE TIRADE
ONE HEEDING THE ALARM CLOCK ARISER
SWORD WIELDER'S GRIP HAFT
Oscar nominee for 'The Prince of Tides' NOLTE
Title, part 2 CELEBRATED
Title, part 3 JUMPINGOF
ROSTER OF ELITE INVITEES ALIST
In-box accumulation: Abbr MSGS
1950s Cleveland Indians star Al ROSEN
'Anderson Cooper 360°' channel CNN
Author of the short story MARKTWAIN
MESS UP ERR
Succumb to boredom, in a way NODOFF
When Lady Macbeth cries 'Out, damn'd spot!' ACTV
'___ your disposal' IMAT
FLOCK MEMBER EWE
LUMMOXES GALOOTS
SUBJ. OF SOME THEORIES ABOUT AREA 51 UFO
'To Kill a Mockingbird' setting ALABAMA
GO BACK FOR MORE GUACAMOLE, MAYBE REDIP
Salon service, for short MANI
'Currently serving' military status ONEC
CHILDHOOD CAREGIVER FOR PEARL S. BUCK AMAH
Fluffy lap dog, colloquially POM
Sudden pulls JERKS
JEAN ___, COUTURIER WHO PIONEERED WOMEN'S SPORTSWEAR PATOU
What a retired racehorse may bring in STUDFEE
Half of a 1999 petroleum-industry merger EXXON
Opera in which Jack the Ripper is a character LULU
FACILITY EASE
END OF THE TITLE COUNTYFROG
Affirmative in Amiens OUI
GENESES ONSETS
LONG-TERM SECURITY, FOR SHORT TBOND
'Nightline' creator Arledge ROONE
Doctrine of self-interest as a primary motivator EGOISM
SPELLBOUND AGOG
MAGIC KINGDOM NEIGHBOR EPCOT
___-QUOTED OFT
CAFETERIA STACK TRAYS