The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crossword Answers | 2017 11 10

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Brian who composed the 'Microsoft sound' ENO
CAMEO STONE ONYX
SUBATOMIC PARTICLE PION
IMPORTANT POINT AT THE DINNER TABLE? TINE
HOT TOPIC AFTER OSCAR NOMINATIONS ARE ANNOUNCED SNUBS
Subject of an Andy Warhol silkscreen held by the Art Institute of Chicago MAOTSETUNG
Balloon-popping noise BLAM
Emphasize ad nauseam HAMMERAT
Real-life counterpart of Snowball in 'Animal Farm' LEONTROTSKY
SKULL AND BONES MEMBERS ELIS
Finishes that aren't merely close DEADHEATS
ASTRONOMICAL UNITS OF DISTANCE PARSECS
FILMING LOCATIONS SETS
Scheherazade's specialty TALE
They stick around the office POSTITS
Offer a charitable interpretation of, say SPIN
DIV. OF 40 DOWN LTYR
Bar with bearings AXLE
FAUCET TAP
Mythical founder of Carthage DIDO
Dumbarton ___ (D.C. estate gifted to Harvard University) OAKS
IDEAL CONDITIONS OPTIMA
VOTES OUT OF OFFICE UNSEATS
MAIN STORAGE UNIT? SEACHEST
SMALL FRY TOTS
DRINK OFTEN SERVED WITH A SPOON-STRAW ICEE
Troop-entertaining gp USO
Mast-to-tackle rope TYE
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF USE
DENTIST'S CONCERN ENAMEL
ANCIENT ASCETIC ESSENE
Practice stenciling, e.g TRACE
ZITHER COUSINS LYRES
FOOTNOTE ABBR ETSEQ
World capital on the Atlantic RABAT
Whom Sartre called 'the most complete human being of our age' CHEGUEVARA
Large but unspecific degrees NTHS
1940s blockade enforcers UBOATS
PHILISTINE CRASS
RUSTIC YOKEL
BETRAY SURPRISE GASP
Katharine who starred in 'The Stepford Wives' ROSS
Societal bracket CASTE
Dynasty widely considered the zenith of Chinese poetry TANG
ZONE SECTOR
BEADED CALCULATORS ABACI
Actress Feldshuh TOVAH
PERSPICACIOUS SAGE
THOUSANDS, IN A HEIST GEES
Founding father who said 'All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought' SAMUELADAMS
'The Swan' in Saint-Saëns's 'Carnival of the Animals' CELLO
San ___ (Bay Area city or county) MATEO
IT'S BAD WHEN IT'S OUTSTANDING DEBT
Spy's accrual, informally INTEL
ISLAND IN A PALINDROME ELBA
Kin of -esque ISH
HANG AROUND LINGER
'The Glory and the Nothing of ___': Byron ANAME
WWI vice admiral Maximilian von ___ SPEE
OVERTAKE PASS
Made like a bovine MOOED
SUFFIX WITH CONSIST ENCY
BLOODHOUND'S CLUE SPOOR
IMPLORE BEG
ENDING WITH SWITCH OR SOCK EROO
MUGGY HUMID
They may be imperative SENTENCES
PUT ON A PEDESTAL EXALT
WHAT WD-40 OFTEN ERADICATES SQUEAKS
It's on one side of the Bering Strait ASIA
'Render ___ Caesar ...' UNTO
PRONTO ASAP
FLOUT CURFEW, MAYBE STAYOUT
EVENT WITH BOOTHS EXPO