The Chronicle of Higher Education - Oct 28 2016

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Clues Answers
'Dreams From My Father' memoirist OBAMA
'It's not bragging if you can back it up' speaker ALI
'L'___ c'est moi' (Louis XIV line) ETAT
'___ old man, he played ...' THIS
1992 film co-starring Maggie Smith SISTERACT
About ASTO
Ancient character RUNE
Aquatic apex predator ORCA
Aries or Taurus, but not Pisces AUTO
At a fairly slow tempo ADAGIO
Attire GARB
Away from the gale ALEE
Bird that was once a mascot for Guinness TOUCAN
Brings down, maybe SOBERS
Byron or Tennyson, e.g LORD
Causes to beam ELATES
Chase's partner, on coffee cans SANBORN
Classic board game akin to pachisi WAHOO
Cleveland Cavaliers point guard ___ Irving KYRIE
Collect copiously RAKEIN
Cramming method, often ROTE
Dismissive of inherent complexities FACILE
Disreputable news source RAG
Enjoying favor (with) INGOOD
Entertain AMUSE
Exam within an exam SUBTEST
Flue buildup SOOT
Foot in a steeplechase HOOF
Gear in a dinghy locker LIFEVESTS
Globe SPHERE
Grosse ___, Michigan ILE
Highlight-reel accompaniment RECAP
Independent gps. that may have charitable status NGOS
Informer RAT
Inhibit CURB
Key with no sharps or flats: Abbr AMIN
Let up EBBED
Like an ineffectual Tupperware container, say LIDLESS
Locale of Craters of the Moon National Monument IDAHO
Clues Answers
Make a sound like a deflating balloon SISS
Maya Angelou creation POEM
Memphis-to-Nashville dir ENE
Miffed and then some IRATE
Milieu for many drills BOOTCAMP
Milker's seat STOOL
Monomaniacal seafarer of fiction AHAB
Montevideo currency PESO
Movies, informally PICS
Peculiar STRANGE
Plucked Japanese instrument KOTO
Prefix with criticism ECO
Primary print-shop colors CYANS
Quick-arriving correspondence EMAIL
Race space LANE
Rapt bird watcher, perhaps CAT
Rice cooked in seasoned broth: Var PILAU
Rolling ___ BOIL
Scary mother in a royal birth of September 7, 1533? ANNEBOOLEYN
Scary music icon who (fittingly) released the album 'Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)'? DAVIDBOOWIE
Scary photographer for many Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair covers? ANNIELEIBOOVITZ
Scary star of 'The African Queen'? HUMPHREYBOOGART
Shockingly unconventional OUTRE
Son of Basil in 'Brenda Starr, Reporter' SAGE
Space cadets DITZES
Star-following gift givers MAGI
Surfing equipment REMOTE
Sustained FED
Three-___ sloth TOED
Throws a party in honor of FETES
Transmitting, in a way ONAIR
Voting to repeal, say ANTI
What a tonic provides LIFT
Wii rides for Mario and Luigi KARTS
Windfall BOON
Word with candle or nose ROMAN
Worth VALUEDAT
___ of vantage (favorable position) COIGN