The Chronicle of Higher Education - Mar 4 2011

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Clues Answers
Academic hurdle EXAM
Actress Skye IONE
Attic pests MICE
Boys’ choir voice ALTO
Brutish Middle-earth resident ORC
ChapStick target LIPS
Chemistry Nobelist Hahn OTTO
City ceded to Texas in the Compromise of 1850 ELPASO
City that attracts dockhands PORT
Coastal bird ERNE
Colorful cat CALICO
Egyptian ___ (breed of cat) MAU
English king ___ Longshanks EDWARD
Enlist again REUP
Equine parent SIRE
Eurasian river URAL
Fee paid up front RETAINER
Film critic Kenneth TURAN
Findable in the world REAL
Finds a suitable branch ROOSTS
Fish plates SCALES
Florida’s ___ National Forest OCALA
Formal courtroom statement PLEA
George W.’s first Press Secretary ARI
Go gray AGE
Handle, as various tasks JUGGLE
Hoppy beverage ALE
I piece? DOT
In addition ALSO
Inner Party member in “Nineteen Eighty-Four” OBRIEN
Invariable reply to the Little Red Hen NOTI
Junk man? SAILOR
Like helium INERT
List-shortening abbr. ETAL
Loser of a fabled race HARE
Modern Babylonia IRAQ
Mournful sound KNELL
Mugger? HAM
Clues Answers
Nitpick incessantly CAVIL
One punched out on Election Day CHAD
One who’s at home in Germany? HAUSFRAU
Patriots’ Day mo. APR
Police drama starring Mark Harmon NCIS
Proof finisher QED
Requests ASKS
Rice-A-___ RONI
Roguish sort SCAMP
Sacha Baron Cohen creation ALIG
Self-referential: Prefix META
She said, “Ain’t I a woman?” SOJOURNERTRUTH
She said, “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman” VIRGINIAWOOLF
She said, “Until 1972, no Supreme Court case ever upheld the claim of a woman in a gender discrimination case” SONIASOTOMAYOR
She said, “[A] woman must do the same job better than a man to get as much credit for it” AMELIAEARHART
Sheet under a cover PAGE
Shylock was one USURER
Sleuth, briefly TEC
Sport-shoe brand AVIA
Stud poker? SPUR
Sun, to Suetonius SOL
Took to court SUED
Touch ABUT
Transmits SENDS
Unresponsive states COMAS
Viticultural valley of California NAPA
Wind instrument VANE
Without thinking it through RASHLY
Women’s History month MARCH
___ du Diable (former penal colony) ILE
___-jongg MAH
“Adeste Fideles,” for one NOEL
“Anything ___” (2003 Woody Allen film) ELSE
“Curiouser and curiouser!” speaker ALICE
“Fantastic Mr. Fox” author DAHL
“Proud Mary” band, for short CCR
“Roots” author Haley ALEX
“You said it!” AMEN