The Chronicle of Higher Education - Apr 6 2012

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Clues Answers
'Lord of the Flies' setting ISLE
'Patterns' poet Lowell AMY
'The lady ___ protest too much' DOTH
'The signature of civilizations': Beverly Sills ART
'The wait is over!' ATLAST
'___ Enchanted' (Newbery Honor book) ELLA
2012 Grammy winner and namesakes ADELES
Ancient king of Egypt RAMESES
Archival materials, for short DOCS
Battering-ram countermeasure MOAT
Big NPR donor Joan KROC
Book unlikely to go out of print CLASSIC
British actress Staunton IMELDA
British school officials DONS
Changed tournament pairings RESEEDED
Close to the answer WARM
Composer dubbed 'The Waltz King' STRAUSS
Data generated by a program OUTPUT
Deep tire track RUT
Deriving from ROOTEDIN
Dispatches SENDS
Division of Chaucer's masterwork TALE
End of the ladder (and the end point of the journey) HOME
Fifth word in the ladder HOST
Figure on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling NOAH
Finnish currency EURO
Font option: Abbr ITAL
Fourth word in the ladder HOOT
Gardener's supply PEAT
Gift from the East MYRRH
It might have a big eye STORMSYSTEM
Keeper of the keys, say JAILER
Kit Carson House location TAOS
Knights' mounts STEEDS
Laurel of 'The Flying Deuces' STAN
Like a model's lips, perhaps POUTY
Lover of beauty ESTHETE
Marmalade ingredient ZEST
Mescaline source PEYOTE
Middle Eastern market BAZAAR
Mitigate LESSEN
Clues Answers
Muse for Herodotus CLIO
Namby-pamby MILKSOP
Nashville org. founded in 1958 CMA
New York's ___ Canal ERIE
Not busy IDLE
Omertà keeper CAPO
Out of the ordinary ODD
Person traveling from 2 Down ODYSSEUS
Person waiting at 65 Down PENELOPE
Pink-lady liquor GIN
Place to do clerical work ALTAR
Popular products SELLERS
Purpose SAKE
Put down DERIDE
Rebekah's first son ESAU
Ref-determined endings, briefly TKOS
Releases LETSSLIP
River in 'Aida' NILE
Sap sucker APHID
Scale amts WTS
Scopes, to Darrow CLIENT
Second word in the ladder TROT
Sites to grab bites BISTROS
Sixth word in the ladder HOSE
Slippery one EEL
Social event with one caller SQUAREDANCE
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre victim HUGUENOT
Starchy tuber YAM
Start of a word ladder (and the starting point of the journey) TROY
Station workers DJS
Stepped TROD
Stubborn to the last DIEHARD
Talk back to SASS
Tennessee's state flower IRIS
Third word in the ladder TOOT
Tokyo-based brewery ASAHI
Torpex ingredient TNT
Volstead Act enforcer NESS
___ du Soleil CIRQUE
___-mo SLO