The Chronicle of Higher Education - Aug 5 2016

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Clues Answers
$200 Monopoly acquisitions: Abbr RRS
'A Book of Nonsense' poet LEAR
'A special laurel ___ go': Walt Whitman EREI
'La Belle Dame Sans ___' (Keats classic) MERCI
'The Library of Babel' author Jorge ___ Borges LUIS
12th-century London Bridge construction material ELM
Abridgment on British bows HMS
Accompaniment of many a Hilo hello LEI
Acts skittish, as a horse SHIES
Aisle walker with a flashlight USHER
ALABAMA (minted 2003) HELENKELLER
Au pair's night-class subj., perhaps ESL
Book with almost 2,500 verses PSALMS
Bottom FOOT
C. Everett Koop and others: Abbr SGS
Champagne substitute from Italy PROSECCO
Coup FEAT
D-Day beach near Cherbourg UTAH
Dance-company founder Alvin AILEY
Darth Vader grandson Kylo ___ REN
Dedicatee of a Beethoven bagatelle ELISE
Dispirited SAD
Evidence of damage SCAR
Famed Moorish palace of southern Spain ALHAMBRA
Frank Capra, by birth SICILIAN
Grand Rapids-to-Ann Arbor dir ESE
Gumption SPINE
Heracles' captive princess IOLE
Import banned from the U.S. since 1972 SEALSKIN
IOWA (minted 2004) SCHOOLHOUSE
Keeps track of MONITORS
Lint brushes often remove them PILLS
Looks convincingly like PASSESAS
Mascot of the Houston Texans TORO
Mishmash OLIO
Multi-octave singer Sumac YMA
NEBRASKA (minted 2006) CHIMNEYROCK
Clues Answers
Niccolò Paganini's birthplace GENOA
Nice one? UNE
NORTH CAROLINA (minted 2001) Firstflight
Not sufficiently equipped with SHORTOF
One of the M's in the MMRV vaccine MUMPS
Oracular woman of ancient Greece SIBYL
Ornamental plant with tubular flowers LOBELIA
Poe work declaring 'These were days when my heart was volcanic' ULALUME
Popular soy-milk brand SILK
Prefix signifying 'muscle' MYO
Priebus's predecessor chairing the Republican National Committee STEELE
Punch or party follower LINE
Right-angled iron brace LBAR
Roman Cath. title MSGR
See 37 Across DETRE
Seemingly forever EONS
Silent-film actresses Marsh and Murray MAES
Slovenia neighbor AUSTRIA
Small falconry birds MERLINS
Soothe CONSOLE
Space-scanning org SETI
Summers at the Sorbonne ETES
Surname of country-music brothers who sang 'All the Gold in California' GATLIN
Sweep's setting FLUE
Swiss city where Albert Einstein completed his secondary education AARAU
Take a winding route SNAKE
Target of urban renewal SLUM
Tasmania, e.g.: Abbr ISL
Tie up the phone, say YAK
Titular resurrected wife in a Poe story LIGEIA
Toshiba rival NEC
Tupperware piece LID
Under control INHAND
Uris or Panetta LEON
Welsh equivalent of the given name 'Jane' SIAN
With 47 Down, mission RAISON
[This couldn't be more boring] SNORE