The Chronicle of Higher Education - Sep 16 2016

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Clues Answers
'Guess what I heard?' follow-up, perhaps DIRT
'Hug ___' (Shel Silverstein poem) OWAR
'The African Queen' screenwriter James AGEE
'Well, ___-di-dah!' LAH
... this 'Yardbird' of jazz CHARLIEPARKER
... this quarterback hero of the 1967 'Ice Bowl' BARTSTARR
... this tooting mime of Hollywood HARPOMARX
1955 coup victim PERON
Academic department heads CHAIRS
Assemble-it-yourself chain IKEA
Associated with hives APIAN
Be at the helm of PILOT
Before now AGO
Big-business muckraker Tarbell IDA
Blank fillers, often ANSWERS
Buchholz of 'The Magnificent Seven' HORST
Cap named after a Robert Burns hero TAM
Chinese sage said to have emerged from his mother's womb with a white beard LAOTSE
Cleft chin or curly hair, e.g TRAIT
Cleric of Clairvaux ABBE
Deg. for an aspiring curator MFA
Do impressions to observe September 19, maybe TALKLIKEAPIRATE
Early New Yorkers ERIES
Expected outcome NORM
Experiencing congestion, say URBAN
Fall prey to decay ROT
Fiery TORRID
Greeting in ancient Rome AVE
Hydrotherapy centers SPAS
In ___ (where found) SITU
Indicative or subjunctive, e.g MOOD
It may be marked by an X in a pencil game TAC
Jabbed POKED
Jettison DITCH
Jockey's handful REINS
Law-school newbie ONEL
Lose momentum FALTER
Loud hits WHAMS
Clues Answers
Mesoamerican staple MAIZE
Moppet TAD
Music genre for Jimmy Cliff SKA
Nasdaq, notably MKT
Nintendo princess since the 1980s ZELDA
Obama, astrologically LEO
Off-course ERRANT
One making carnival come-ons BARKER
Ontology focus BEING
Paperwork? ORIGAMI
Passion for Picasso? AMOR
Piccolo-playing actor CAAN
Pol with a six-yr. term SEN
Pussycat's boatmate OWL
Razz relative BOO
Robust HALE
Rodham or Clinton in 1971, e.g ELI
Sainted archbishop of Canterbury ANSELM
Sibilant summons PSST
Silk Road stopover IMARET
Some lab instructors, briefly TAS
Some memory triggers SMELLS
Spanish sparkling wine CAVA
Sphere REALM
State whose panhandle touches Canada IDAHO
Stave off COMBAT
Suffix with cannon ADE
Takeoff noise ROAR
The Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, par exemple PRIX
They might get rattled in tense negotiations SABERS
Time-zone word: Abbr STD
Turncoat RAT
Vacation island served by Qantas Airways BALI
Weed whacker HOER
What assesses current conditions? AMMETER
Where Leonardo's 'The Last Supper' hangs, to locals MILANO
World Golf Hall of Famer ___ Aoki ISAO
You can 54 Across by naming ... this prolific British romance novelist BARBARACARTLAND