The Chronicle of Higher Education - Mar 2 2018

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Clues Answers
'Can I get a word in?' AHEM
'Children of the Albatross' author NIN
'So long!' CIAO
'Will it ___ in Peoria?' PLAY
'Woman With a ___' (Vermeer painting) LUTE
1975 Yale Law Journal editor Samuel ALITO
30 minutes, in the Super Bowl HALF
Agcy. with quarantine authority CDC
All-avian comic strip SHOE
Alter slightly TWEAK
Astute SHARP
Branch of Islam predominant in Iran SHIA
Champ's cry IWON
Common defense mechanism DENIAL
Covers ground quickly SPRINTS
Didn't linger LEFT
Digs for oysters? BEDS
Dilapidated cars CRATES
Don't swing at, in a way TAKE
Downsized MINI
Execute a bust, say SCULPT
Fantastic bargain STEAL
Far from flamboyant MUTED
Fudge, maybe STRETCHTHETRUTH
Furtive summons PSST
Gain rival ERA
Genesis figure called a 'cunning hunter' ESAU
Glass of 'This American Life' fame IRA
Hamlet's title PRINCEOFDENMARK
Hang in there LAST
Home to 12 landlocked countries ASIA
Inch along laterally SIDLE
Java Freeze maker ICEE
Juice extractor PRESS
Latte go-with SCONE
Letters like carets LAMBDAS
Message board FORUM
Miami team, informally CANES
Mollifies CALMS
Clues Answers
Nation with the second-most Olympic golds in swimming: Abbr AUS
Nonexpert LAY
Often-anthologized group POETS
One violating omertà, say RAT
Piquant bakery batch ONIONROLLS
Places for profiles of FDR DIMES
Poke fun at RIB
Port considered part of the Rust Belt ERIE
Poseidon's realm SEAS
Rankin who created Inspector Rebus IAN
Repeated word in 'Ring Around the Rosy' ASHES
Require aspirin, perhaps AIL
Samhain celebrants CELTS
Sch. in the smallest U.S. state URI
Scrape (out) EKE
Setting of the cable drama series 'Manhattan' LOSALAMOS
Skillful DEFT
Slander, e.g TORT
Snowman at the castle of Arendelle OLAF
Somber tune DIRGE
Some December tinsel holders FIRS
Some histrionics RANTS
Stand-up pioneer SAHL
Starts to lose momentum FALTERS
Strips in noodle bars UDON
Supply in some banks PLASMA
Tear-eliciting condiment, maybe CHILISAUCE
Tend to a risotto, often STIR
Tenderfoot NAIF
The alert are on theirs TOES
Throw off 23 Across FACEFACTS
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, e.g LADS
Tome's attribute HEFT
Walk all over ABUSE
Webmaster's medium HTML
Went incognito HID
What may inflate in a clubhouse? EGO
Worked at home? UMPED
___ Octavius (physicist who becomes archenemy to Spider-Man) OTTO