The Chronicle of Higher Education - Dec 9 2011

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Clues Answers
'God's Little ___' (Erskine Caldwell novel) ACRE
'Psst!' HEY
'The Good Earth' wife OLAN
*Cheap trinket TCHOTCHKE
*Complain chronically KVETCH
*Generous person MENSCH
*Luckless bungler SCHLEMIEL
*Overdone sentimentality SCHMALTZ
*Unmitigated gall CHUTZPAH
Academic specialty AREA
Arguing ATODDS
Assuming that's true IFSO
Bewildered ASEA
Big name in skepticism HUME
Big rig SEMI
Bob Cratchit's youngest son TIM
Body of principles ETHIC
Bone burier POOCH
Borrow, as a cigarette CADGE
Cantata highlight ARIA
Casino fixture ATM
Classic pop brand NEHI
Crow's home TEPEE
Dealer's need DECK
Decorative doorway ARCH
Elvis's birthplace TUPELO
Eucalyptus eater KOALA
Greek consonant SIGMA
Greek consonant RHO
Heats in the microwave ZAPS
Holiday meal, often ROAST
In the style of ALA
Indefinitely long period EON
Italian square PIAZZA
Knife wound GASH
Landscaper's roll SOD
Language that the starred clues' answers come from YIDDISH
Lombardy's capital MILAN
Maintain AVER
Clues Answers
Make a second pass through REEDIT
Makes fun of TEASES
Man Booker Prize winner McEwan IAN
Nation led by Satan at Armageddon GOG
Noted bankruptcy of 2001 ENRON
Only NFL coach to have a perfect season SHULA
P.D. alerts APBS
Pale as a sheet ASHY
Paparazzo's prize PIC
Performed badly? EMOTED
Philip II's fleet ARMADA
Philosopher who authored 'Phenomenology of Spirit' HEGEL
Place to stow a mower SHED
Potentially valuable drawings LOTTOS
Predatory fish GAR
Protective covers TARPS
Pt. of PGA ASSN
Puts into power ELECTS
Reckless fool MANIAC
Rich kid in 'Nancy' ROLLO
Scarlett's maid PRISSY
Shaping tool ADZE
Sherwood Anderson's 'Winesburg, ___' OHIO
Show stopper? REMOTE
Sitcom station WKRP
Small battery size AAA
Small-time DINKY
Something hastily made? WASTE
Sponge FREELOAD
Take a break from cooking EATOUT
The old you? THOU
Tied down LASHED
Trustworthy RELIABLE
Universal House of Justice religion BAHAI
Victor's 'Samson and Delilah' co-star HEDY
Wax-coated cheese EDAM
Working on DOING
___ Alto, California PALO
___ Classical Library (Harvard University Press series) LOEB