The Chronicle of Higher Education - Apr 8 2011

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Clues Answers
2010 honor for Annie Baker OBIE
Affectedly aesthetic ARTY
Alluringly slender SVELTE
Believes FEELS
Bell-curve feature SYMMETRY
Boat contents GRAVY
Cafeteria payment option MEALPLAN
Cenozoic or Paleozoic, e.g. ERA
Certain neckline VEE
Chest full of Burns’s poems? BALLADBOX
Composer Franck CESAR
Concert violinist Zimbalist EFREM
Continuity problems GAPS
Curriculum ___ VITAE
Deduce by ratiocination INFER
Discussion of a Theocritus poem? IDYLLCHAT
Dog’s good sense SMELL
Donnybrook RIOT
EMT’s skill CPR
Falco of “The Sopranos” EDIE
Footnote abbr. IBID
Free ticket COMP
Gentle breeze ZEPHYR
Get-up-and-go VIM
Goes very fast ZIPS
Got up AROSE
Group of ghostwriters for a Shakespeare poem? SONNETCOMMITTEE
Historic mission THEALAMO
Inflatable vessel RAFT
Instrument used to score “The Third Man” ZITHER
It shows a lot PLAT
It’s not right LEFT
Knight wear MAIL
Lens-filter holders RIMS
Message that can’t exceed 140 characters TWEET
Missal stand’s place ALTAR
Move swiftly FLIT
Mozart, for one MASON
Nefud native SAUDI
Clues Answers
Numbers on a check, maybe DATE
Oceanic killer ORCA
Once, once ERST
One of the twelve patriarchs LEVI
Operatic highlight ARIA
Org. that von Braun worked for NASA
Plastic ___ Band (“Give Peace a Chance” group) ONO
Play in which the three main characters are dead NOEXIT
Poet ___ Wheeler Wilcox ELLA
Prenatal test, for short AMNIO
Quality player HIFI
Reader making sure that Keats’s poem is heard? ODEYELLER
Reflex-test target KNEE
Regatta unit LEG
Rich topsoils LOAMS
Site of a 16th-century ecumenical council TRENT
Sly stratagem PLOY
Substance with a pH higher than 7 ALKALI
Synonym stockpiler ROGET
Take to court SUE
The Big Ten’s Spartans: abbr. MSU
Think hard COGITATE
Tip politely DOFF
To whom “We’ll always have Paris” was spoken ILSA
Town crier’s announcements NEWS
Tracheal terminus LUNG
Union general Wallace LEW
UPS rival DHL
Use a hammer and tongs on SHAPE
What hematite yields IRON
When one of David’s poems is sung in church? PSALMTIME
Yard : three :: fathom : ___ SIX
Yoga instruction EXHALE
___ ammoniac SAL
“A Night at the Opera” tune ALONE
“An Officer and a Gentleman” hero ___ Mayo ZACK
“But ___ art?” ISIT
“That’s obvious!” IKNOW
“The Wizard ___” OFID