The Chronicle of Higher Education - Sep 26 2014

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Clues Answers
'A Thousand ___' (Jane Smiley novel) ACRES
'Come Back, Little Sheba' playwright INGE
'Fuhgeddaboudit' NOPE
'Ocean's Eleven' plot device CAPER
'Only the ___ and stupidest of men never change': Confucius WISEST
'Rizzoli & Isles' channel TNT
10 Down rival PUMA
1960s TV soap based on a 1956 best seller PEYTONPLACE
Also TOO
Apply, as pressure EXERT
Artistic medium for many homemade cards CRAYON
Barracks lineup COTS
Be sure of KNOW
Be the first to say? COIN
Bear among the stars URSA
Certain 35mm camera SLR
Cerulean cousin PEACOCKBLUE
Chi-___ (military insignia for Constantine the Great) RHO
Common jukebox inserts ONES
Consigns to a time capsule, say INTERS
Container at a cookie exchange TIN
Disappearance sound effect POOF
Dr. Spock topic COLIC
Droid command SEND
Event won by Roger Federer for five consecutive years USOPEN
Fare catch? CAB
Foul-smelling RANK
Frat brothers may get wrapped up in it TOGAPARTY
George who founded Industrial Light & Magic LUCAS
German auto giant OPEL
Guesses about takeoffs: Abbr ETDS
Helicopter with a tribal name APACHE
Hex- halved TRI
Instrument heard prominently midway through the Mamas & the Papas' 'California Dreamin'' ALTOFLUTE
Irish ___ SETTER
It fits in a lock OAR
Johann's 'Yikes!' ACH
John whose most famous book bears the same title as this puzzle KNOWLES
Knuckle-dragger OAF
Clues Answers
Lake seen from Euclid, Ohio ERIE
Lets bias creep into COLORS
Like many watermelons OBLONG
Maker of RealFlex athletic shoes REEBOK
Many a maze navigator LABRAT
Maximum number of horses in a Kentucky Derby field TWENTY
Mercury four-door introduced in the 1986 model year SABLE
Mouth off to SASS
Moved like a ghost FLOATED
Mrs. Herbert Hoover LOU
Nitty-gritty CRUX
Not hunched over ERECT
On the hook HUNG
One may have a password at the ready USER
Ozzy Osbourne became one in 1979 SOLOACT
Peter Eötvös's 'Angels in America,' for one OPERA
Practice on canvas SPAR
Precursor to the Fall Classic PENNANTRACE
Qtys. in some takeout cartons PTS
Rock roller ORECAR
Shore up BRACE
Simon Legree type OGRE
Slang lexicographer Partridge ERIC
Sought in an emergency RANTO
Splash of brandy, e.g NIP
Sports org. in which J.B. Holmes and Bubba Watson play PGA
Squirrel away LAYIN
Stain near a drain, often RUST
Suffix akin to -euse ENNE
Sun spot? SKY
Super Tuesday graphic MAP
Survey, say ASK
Tango complement DUO
Thai cuisine staple PEANUTSAUCE
Two merged barbershop groups, say OCTET
Verb on an Uno card SKIP
With the bow, to a violinist ARCO
Wolfe who was made stout by Stout NERO
Yogini's skill BALANCE