The Chronicle of Higher Education - Dec 5 2014

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'American Idol' judging panel, e.g TRIO
'Apologies, Alessandro' SCUSI
'Sommes' is a form of it ETRE
'___ amore segreto' ('Turandot' aria) TANTO
Abbr. on law-office stationery ESQ
Air condition? SMOG
Approx. takeoff info ETD
Bassoon or clarinet, e.g REED
Beach-bag item, nowadays EREADER
Big name in ratings NIELSEN
Bob Marley, notably RASTA
Bowl over AWE
Broach RAISE
Certain upgrade from tap water EVIAN
Cheeseheads' loc WIS
Cognac grade: Abbr VSO
Declaration at the door ITSME
Detect SENSE
Discount vis-à-vis market value, in Wall Street slang HAIRCUT
Exam for an ABA hopeful LSAT
Facility EASE
Fed. on the Persian Gulf UAE
Forgo WAIVE
Forty-niners' streaks LODES
Giant in lawn care ORTHO
Harvesting area in Darjeeling TEAGARDEN
Ignited AFLAME
Intellivision rival, once ATARI
Isn't lacking HAS
It could be a whole lot ACRE
Its rides are summoned by smartphone UBER
Kung ___ shrimp PAO
Letter writing, some say LOSTART
Like many NFL broadcasts HIDEF
Like numbers represented by the symbol at the center of this puzzle IMAGINARY
Many an entry at the Sundance Film Festival INDIE
Mathematician whose work pioneered concepts represented by the symbol at the center of this puzzle EULER
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Mathematician whose work pioneered concepts represented by the symbol at the center of this puzzle GAUSS
Meditative discipline ZEN
Mme. counterpart SRA
Note next to an F? SEEME
One in the fold EWE
One whose business is picking up MAID
Org. that sued the NSA in 2013 ACLU
P's on sorority sweaters RHOS
Philosopher who contemptuously coined the term at 31 Down in its mathematical context DESCARTES
Reverberated RANG
Sacred receptacle ARK
Scoundrels ROGUES
See 13 Down OFNEGATIVEONE
Selling points? SHOPS
She, in Sardinia ESSA
Shrink-resistant synthetic fiber ORLON
Smith who proposed 'the invisible hand' ADAM
Something in a crumbled state in Athens? FETA
Son of Isaac and Rebekah ESAU
Spot for strikes LANE
Spread created by Margaret Mitchell TARA
Subject of the musical 'Song of Norway' GRIEG
Sun Devil Stadium city TEMPE
Super Mario Bros. console NES
Swaggering, maybe MACHO
Take down a notch ABASE
Takes too much of, briefly ODSON
The Lorax claims to speak for them TREES
They're short in the U.S. and long in the U.K TONS
Toon whirlwind TAZ
Tunes performed by a 49 Down, perhaps SKA
Unseal furtively, in a way STEAMOPEN
Unsubtle flirt OGLER
Verbalizes SAYS
Victimized with one's endgame, say MATED
What an ace might ice ARM
With 14 Down, an expression of the symbol at the center of this puzzle THESQUAREROOT