The Chronicle of Higher Education Nov 27 2015

ClueAnswer
'A House for Mr. Biswas' novelist NAIPAUL
'Aww'-inspiring ADORABLE
'Inventor' of the rope-a-dope ALI
'Why is a raven like a writing-desk?,' e.g POSER
'___ Stoops to Conquer' (Georgian-era comedy) SHE
'___ Wonderland' WINTER
Aperitif flavored with cassis KIR
Author whose first book containing the characters at 17, 23, 46, and 51 Across appeared 150 years ago this week CARROLL
Bain-___ (custard-making apparatus) MARIE
Banquet-hall vessels URNS
Birthstone before topaz OPAL
Bluish green JADE
Capture BAG
Character who reproaches Alice with 'It wasn't very civil of you to sit down without being invited' MARCHHARE
Character who sang for the Queen of Hearts MADHATTER
Character who smokes a hookah CATERPILLAR
Character who vanishes and reappears CHESHIRECAT
Chart-topper HIT
College org. with a Color Guard ROTC
Comprehensive OVERALL
Corkscrewed SPIRALED
Creature on a Pharaoh's headdress ASP
Crooked handles? ALIASES
Deviation controlled by a rudder YAW
Dionysus, to Zeus SON
Diva's repertoire ARIAS
Doe or Deere JOHN
Earmarked tax, in India CESS
Edward R. Murrow's network CBS
Exploit USE
Fantasy-baseball concern WAIVERS
Funny-pages cry of dismay ACK
Game-night setting, maybe DEN
Hibachi residue ASH
High regard ESTEEM
It weighs on astronauts GFORCE
Itinerary preposition VIA
Joshua trees, among others YUCCAS
Keeps happening RECURS
Lampooned PARODIED
Like 2015 ODD
Like the 'DRINK ME' bottle down the rabbit hole WEE
Manner of locomotion GAIT
Most likely to snap, say TENSEST
Never-ending ETERNAL
Number of assumptions called for in Occam's razor FEWEST
One of Buddhism's Three Jewels DHARMA
One working long hours in Apr., perhaps CPA
Palooka OAF
Party in housing court TENANT
Pertaining to ankle bones TARSAL
Phantom EIDOLON
Pique condition? IRE
Presenting several points of view BALANCED
Pro Football Hall of Famer Upshaw GENE
Proofreader's bane ERRATA
Propeller sound WHIR
Rockers who sang 'Mr. Blue Sky,' briefly ELO
Russian succession of yore TSARS
Sea off the coast of Latvia BALTIC
See 28 Across FIR
Shark that is partially warm-blooded MAKO
Short previews TEASERS
Skulls CRANIA
Some genetic coding, for short RNA
Stake-driving tool MAUL
Symbol on Gandalf's sword RUNE
Tap FAUCET
Third bk. of the Old Testament LEV
Treaty ___ (longtime Philadelphia landmark) ELM
Vacationer's accumulation, perhaps MAIL
With 8 Down, yuletide purchase BALSAM
Word of comparison THAN
Workers' gp. founded by Samuel Gompers AFL
Younger sister in 'Frozen' ANNA
Zealous KEEN
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