R-1. latter, real
R-2. Xbox One X, Boone
R-3. Proofreader R, error
R-4. lixiviate, ate
R-5.
R-6. lambs
R-7.
R-8. fake nus, fake gnus, fake news
R-9. blank verse
R-10. can't elope, honey-do
R-11. big red bridge
R-12. famished, shed
R-13.
R-14. OURS
R-15.
R-16. (dung)eon
R-17. lode, come
R-18.
R-19. L, Llulled
R-20.changeover, Jove-chainer; Prometheus; Rome, the USP
R-21. OURS
R-22.
R-23. elementary, tree
R-24. the (period)ic (tab)le
R-25. words with homonyms
R-26. three noms
R-27. crossword puzzle
R-28. Will Shortz
R-29. National Puzzlers' League
R-30. Ten Commandments
R-31. too many cooks spoil the broth
RF-1. DAYLIGHT
SAVING
TIME
IM
RF-2. SAJAK
AROMA
JOKER
AMEBA
KARAT
RF-3. 1
PIP
H1ST1
H1YMO1R
RF-4. O F F
PE LAMED RESH
RX-1. White takes bishop. Audiences: "Ah." Black castles kingside. "O-O." White castles queenside. "O-O-O."
RX-2. veni, vidi, vici
RX-3. ?Como frijoles? Spanish for "How you bean?"
RX-4. It is a pith that Chawcer, who had geneyus, was so unedicated. He's the wuss speller I know of. Artemus Ward (Charles Browne)
RC-1. Evity, itude, ueur, ening - which of those nonwords does not belong? The last one - it does beshort.
1. limerick rollback
2. impatient, empty net
3. noil, lion
4. Como, coma; parry, Perry
5. scab/bard
6. Hathor, Thor
7. inclusive; in, clue, sieve
8. cry, Frey
9. icon tact, eye contact
10. gin, djinn
11. photooxidative
12. parentage, aren't, page
13. butternut squash, you (butternuts (rebs) quash U)
14. is held, shield
15. electron, El Centro; ohm, oh my
16. Gene Rayburn, general burn
17. proofers, hammer at; isomorph, is OM or PH
18. wave the sail, save the whale
19. Easter, Esther
20. Pei, PEI
21. Ha(sidis)m
22 OURS
23. photon, Paxton, hoax
24. Koran, koan
25. Alaska, slick, close, Axel, lacks, skill
26. s(c)andal
27. soloist, easy list
28. OURS
29. the king, knight, think, hint, hit
30. normalise, millionairess, Lamorne Morris
31. Rankine, rank and file
32. ball four, Balfour
33. flirted, filter feeder
34. half-pipe
35. duck, cluck
36. demisang, demandingness, sending message
37. plain, plane; screw, strew, clamp, cramp, level
38. amazin', Amazon
39. fright wig, right-wing
40. rec(onno)iter
41. etamine rallies (eta, mineral, lies)
42. tan German age. Men
43. ACRid, duOMO, NOun, diaGRAM, MATador, panIC
44. weakened, weekend
45. OURS
46. Patuxent, fling, patent, fluxing
47. got a, goat
48. cellophane, cell phone
49. new arrivals, war rivals
50. Tunis, sinusitis
51. Midi, Mayday, murder
52. shiitake, Shiite
53. stern, stem
54. pal, palette
55. minute or, Minotaur
56. instar, Coinstar
57. paroxysm, peroxisome
58. OURS
59. far(ouch)e
60. can(tan)kerous; can(k/c)erous
61. carol, card
62. p(let)hora
63. should, shoulder
64. sleep app, CPAP
65. (c/g)rumblier; grumblier, Limburger
66. Satan, evil, sate, anvil
67. read, wight, blew
68. blasted, detestable
69. venom, money (also gloom, moola)
70. hocus, usage, hoc age
71. ex-con, Exton, Exxon
72. m(oto)r(cyc)l(e garage), Mr. L
73. OURS
74. (n)arrow
75. nor'easter, sou'wester
76. Sur(i)name
77. plaid, clad
78. the sol (lose H, T)
79. calculus, As
80. the bichon frise
81. Paul Manafort
82. The Winter Olympics in China
83. snowboarding: big air
84. Kate Winslet in Wonder Wheel
85. female halfpipe snowboarder Chloe Kim
86. endocrine disruptor
87. a curate's egg
88. steel and aluminum tariffs
89. snowboarder Shaun White
F-1. C
TAS
LINCH
OILDRUM
ERADIATES
ALFREDBUTTS
F-2. ST
WHIM
TORSOS
MARIANNE
CONTENTING
POUGHKEEPSIE
F-3. R
HEL
MALOS
ROBOCOP
AEDICULAE
AMPUTATIONS
AMBULATIONS
REPUTATIONS
MODULATIONS
HABITATIONS
RELOCATIONS
LOCUTIONS
SOLIONS
PAONS
ENS
S
F-4. DESPOTIC
ESPANOLA
SPARERIB
PARKLIKE
ONELINER
TORINGIN
ILIKEIKE
CABERNET
F-5. OPENINGDAY
DEMORALIZE
ECUMENICAL
ASSESSMENT
F-6 OURS
F-7. MAT
RODEO
GENERAL
MADNESS
TRAINED
SYNCS
SEE
F-8. JR
DNTN
LVRHRD
MRLNBRND
SDNGRNSTRT
F-9. P
TRA
PRSRS
MADEMOI
F-10. OURS
F-11. A B A T E
B O R O N
A R E N A
T O N A L
E N A L APRIL
F-12. JI CA MA
CA RR OT
MA OT AI
F-13. P N
CIA GOD
PANDA GROOM
TARTANS BIONICS
WHITEPICKETFENCES
ERNE TORNAME GONE
LET NEEDO YOW
TE ELY RE
Y T R
F-14. SA PO TE
PO TA TO
TE TO NS
F-15. OURS
F-16. OURS
KU-1.
X-1. Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life.
S. D. Gordon
X-2. Mix a little foolishness with your prudence. It's good to be silly at the right moment. Horace
X-3. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. G. H. Hardy
X-4. I do not like words' letter lengths strictly following arithmetic progression!
X-5. The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. Douglas Adams
C-1. I thought the book on anti-gravity would make for a little light reading, but it was impossible to put down.
C-2. I am making this a very easy puzzle, to push that Texan off the top spot on this page, and I'm sure that I'll win!
C-3. A example of a unorthodox choice of indefinite article from a old Dickens tale: "The law is a ass, a idiot."
C-4. Elusive Milwaukee Lion seeks litter box; leaves urban jungle, makes way to neighboring Kenosha Sand Dunes.
C-5. The greatest of libr(aries), the (Libra)ry of Alexandria, was destroyed several times - the first time during C(leo)patra's reign.
C-6. Hokkaido city initiates ramen-based method to eradicate mosquitoes; campaign dubbed "Sapporo Itchy-Ban."
C-7. "Combat emplacement evacuator" was once Pentagon gobbledygook doublespeak for "shovel."