Serious Kidding - EMBRACEABLE
YADAYADAYADA
NOOHNONONOOHNO
THEATERTICKET
EFFERVESCENCE
RECONCILIATORY
SWEETTALKINWOMAN
GREATHEARTED
AWEINSPIRING
EASYGOINGNESS
FROMTHEHEART
AUTHENTICITY
R-1
R-2
R-3 strange, monstrance
R-4 OURS
R-5
R-6
R-7
R-8 Buffalo, buffalo, buffalo
R-9 alternade; Atrae, lend
R-10 OURS
R-11
R-12 me
R-13
R-14 OURS
R-15
RF-1
RF-2
RX-1 OURS
1. chocolate; chalk, a, let
2. cutup
3. app/ointment
4. one-third-Gauls, green around the gills, Thousand Island dressing, a little learning is a dangerous thing
5. postmen, postponement
6. contaminated, no admittance
7. belugas, blue gas
8. friend; fin, red
9. Beyonce; bey, once
10. operas, Erasmus, musing, Ingmar, Maria Mastrangelo, I Am a Strange Loop
11. (s)crew; c(apt)ain
12. bade you, debut
13. LAtent, BYte, RINse, THread; labyrinth
14. board; bad, or
15. permission, impression
16. loan dismal, lax islet tern Ames rep (la!) Celine's
17. OURS
18. liberal, braille
19. top secret interceptions
20. hydroxyapatite, appetite
21. b(ig)ram
22. menial, Immelmann
23. profile, pro file
24. pro(n/b)ation
25. consternation; cons, stern, nation
26. TA Rod is her going "Ray met Al"
KU-1. tricky clue; KU, tricycle
27. pie(d-a-te)rre; de Fer/mat
28. docent; doc, cent
29. an international incident
30. theologians, anthologies
31. echidna, chained
32. Nisan, Nas in
33. splendiferous; lend, if, sous, per
34. di(spa)tch
35. censor, concrescence
36. OURS
37. OURS
38. Cub parents, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
39. Belushi, sated, belated, sushi
40. April, lori; a priori
41. gaudy; guy, ad
42. hedonists, dishonest
43. on the air, antiheroine
44. bulbul, mulmul
45. dorming; "Good Morning Good Morning"
46. Trevino, intervention
47. crooner, corner, crone, core
48. upside down; inspirations
49. Momoa, Momo; MOMO, FOMO
50. ink, drink
51. OURS
52. coupler, purple copper ore
53. stained; sand, tie
54. Eugene, spasms; (F/y)ield
55. (w/c)ombat
56. pi(ano sona)ta; leaf, falafel
57. dofunny, euphony
58. Solange, Los Angeles Angels
59. poisonous, poi
60. be Sting)? older EP-lace
61. nacho trifle, not for all the tea in China
62. OURS
63. Pythagorean theorem
KU-2.
64. nix
65. pizzeria
F-1. CORAL
IVORY
COWER
ELATE
CICERONES
OVOLO
ROWAN
ARETE
LYREE
F-2. ADAGE
DACHA
ACTOR
GHOST
EARTH
F-3. OURS
F-4. W
BOA
BERET
BALLSUP
CALEDONIA
SHAKESPEARE
SHALESPEARE
ANNAPURNA
TITANIA
TURIN
PEC
S
F-5. TWOSTEPS
WARWEARY
ORDERSIN
SWEARING
TERRENCE
EASINGIN
PRINCIPI
SYNGENIC
F-6. LEASES
ERRANT
ARCHER
SAHARA
ENERGY
STRAYS
F-7. NTNLPZZLRSLG
CRCVRBLSTS
HRRSNFRD
STMTRS
TGHS
MS
F-8. OURS
F-9. SALUTE
ADONIS
LOWEST
UNEASE
TISSUE
ESTEEM
F-10. L T
EH EA
OAT BLT
PREP PREY
ARMOR TIOGA
RIPPED SIGNIN
DEEPDISHPIZZA
TRIMTHETREE
ANITALOOS
STOLLEN
EELED
DOD
W
F-11. T E R A W A T T
R A E D A W N
A S T E R N
U T I L E
M E R E
A R E
C E
M E G
P A N G
N O R T H
M I L I E U
R E L E A R N
M A X E R N S T
F-12. CANADA
ANODES
NORMAL
ADMIRE
DEARIE
ASLEEP
F-13. PRACTICALJOKE
TROUBADOURS
PANELVANS
TERPENE
DIORS
ALB
Y
F-14. HAGGADAH
AREACODE
RELIEVER
PASADENA
F-15. QWERTY
ALPAX
TIEN
ATE
RE
I
F-16. RHOMBUS
ICEOVER
ASSUMES
SOLICIT
NATURAL
RESEWED
SESSION
F-17. OURS
F-18. ACROSS
CHANCE
RATION
ONIONS
SCONCE
SENSES
F-19. THV
CTL
DMD
DLL
X-1. The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. George Carlin
X-2. Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Kahlil Gibran
X-3. We will never have a perfect world and it would be dangerous to seek one. Steven Pinker
X-4. 1C bared, beared (bore)
2D bead, beed (was)
3H bide, buyed (bought)
4O cede, seed (saw)
5E chuted, shooted (shot)
6F dude, doed (did)
7L field, feeled (felt)
8M goad, goed (went)
9G halved, haved (had)
10B node, knowed (knew)
11A righted, writed (wrote)
12N ringed, wringed (wrung)
13K steeled, stealed (stole)
14I synced, sinked (sunk/sank)
15J wind, winned (won)
X-5. HOARSECEILING
EGLACEIREMEER
ALOTESEADOGMI
RECEIPTSEGHEE
ESWDNICEROTSG
RAILCARBOWTIE
SLEWELECVDISC
CARESSPRESELL
OCLACHEERIRFI
MEOWIELORELIE
MIUNVIELIGIRN
ASSAISIEDELST
STYLETSMERITS
X-6. Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. George Carlin
X-7. A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly. Ask me a riddle and I reply: "Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston pie." A. A. Milne
X-8. A piano is a piano is a piano. Gertrude Steinway
X-9. The most interesting emerging religion is Dataism, which venerates neither gods nor man - it worships data. Yuval Harari
X-10. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde
X-11. The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents
and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. D. Boorstin
X-12. Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are. Oscar Wilde
C-1. The Maine question: What did Tennessee? The same thing Arkansas. Did Delaware a New Jersey? Idaho. Alaska.
C-2. Why beer is better than wine: human feet are conspicuously absent from beer making. Steve Mirsky
C-3. Take every seventh letter of plaintext, then sort by ciphertext. This will produce nothing meaningful.
C-4. Better make those travel plans posthaste, because Boulder requires prior permission to herd pigs.
C-5. If Enigma quote puzzle author enumerations are six six, think George Carlin; five five, think Oscar Wilde
C-6. Hawaiian greengrocer encases citrus fruit with designer spandex, calls merchandise Honolululemon.
C-7. Slice one into four equal parts and stack them. If you do it right, pie r round no longer. Now pie r square!