1. oak tree, trochee
2. mediums, dummies
3. duikers, duskier, Sir Duke
4. appliance, alliance
5. macho, Mach 1
6. adamant, aardvark, anagram, panama
7. Q Anon, Manon
8. RI, Rivera
9. Haiti, ham
10. April ten, PENETRALIA
11. Gauguin, gauging
12. Bellini, blini
13. gri(Mace)ed
14. marginal, alarming
15. Charon, chyron; chiton, chyron
16. (B/l)abel
17. must angst race(mustangs trace)
18. arugula, rugelach
19. aisle of white (Isle of Wight)
20. barkeep
21. i(nediB)lE
22. constant
23. backward
24. achier, hierarchic
25. TYke, POre; typo
26. trifle, truffle
27. Kevin McCart(h)y
28. bagel, chum, Dijon
29. Amanda Gorman
30. klutzy
31. sent, sentimo
32. Ralf, flat
33. survey, scurvy
34. adobe, abode
35. Baltimore, meteor trail, bitter bloom, timber bamboo, memorabilia, telebarometer, orbital lobe, millilambert, mobile militia, amobarbitol
36. outer space; "ow!" terse pace
37. Dinah Shore, dinosaur
38. moon shot, Thomson, smooth, hoots
39. Allah, halal
40. Rococo, sudd, tiff
41. or(din)ation
42. bergamot, Pergamos
43. squint, E. T. (S quintet)
44. roadster, radio star, rood stair
45. Shtetl, shuttle
46. off(ici)al
47. GAMES, messages
48. Provo, Utah; proveth; Provo, Utah; coconut palm
49. Canada
50. ozone, one, seven, Ozseven
51. S(a)turd(a)y; stu(r)dy
52. nattier, iterant, tertian
53. Tom Brady, elder, Tomb Raider, Edy
54. Chic/ago
55. (or)at(or)
56. tummy, gummy; pair, bear
57. cens(e/o)r
58. s(p/l/h)ot
59. American, Marciano, Marconi; American, ballerina, Staten Island
60. cooper/ate
61. SCREed, ENTIty, MEander; screen time
62. Kane, Cane
63. answer, awareness
64. ch(angel)ess
65. ass must, per (pass muster)
66. burnish, hubris, shrub, bush; burn, burnish
67. limb(ernes)s
68. (c/m)ampus
69. equators, square root
70. TOrus, PHlox, EArache, VYborg; top-heavy
71. sycam/ore
72. Korman, Ronkonkoma
73. da(ge)sh
74. Cru(z/d)
75. tutee, two T
76. Monster
77. denied
78. raptor
79. poverty
80. blacksmithed
81. back pain
KU-2. Be like a duck, calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. Michael Caine
E-1. Moving slowly toward a social goal is usually the fastest way to get there. Martin Gardner
E-2. If evolution really works, how come mothers still have only two hands?
E-3. He had calibrated his expression precisely between grave bafflement and apology. Catton
E-4. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed. Jane Wagner, writing for Lily Tomlin
E-5. On a world near the sun live two brothers called Vrooms
Who, strangely enough, are built sort of like brooms.
Each one of these fellows takes turns with the other
In sweeping the dust of his world with his brother.
Seuss
E-6. PAPERALABAMA
ACOVERUPRAIN
POLITENEARLY
EVITAACTIDOT
RETAILHALVAH
AREALITPLATO
LUNCHTIMEREN
APETAPMEAKEG
BRAILLEAANDG
AARDVARKNADO
MILOATEEDDIE
ANYTHONGGOES
E-7. why do not any of
you poets tell the truth
about spring all i ever hear
of is violets and
jonquils and crocuses and swallows
archy
E-8. in/di/go/lf/er/ra/ta/nn/in
E-9. English is weird. It can be understood though through tough, thorough thought.
F-1. BLLBKNDCNDL
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F-2. LAGBOMER
ALIENATE
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REEXAMINE
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GILA
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F-5. KNOB
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F-6. PBS
SLATE
STEWART
COALGAS
CROSSESUP
RUPPARENA
COGWALESAPO
HUGHJACKMAN
MOPSEARLEISEE
ACADEMYAWARDS
NOIRLAPISBOOK
OLMOSSIMBOOZE
RALPHIEPARKER
TOPALTARTEN
WELLOILED
DOGSLED
MOSSY
F-7. M
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BETHS
SOVIETS
GENUFLECT
SHAKESPEARE
POLES SPRIG
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F-8. INDEPENDENCE
ASTEROIDEA
ONDEMAND
ARNICA
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F-9. SLOWER
PAVANE
AGENTS
SORTIE
MODERN
SNORED
F-10. GRIT
TRAVERSE
IMITATED
ONES
KU-3. TRTRT
RTRTR
TRTRT
RTRTR
TRTRT
F-11. G
FAD
TULIP
PYRAMID
F-12. ESWATINI
HHOHHO
ONUS
EG
F-13. BB
WLRS
PCNDQT
BLCKNDBL
HKLNNDSNKR
F-14. S P R I N T E R
T R E N A I L
R I D G E S
A M A S S
T E N T
O M S
V I
T O N
D A L I
D I S C S
C A V E A T
L U C E R N E
S T R E S S O R
X-1. BASEMANALTAR
ALTOABAFLAME
TPRERASLUMPS
SHORTSTOPPLU
CAPRISYAMMER
HSPONESTLING
OVERUSESESFE
PADRESLIFTED
PLRACCEPTING
EBONKACHYMCA
RUBBERTOMEET
SMEARFINESSE
C-1. I: “How much water does it handle before you have to buy a new cartridge?” He: “A thousand liters.” I: “Wow, that’s a ton!”
C-2. Cooking is a breeze when your recipes generally have two steps, the first of which is “remove film.”
C-3. Na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, Batman! Na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, na na, Batman! Batman! Batman!
C-4. My adult son viewing photograph of toddler self seated on coin-operated horse: “What was fun about that?”
C-5. Extra-long knife designed for slicing four bread loaves simultaneously marketed as four-loaf cleaver.
C-6. At Montgomery bus boycott, weary woman with “ungrammatical profundity”: “My feets is tired, but my soul is at rest.”
C-7. Mom: “Who let big red dog out?” Son: “Not I.” Did you see her eat our hot pot pie?” “She ate ham and egg.” “The cat was bad boy?” ‘Yes!”