April 09 Answers
Joker, Lirath, LeXman
R-1. not MW; now, TM; ex-Eunice, unisex
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R-6. potatoe; pot, a, toe
R-7.
R-8. mermaid, Emerson
R-9. umlaut, mutual
R-10. tinamouise, Tina Louise
R-11. Tennyson, tennis, venison
R-12. dinero, dine
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R-16.
R-17. never even
R-18. Agamemnon, (complete silence)
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R-21. toxin up, top
R-22. sticking, stocking
R-23. PT
WRNT
TSKTSK
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R-25.
R-26. cravest, crab louse
R-27. Presenting overly elementary multiplication problem: LVIII x X x IV equals MMCCCXX. Absolutely simple!
R-28.
R-29. Tip for new cryptographers. Eeamine your cipherteet with utmost care. Just one mistake could be badly veeing.
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R-32. zero (degrees) Fahrenheit
R-33. mainland
R-34. a a b d e e e e e e h i i l l n n n p r
s t t t t t w y z
R-35. thirty-one non-alphabetized letters
R-36. two unrelated words
1. Baton Rouge, Rat in Bruges (or Brugge)
2. OURS
3. Ottoman New York
4. OURS
5. after every T (AFire, TEtra, REVival, ERYThema) - spells 'April Fools'
6. erg Exodus kegger
7. garden soil, dandelion greens, Legionnaires' disease
8. serrated, seated; serrated, arrested
9. Kansan; ask, Ann
10. segregate, etageres
11. Goomba, Game Boy
12. overstimulating, superabominably
13. refinement, refit
14. pun, punee
15. fordo TV, parent - he sized (for dot, V parenthesized)
16. OURS
17. ET, freshet
18. westward, West, Ward
19. smoothies; moot,shies
20. conifer, confer; te(rebi)nth
21. bumbled; bum bled
22. pseudo-coup, sudoku
23. mum, ma
24. sodium lamp, plasmodium
25. in version
26. OURS
27. mildewcides (mil deux ides)
28. Gitmo, GI, bile, T-Mobile
29. OURS
30. kiss, lips
31. East Egg, Easter egg
32. habit (bhakti) naan (jnana) jar (raja) mark (karma)
hath (hatha) (yoga styles)
33. nether fish, noir fowl
34. Milos Forman, salmoniform
35. navigator, nab a gator
36. in(terpret)
37. began, vegan; solely, soy
38. meaty urologist, meteorologist
39. gangsta, angst
40. 'Non amp,' sib (B is P, man on)
41. listen (L is ten)
42. Mort a fried, mortified
43. shallower; SHaft, ALike, LOom, WERen't (afikomen)
44. OURS
45. low. I thaw him, per (lo, 'with a whimper')
46. L'Amour, clamor
47. cap, rap; soot, hoot
48. inkling (ink L in G)
49. Milk, MLK
50. abyss, bisque
51. scuba, caboose
52. bluish, blush
53. dotage; dot age
54. sepoy, poesy
55. tag along, Tagalog
56. decollation, collation
KU-1.
57. High Noon, on
58. unicorn, Unicom
59. Easter curtsy
60. averse, obverse
61. who pink rain (whooping crane)
62. OURS
63. aleph-null, aleph
64. ruminate, miniature, armamentarium
65. sackbut, tubas; didgeridoo, did Jerry do
66. female, e-mail; wi-fi, wife
67. sennit, tennis
68. poster, oyster
69. Wii Fit, waft
70. OURS
71. earwitness, wateriness
72. OURS
73. scytale (also skytale), Italy
74. Robert Mugabe
75. Sean Hannity
76. Up
F-1. SCOTCH
CHOREA
OOZERS
TREXES
CEREAL
HASSLE
F-2. VETO
ETON
TONY
ONYX
F-3. G
BAA
MARCH
MADNESS
FORGERIES
BASKETBALLS
F-4. A ONEA B CONE C CHON D CLIO
NEAR ONEA HONE LION
EARL NEAT ONEA IONE
ARLO EATS NEAL ONEA
F-5. COSMOS
OCTOPI
STERID
MORGAN
OPIATE
SIDNEY
F-6. BET ACA ROT ENE
RUS TED
F-7. QAQAQ
ACURA
QUIET
ARENA
QATAR
F-8. Q
GUS
HAIKU
PUZZAZZ
DENTI
DOE
S
F-9. OURS
F-10. A
MUD
NANAS
CONTROL
CARLELLER
TOMMYMADDOX
F-11. SAYAH
AIOLI
YORAM
ALAMO
HIMOM
F-12. KAPPA
AGAIN
PAINT
PINES
ANTSY
X-1. Once the game is over, the king and pawn go back in the same box.
X-2. Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. John Kennedy
X-3. One small difference between Saskatchewan and British Columbia: in the former, potash is one word; in the latter, it is two.
X-4. Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen. P. J. O'Rourke
X-5. Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children; life is the other way round. David Lodge
X-6. St. Louis Cardinals: "We are number one." St. Louis Ordinals: "We finished first."
X-7. Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
X-8. For someone whose ideal of a day at the sea is a secluded and empty cove, Miami in high season must be Hell-on-Sea. P. D. James
X-9. There was an old man of St. Bees,
Who was stung in the arm by a wasp;
When they asked "Does it hurt?"
He replied, "No, it doesn't,
But I thought all the while 'twas a hornet!"
Gilbert
X-10. I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. O. Wilde
X-11. 17A is 'all caps'(headgear) - and some solvers solve in ALL CAPS. The unclued entries are highlighted in the grid below.
CALPACBRAGG
ELIMRHOOPLA
RETICENCIES
VERSUSNEONS
IBERETECIGY
CASUISTADAS
ELALLCAPSRH
SALEMONTERO
PCBSUTOITYW
ELUTEBROOKE
TAMOSHANTER
AVIDLYKSEPE
LANAIASTRID
Across: Down:
5. BRAGG 1. CERVICES
9. HOOPLA 2. ALEE
10. RETICENCIES 3. LITRE
11. VERSUS 4. ARCUEIL
12. NEONS 6. APIOIDS
14. CASUIST 7. GASSY
15. ADAS 8. MISRULES
17. ALL CAPS 13. CAPTIONS
19. SALE 16. SHOWERED
22. TOITY 17. ALBUMIN
24. ELUTE 18. ANORAKS
25. BROOKE 20. MUESLI
26. AVIDLY 21. PETAL
27. LANAI 23. TOTER
28. ASTRID
X-12. EAMESCHAIR BLOW
M A I E S C Y I
BACON ANONYMOUS
A O G R L G N E
RINGLETED NINON
K E I E E A T
SINISTER STAINS
O S C S
TISANE GLIBNESS
H T A A E E U
REACT SNAZZIEST
O L A P N I V U
WAGONLITS QUEER
I I T R E U R E
NICE REARRESTED
ACROSS DOWN
1. EAMES CHAIR 1. EMBARKS
6. BLOW 2. MACON
10. BACON 3. SINGLES
11. ANONYMOUS 4. HEARTIES
12. RINGLETED 5. ISOLDE
13. NINON 7. LYONNAISE
14. SINISTER 8. WISENTS
16. STAINS 9. CYGNET
18. TISANE 15. NOSTALGIC
20. GLIBNESS 17. CLEANSER
24. REACT 18. THROW IN
25. SNAZZIEST 19. NATANT
27. WAGON-LITS 21. BEZIQUE
28. QUEER 22. SUTURED
29. NICE 23. ASPIRE
30. REARRESTED 26. EVERT
X-13.
M: A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. Roseanne
&: Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. Phyllis Diller
F: Women say they want a man who knows what a woman's worth. That's a pimp. Rich Hall
X-14. The New York Yankees - the best team money can buy and steroids can enhance. Disgusted Boston Red Sox fan
C-1. True story: the mother of this author once got a fortune cookie slip reading "You are a happy man."
C-2. When you have an isomorph base that's so superabominably bad it isn't worth the effort to versify...
C-3. Easily extracting DNA from primate colonic cells, Francis Crick exclaimed, "alimentary, my dear Watson."
C-4. Mafia mastermind sets up gang war, risks big trouble. Clue helps topple taboo operation, sorry capo gets life.
C-5. Occultist questioned other world about avoiding alcohol. Spirits ardent against ardent spirits.
C-6. Pompous pooh-bah perversely chosen by Chosen panjandrum to complicate Panmunjom peace process.
C-7. Coyote "genius" crawls behind quarry; cuckoo-minded animal vaults craggy height, swipes, snares spiked cactus.