1. berberis, is
2. hero, Greer (homo, groom)
3. blacker, Cracker Barrel
4. OURS
5. OURS
6. Canada, candid; Canada, coda; Canada, cane
7. necklace, Nicklaus
8. affiant; naif, aft.
9. ten picobars, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop
10. cognitive (eviting O, C)
11. keister, Easter
12. sponge, soaping, espionage
13. OURS
14. no one, me; mislabel, miss
15. crawlway, cry
16. OURS
17. Moore, rag on, mora, Oregon
18. OURS
19. war, warren (child children)
20. scon(c)e
21. dental, denial
22. borage, orange
23. knee-deep, needy
24. a timetable; at) I met able
25. OURS
26. princess, pincers
27. bone, banal (nose nasal)
28. state with determination (state with DE termination)
29. polo, looped, pooped
30. allowable, yellow bile
31. raunchiest, uncharacteristic
32. Riotinto. riot into
33. puerperal, pupal
34. OURS
35. OURS
36. unbared, rubber band, Bran Nue Dae
37. Italian restaurant
38. cock-and-bull tale
39. Representative Anthony Weiner
40. al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri
41. photo enforced
42. Dolphin Tale
43. the World Champion Boston Bruins
44. police state
F-1. M
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DONOT
SOCOTRA
MONOGRAMS
NOTRUMP
TRAMP
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F-2. GB
BRRN
MSNGDM
JMSTHRBR
THRSWTHRSS
WNDSNDNDSTRS
F-3. OURS
F-4. OURS
F-5. OURS
F-6. SUE++
CRASH
ASSAI
LIEGE
ADLER
F-7. OOAEUAE consonantless square
OOOEOOA motor torpedo boat
AOOEOEE stand on one's own feet
EEEYEOE green-eyed monster
UOOEAIE uncooperative
AOEOIII Napoleon III
EAEEEIE gedankenexperiment
F-8. EXPOSE
XRATED
PACING
OTIOSE
SENSOR
EDGERS
X-1. I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met. Steven Wright
X-2. BOTOXHEAP
AIRMAILBH
SSEESDODO SPAY SNEE DULL = SPACE NEEDLE
SPANNEDUB
EATREMOLO Connecting the Xs in a triangle
TYPOEARLK makes a simple space needle
SUQUININE
APEXEXCON
X-3. You know you're old when somebody compliments you on your alligator shoes...and you're barefoot. Phyllis Diller
X-4. Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. S. Ertz
X-5. Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Goethe
X-6. Principals have no real force except when one is well fed. Adam, translated by Mark Twain
X-7. A good writer has a calculated stupidity - first-rate intellectuals don't make good novelists. Self
X-8. Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. W. Bagehot
X-9. No man can be wise on an empty stomach. G Eliot
X-10. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. Dean Acheson
X-11.
AKE Alan Levine:Alien Navel::Chris Bates:Best Chairs
COU Jack Martin:Blanket::Bill Wake:Blank Board
ESN Eric Albert:Eric::Elissa Grossman:Elissa
IMI Donna Stone:On and Off::Mary Earnest:Army Maneuvers
INE Kevin West:Quest::Susan Lappe: Slap
LAR Ron Dines:R/EDS::Ata Gurpinar:Guarpr
LDT Rick Rubenstein:Rubrick::Len Elliott:Ellen
LEN Douglas Hoylman:Sanit::Peggy Burnet:Drakhair
MAR Mike Selinker:Slik::James Anderson:Ades
MAS Janet Mobius:Strip::Kristina Graham:Cracker
NOM David Shukan:Tinhorn::Asher Walkover:Make Way
OMI Todd McClary:T McAy::Steven Harwood:St Awo
THE Patrick Merrell:Trickme::Nancy Clemente:Cyclemen
TOI Will Shortz:WILLz::Charles Wells:CharlE
YKL Wally Firlit:Xmas Tree::Gail Carpenter:Fish Ladder
Mary Kline could take the nom MA, similar to Ilene's nom I.
X-12. Anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one. Thomas More
X-13. OLT
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1. FOOTLOOSE 10. MONOTONAL 19. VANCOUVER 28. QUAKERISM
2. MAROONING 11. CONSORTED 20. RESONANCE 29. MANHATTAN
3. SING-ALONG 12. ESCORTING 21. CARESSING 30. MORTICIAN
4. CONCERNED 13. ASCENDING 22. LIBATIONS 31. FORTITUDE
5. RETURNING 14. UNDERWEAR 23. FROBISHER 32. STAMPEDES
6. RESULTING 15. ENTROPIES 24. CORRELATE 33. EMANATING
7. ADULTERER 16. CHARITIES 25. TESTAMENT 34. ESSENTIAL
8. VAPORISER 17. SARTORIAL 26. AMERICANA 35. NAKEDNESS
9. NARRATION 18. SOUVENIRS 27. PNEUMONIC 36. UN-ENGLISH
37. PRESCIENT 44. BRILLIANT
38. MUNDANEST 45. TARPAULIN
39. DEPENDING 46. PRINT SHOP
40. DEGRADING 47. CASTRATED
41. CORDIALLY 48. CONTORTED
42. OBSCENELY 49. ABSTINENT
43. STRANGLES
C-1. Tiptop Mississippi optimist points to moon, sips Pinot. Notion: insist on nonstop mission. Noon? No, too soon.
C-2. Advice to avoid delay: never stand behind Satan in a government bureau line, as the devil takes many forms.
C-3. If you are fortunate, all of your experiences will be either pleasant or educational -- or both!
C-4. Chewing gum company finally develops their new flavor after six years of ex-spearmint-ation
C-5. After planned orbital lander leaks oxygen, Tom Hanks initiates return to Earth. Exciting nail-biter!
C-6. Pecuniary Danish royal acquires outrageous fortune peddling slings, arrows, bodkins amid sea of troubles.
C-7. Steatopygous ecdysiast eats exceptional eclairs; execrable eczema eclipses ecstatic experience.