1. "bosh!"ing, Higgs boson
2. OURS
3. OURS
4. sump. I, Andean,done
5. backsplash, backslash, backlash; backlash, black ash
6. fronted, tenderfoot
7. disarmament, mastermind, midstream, mermaids, admires, Merida, aimed, made, dam, ma, a
8. OURS
9. OURS
10. Marni, Marin; Marin, Armani, marina, Rain Man, Mira Nair, marinara, arm-in-arm-in-arm-in-arm-in-arm-in-arm-in-arm-in-arm
11. don't pleach, The Do-Deca-Pentathlon
12. OURS
13. OURS
14. acuity
15. seat, stew, shout, thorn (east, west, south, north)
16. mischance, mechanics
17. receding, reseeding; (h)airline
18. OURS
19. forethigh rota weak. Beef, Orc, on
20. thrashed, The Shard
21. Guignol, longing; Dies Irae; die, sir, ae
22. plague around, playground
23. OURS
24. moonrise, heroes, moose, heronries
25. cursedly, "reduce, reuse, recycle"
26. burl, burlesque
27. Tenacious D, educations
28. aim, Miami; steal, Seattle; torn, Toronto; antic, Cincinnati
29. OURS
30. certain, centenarian
31. (vi)(vi)sect
32. OURS
33. bless, bibless
34. OURS
35. earth dweller, well-heated
36. miscut onyx, Miskatonic's
37. Waldo Canyon fire
38. Woody Allen's To Rome with Love
39. Katy Perry
40. Ric Ocasek
41. Conrad Bain
42. former Soviet Union
43. Obamacare
44. Higgs boson
45. Conan O'Brien
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F-4. OURS
F-5. MNTSRRTCBLL
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F-6. OURS
F-7. AUGUST
URANIA
GATHER
UNHURT
SIERRA
TARTAN
X-1. vote, beauty, yeast, zeta, tote, Tokyo, Italy, coyote, aorta, haute, Time, jot, utopia, ante, exit, way out, feta, Equity, today, gait
X-2. SPANGLEDC LUGE+BILL=GULLIBLE
ALLOUOSCO RUSH+PLAY+MW=MURPHY'S LAW
VAHCLIPON OLLA+MW=MALLOW
ANALLYORV COOS+MW=MOSCOW
NTMFIGURE ROAR+MW=MARROW
NABOBSSIY ODEA+MW=MEADOW
ARROLEADO
HPATELLAR
MURPHYSLAW
X-3. OURS
X-4. A mother understands what a child does not say. Jewish proverb
X-5. Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone. Kenneth Minogue
X-6. Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. Henry Ward Beecher
X-7. Fish: There is a natural hootchy-kootchy motion to a goldfish. Walt Disney
Turtle: Behold the turtle: he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. James Bryant Conant
Cat: Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. Walter Lionel George
X-8. ATHENS DRAGSTER These are hosts of the Olympic Games
R R T I D U X (twice). Paris is the missing city.
NATURE STMORITZ At 26A, London becomes a 3-timer
I P E U I V R
SPOT LOSANGELES
S E Y M
FEAT HYDROXIDE
A U A N
INNSBRUCK GNAT
T G N P
LAKEPLACID RAPT
L R I L O A R
PIMIENTO LONDON
A N G S C G V
ANTELOPE ELEVEN
C-1. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle
C-2. The old and new editors of this page both have, um, nicknames in which a Y occurs where an I would be expected.
C-3. In a Monty Python sketch, a toilet cleaner says: "After five years they give me a brush." Mosayc barely missed.
C-4. Editor warily presenting first slate of crypts, strenuously hoping he hasn't out any critical words.
C-5. Antsy, frazzled chef at Ginza seafood bar drops hot dish of battered eel. Woeful guy shrieks, "O tempura! O morays!"
C-6. Padre refers to flags, obituaries, and card-game monomaniac as pennants, last writes, and wholly euchre-ist.
C-7. Soloist howls Sheryl Crow. Critic glowers, bawls out "lowing cow." She wallows, calls Cowell "shallow clown."