1. Muir amass, nor is
2. eponymous, pony-mouse
3. orientating, integration
4. residual, Lauder, real
5. Margaret Dumont; MARbles, GARish, ETher, DUMmy, ONTario
6. despair, (diaper/spider), pride, dire
7. (p)older, (b)order, o(l/r)der
8. containerised, inconsiderate
9. mare, the moon, maroon, theme
10. alou(a/e)tte
11. L. Ron Hubbard; hubber, Elrond
12. ungored, round-edged, underground
13. frenemies; FRENch, EMIgre, EScape
14. reign, reignite
15. (v/p)illage
16. nonsteady, asyndeton
17. eye contact; icon, tact
18. alum, I number, Bari umber
19. modernization, in moderation, denominator, ordainment, nominated, dominant, tannoid, nation
20. Gable's sand roi'd
21. Gonzag(a/o)
22. star-nosed mole, learn'd astronomer, door-to-door salesman
23. A TOM I C
TOM A T O
I T E M to misinform
C O M E
24. wholesome; WHOop, LEad, SOothe, MEat
25. Trump Tower, rum power
26. double feature; feat, bleu, our, de
27. off(ici)al
28. munchies, Moon Cheese
29. ALGOL, ago
30. Boulder; BOny, ULtra, DERna;
Colorado; COLOny, RAt race, DOnative
31. pro, potato, peso; rotates
32. Vlasic, Slavic
33. loops, spool
34. scuffles, cuffless
35. slower; lower, sower, slur, sloe
36. c/loser
37. suspender, redness, up
38. (l/t)ouche
39. close, clothes
40. wide-nosed, Wednesday
41. ode, odor
42. zin glower, "Dada ash
43. heresy, heiress
44. not butt in
45. Boston, born, boron, bow-driven; Storrow Drive
46. shored up, pseudosphere, red phosphorus
47. yearn, yeoman; aroma
48. cad retracted
49. anthemic, time machine
50. drawer, door
51. OURS
52. ham, hamlet
53. Cio-Cio-San, Caucasian, occasion
54. Provencal; proven, Cal
55. River Monsters; Vermont, risers
56. Tribune, Erin Burnett
57. Austrian, autumn; striatum
58. the faction, fianchetto
59. b(r)each
60. viscous, vicious
61. animate, ottoman
62. gem a safe'd
63. c(a/e)ll
64. hypocrisy, Hippocratic
65. spatchcock, catch Spock
66. show(i)er
67. storied, steroid
68. rant; rave, vent
69. OURS
70. "Big Rock Candy Mountain"; canned, Rakeem, gown, bitten
71. set, sestet
72. the Nashville Predators
73. Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity
74. Kellyanne Conway
75. President Trump of the USA
76. OURS
77. OURS
78. OURS
79. The Mummy starring Tom Cruise
80. Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein
81. OURS
KU-1
F-1. ORESTES
REMORSE
EMULATE
SOLDIER
TRAINEE
ESTEEMS
SEERESS
F-2. CUBES
UREIC
BELGA
EIGHT
SCATS
F-3. ZAP
LITRE
ZIPLINE
ATLANTA
PRINTER
ENTER
EAR
F-4. A
LUG
WIRED
MOLERAT
VARIABLES
FIRSTTEAMER
JACKTHERIPPER
F-5. DBLDCTLS
MSSMMNDS
NTPNLTMT
MLDCKNSN
F-6. A
FH
TAS
AFTERTASTE
HARPOMARX
STOREDUP
AMENDER
SADDENED
TRUENAMES
EXPREMIERS
DEE
SR
S
F-7. VCTRMCLGLN
SPNCRTRC
CLDRNS
DVDS
DN
X-1. I want a girl just like the girl that married dear old dad. Lyrics by Oedipus Rex
X-2. Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. L. Brandeis
X-3. And few would disagree that serendipity, in dictionaries, is a most splendid thing indeed. Winchester
X-4. Mathematics has given economics rigor, but alas also mortis. Robert Heilbroner
X-5. August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. Henry Rollins
X-6. Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them. Jayne Anne Phillips
X-7. All Gaul is divided into three parts: igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary. Geologist W. Hinckley
KU-2. L
X-8. B E A
MOOLAHNATIVE
UNSIGHTLYGTX
LATTESIPSNAP
ICONROCALICO
SCNILLICITOR Boston eagerly awaits
HOLLYAPARENT epic primo convention
MUTTERALARVA
INELECTEDPEN (BEACON)
STRIPEEAHAND
HOEDRLSPRITE
AFPMILLENNIA
PRISMSPROTON
C O N
C-1. Deity finds divine base, but cannot submit verse (the League takes humans only), so plants it in a member's brain.
C-2. Bipolar explorer vacillates between two destinations for her next excursion: Arctic or Antarctic.
C-3. If all Krewe wrote for the Enigma, and it had eighty pages, each Con, Teki would still say, "send more puzzles!"
C-4. OURS
C-5. Philosophicotheological tiff goes on over the ages re right to image God vs nonrepresentationalism.
C-6. Imaginary numbers differ dramatically from alternative facts, explains complex analysis professor.
C-7. Using grapnel, rapt Arapaho rapidly rappeled down from parapet, draped in serape while rapping about Rapa Nui.