1. Ross's seal, roseal
2. for certain, refraction
3. pearl, parallel
4. viper, reprieve
5. Puritans, Rasputin
6. c(ur(mud)ge)on
7. counties, necessitous, constituent
8. supper, slower; dinner, doubter
9. rating, Tri, Tri Again
10. Snyder's, dryness
11. mantel, mental, mantle, lament
12. LAst, COin, NIChe; laconic
13. toilet, to let
14. upon, sold, store, curator, iconic, issue, elites, pooch, avenue, sized (Spanish 1-10)
15. haughty; ought, he
16. amors ex DC in 2021
17. doe, dough
18. are, be
19. levi(g/t)ate
20. OURS
21. meat eater, meteor
KU-1.
22. fibber, fiber
23. oat, pie; opiate
24. Jordache, DoorDash
25. misanthrope, one man's meat is another man's poison
26. loftier, Trefoil
27. decorating, tridecagon
28. canniness, canines
29. improv(is)e
30. Edgar/Degas, egad
31. w(rapar)ound
32. prose, repossess
33. broad, bird
34. pinnacle, pinochle
35. fawn, dawn, Hawn, yawn, lawn, sawn, bawn
36. impression, permission
37. Candidates' Night (C and I, date, S nigh T)
38. wedding, winded, widen, wine, new, we
39. diner, reindeer
40. PROve, TOre, TYro, PEter; prototype
41. OURS
42. rewind, "Red Red Wine"
43. Wild West Show, dish towels
44.emoji, OMG
45. tarp
46. horseshoer
47. book, bone/bony, boil, bode
48. OURS
49. maxim, axiom
50. surprise, supplies
51. andouille, ennui
52. eidolon; noli, ode
53. pat: not on-tap
54. OURS
55. I, c(ho(cola)t)e
56. co(m(pet)en)t
57. vis-a-visness, Visa Venus
58. leeward, lewder, elder, leer, ere
seaside, disease
oceanic, cocaine
59. raiment, entertainment; garment, anger management
60. renovation; aver, notion
61. Po(ssess)
62. bag, baguette
63. party line, interplanetary
64. stun, nuts
65. Geodude, good day
66. mocha, macho
67. OURS
68. wavy, anchor, war, anchovy
69. gerbil, biloba, Obamacare, Macarena, nabobs, bobsled, ledger
70. Venus, parvenus; lance, parlance
71. hinge, oohing, aahing; gr(ease )out
72. Ayers, years
73. manticore, reaction time
74. icumen, icemen; icumen, acumen
75. Hadestown
76. graphic designer
77. it is all smoke and mirrors
78. tessellation
79. OURS
80. OURS
81. OURS
82. this statement is false
83. Hercule Poirot
F-1. TAME YOKE
ARES ODIN
MEGA KILO
ESAU ENOS
F-2. ASSUME
SNIPER
SIESTA
UPSETS
METTLE
ERASED
F-3. OURS
F-4. OURS
F-5. SHRIMPPOBOYS
FEDERALAGENT
POLICEREPORT
LOVEONESWORK
NELL DEEP
TASK SCAT
PERK KUHN
NOAH SEEK
CROSSTHEROAD
LAWPROFESSOR
RACETOTHETOP
BATHROOMSINK
F-6. SMART
NEWER
ITALY
PARIS
ELECT
F-7. PLAGAL
REVILE
OTELLO
LONDON
EUGENE
STERES
F-8. OURS
F-9. WHISPER
HITHERE
ITSOPEN
SHOOTAT
PEPTIDE
EREADER
RENTERS
F-10. OURS
F-11. OURS
F-12. OURS
F-13. OURS
F-14. OURS
F-15. S
E L
N I E
S A R A
E M M E T apt word is sestet
F-16. NDAK MINN
ERLE ALAE
LEBO CLRO
SDAK LIRP
OGPU ENOL
NEAK IOWA
SIES
HSRM
F-17. OURS
F-18. OURS
F-19. OURS
F-20. OURS
E-1. The stupidest virus is cleverer than the cleverest immunologist. Klein
E-2. Gerontocracy is rule by people who insist on turning the peak of their career into a plateau. Andrew Ferguson
X-1. SQUAWKSTANZA
EUGURKHADEAL
CANDIDATEGXE
ONDITBRAILER
NTROHEDONIST
DAUBEDNYOGIS
MANORLUNREEL
OPPOSITEDEVI
JERKINSXERIC
AROTREETRUNK
VIOLKNOTTYCE
ELFISHFOOLED
X-2. D E M O C R A T I C
I D A H O BB G U N S B
C OO L A L D E N T E O
E D I T O R S E O T
V A C UU M E A R T H U
A D L I B A LL S E T L
DD H I B O L O G N A D
L A N O L I N EE E H E
E L G A R G U S T O
B O Y S E N B E RR Y R
D O U B L E R
E-3. It is the quality of one's convictions that determines success, not the number of followers. Remus Lupin (as told by J. K. Rowling)
E-4. Amusement is one of the fields of applied mathematics. William F. White
E-5. The fragmentation of shared knowledge into personalized truths began centuries ago; digital technology has merely speeded it up. Damian Thompson
C-1. I've started investing in stocks; beef, chicken, vegetable. One day I hope to be a bouillonaire.
C-2. "What kind of hybrid creature do you get when you cross a tusked and a horned pachyderm?" "Elephino!"
C-3. Consider the two places folks go after dying. No wonder Stanton said of Lincoln, "Now he belongs to the aitches."
C-4. Hank Aaron reached three thousand hits after seventeen years, yet golfers can get there in an afternoon.
C-5. As punishment for committing serious double felony, semicolon receives two consecutive sentences.
C-6. Troubling orthoepical enigma: one of the U's in "vacuum" is silent and we will never know which one it is.
C-7. How hampered, huddled hens hurt! Happy healthy hens have huge hundred-hectare homes, hardly hear hatchet.