1. Dada's tri-deli rap airing, Eek (dad astride lira, pair in geek)
2. Biogen, Boeing
3. pelican, capelin
4. cur(d/l)
5. f(e/o)llow
6. Belleek, leek, low, bellow
7. pollack? Sad
8. de(s)ign
9. plum, plumber; (p)lunge(r)
10. Bo(ca Rat)on
11. hoarse, ashore
12. ne(thermos)t
13. takin(g)
14. Swedish meatballs
15. marlpits, strip mall, air-mail stamp
16. rest/ate
17. car(o)b
18. eel a Spain Turk law! Donnest
19. in(s/d)ult
20. Provincetown; print, oven, cow
21. pool cue, cool pew
22. rogue, rouge, Guerrero
23. burial, beryl
24. stamen, assessment
25. volatile, violate, violet, voile, love
26. tea rose, rubescent, tuberose, reascent
27. COlon, DAsh; coda
28. imbalance, ambulance
29. plebe, bean, angle, gleam, ample
30. hippo, stage
31. Maccabee, McAfee
32. Mino(tau)r
33. pied, month eight
34. yuzu use
35. (divid)end
36. funny, enough
37. Suriname, surname
38. ceilinged, diligence
39. units, tinnitus
40. ENamel, GLIde, SHanty; FRame, ENdemic, CHanty
41. Ararat, centered, inhibit, bookworm, cumulus, syzygy
42. ague, league
43. blackguard, laggard
44.b(ig i)f
45. OCcur, TASte, TIme, CHess; octastich
46. tre(spa)ss
47. bar(NaCl)e
48. masculine, calumnies
49. in code, no dice
50. coveting, noncognitive
51. homi(l/n)y
52. smudger, red gums
53. Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch-Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
54. Tampa Bay Lightning
55. Montreal Canadiens
56. Sagittarian
57. Tucker Carlson
F-1. AUGUST
PYTHON
MAORIS
HURTLE
TIRANA
DOYENS
F-2. ECASH
LADLE
ELDER
PLIED
ELEPHANTS
CALLA
ADDIN
SLEET
HERDS
F-3. O
APT
SCRAP
SQUARES
SOUTHPAWS
PLIE SCOT
AID ERA
HD ER
N R
F-4. COASTGUARD
ROCAILLE
KATANA
GENA
RT
F-5. F R AUG H T
R O UST E R
A R ENI T E
S I GMA T E
F-6. FIBONACCI
EMANATION
SEMITONES
STATEMENT
F-7. MOSQUITO
ABOUNDED
SILICONE
TADPOLES
F-8. SAVOIR
TILTED
PEELER
OMEGAS
SNAKEY
TSETSE
F-9. J
A D
R L S
F E R D E L A N C E
E C H O L A L I A
R H I N I T I S
D O N O V O N
R E L I V I N G
A L L A T O N C E
J D S A L I N G E R
N I S
C A
E
F-10. MI
PADS
BARIUM
PASTORAL
MONEYMAKER
METEORSHOWER
F-11. SURPASS
PERSEID
TOTALED
FELAFEL
REGIMES
DELIGHT
SETSHOT
F-12. TASTERS
EMPIRIC
AMATIVE
SARACEN
ENSNARE
E-1. Back to the Future
Being There
Coming Home
Crocodile Dundee
Fantastic Voyage
Flashdance
Hello Dolly
Moonstruck
Nine to Five
Pillow Talk
Planet of the Apes
Spellbound
Stagecoach
Stand and Deliver
Taxi Driver
E-2. We stopped looking for monsters under our beds when we realized that they were inside us.
E-3. Apart from hydrogen, the most common thing in the universe is stupidity. Harlan Ellison
E-4. The question mark is the most Canadian form of punctuation: insecure, uncertain, humble.
E-5. The woman ran her home with an iron fist covered in a doeskin glove. Lisa Jackson
E-6. Diplomacy is about surviving until the next century - politics is about surviving until Friday afternoon. Yes Minister
E-7. He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it, hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart. Lewis
E-8. The worst beer I ever had was wonderful. Robert B. Parker
E-9. Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers. Fran Lebowitz
X-1. RECOMMENCED C
ACCRUALSODA
SLOEROOSTER I
PARODYTHENT
BINDEREOBIE C
AREERODEESR
TERMMAIRWAY A
TSTOAAVIATE
LARAMIECRUX D
EGADBERBERI
COMPORTMENT A
B R O O D X
Day of the Locusts
X-2. GLARESWONDER
ESTOVERTERGO
NAANERCHERYL
EVRENEGEDOPE
REASONERFGTO
ARXIUABJURER
THISTLEALASI
EMCOWINNIPEG
DOLLRADISHWI
ECLAIRUTLINN
WHATSGROUNDA
GAMETEEREGAL
BURN AFTER SOLVING
C-1. I have gradually come to understand that having the shortest temper doesn't make me a first responder.
C-2. Eldest: "I make the rules." Middle: "I'm why we have rules." Youngest: "Rules don't apply to me." Only child: "What are rules?"
C-3. I often repeat repeat myself, I often repeat repeat. I don't I don't know why know why. I simply know that I I I...
C-4. Perspective matters. Canadian connotation of southern neighbor differs greatly from American one.
C-5. Math labels integers "composite". Definition disqualifies multiplicative unattainability.
C-6. Pink? Probably. Purple? Perhaps. Paprika provides positive piquant pungency, placating perfectionists.
C-7. Coronavirus/carnivorous: apt transposal, consonantcy, since insect-eating bats likely animal reservoir.