August Answers
Joker, Kapry Korn, Lirath, Billy the Kid, LeXman
1. squirrel, quad, squid, quarrel
2. OURS
3. cochair, air coach
4. triple threat, I twit hasp ace
5. OURS
6. chambers, hiss
7. antinomy, antimony
8. detonate (eta noted)
9. Beacon Hill, he can bill
10. chassis, chai
11. Diebold (die bold)
12. grotto, grotty
13. polecats, poll tax
14. OURS
15. modern pentathlon (MODify, ERNst, PENThouse, ATHabascan, LONdon)
16. osprey key (apres-ski)
17. Heraclitus, Charles Curtis, Euler characteristic
18. parent; rent, pent, pant, part, pare
19. quartz, chumps, jig, bevy, twinkled, foxy
20. prior, prion
21. OURS
22. susurrus, us
23. meringue, merengue
24. missus, misuse
25. OURS
26. treble, Elbert
27. OURS
28. Pinza, pinna
29. King Creole, lens; King Creon's
30. also-ran; narrow, slaw
31. read, red; read, dead; brown, Crown; brown, blown; Triple, cripple
32. sombre placenta? To pin
33. zucchini, zecchini
34. <boatswain>, Botswana, <bosun>, Bosnia
35. OURS
36. facet, fact; opinion, penny
37. amabo Obama, boob
38. day no Benin ebony ad
39. courtship, cistophorus, Corpus Christi
40. Greater, Antilles, grilles, anteater
41. webinar, wine bar
42. phonics, onyx
43. OURS
44. lycanthropic, chicory plant
45. Madison, medicine
46. P.D. James, pajamas
47. matter, mattress
48. OURS
49. code name (CObras, DENgue, AMEba)
50. derision a (an o is ired)
51. hew hay, Yahweh
52. unstitch; stun, chit
53. nominate (nom in eight)
54. OURS
55. level, Eve; plumb, Plumb
56. piranha, Piraha, Praha
57. wonder, Tudor, tender
58. antiproton pair
59. organized crime
60. OURS
61. etiquette, ick
62. disgust, gust, may, dismay
63. urogenital, regulation; reproduce, procedure
64. Iroquois, Iraqis
65. OURS
66. intimidation
67. admonition
68. Get Smart
69. Amy Winehouse
70. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution
F-1. OVENS
BELONG
ORATING
ESCAPING
SERRATION
SEIRCTUO
PARINGS
LEVIER
TETRA
F-2. SANLUISOBISPO
SAINTTHOMAS
BEHAVIORS
FOLIOSE
TOTAT
SUN
S
F-3. A GZSTRP B ZGGRTS C RGGDNN
ZGGRTS GZSTRP GZZRDS
SGRBTS GSFRTH GZSTRP
TRBZND RTRBTN DRTRDS
RTTNGG TRTTNG NDRDGS
PSSDGR SPHNGS NSPSST
D SCPGTS E WSHNGP F PNGPNG
CGNZNC SFTRZR NBLPRZ
PNKSTR HTRMSS GLLNTS
GZSTRP NRMNTC PPNGHT
TNTRTT GZSTRP NRTHLR
SCRPTR PRSCPC GZSTRP
X-1. Saying "monosyllabically" definitely ain't talking monosyllabically, but saying "ain't" definitely is.
X-2. I never saw a purple cow. I never hope to see one. But I can tell you, anyhow, I'd rather see than be one. Gelett Burgess
X-3. SCUPPER
ARMOIRE
NEBULAS
TARTEST
AMASSES
X-4. OURS
X-5.
G: If the reason for climbing Mount Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up on the easy side?
C: At one time there existed a race of people whose knowledge consisted entirely of gossip.
X-6. DRAPEDFCARET
REARGUARDSAI
OJNOPAREDIRE
WEEVILOWLETD
NCDEEDPMESHY
OTISTREADTUE
OSCSYNODCOPE
LATHEONMHODA
DSPOREPIEPAN
HOBOOMETALTG
ANDISMANTLES
TEENYYRESIST
The item is a Denver Omelet (reading the NW-SE diagonal) Ingredients are diced ham, green pepper and white onion, found by reading the red, green and internal white squares from top to bottom.
ACROSS DOWN
1. DRAPED (sketches) 1. DROWN (insane)
6. CARET (blocks) 2. REJECTS (bombastic)
10. REARGUARDS (glum) 3. PROVES (environmental)
11. NO-PAR (snappy) 4. DUAL (who'd)
13. DIRE (substantial) 5. FARO (clarify)
14. WEEVIL (Nepali) 6. CREW (rotten)
16. OWLET (zookkeepers) 7. ADDLED (child's)
19. MESHY (bumblebee) 8. EARTH (politics)
21. OTIS (workshop) 9. TIE-DYE (guys)
22. TREAD (barbaric) 12. PIETY (clergyman)
26. SYNOD (northeast) 15. EDICT (placards)
27. COPE (Pacer) 17. DR. NO (hideout)
28. LATHE (entryway) 18. PEON (expert)
31. SPORE (photographic)20. STOOP (positing)
34. PIE PAN (observed) 23. ADMIT (prompted)
35. HOBO (librarian) 24. UPDATES (gradually)
36. METAL (Somalia) 25. OLD HAT (clerk)
37. DISMANTLES (firm) 26. SHOO-IN (the)
38. TEENY (boys) 27. CHEATS (both)
39. RESIST (rebel) 29. AS ONE (must
30. ANGST (back)
32. ROSY (cost)
33. EMMY (turkeys)
34. PEAR (encapsulating)
X-7. The 'unusual' clues use their enumeration as part of the clue. They are indicated by a * below.
ABRIDGE DARESAY
S A O R I I W E
PENINSULA PLAZA
I I K P G O N R
CONCERTINAS SOL
T Y O T E I
MOONSET SUSTAIN
A C APE W G
COLOSSI DETOURS
K U U L A P
IOC NEWYORKJETS
N K B I W A N T
AKITA NONAHEDRA
W L T D E E E V
SCYTHES RESIDUE
ACROSS DOWN
*1. ABRIDGE 1. ASPIC
5. DARESAY 2. RAN INTO
*9. PENINSULA 3. DONKEYS
10. PLAZA 4. ERUPT
*11. CONCERTINAS 5. DIAGNOSED
12. SOL *6. RIPOSTS
13. MOONSET *7. SWANSEA
16. SUSTAIN 8. YEARLINGS
18. APE 13. MACKINAWS
*19. COLOSSI 14. NCO
22. DETOURS 15. TAILWINDS
25. IOC *17. TWO
*26. NEW YORK JETS *20. LUCKILY
*29. AKITA 21. SUNBATH
*30. NONAHEDRA 23. TAKAHES
31. SCYTHES 24. UPENDED
32. RESIDUE *27. OWNER
*28. STAVE
C-1. From Loose Parts, hopeful on "karajoke" night: "Two ducks go into a car...no, I mean a bar...no, it was a duck and a horse..."
C-2. You may be a Democrat but you have to love a Republican candidate whom Limbaugh, Coulter, and Hannity hate.
C-3. Difference between poor marksman and constipated owl: poor marksman shoots and shoots, but never hits.
C-4. After face-off, Czechs check, Russians rush, penalty box crowds. Zamboni clears rink, next period begins.
C-5. Clumsy, tin-eared science fiction enthusiast stumbles horribly trying to carry Dune in a bucket.
C-6. Twilight begins when sunset occurs and continues until dark, recurring from dawn until sunrise.
C-7. OURS