1. I nurse vent Y (in Ur seventy)
2. water-loving, gravitational wave
3. unhand, unhandsome
4. Chronicle, conical
5. wert holding; red light, green light, one two three
6. punch, eon; puncheon
7. Hamlet (HAMmock, LEThal)
8. codesigned (C, ode signed)
9. OURS
10. OURS
11. OURS
12. stonker, storken
13. glimpser, Seemiller grip
14. feldspathic's, self-dispatch
15. OURS
16. momentary, monetary
17. voracious, porraceous
18. Pharisee, arise, on, phone
19. Strongyle, Genoese lottery; Isole Eolie, usually, sell, sea lily
20. Tony Hayward
21. sell baseball
22. OURS
23. decision, scission
24. OURS
25. zoo, Zeus myth
26. Pleiades; plea, ides
27. beauty mark, beauty qark
28. rival, viral; atheism, metathesis, at the same time
29. team up, teacup
30. one-stop flight
31. enigma, imagine, I manage, nine-inning game
32. OURS
33. mansion, Manchin
34. light opera; top, Lyra
35. prepare, erasers
36. OURS
37. eclat, cattle call
38. shoecraft, cast of characters
39. dermal, marmalade
KU-1.
40. OURS
41. oven is on, venison
42. OURS
43. milks, Kis Kilim
44. caring, Nina Garcia
45. pop qiz, zip
46. to Tylenol, lonely tot
47. coislander, raisin-colored, Arsenic and Old Lace
48. Lady Gaga
49. The NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers
50. alphabet
51. the World Cup champions
52. England's goalie Robert Green
53. ref Koman Coulibaly
F-1. STATELINES
RECITATIVO
TETRAMETER
ASSESSMENT
F-2. BTNIRN
LOATHE
OUTHIT
OCTANT
THECAE
HERALD
F-3. WRAAVR
HERMAE
IMMURE
TEASES
ELDEST
STASES
F-4. TIHZWA
OBEAHS
PERMIT
PREBLE
LIMIER
ESSAYS
F-5. QAQAQ
ELURU
STELA
HARER
MINSK
F-6. BR&ON
CELLO
ELIDE
LATIN
LYSED
F-7. XYZZY
HAOLE
OWEIT
SLANT
ASSES
F-8. OURS
X-1. "Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons." Al Hirschfeld
X-2. "If we are taught what to think, but not how to think, we end up not thinking at all." Mordecai M. Kaplan
X-3. "Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same thing." Oscar Wilde
X-4. Consulting: if you are not part of the solution, there is a lot of money to be made prolonging the problem.
X-5. ACIDNA*ANDERP CREOLE
MAGENDANRRHEA
EMI*EDRTHUMPS GREEK
TONEHJURYIRET
RLINEAGETDELI
OERSLOUG*RELT HMONG
*FALLF*VOICE* POLISH, LATIN, SIOUX
ATOC*DSLIDONO CATALAN
ZOOSLREMNANTR
IVOWAILSGSOLI
NEVADAEBE*DEA HINDI
GRIMDNDULCETL
SSHIAT*CKTASK ZULU
The gray square words are all languages.
Across Down
1. ACID 2. CAMO
4. NACRE 3. DEGREE
5. OLEANDER 4. NNE
11. AGENDA 6. ANTRE
14. RHEA 7. DRUID
15. EMIGRE 8. REPELLENT
16. EKED 9. PASTITSIO
17. THUMPS 10. METROPOLIS
18. TONE 12. ARUGULA
20. JURY 13. RHYTHM
21. IRE 16. KENS
22. LINEAGE 19. HELLCAT
23. DELI 22. LEFTOVERS
24. O'ER 25. RAO
26. SLOUGH 27. ONGOING
27. MONGREL 28. ECO
30. FALL FLAT 29. HAZINGS
31. INVOICE 31. TINSELED
33. TOCCATA 32. UXORIAL
34. LANDSLID 34. ALAN LADD
36. ONO 35. DASH
37. ZOOS 38. SWAMI
39. REMNANT 39. RIANT
40. VOW 43. LETS
41. AILS 46. ELK
42. SOLI 47. INDICT
44. NEVADA
45. BEHIND
47. IDEA
48. GRIM
49. DULCET
50. SHIATZU
51. LUCK
52. TASK
X-6. LINDMICEG
ARIESCUBA
YONEGOTTI
MNEMONICE
AIEITSERL
DCENTERED
DELTALOWN
EVERYMAEU
NCROWORDS
The theme is Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner". As such, the victim was ALBATROSS, the reporter was COLERIDGE and the well-known persons are the (Seattle) MARINERS. The removed letters are baseball positions and the deleted words are to be put in baseball scoring order by position.
ACROSS: DOWN:
1. (three b)LIND MICE - thriller 1. LAY
8. SCUBA 2. IRONIC
9. (one b)Y ONE - boxful 3. NINE
10. GOTTI 4. DEEM
11. MNEMONIC 5. ICONS
13. A(lf)IE - outdated 6. CUTIE
15. (two b)ITS - advantage 7. GA(rf)IELD - service
16. (p)ERL - almanac 10. GOTTA
17. CENTERED 11. M(cf)ADDEN - singing
20. DELTA 12. CREWED
21. (c)LOWN - Leo 14. EELER
23. EVERY 15. INTRO
24. CRO(ss)WORDS - Rabbi 18. ELMO
19. ROAR
22. NUS
X-7. THREECOURSEMEAL
IOOXNEDMEANENLA
PLAITREIGNCROPS
PLSSRESARDALKIA
LOTTEASKEWGOING
EWRENLANTIETMEN
AWUDCSRUSCSBASE
RANCHMATCHNARCS
CLTAUAVBREASIAB
ADITSSIRENPINTA
DOETHHOOTSPLASH
IRSLEELWAUEARUT
AFTERDINNERNAPS
ACROSS DOWN
6. PLAIT/CROPS/REIGN 1. TIPPLE/CEREAL/ENCAGE
7. ASKEW/LOTTE/GOING 2. HOLLOW/ODESSA/MERLOT
8. ANTI/T-MEN/WREN 3. UMIAK/ROAST/ENOKI
12. MATCH/NARCS/RANCH 4. EXISTED/ALPINES/REGRETS
15. PINTA/SIREN/ADITS 5. SANDWICH/LASAGNES/ENTRENCH
16. HOOTS/PLASH/DOETH 9. NUT-BROWN/RUNTIEST/MARINARA
10. ARCADIA/SMASHED/SNAPPER
11. WALDORF/RAVIOLI/BASILAN
13. CATSUP/CRETAN/CATTLE
14. USHER/BAHTS/ENSUE
C-1. Sign posted on wall at gym: "If you are taking up cross-country skiing, best start with a small country."
C-2. "When the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Henry Kissinger, it made political satire obsolete." Tom Lehrer
C-3. Look for my upcoming memoir about attending Hebrew school with the Wonka brat and Sweeney: "Veruca, Todd and I."
C-4. Cartoon bar offers happy hour followed by dopey hour, sleepy hour. Grumpy hour comes next morning.
C-5. Topical forest holds genetically engineered trees producing pulp exclusively designed for newspapers.
C-6. Rain over head. Room full. Crax: "Four-year tour over,Teki will take over." Maso: "Come back west!" Xemu: "Done." Let's play!
C-7. Gnarled gnome grabs gnotobiotic gnu, gnat bites gnome, gnu escapes into metamorphic rock quarry. How gneiss!