1. Saint Lucia, toss, Seleucia, taunts
2. confer satisfactoriness
3. me/thane
4. OURS
5. rituals, (Australia's, as a); natives, naivest
6. visage, Visa
7. laggards, glad rags
8. mudra, mori
9. ho(no)rary
10. science, silence
11. Roosevelt world (rows of L twirled)
12. undue, unique, q.i.d.
13. quiet, etiquette
14. OURS
15. OURS
16. splinter, teleprinters, spiritlessness
17. telework; Ella, twerk
18. radio, rad I/O
19. Hobo/ken
20. eggnog, Eno
21. hardnose, on Dasher; drone, on Donner, on Donder
22. w(a/r)iter
23. OURS
24. Kilauea, kill
25. contractor, protractor
26. (c/n)onscience
27. nerdier, Thenardier
28. bulgur, Bulgar; fla(x/t); spel(t/l); mille(t/d); (gr)oats
29. semaphore off a mess
30. countervails, electronic surveillance
31. Cheerios, soiree
32. Louis VIII, elusive
33. distillation (dis (insult) till a T, ion)
34. OURS
35. read, wight, blew
36. Galenism, meaningless, mingle-mangleness
37. dies on, does in
38. sine curve, sinecure; s(in)ecure
39. Cort/Pippi
40. coachmen, Comanche
41. article, recital
42. lavender, La Vendee
43. OURS
44. Phoenix, fennecs
45. (u)plink
46. intimate, initiate
47. caroled, herald
48. alter/cation
49. methylating, Megan Hilty, Y ligament, metaling, gelatin, tangle, angel, lean, ale, la, a
50. Minotaur
51. m(e/a)ssage
52. "lost ark," Erse
53. app/ointment
54. rush hour
55. OURS
56. as event H, rice. Viands Pa, Ceres, or Ted
57. spaces, auspicious
58. her(m)itage
59. ab(so)(lute)ly
60. classic, Clash
61. OURS
62. flats editor; at, said, it, fleur; Versailles, verse
63. Chianti, chant
64. opalescing; Nicolas Cage, ne Nicolas Coppola
65. Archimedes of Syracuse
66. "...after all, tomorrow is another day."
67. pitcher Madison Bumgarner
68. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
F-1. SW
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F-2. OURS
F-3. S
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F-4. F I R S T
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F-5. ANIME
NOVAS
IVANS
MANGA
ESSAY
X-1. Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which to die.
X-2. I agree with Rousseau, that the aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think. James Beattie
X-3. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. James
X-4. I did not attend his funeral; but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it. Twain
X-5. It is a malediction that you must always have a petticoat tacked to your doublet. A. Dumas
X-6. OURS
X-7. You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. Lewis
X-8. I don't know what your problem is...but I bet it's hard to pronounce.
X-9Q. Surely a man of your diverse intellectual interests and wide-ranging curiosity must have tried to find God? David Frost
X-9A. God is much more intelligent than I am - let him try to find me. Asimov
X-10. B T S T P E
POLESTAR SPRING
T E A A U O L
CHAMPIGNON MAIL
E R K A E S
GRATIS LAMINATE
E E E I A
DOTAGE ASIDES
R R S E I
IDEALIST ONSIDE
R G M A R E
BOAR MAYONNAISE
L A E E A R T
CLIMBS DETACHED
Y S T E H P
X-11. Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
X-12. To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
C-1. At a bar mitzvah reception, they told me that "mitzvah" means "commandment" but not what "bar" is, so I went for a drink.
C-2. Boy meets girl, offers to show her his stamp collection. "No," she says, "philately will get you nowhere."
C-3. OURS
C-4. Gnostic biologist creationist: on the third day, Almighty God said "Let there be evolution."
C-5. Skinny genes permit svelte hipster to enjoy scrumptious desserts while wearing latest fashions.
C-6. Global warming irony: modern ice age may materialize with oceanic saline imbalance from melting glaciers.
C-7. Czarina without handgun disarms burlier apelike mansion burglar. Royalty condemn. Hangmen cremate.