1. a tear is not visible (a T, ear is not visible)
2. ONus, eyELINER; one-liner
3. plained, India pale ale
4. am(a/o)retto
5. OURS
6. program director; gram, dire, proctor
7. wigwams, Guam, whiz
8. must-read, mustard seed
9. OURS
10. froggy sighs, soggy fries
11. Celine, cell line
12. novels, sloven
13. (z/j)ealous
14. lather, ethereal, all there, The Tell-Tale Heart
15. (B/q)uick, Che(v/r)y
16. OURS
17. creating, geriatrician
18. Hanukkah una (Han,UK kahuna)
19. Semite? No (one time S)
20. (s)camper
21. knees, nose, sneeze, snows
22. OURS
23. Shirley Bassey, burly chassis
24. sign/orb/ovine
25. observed, absurd
26. wallless, Wales; wallless, WALL-E's
27. de(s)pot
28. snatch, catch-as-catch-can
29. Noth, nothing
30. shark fin, Frankish
31. loose change
32. a fortnight
33. undertake; decoration, coordinate
34. danger money, Green Monday
35. uni/dentification
36. cedars, repast, ciders, ripest
37. bird louse, double dribbles
38. (s)laughter
39. li(tot)es
40. T-boned, do not bend
41. sparsity, parity
42. stay awake, takeaways
43. OURS
44. manito, ammoniation
45. noels, noselessness
46. manifestly, infinitesimally
47. m(onotono)us
48. Okefenokee, O'Keeffe enoki
49. thri(c/v)e
50. natty, British, shirt (nasty, brutish, short)
51. overweening
52. across, tick; acrostic
53. Col(o(n(el M)u)star)d
54. root; foot (or boot), riot, rout, room
route; root, rout
55. clam, calm
56. OURS
57. fill, Philly; (P)hilly
58. spatchcock, catch Spock
59. schmear, cream cheese
60. Disney, yes, indeed
61. polyester, proselyte
62. Crete, erect
63. cone, once
64. closing, Lincoln Logs
65. Avalon, no lava
66. Laredo
67. Brett Michael Kavanaugh
68. elementary, my dear Watson
69. satanist
F-1. OPALS
PAGAN
AGATE
LATKE
SNEER
F-2. THMSJFFRSN
NVRSTFVRGN
CHRLTTSVLL
F-3. WICKS
IMINE
NAVEL
DRILL
WINDMILLS
IMARI
CIVIL
KNELL
SELLS
F-4. F
FRO
CROUP
PASTA
AUTRY
DYE
T
WHY
POEMS
BIOSCAN
OLDNAVY
ROBOCOP
STEWARD
SAMMY
MAP
N
F-5 OURS
F-6. NGMVRTNS
CNSNNTCS
NGMTCRBS
TRNSDDTN
F-7. MACAW
AIOLI
COLON
ALOUD
WINDMILLS
ILIAC
LIMBO
LABEL
SCOLD
F-8. JC
JCBS
JCKBTS
JHNPLJNS
JHNSTRTMLL
F-9. O
TIC
MALLS
PANCAKE
ZIGGURATS
SOCIOPATHIC
F-10. LIGHTS
UNREAL
CRUMBY
RUMPLE
ESPIES
SHYEST
F-11. ISTHMI
NEREID
DREIDL
AVENGE
BONIER
ASSETS
X-1. If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?
X-2. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson
X-3. What is to give light must endure burning. Frankl
X-4. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. T. Capote
X-5. I need to take medication so I can slap stupid people and blame it on the side effects.
X-6. And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. Shakespeare
X-7. The past keeps getting bigger and bigger at the future's expense. Tennessee Williams
X-8. PRESENTSTEER
AIPQSRHERETO
SPRUCEAAAVRA
STOAREINDEER
NIMRODICERPI
EDGEWISESTAN
LEAPSTOCKING
OSVIESMAITAI
CHILDRENTACT
UAAOGORITTER
TINSELSNESAI
ELVESEVENING
X-9. ACCREDITED
PULSETIGHTEN JUMBLE THE NTH LETTERS OF WORDS IN CLUE
OBITGHSLANCE
SANGUINENAIW 5D - 2nd letters THANK YOU
TDKOLSECKELS 16A - 4th letters MERCURY
MERCURYPYRED 28A - 6th letters NPL TREA
OROCSCAROUSE 29A - 8th letters SURER
DECIMALOUSTA
ECIPCRIMINAL Thank you Mercury, NPL Treasurer
RADIOVMINOPE 2, 4, 6, 8, "Who do we appreciate?"
NPLTREASURER
SEABREEZES
C-1. When you're down by the sea and an eel bites your knee, that's a moray. Dogs can't operate MRI scanners but CAT scan.
C-2. We love our new amphibious vehicle - a FIRST that becomes a SECOND when you drive it underwater. (SUV/sub, sub/bus)
C-3. You can use quinapalus.com/qat.html to solve and create many types of word puzzles. It is free.
C-4. Frustrated by broken key, cryptogrammist asks Santa for new typewriter for Christmas. "Noe_!"
C-5. Listeners frightened by Saturday Night Fever soundtrack diagnosed with bad case of heebie-Bee Gees.
C-6. Psychic midget robs bank, eludes capture by police. Newspaper headlines declare "small medium at large."
C-7. Excessive amounts of Jose Cuervo render my knitting work indistinct: tequila stocking blurred.