Road to BeaCon - Diagramless
A D D / / / C A P O / D A T A
W R I T / W A T E R M E L O N
L O O K B E F O R E E V E R Y
/ P R O B L E M / / D I P S /
/ / / S Q L / / / B A C H / /
/ / / / / / / S T A L E / / /
/ / / / / / C H E S S / / / /
/ / / / / S H O E S / / / / /
/ / / / A L A R M / / / / / /
/ / / B S I D E / / / / / / /
/ / T O L D / / / B I B / / /
/ R I T E / / B O M B A S T /
L E T T E R D R A W N H E R E
B A L L P O I N T S / T E A R
S M E E / E G O S / / / D Y E
Look before every letter drawn here. (Z)
Letters before the Zs in the intro and clues spell HYPNAGOGIC
1. ste(ga)nography
2. van(qu)ish
3. panettone, Pantone
4. OURS
5. Harvard, guest, harvest, guard
6. poleis, pilose
7. centesimal, lemniscate
8. "Richard the Third" chatter
9. controlling interest; rolling, inter, contest
10. tenses, elevenses
11. engages; eggs, nae
12. (idi)otic
13. Moran, TX; Marmota monax
14. OURS
15. spiral, chain, Spain, chiral
16. forecast, coffee roaster
17. (p)reap(p)rove; (p)rea(p)prove
18. OURS
19. scare, carcasses
20. OURS
21. expi(r)ation
22. kvetch, vetch, etch
23. arrived(erci)
24. OURS
25. lose-lose
26. Chuck E. Cheese, Chukchi's
27. for sublunar doubt
28. SINuses, ISsue, TRAlala; sinistral
roDE, teXT, centRAL; dextral
29. secluded, deduces; deduces, seduced
30. countries, insurrection, reconstruction
31. pennilessness
32. ordinal, Old Iranian
33. OURS
34. wok, two; kowtow
35. brrr, Br
36. (teet)H
37. job, muezzin, Yemen (jib, mizzen, main)
38. ptomaine, onomatopoeia; (same);
consonantcy; cost, no, Nancy; ptomaine, lo mein
39. OURS
40. loden, olden
41. Levantine, valentine
42. vain, marl, animal (Ivana, Marla, Melania)
43. u(Seles)s
44. emptiness, misspent, spinets, in step, inept, pint
45. transade; art, deans
46. Thersites, tee shirts
47. be gu(ardra)iled
48. predate, predator
49. eating tagine
50. mainsail, sane male
51. asp, as per
52. theirs, tritheist, thirstiest, Irish terrier
53. four years, your fears
54. Costa Rica, Castro, CIA
55. big shot, bigot
56. (I)kea, Ike(a)
57. Won Tooth Reef, Orff-Ives
58. min(i/t)
59. boa/sting
60. palmerworm op
61. mu synonymous; nom until
62. PRint, INCite, ECHelon, ARMor, INGest; Prince Charming
63. bogeyman, moneybag
64. U-turn; volte-face, reverse ferret
65. (g)litter; blin(g/k)
66. Pampers and
67. (p)alter
68. hospice, auspice
69. caber, brace
70. era, irrigate
71. Ca(z)ique
72. the death of George Michael
73. A Dog's Purpose
74. Russian President Vladimir Putin
75. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
76. the island of Sodor
77. Fidel Castro dies at ninety
F-1. OURS
F-2. MITER
ENAMOR
RUMBLED
IRAALLEN
TELLSALIE
DEMOTING
SEVERER
RETIRE
ROAST
F-3. MRCLS
RMNSQ
CNGMS
LSMTH
SQSHRCQTS
CTZNR
QZZCL
TNCNS
SRLSR
F-4. MNPLNCNLPNM
CRSTCLNGM
SPNRSMS
SHRTN
DND
C
F-5. WWWWWWW
WHOOHOO
WOOLERT
WOLBERT
WHEELIE
WORRIES
WOTTEST
F-6. OURS
F-7. S
CNP
LBTNG
RKBSTRS
PGMHRGLSS
PRMDLWNDMLL
F-8. OURS
F-9. SPARROW
NAMEONE
ALIASES
REALEST
LABIATE
ALLSTAR
TEETERS
F-10. LOVE
OPAL
VANS
ELSE
F-11. ONSTAFF
NUTELLA
STONIER
TENDBAR
ALIBABA
FLEABAG
FARRAGO
F-12. FORESIDES
IMAGINARY
VALENTINE
ENERGISES
F-13. PASTAS
ACTIVE
STONER
TINING
AVENGE
SERGES
F-14. BODIES
AVENGE
BEACON
ORDAIN
ODESSA
NONETS
F-15. STROVE
CREPED
RIDING
AVIATE
WINTER
LAKERS
F-16. RACEMOSE
ENAMELED
ENRINGED
FEBRUARY
X-1. Parking is such street sorrow. Herb Caen
X-2.
Literacy
Is a flavoring
Spread on life's
Unpalatable
Actualities to
Numb the mind - a kind of
All-purpose
Garlic sauce
X-3. Pay attention to the fine print. It's far more important than the selling price. Pres. Francis Underwood
X-4. Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. John Braine
X-5. N U M E R O U N O = "the best fudge on our menu"
R U B I C O N U A N T E
O S U C H C O N C E A L
M U R R A Y I E A G L E
P A D S F A R A D A Y P
B L E G E N D S E T C H
A P N E A I T E M E R A
G E P O U C H T I T A N
P R I M P T E A C U P T
I I N E R R O R T R O T
P L A T O E R E C T O R
E N T R O P Y N U L L U
S T A Y T S I A M E S E
B A B Y F I N N E G A N
Weight at birth in lb. and oz. (6 pounds, 3 ounces)
month/day/year 8/26/16
X-6. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy
X-7. OURS
X-8. A faithful friend is better than gold, a medicine of misery, an only possession. Robert Burton
X-9. SENTIMENTALITIES
SQ CH
UI AT
CE OL
NT OG
EN IC
NI AL
ALPHANUMERICALLY
X-10. Teach your kids about taxes. Eat thirty percent of their ice cream.
X-11. Virtually everyone suffers from the deeply ingrained habit of considering language as a medium of communication. D. Borgmann
C-1. OURS
C-2. My stylist kept telling me she thought my hair was making me look fatter, so I finally decided to dye it.
C-3. Game show contestant from HI won two hundred sixty thousand dollars on Deal or No Deal, with GUY Mandel. Mahalo!
(Maui, Howie)
C-4. To comply with cell phone legislation, delete German, Dutch, and Scandanavian names to make phones Hans-free.
C-5. Al Gore owns more large homes and jets more than any internationally famous climate change activist should.
C-6. Everyone on television eats Chinese takeout only with chopsticks. Nobody forgets to ask for them.
C-7. Feline-punctuation difference: while cat has claws at end of its paws, comma is pause at end of its clause.