1. Fauci, ouchie, chi
2. obeahism, Bohemia's
3. (r)Adar
4. pay, papaya
5. Toronto, ON; Tarantino; Trenton
6. lachrymose, claymores, coarsely, oracles, solace, scale
7. nasal, egad, Xena, then, pave (next page has a Nevadan el)
8. roles, sore loser
9. T(h(o(mas (J)on)ath)an) Ossoff
10. lily-white, Willie light
11. (ac)(ac)IA
12. Las, ago, sex, the, pan (last page has oxen)
13. feat of slots (Feast of Lots)
14. throw, three-way
15. DEspERate
16. color, cover
17. nice, gneiss; nice, Nice
18. earplugs, plaguers, surplusage, sugar apple, purple passage
19. info Reiner's elated ram-asp art (in for E in Erse, late, drama's part - (act in for the E in Gaelic but out of place)
20. CLEaver, ROMantic, ANthem, CYan; cleromancy
21. pastry, past, live, livery, pant, pantry
22. asphodel, malt, asphalt, Model
23. tactic, Tic Tac
24. state law; Seattle, WA
25. citrine; sin, tree
26. tinfoil, Paul, toil, painful
27. longships, sploshing
28. co(r)al
29. belly-jeans, jelly beans
30. (sis)er(ara)
31. Nancy Pelosi, Polynesian, lyonnaise, insanely
32. mischanter, Christian name, the minister's cat, Manchester terrier
33. eave, eft (leave, left)
34. portend, port, leg, legend, off, offend, app, append
35. griddles (one grand, riddles call number in Dewey)
36. locates, lactose
37. den, denim (seraph, seraphim)
38. palatial, spry, partial, splay
39. used-car lot, clears out, locaters, scarlet, castle, steal, late, tea, at
40. baht, epactal
41. Warnock, warlock; toss off, Ossoff
42. prescient, president
43. conic, chthonic
44. Fauci, ouchie
E-1. February is as useless as the extra R in its name. It behaves like an obstacle, a wedge of slush and mud and ennui. Robbins
E-2. As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. Billings
E-3. The new dawn blooms as we free it
For there is always light
If only we're brave enough to see it
If only we're brave enough to be it.
Amanda Gorman
E-4. Failure is the supreme learning experience, and the best people, the true heroes, are those most willing to fail. Sacks
E-5. How hot is the fire
Fairy blister of chocolate chipotle sauce,
And will you judge me if I taste it?
Jericho Brown
E-6. The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary beetween modern times and the past is the mastery of risk. Peter Bernstein
E-7. I told myself I'd order only a green salad for dinner. I tell myself things like that a lot. Marcia Clark
E-8. QU AG MI RE
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E-9. ROMANCE
NORTH AMERICANS
TARNISH
EARTHLINGS
GEL
L'AGE D'OR
ROAD
RED BARON
BERN
BUSTER KEATON
STAKEOUT
DUKE OF AUERSTADT
DEFRAUD
GRATEFUL DEAD
AGLET
DEFLATING
FIND
FONDLING
LONG
UNGODLIEST
DUTIES
DOCUMENTARIES
ROMANCE
F-1. CAHILL
BABYBEAR
FIREDANCER
GOBBLERSKNOB
FOULS SEGAR
CLONE WEBER
LAUD RASH
ATTA FOCI
IHOP ERIN
RENE DINO
EATAT MELDS
DONEE SORES
PUNXSUTAWNEY
TECATEBEER
TIGERCAT
ASSIST
F-2. WARNOCK
OSSOFF
OCTET
DEAL
SNR
ID
A
F-3. MTV
BBC
DDR
F-4. FRASER
RUSTLE
ASHRAM
STRATA
ELATED
REMADE
F-5. TEATASTER
EXFOLIATE
MARDIGRAS
SMOOTHEST
F-6. DISMISS
IMEANIT
SERRATE
MARKSUP
INASNAP
SITUATE
STEPPES
F-7. DT
DUES
BARRET
MENARCHE
PERINEURAL
RHINOCEROSES
CHINESENEWYEAR
F-8. C
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PHOTO
COOKING
STIPE
ONE
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F-9. CAREER
ORELSE
AGUISE
XERXES
ENGINE
STERES
F-10. XXXXX
IVREA
IARUD
YORES
XANAX
X-1. 2WOOMBA2SONFI
BOWMANPNTK2RS
INLANDPIERCER
NTERISESRAITA
GUTTATALEWIFE Cities with a "two" sound or
EDDASALTOBDUL "A Tale of Two Cities"
NEARER2AFIELD
2QR2INSTTLAIR
LUNATICOWEAVE
OINKSHUMIDW2S
UNCLEARKNIFES
SOTELLRFERULE
EXDEFTYODELER
C-1. On my first as prof in veterinary school, I made the classic mistake: wrote on the whiteboard with a shar-pei.
C-2. Blake is kind of a gloss on Handel. His prophecies are the arias of their time. William Bolcom
C-3. Crazy African's Polish money cannot buy rusks at home. Zany Zimbabwean's zlotys get zero zwieback in Zulu zone.
C-4. Forward-looking opthalmologist summarizes past twelve months, noting, "hindsight is twenty-twenty."
C-5. Slemp, Whick, Burna: three Kentucky towns with the odd property of being mutually encryptable.
C-6. Babbling drivel, driver travels along gravel road by orange groves and graves to grovel before graven image.
C-7. Educational gibberish contributes complexity. Affordable residential domesticity nonexistent.