February Solves
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1 curd, Kurd
2 chap, Teri's Togo remake, lovebird (chapter (ch) is to gore make love bird (woo d(ch)uck))
3 OURS
4 Andersen, undersea
5 yellow, yell "ow"
6 place, boozy man?" Di asking; placebo. Ozymandias, king
7 Maori, roam
8 OURS
9 exonerate, on, asp, exasperate
10 OURS
11 shelf, elf; sleigh, slight; Leon, Noel; render, reindeer, rounder
12 Il Trovatore, La Traviata
13 collier, collie
14 offer, Federline, off-line, Federer
15 Stamford (St. AM for D), Brooklyn (B rookly n)
16 OURS
17 nocturnes, Dr. No
18 procrastinate, leg, procreate, lasting
19 all over the map; pall over them - a; apall! overt hem; ma-pal-lover: the
20 slew over ades are (erased are vowels)
21 fourth, forth
22 OURS
23 OURS
24 Di DNA CSI: Miami prepared now on stiff. It's no wonder a perp I maim is candid.
25 Romeos, ostrich, trichrome
26 inswathed, Danish West Indies, nine-and-twentieths
27 a(carac)ide
28 James Goldman, James Mangold; Cop Land,Copland
29 the souse of the rising Hun
30 (williw)aw
31 OURS
32 OURS
33 "Lover, Come Back to Me" (L over C, OME back, tome)
34 "Scottish", Kaddish
35 liberate, Liberace
36 seat; eat, sat, set, sea
37 spoon. a rise (Spoonerize)
38 saltine, saltire
39 pro-pagan DA, propaganda
40 OURS
41 pie chart, eye chart
42 than bronze: polyurethane (en a h te Ruy Lopez no B R N A H T)
43 atop, atopic
44 forget; for, get
45 OURS
46 jar Oman (J, 'a' Roman(uno))
47 scar, Aruba; scuba
48 OURS
49 should, shoulder
50 extirpate Pixar
51 OURS
52 day trip, pay dirt
53 duets, desuetude
54 sniveler, replevin
55 pianoforte (pi an O for TE)
56 eighth, day; eighth, date
57 prettiness, persistent
58 verify; very, if
59 absinthe, a B's in 'the'(las)
60 OURS
61 actors, costar
62 spay; pay, say, spy, spa
63 OURS
64 OURS
65 OURS
66 OURS
67 the La Brea Tar Pits
68 the chaise longue (chaise lounge is also 11C)
F-1 NHNDRDRSFSLTD One Hundred Years of Solitude
THRDBDGFCRG The Red Badge of Courage
THGLDNBWL The Golden Bowl
MNDRLLS mandrills
GLLMT guillemet
RSN Eurasian
S sea
1D ana, 2D Haiti, 3D no-hit, 4D Durham, 5D road gang,
6D double-dealer, 7D rudderless, 8D signalmen, 9D affability,
10D sea cows, 11D Lorelei, 12D outage, 13D Ada
F-2 LEAPDAY
EXTREME
ATHENES
PREMISS
DENIZLI
AMESLAN
YESSING
F-3 RMBRNDTVNRJN Rembrandt van Rijn
VNCNTVNGGH Vincent van Gogh
PTRBRGHL Pieter Bruegel
SVNNRS Savennieres
SKRS Skouras
SS Sousa
1D Ayr 2D Mauve 3D bone up 4D rictus 5D unnerves
6D data banks 7D taverners 8D Avengers 9D nighs 10D arugula
11D Jehu 12D anua
F-4 ORESTES
RESTALL
ESTONIA
STOPGAP
F-5 OURS
X-1
GLASSWARE SUMAC
R N E C X O Y O
OTTOMAN TINHORN
S A I E I N P T
SECOND NEEDIER
I A N C T A A
MEDALLISTS ISIS
A G I T
COTE THROMBOSIS
H O G T N E T
ENEMIES INSANE
I N D H E G M D
GRANDMA REALIZE
H I A D I L N M
TULIP ENCHILADA
X-2 What we call "progress" is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance. Havelock Ellis
X-3 Biography is a form by which little people take revenge on big people. E. White
X-4 Happiness is a way station between too much and too little. Channing Pollock
X-5
MODEMANNARBOR PIECES IN ORDER
SLUGABEDSNIBS Arafat, renamed, league, tartar, orrery,
PEEPERREDTAPE reelect, Gretel, learns, reseeds, go into,
USUALOKLAHOMA alkali, empath, Gemini, brogan, molest,
STPATGAMERTEN olivine, Taoism, mess-ups, merest, Hearst,
STERNALIRENIC shrine, gesture, robins, seance, branded,
EARTHRISESLOE sedans, pauper
MORASSNESTEGG
SISTINEENRAGE
MARINASDETERS
TERMEDROLLOUT
CHEESERIVIERA
ELEGYRENTAFAR
X-6 What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It's the only thing that there's just too little of. Hal David, Burt Bacharach.
X-7 You don't have any privacy. Get over it. Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems.
X-8 Marital philosophical debate: if a man speaks and his wife doesn't hear, is he still wrong?
X-9 Happiness is an imaginary condition,formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. Thomas Szasz.
C-1 Bart Simpson's "Don't have a cow, man" doubly confuses anxious bovine carrying female offspring. Ay caramba!
C-2 If my cryptogram ideas were executed by other Krewe members, would I still be able to decode them?
C-3 When you have a good base but no patience to versify it properly, submit a flat WNFR ("without need for rhyming").
C-4 A kaleidoscope is simply a set of three mirrors in search of something interesting to look at.
C-5 Avid poker player neglects beloved calico, heaps of wash - forgets to feed kitty, is forced to fold.
C-6 Beldam loathes old age, buys wig, gets face lift plus lipectomy. Days morph into hunky-dory fun.
C-7 Unhappy bachelor fondly recalls halcyon days when female classmates reliably bestowed valentines.
Joker, Kapry Korn, Lirath, Billy the Kid