1. tomb. "Use kite Ripple dye. Haute, uh
2. Hispanic king
3. OURS
4. overt ones, overtones
5. OURS
6. force, a Munn'd err, forester
7. OURS
8. grandiose, disorganised, organ-grinders
9. Greece, Spain; grease stain
10. OURS
11. time check, chime tech
12. Noth a vingt-fico sett; Esme, re
13. re(f/e)lection
14. OURS
15. OURS
16. turn-ons, entre nous
17. flour, flourish
18. Chan gin, gent, oft toga, Padua, Livy's pot
19. OURS
20. OURS
21. erupt, puppeteer; stream, master, Sesame Street
22. califs, fiscal cliff
23. OURS
24. Dr. No, Erno, Brno, Arno;
o, rien, Tex, PR, ess; Orient Express
25. OURS
26. femtoranch, "Fanfare for the Commom Mam"
27. OURS
28. Turkic, kicks; terse
29. OURS
30. nut rail, Erin! "Eine
31. spot, despot
32. Google Plus, Tilly; goo) gulp lustily
33. OURS
34. stenographic, consign to the scrap heap
35. "there's an app for that"
36. Hostess Twinkie
37. General David Petraeus
38. Rise of the Guardians
39. Al Capone
F-1. MNTSRRTCBLL
JNSTHRLND
RNTSCTT
LTTLN
MTR
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F-2. OURS
F-3. RNNNOROOSVT
WNRYRRSON
TOSRSON
SONRO
PNS
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F-4. SS
OOTS
WOWRTT
WTVSNOWR
WOOROWWSON
F-5. OURS
F-6. CORE SPON DENT
SPON GIOP ILIN
DENT ILIN GUAL
X-1. JUDGE
UMIAK
DILLI
GALEN
EKING
X-2. We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. Eugene Cernan
X-3. OURS
X-4. He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. Elbert Hubbard
X-5. Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. Arthur Helps
X-6. FIVER EASES
O E A I H I
UPSET GLOVE
R TEETH E V
STARS THREE
I O
HOMES START
A E INLET E
INDEX ALLIN
D A T K A O
ALLEY ESSEN
X-7. You can't be as in love as we were and not have it invade your bone marrow. Gillian Flynn
X-8. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. J. Fowles
C-1. Name for this decade? "The teens" doesn't work for some years. Why not use "TETCNBN," for "The Era That Cannot Be Named"?
C-2. Does lady uncap one hundred gastropods from housing near the flock? Yes. She shells C snails by the sheep. Sure.
C-3. How did the vowels "IEU" in "lieutenant," said as a long U in French, come to be pronounced as "eff" in the UK?
C-4. Krewe angst: twelfth Merriam-Webster Collegiate, fourth New International editions newly issued.
C-5. When last we saw a year calling for four different digits, this crypt author was two years old.
C-6. OURS
C-7. Upon decoding, text shall display identical set of letters as prior to solving, transposed.