January 14 Answers

Enigma Status

QED's puzzle from front cover: AULD LANG SYNE

1. near 'em sins, punk) it smother

2. health and well-being; wealth, and hell being

3. OURS

4. coined, coincidence; in code, coined, no dice

5. car(b)uncle

6. The Desolation of Smaug; ion, to, Olaf, S's, edema, thug

7. OURS

8. be(ref)t

9. Morley, Lesley

10. clarinet, (recalcitrant, cart)

11. cele(b)rity

12. telesti(ch)al

13. sphere, fierce

14. Bad Ems; German resort

15. OURS

16. OURS

17. wondered, erenow

18. masher, her, sacred, massacred

masher, her tiff, mastiff

19. carbon, (crab canon, can)

20. me Mexico's "horn" oft win, Alp. Has

21. one-under score

22. OURS

23. conundrum, corundum

24. (R)angers; (I)slanders

25. s(trop)py

26. casino, to Don

27. into doesn't ooze toupe-red assessors

28. Mount Price, motion picture

29. tortellini. Alliteration

30. tout le monde; T, out, lemon de

31. def(e/u)nd

32. Quonset, Kwanzaa

33. Languedoc, eau de cologne

34. Ferris, ferrous

35. leitmotifs, most flighty

36. OURS

37. gateau; gat eau

38. Pascal Obispo, Pablo Picasso

39. gray tapes, great apes

40. choir, require

41. Kay Kyser, Coke Zero

42. OURS

43. terminus, instruments

44. Lazenby, analyzable; dreaming, Dame Diana Rigg

45. Stephen King's Doctor Sleep

46. Fisht Olympic Stadium

47. honorees

48. Mayor of Toronto

F-1. VISAS

IMAGE

SAINT

AGNES

SETSFORTH

OPERA

RESAW

TRACK

HAWKS

F-2. ZCCHN

CLRBW

CRCKR

HBKKK

NWRKNWJRS

WXMSM

JMCRW

RSRCH

SMWHR

F-3. OURS

F-4. OURS

X-1. OURS

X-2. Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. Margaret Mitchell

X-3. The difference between Democrats and Republicans: when Republicans shut down the government, it's on purpose. Bill Maher

X-4. OURS

X-5. There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened. Adams

X-6. Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head. Andy Rooney

X-7. OURS

X-8. Fear is often described as moral outrage. Judy Blume

X-9. Chocolate is nature's way of making up for Mondays.

X-10. Mickey Mouse is now eighty-eight years old. He's gone from "It's a small world" to "It's an enlarged prostate". Craig Ferguson

X-11. I have CDO. That's like OCD but the letters are in alphabetical order as they should be.

X-12.

C

B O N N| E T H S V I L L E

S E L A N| E Q U I N O X O E A

T E A S E| R E N E W S N A G B

O F M A R| I E G E S T E D G

C A I N D| E N V E R P A C E R

K Y A T S| R I V E R J U N E

I E M B R| O I L T A I L F G

N A I L E| N M O U T O P I A A

G Y N U P| D A T E D S T A R T

B E D R O| O M C C E Z A N N E

REFINENOELTOMAKESINGLE LONE

INFORMERSLEFTALSOBIGSHOT STAR

blue bonnet (margarine)

brownsville (port)

red river (waterway) Texas things

black gold (oil)

yellow rose (beauty)

ACROSS DOWN

T 1. BLUEBONNET 1. BLUESTOCKING

6. BROWNSVILLE 2. BEEF

11. ELAN 3. NASA

14. EQUINOX 4. EERIE

E 16. TEASER 5. HUE

17. BLACKEN 6. BROWNING

18. SNAG 7. SNEER

X 19. MARIGOLD 8. VOWS

20. EGESTED 9. LONE

21. CAIN (oil) O 10. LEADEN

A 23. DENVER 12. LAMIA (port)

24. PACER 13. NERDS (margarine)

26. KYATS L 15. AGGREGATE

27. RED RIVER 17. BLACK GOLD

29. JUNE O 20. EVIL

S 30. EMBRIOL (waterway) 22. AYE-AYE (beauty)

34. YELLOWTAIL R 24. PRATS

37. NAIL S 25. CULPA

38. MOROSE 27. REDONDO

40. UTOPIA 28. ETUDE

_ 41. UPDATED (_ = SPACE) 31. MIND

42. STAR 32. REPO

C 43. BEDROOM 33. IMAM

44. CEZANNE 34. YELLOW ROSE

35. IOTA

36. FIRN

39. OTC

X-13. SHOWERSPASS

TEARVUNRIPE

RELIANTINRE

ODOSPARSNIP

BESTOWEMITY

EDENRAMBLED

DISMAYAWARY

DMISTBITTEN

EASTERNITNA

AGHAFIDGETS

LEVIEDEETAT

TSARMERRILY

Old: 1A 16A 22A 24A 31A 32A 34A 3D 7D 8D 26D

New: 13A 14A 17A 19A 29A 33A 2D 6D 15D 21D 28D

Borrowed: 6A 9A 10A 11A 18A 27A 35A 36A 37A 1D 4D 12D 20D 23D 25D 30D

Blue: groom left at altar

C-1. Flat bases, crypts, poems, and messages that are hard to read? Must be this publication or a cemetery.

C-2. Man named Tate invents unreliable compass. Soon all discover that he who has a Tate's is lost.

C-3. What's so new about the "bitcoin?" They have been around for years...they are called quarters: "two bits," "four bits."

C-4. My big break, being cast in Delibes opera, ruined by laryngitis. Performance cancelled because they lack me.

C-5. Husband is making wife sign postnuptial agreement: if they divorce, she takes the pets and any teenagers.

C-6. Misguided attempt to broker peace: U.N. banquet serves halal felafel meal with kosher deli meats.

C-7. Boys glue purple grape gumdrops inside cardboard diorama depicting California vineyards.