January Solves
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JANUARY 2008 Back to Enigma Status
1. tot aloft hew omen wit hinter Ali acclimates (total of the women with interalia CCLI mates)
2. making do (kingdom), shlumpy (phylum), slacks (class), record (order), amplify (family), genius (genus), eclipses (species)
3. OURS
4. undercover agent (under c over a ge nt)
5. Benny Goodman
6. propaganda (prop a g and a)
7. anorectic, accretion
8. avian, apian
9. OURS
10. OURS
11. Monterey, manta ray
12. OURS
13. and Thisbe, has this been set as intended
14. b(rewer)y
15. preach, mumble, preamble, much
16. altruistic, multiculturalism
17. annoyed, paranoid
18. OURS
19. command (comma ND)
20. testate, essay
21. oatmeal, tamale
22. bees' forays force paces two (Bs for As for spaces too)
23. fraction, infraction
24. OURS
25. OURS
26. steal, lattes, latest, Seattle, tallest, tattletales
27. ideate; crave; I, Dave; create
28. grimace, primacy
29. liver?" my Suva kooks ask. Ucaoimhu, Somerville
30. OURS
31. traducianistic, over my dead body
32. OURS
33. saint sit sans a topaz (S ain't S, it's an S atop a Z)
34. shady: Abu Zubaydah’s
35. OURS
36. footstool, FL
37. trench, three-cent
38. Strunk, trunks
39. Torre, torrent
40. OURS
41. Minute Maids; mediastinum
42. ballerina, Li’l Abner, liberal, Bel-Air
43. decision tree; Dior, esne, cite
44. gate array, Gatorade
45. flu woe, Beowulf
46. OURS
47. Easter, easier
48. samizdat, Mazdaist
49. OURS
50. skort earned force corps (score turned four score)
51. holler, holier
52. right, write, rite
53. Ringo, airing; Starr, yesteryear
54. checkmating, chick magnet
55. rim, Eric!" Hess (rimes riches)
56. laced, Travolta, lavolta, traced
57. w(rapar)ound
58. OURS
59. strangle, triangle
60 Bankhead (bead, ankh)
61. Frisco, fiasco
62. M-days, Amy Adams
63. seagirt, gaiters, strategist
64. noctambule, un-come-at-able, columbotantalate
65. levitating (vita tingle)
66. (bo)ur(bo)n
67. LDS, LSD; Mormon, moron
68. Sly Stallone; all, Sly Stone; Rocky, rock
69. hematin, The Thin Man, Manhattanite
70. st(ill li)fe, efts
71. eHarmony, ham on rye; soul, shul
72. OURS
73. history, gamine, histamine, gory
74. elation, revelation
75. basted, database, beta tested
76. comber, cucullate, collate, cucumber
77. Escher, cheers
78. Chapter One, chaperone
79. mango, goatee; manatee
80. OURS
81. The Golden Compass
F-1 F-2 F-3
BLESSED GNAT SNDSTG - soundstage
RAMPAGE NATO NMDPLM - nom de plume
AVAILOF ATOM DDDCKS - dead ducks
VENETIA TOMS SPCCDT - space cadet
ORALISM TLKDWN - talk down
ENTENTE GMSTNS - gemstones
SEERESS
F-4
AAEEII - Japanese Iris
OOUU - Honolulu
YY - wryly
1D Ann 2D Arbor 3D Ebony 4D Mercury 5D hiccup 6D Flint
F-5
SB seabee
DMLC demulce
NMNMNM eeny meenie miney moe
RSSLLBKR Russell Baker
DRWNGSTRWS drawing straws
RCKPPRSCSSRS rock paper scissors
1D rue 2D decay 3D Roark 4D ensweep 5D damson pie
6D Simon Legree 7D blameless 8D cenobitic 9D Makers
10D rows 11D Yser/Isere 12D soy
F-6
A B C D E
GRENDEL IGRAINE REGRASS GARGLES NEWAGER
REREEVE GRENDEL ENROUTE AMARINE EYEBREE
ERGATES REGALIA GRENDEL RAMENTA WEARERS
NEATEST ANAPEST RONDURE GRENDEL ABRONIA
DETENTE IDLESSE AUDUBON LINDERA GRENDEL
EVESTAR NEISSER STEROPE ENTERON EERIEST
LESTERS ELATERS SELENES SEALANT RESALTS
F G
REDDOGS REUSING
EQUERRY EMPEROR
DUFFLES UPFRAME
DEFIANT SERICIN
ORLANDO IRACUND
GRENDEL NOMINEE
SYSTOLE GRENDEL
X-1 His first time in the store he had browsed up and down the three narrow aisles and hadn't even realized a full hour had passed, and that was before coming across a shelf stocked with puzzles. Eric Berlin - 'Winston Breen'
A Evander L issued
B rethought M now
C impish N sassafras
D czar O trafficked
E behemoth P Othello
F euphonic Q narwhal
G rheostats R bazaars
H loads S riddled
I in the dust T elephant
J Noth U Edwards
K wizen V newsfeed
X-2 When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not an agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me. G. Carlin
X-3 Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad, except you never know when luxury is going to stand up. Orson Welles.
X-4 Some people like my advice so much they they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson.
X-5 For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
X-6 I like the moment when I break a man's ego. B. Fischer
X-7 Nothing to me feels as good as laughing incredibly hard. Steve Carell
X-8 English busker in Ireland: If you don't like me singing "Danny Boy," you can kiss my "Londonderry Air."
X-9
Frank Lewis of The Nation is honored here
Across Down
2 rankle 1 fearful
5 wisdom 2 red herring
9 audit 3 no to war
10 white swan 4 lawless
12 freewheeling 6 I mean it
13 egg 7 down
14 lurer 8 mintage
15 symptom 11 Islam
18 nebulas 13 Emersonian
22 harem 16 yea
24 nog 17 enigmas
25 cryptic xword 19 burnish
27 magnifico 20 Lippi
28 reins 21 Spinoza
29 scathe 22 hexerei
30 nation 23 modesty
26 Agra
X-10 After three days without reading, talk becomes flavorless. Chinese proverb
X-11 Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies. Jamie Murphy
X-12 Intelligence is almost useless to someone who has no other quality. A. Carrel
C-1 I can't rhyme, meter's off; other Krewe sit and scoff. As my flats are not so fine, writing crypts takes my time.
C-2 Pollution is obviously increasing; there once was a time when walking on water was considered a divine act.
C-3 Bro shucks oysters while I shell peas, husk corn to eat. The strawberries? That's a course of a different huller.
C-4 OURS
C-5 Big ape and red fox kit spy mad dog, run him far out. Cur bit cow. Bad men buy new axe, jab fat old pet.
C-6 Nerdy tech genius misconstrues "resolution," buys ultramodern computer monitor after holidays.
C-7 Ibuprofen helps gastrocnemius (calf muscle) ache, thus making brisk walk much more workable.
Joker, Kapry Korn, Lirath, Billy the Kid