1. fore, error-free
2. spoiled; sold, pie
3. Pasig, pay-as-you-go
4. OURS
5. Monet, monetize
6. nil, Illini
7. OURS
8. dragon tie, granodiorite, deteriorating, Rio Grande do Norte
9. Stuttgart, sugar
10. catalogue, coagulate
11. re(s(pond)in)g
12. nob leg a Sand, M, et al’s wit chastise e
13. OURS
14. tutor, Tudor
15. moribund, tune, mound, tribune
16. Toy Machine, too many men on the ice
17. frugal mixes, Felix Auger-Aliassime
18. range, Reagan Era
19. finis; sin, if
20. metaphors, potato masher, promethea moths
21. qui(e)t
22. OURS
23. traipses, Pisaster, pastries
24. Alou, aloo
25. Raptor, rapper
26. fanfaronade; far, anon, fade
27. coal miner, America Online
28. quinoa; ennui, kwon, ewok, on key, queen; tea, tae
29. day has broken
30. ancients, canniest
31. B. B. King, beak, being
32. (s/e)qually
33. OURS
34. sniffer, scene a faire
35. forged, Roger Federer
36. earthling, the real thing, right triangle, lighter-than-air
37. interlock; Intel, rock
38. rain, reign
39. after a while, what a relief
40. Granny, glassy
41. bedside; said, "bide
42. Persephone (per se, pH one)
43. base unit, antibusiness, substantiate
44. sour(c)ed
45. calamity, calamine
46. pun(s)ter
47. Argentinian do (argent in I and O)
48. vector sum, reverse commute
49. grap(hen)e
50. FLox, IGHTem, SOFern, FANtum, CYpige
51. (g)harry
52. OURS
53. frampold; farm, plod; FR/amp/old; f(ramp)old
54. red flan, Rafael Nadal
55. interclouds, trinucleotides, Sieur Louis de Conte
56. outlandish, Thousand Island
57. calibrate, bacterial
58. OURS
59. ohms, Mohs'
60. deprec(i)ate
61. Boulder, older; To(ron)to
62. Burr lives, Burl Ives
63. saag paneer, pan grease, sap green, enrages, ranges, gears, sage, sag
64. curlicue, cur, coat, Coatlicue
65. summitry, symmetry, scimitar, cemetery
66. fi(shin)g
67. OURS
68. should, shoulder; must, muster
69. neighs, His Highness
70. cloaked, cock-a-doodle-doo; (y)egg
71. fipple, piffle
72. S curve, esker
73. alakazam; AL, AK, AZ, AR
74. atrophy, a trophy
75. reticule; cite, rule
76. a tax, attacks
77. phrased, paper shredder
78. finagler, fingernail, rifle range, free-falling,
Nigel Farage
79. denigrate, regained, reading, Derain, Andre, dare
80. decagons, dodecagons, Canada goose, canned goods,
song and dance
81. parapet; ape, pet
82. (d)evil
83. egalite, galoot, eaglet, gloat, glutei, glut
84. March, charm
85. Drogon, Rhaegal, Viserion
86. Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
87. impeachment
88. detestable
89. toss out
90. oppositionist
F-1. GRGBRNRDSHW
HNRCBTLDG
DGRLLNP
TRVLG
DBR
L
F-2. OURS
F-3. MORASS
ARISTO
RAPTOR
INSURE
AGATES
NEWEST
F-4. MR
DEEM
BIMBOS
PAGEANTS
MESENTERON
DISASTERAREA
TORONTORAPTORS
F-5. MARSRED
ATACAMA
RAMADAN
SCARING
RADICAL
EMANATE
DANGLES
F-6. ITALICS
TYLENOL
ALITTLE
LETDROP
INTRUST
COLOSSI
SLEPTIN
F-7. OURS
X-1. Words! Words! Words! I'm so sick of words! Eliza Doolittle, My Fair Lady
X-2. I always say this but I really believe it - the world needs more Canadas. Bono
X-3. Remind me to discuss the necessity for reviewing the word piffle. E. B. White
X-4. We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. Oliver P. Smith (not Douglas MacArthur)
X-5. Now that's a diet margarine; you gotta double up on that. Dan Conner (John Goodman)
X-6. ATTACH MOPEDS
A W H A O A R
FIONA LOLLIPOPS
O D R F A N P U
OVERDUB LETSLIP
L E N A T E P
SAPSUCKER HOTEL
E T E O E Y
ROOST DROPTANKS
R A O T O U I
APRICOT COWHAND
N S R H A N N E
DAMNATION RECUR
E C R A E E S
SNAKED LADIDA
X-7. OURS
X-8. All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have. Einstein
X-9. Sign on music store window: I am at lunch, not Haydn. Bach at one, Offenbach sooner if Bizet. Leave Chopin Liszt on door Handel.
C-1. To be frank, I'd have to change my name. Becoming a vegetarian is a big missed steak. He who laughs last didn't get it.
C-2. Thief steals toilets from police station, leaves no clues. Cops complain "We have nothing to go on."
C-3. An ode to pi and Poe by Mike Keith opens with these lines: "One/A poem/A raven/midnights so dreary, tired and weary..."
C-4. Cold-War-era Soviet double agent ABUSEd any evidence of subterfuge, so AB USEs did not get revealed. (redact, red act))
C-5. Using transposals to lampoon royalty, politicians enshrined it in law with signing of Magna Carta (Anagram Act).
C-6. Sesquipedalianism: utilizing polysyllabic vocabulary for communicating information interrogatories.
C-7. Cthulhu's cold cruel clammy claws can catch cod, crab, Cousteau; cannot capture Cleveland, Coolidge, Clinton.