1. twerps, sweet pepper, street sweeper
2. P, petal
3. informal, formalin
4. re(viv)al
5. zoom, presume
6. Ricola, RC Cola
7. (el)even; (s)even
8. umlaut, mutual
9. crawling, calling, cling, King; phonetic, Pinochet
10. reknit, tinker
11. (f)allow
12. lute Tiu might; a statin, eight
13. morseling, morning glories
14. PR(ecipice)
15. MAya, NUke, ALoft; manual
16. de(can)ter
17. satinet, sakeret, tinker
18. undreamt, enumerated
19. (d)raft(y)
20. LAPELS (LF's male, up ordered line's. Ned)
FLORIN
SERENE
MUDDED
21. forenoon, "For No One"
22. in tears, tin ears
23. ingredients, tenderising
24. tomatoes; to Ma, toes
25. djinn, gin
26. brain, Barbara Bain
27. space, recap
28. Mt. Snowdon, downmost, towmond, Motown, not MW
29. noob, boon
30. Cree, Key
31. casual, causal
32. lionism, cubism
33. semiurban, submarine
34. conlanger (regnal no. C)
35. tamarin(d)
36. re(s)ign
37. SUBADE (A rested Rama; Arab trousers)
ROAMER
ERRATA
STARS
enigmatic; cage, I'm, tin
38. ZEst, ROPalic, LUlu, RALeigh; zero plural
39. DeKalb, balked
40. arc/ana
41. elflock, (el flock)
42. di(Stan)ce
43. scene, be four
44. clumsier, circumcircles
45. as how, who was who
46. p(yraM)id; r(Evers)ed; truncated, tear duct, detract, redact, rated
PG
BALI
SECOND
MANEATER
TYLERMOORE
47. chicken stock, stick in chalk
48. tungstic
49. shortage, theatergoers
50. INfo, SPend, IRAte, TImid, ONce; inspiration
51. s(h/o)uffle
52. (d/l)emon
53. igloo, glue
54. serpentine, turpentine
55. phaser, phrase
56. ad(e/o)pt
57. eglantine, inelegant
58. perilous, pearls
59. BASIC
60. melan(i/g)e
61. mossy zinc, seizing, mock
62. (pr)ogress
63. basi(n/l/c)
64. stride, side street
65. politician
66. Marvel Cinematic Universe
67. Flat Earth Society
68. mess hall
69. the animal kingdom
F-1. POPULATION
FORELOCK
PAVANE
LIME
SO
F-2. SCREAM
CHANGE
RANGER
ENGINE
AGENTS
MEREST
F-3. RASCALS
ALMANAC
SMELTER
CALZONE
ANTOINE
LAENNEC
SCREECH
F-4. JAILS
ULNAE
LLAMA
YANAN
4HERS
F-5. SUMMER
ORIOLE
PANDAS
INDENT
TIERCE
EARNED
F-6. JULIAN
CALENDAR
MENNONITES
BALKANSTATES
BADLY LILAC
MENES ELVES
ELAL SETI
RANI ADAR
EBAN TACH
LOBE ASEA
YREKA CLEAN
SLAKE SLOAN
THEDIEISCAST
NEWFATHERS
MISSRONA
NOTYET
F-7. UP
FLAP
HEALTH
DOWNMOST
F-8. TRUSTFUL
BASTILLE
STEEPING
PARTITAS
F-9. OS
OPUS
PRESTO
DEARABBY
ANNLANDERS
F-10. JOKE
ODEA
KEYS
EASY
E-1. Grids other than anaquips can also exhibit noms.
E-2. A knights tour crypt can even have a centered nom.
E-3. A priest, an imam, and a rabbit walk into a blood bank. The nurse asks, "Is one of you a type O?"
E-4. He is incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. A. Camus
E-5. Never argue with an idiot. He'll bring you down to his level then beat you with experience.
E-6. Courage is knowing it might hurt and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same.
E-7. We are all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. R. Wright
E-8. In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. Bertrand Russell
E-9. As you confront the world, unrealistic optimism can be a life vest that keeps you afloat. Leonard Mlodinow
E-10. Puzzles are not just curious figments of mind, but elusive bits of evidence of a theory of the world. Marcel Danesi
E-11. It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. Mark Twain
E-12. Why would anyone want to add to their daily weight of information processing by trying to multitask? Daniel Levitin
E-13. Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die,
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
X-1. COEDIT PILLBUGS
M W A A A I R
PALETTES MALLET
H L T T B L N
FALLBEHIND IPAD
R M A A D
PHARISEE SORTIE
O I D N
UTMOST LIONSDEN
P G A I R
NOIR NEERDOWELL
T A K D I O U
NARNIA ORNAMENT
T D R W A A G
POSEIDON LINGER
X-2. VANDALEHCYSP
IXOIJANEMEAL
PEPSIZTLAWMU
EDEPMIHENSON
RATEBORNGLAD A - Neil Armstrong
WHALESOBLATE
HAKLAWNOOMAR B/C - Michael Jackson
ABEOMAEXPELS
MARXOMSKORCS
MONEHPPIRATE
IROSAGETOQUE
ETUIRACEUUBD
SANTASSTSAEY
X-3. ACCRUALSHMOST
MADONNAHEARSE
MNMOSCREATION
ONETWOVEDHEMA
MONTANANBENIN
ANAILSRSALTST
HEGELTHINNESS
ADETOAEEGRETS
TWROWINGEHRAH
MAINERCURETTE
AVERDSEESAWED
x=MAT(C)H, Y=TON(E)R - MAHATMA=TORONTO
across words
do tee rower - to the power
mimes - times
no tie cower - to the power
plug coot - plus root
mines - minus
plum - plus
down words
one to nine
DOWNRIGHT
TORONTO (0252492) - 9^2*5^2+root of 4-9+2= 2020
C-1. I am dedicating this month's cryptogram page to the memory of the convention that might have been.
C-2. Oxford dons do not follow bookworm post-docs to Morocco for blood voodoo or to Toronto for golf or polo.
C-3. How do you stop Canadian bacon from curling in the pan? All you have to do is take away its tiny brooms.
C-4. Agreement abounds that America is one great country. In fact, it borders on the magnificent.
C-5. MINE
C-6. Must ask Fraz or Witz why country having maple leaf for its symbol has anthem whose first word is "oak."
C-7. Tour big rich cold land north from mine, find locals via orthography query, locals will reply "C, eh? N, eh? D, eh?"