July 09 Answers
Joker, Lirath, LeXman
1. master key, Miss Turkey; Miss Turkey, mystery
2. Zelda, lazed
3. formaldehyde (for MAL, DE; Hyde)
4. femtolibra, Battle of Baltimore
5. OURS
6. nefariously, Fourier analysis
7. artmobile, Baltimore
8. Obama, Bo
9. no sweat; waste not, want not
10. OURS
11. ignoramus (sum A, Ron, GI)
12. nailed, denial, Denali
13. Robert Reed, robed
14. chorizo, horizon
15. billionaire, Bonaire
16. porridge, prairie dog
17. Capri meal, so I (C, a prime, also I)
18. saponite, Penn Station, passionateness
19. skimpy, cheap mix
20. sea monster; seamster, on
21. half-timbered (half TIMB ere D)
22. OURS
23. appetite (a P petite)
24. OURS
25. Baltimore, Ballmer
26. Stetson, on; parterre, part
27. parodies (pair o' dees)
28. ache, yacht (as in clepe/yclept)
29. yacht, Chatty Cathy
30. Camembert; came, member, Bert
31. the cremation of a DA (The Creation of Adam)
32. shell, New Rochelle (neuro-shell)
33. false feminine; rebus, Reba (as in alumnus, alumna)
34. buffalo wings (buff Al owing S)
35. ergotism, egotism
36. another, anther
37. OURS
38. OURS
39. Pettitte, P
40. petition, peon
41. AEC (ace), educe (deuce) tyre (trey) trace (cater), quince (cinque), ices (sice)
42. straw, Star Wars; streak, Star Trek
43. manga, mango
44. arctic fox (arc Ti Cf ox)
45. adios, soda
46. Sprout, support our troops
47. OURS
48. balconies, inconsolableness
49. OURS
50. miser, minimizer
51. should, shoulder; mast, master
52. seminal animes; seminal, seminar
53. cryptic; kick, ripped
54. Conradian, draconian
55. lap dance, Dan, L.A., Laplace
56. ocelots, coolest; caracal, circle
57. form a "Maryland, My Maryland" disc (ut (for MA, M (minus the D) MY, M (minus the D), D is cut)
58. Pepsodent, Ricola, Pepsi-Cola, rodent
59. euthanasia, youth in Asia
60. August, TSA
61. OURS
62. OURS
63. swearing (S, W, E a ring)
64. jet-setters, bandannaed
65. Chicago; ciao, HCG
66. Steinway, wine stay
67. sharp, harp
68. ago(nizin)g
69. Monroe, Moreno; no, Moreno (more no)
70. OURS
71. OURS
72. massive, Mass Ave
73. a sin Cheshire (as inches, (") hire (rent))
74. fair rind, rare find
75. nock, knock
KU-1. oh noze, ozone
76. Mobile, Alabama
77. idle, lean, angel, gelid
78. coward, cowered; defiant, fainted
KU-2. OURS
79. bran flake, frankable
80. OURS
81. OURS
82. orc hard, orchard, or chard
83. Howie Mandel
84. fascination
85. bipartisan
86. seminaries
87. put in jeopardy
88. Mercury or Philana
89. the continental USA
90. Judge Sonia Sotomayor
F-1. REDHAND
EXRADIO
DRIVING
HAVENED
ADINIDA
NINEDAY
DOGDAYS
F-2. MRNNGBCMSLCTR - Mourning Becomes Electra
DSRNDRTHLMS - Desire Under the Elms
GRTGDBRWN - Great God Brown
THRSTTT - The Rose Tattoo
CGHTN - caught on
RRN - Arran
P - Poe
1. Mayo 2. Urdu 3. nosegay 4. narrate 5. agnathic
6. budgerigar 7. card sharp 8. mute button 9. Sheraton
10. all wet 11. iceman 12. Yeats 13. Eire
F-3. CHIC SAGA
HEMO CRAX
IMAM RAIL
COMPARABLE
ATOP
ROMP
SCRAPPYDOO
ARAB DROP
GAIL OOZE
AXLE OPEN
F-4. L
SEC
CHAOS
SLOPING
DHOW NARC
BRAG PEAT
DIAL NINA
OWLS MART
SOLE DODO
WAYSIDE
PENCE
SUE
B
F-5. C
THY
SKEET
SHORTED
SHES IRIS
FLEA ASIA
HEEL TRIG
EELS DUEL
PAPA AIRS
CASHCAB
MEETS
ALS
P
F-6. G - Iago
GRK - Gorky
CRMNS - Crimeans
MSSRGSK - Mussorgsky
RMSKKRSKV - Rimsky-Korsakov
STRVNSK - Stravinsky
TSTCS - test case
KCH - Koch
H - yahoo
1. aria 2. momus 3. Cassatt 4. Igor Sikorsky
5. Igor Markevitch 6. King Ranch 7. assesses 8. Keokuk
9. ivy (league)
X-1. DALMATIAN TIMID
E A N M A A A R
BIN TOP PIRANHA
A D I L L P G F
TELEPHONE APART
E U A S S U
IBIS INSOLUBLE
S B T O I A C
HOEDOWN SYNODIC
E R U G E
PUSHOVERS CLEAN
H K N P U T
EXTRA SLEEPWEAR
R O P U C I A I
DETRIMENT DORIC
ACROSS DOWN
1. DALMATIAN 1. DEBATE
3. BIN 3. LANDLUBBERS
5. TELEPHONE 5. ANTIPASTO
9. HOEDOWN 7. IMPLOSION
B. PUSHOVERS 9. NAPLESS
D. EXTRA B. TARPAULIN
F. DETRIMENT D. MANGA
F. DRAFT
Other Across: TIMID, TOP, PIRANHA, APART, IBIS, INSOLUBLE, SYNODIC, CLEAN, SLEEPWEAR, DORIC
Other Down: SHEPHERD, TOT, OKAPI, ENSUE, SUSPECT, CUPID, BADGE, EAR, ECCENTRIC
The acrostic reads "a chatroom loaded with young men chasing wives and wives chasing young men"
X-2. AVOWCALIFS
BATASPIRIN
OUTLIESAGE
VDEKURTSHE
EERIECEATS
BRANCHDHDP
UMIGSAMARA
TALCULTRAL
THSOLKHAKI
EACHKBUBEE
TAHOEEGOSR
CKOOPSSOPH
HIPPOONTOI
ETWIXTISIC
DANNYSTALK
NUCLEOTIDE
ACROSS DOWN
1. AVOW 1. STOVE (ABOVE)
4. CALIFS 2. OTTER
8. BAT 3. WAXWING (WALKING)
9. ASPIRIN 5. APER (O from often)
10. OUTLIE 6. LIMNED (LISTED)
11. SAGE 7. FIRST (FIGHT)
13. KURT 12. NORM (DERM)
16. EERIE 14. SAHARA (I from isolated)
18. EATS 15. ESPALIER (E from encumbering)
19. BRANCH 17. CHAFE (CHALK)
22. MIG 19. BUTT
23. SAMARA 20. AILS (C from cure)
24. TALC 21. DRAKE (D from deranged)
27. ULTRA 23. SULK (E from Elmo)
29. SOL 25. AHA
30. KHAKI 26. COHO (L from left)
31. EACH 28. THUG
34. BEE 31. ETCHED (N from nymph)
35. TAHOE 32. CHEF (CHOP)
38. EGO 33. BESOTS
40. OOPS 34. BOOZY (BOOTS)
41. SOPH 36. AKITA (U from uppity)
43. HIPPO 37. EPODE (EPOXY)
45. ONTO 39. SPOIL
46. TWIXT 41. SNIT (T from too)
47. SIC 42. TUCK (HICK)
48. DANNY 44. PIN
49. STALK
X-3. Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. Bertrand Russell
X-4. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. Steve Landesberg
X-5. It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious. Oscar Wilde
X-6. BACHELORSPAD
AQUILINEERNE
CUBCITEDLOTS
HICKSJADESIS
ELISHUGECANE
LITJUNESTIER
ONEAGENTSCUT
REDDESTPARTS
SELECTSAHARP
PROSAICRADIO
ANTINEUTRINO
DESSERTSPOON
X-7. IFEARANTS
FULDABEAT
ELFDISCOS
ADDINOKRA
RAINORSUN
ABSORBEDF
NECKSEDDO
TAORUDDER
STSANFORD
X-8. The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C-1. Did you hear about the foreign airline with pay toilets on its flight? What's next? "BYOB (bring your own bucket)"?
C-2. Idea whose time has not yet come: audiobook versions of U.S. road atlas, Willz's best sudoku, Renaissance art.
C-3. Eponymic indie film "Synecdoche, New York" cast upstate natives in minor roles greater than some of its parts.
C-4. Search for large bushy-tailed nocturnal prosimian known as aye-aye led primatologist to island off Africa.
C-5. Irate customer demands quarter back from shoddy barber after receiving two-bit shave and haircut
C-6. Pair flees while holy havoc levels city; woman does about-face, shape-shifts into giant Sodom chloride column.
C-7. Persons residing within vitreous edifices advised against hurling petrous projectiles.