1. OURS
2. OURS
3. mastery, mystery meat
4. land, yare. nan (pe
5. OURS
6. hundred-to-one shot unendorsed
7. polled, dollop
8. therapy, heart-happy, party hearty
9. OURS
10. beguile
11. true, outre
12. conditioner, Ondi Timoner
13. archfiend, French-Canadian
14. OURS
15. spanghew
16. capybara, copy Bara
17. OURS
18. igloo, loo, night, ignite
19. Eyjafjallajokull, JFK'll
20. Yasgur
21. OURS
KU-1.
22. mother, thermometer
23. OURS
24. third base, hairsbreadth
25. stop on a dime; squealing, equal sign
26. Usain Bolt, ablutions, sublation, absolution, substitutional, no auto bailouts, tintinnabulations
27. OURS
28. try, tie; left wing three-quarter
29. driven, drivel
30. vanilla ill, N, Vanna
31. OURS
32. OURS
33. Lazenby, analyzable
34. monster, master
35. thus cot issues, the Scottish ooze
36. OURS
37. OURS
38. idiocrasy, sarcoid
39. Cheerios, soiree
40. OURS
41. forties, soft tortoise
42. rose hip, Shropshire
43. Bon Jovi, ursine, bonjour, Visine
44. OURS
45. OURS
46. OURS
47. Delano
48. cojones, cajones; cajones, Jose Canseco
49. folk, fellow; Yank, Gand
50. low-cal, locale
51. piecrust, superscript
52. Microsoft, my crow soft
53. medic, media
54. listen, Liston
55. OURS
56. OURS
57. Adventism, ventis
58. crisps, crisis
59. buss a twelfth girl (L (right) flew, T as SUB)
60. colleague, collie, col
61. maiden names, made in Ames
62. agonistic, agnostic
63. OURS
64. Pinky Tuscadero, keep your distance, stop dead in your tracks
65. OURS
66. WA term ain't U.) Be
67. OURS
68. parrot, paradise
69. OURS
70. (gall, gall) gallery
71. OURS
72. philosophically splay, withering (fill a Sophocles play with a ring)
73. When in Rome, mornin', whee
74. blowout preventer
75. Dancing with the Stars
76. OURS
77. Montreal Canadiens
F-1. SIRES
TRANQ
AEIOU
INDRA
RESOW
F-2. XFRDNGLSHDCTNR Oxford English Dictionary
NCCLPDBRTNNC Encyclopedia Britannica
PRSTNSTRGS Preston Sturges
MTNGCLLS mating calls
DBLTNS double tens
LDRD El Dorado
SS say-so
Exe, faun, recipe, decorum, unlisted, Egyptian blue, leading ladies, subsectors, heartland, editorials, congees, Tunisia, on ice, Erie
F-3. OURS
F-4. D
DAY
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F-5. OURS
F-6. NCRTNTPRNCPL uncertainty principle
QNTMMCHNCS quantum mechanics
STRPHSCS astrophysics
STRNTS astronauts
RTTT rat-a-tat
RS rays
ion, cequia, Uranus, tattoos, numerator, temperature, Pocahontas, rheostat, nuances, caucus, PSI, Leo
F-7. JNBPTSTDLMRCK Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
NTHRGNFSPCS On the Origin of Species
NTRLSLCTN natural selection
SHLLTRS shell-eaters
TRDNS trade-ins
DRS eiders
S sea
jay, noun, botany, photos, Terre Haute, sigillaroid, tin soldiers, defoliations, lascars, impetuous, arcana, cause, (yak/oak/auk)
F-8. NITA
ICYI
TYSN
AINBUGS
UNCL
GCTO
SLON
F-9. SNCH (six-inch)
NAMA (Namibia)
CMIT (codominant)
HATH (to the death)
X-1. I was the first woman to burn my bra. It took the fire department four days to put it out. Dolly Parton
X-2. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
X-3. He was so reliably duplicitous, he circled back around to trustworthy. Orner
X-4. BOWLERHAT SONIC
U H E O I T E O
SKIER UNCERTAIN
T T I S K I R F
PEDESTAL NISEI
P B O E G D
REUNION DUEDATE
E L N N N N
DELIVER TITANIC
I E E R E E
CHAIN SOUNDOFF
T N T E S I R E
INTROVERT GIANT
O O R D E U N O
NANNY SHEEPSKIN
"My goal - make cryptic crosswords popular among average Americans, but how? Send me ideas."
My suggestion is to make solving them worth spectacular prizes or fabulous riches.
X-5. You can always figure out who the locals are when it rains: they'll be the ones without umbrellas.
X-6. Seattle is approximately halfway between two Vancouvers: one in Washington and one in British Columbia.
X-7. Very nice, but there are dull stretches. Comte de Rivarol, on a two-line poem.
X-8. INDEPENDENCEF The advice is "take the day off"
BYOIEREMBROIL
UMPMEMORIALSA
PPEAVINEDSUNG
RHYMENODEUMOG
OOFFSETSARBOR
FLOUTSIPSEUDO
EARTHREMORSEU
NBTORAHICLEAN
COINERUNTINCD
ARELECTIONNTH
INTENSENPKUIO
NTHANKSGIVING
X-9. SEUSSINAMESAB
SANEUDUBODEGA
OSDLBORROWEAR
DEIFOOSEMIDSE
ARDORREVIRISE
PALINDROMITIS
ONELREALESTOP
AYSORRYTTCHER
ROTSESAMESRAI
ENACTSHAOTORT
SERIALSDRAWNI
ACROSS DOWN
1. SEUSSI (SEUSS ISSUES) 2. EASE
7. NAMESAB (NAMES A BASEMAN) 3. UNDID
12. SANE 4. SEL (SELES)
13. BODEGA 5. SUBORN
14. BORROW (BORROW OR ROB) 6. IDO (I DO DI)
16. EAR 7. NURSE (NURSES RUN)
17. DEIF (DEIFIED) 8. MOO
19. SEMID (SEMIDIMES) 9. SEED (SEE DEES)
21. ARDOR 10. AGASSI (AGASSI'S SAGA)
23. REVI (REVIVER) 11. BARE (BARER AB)
24. RISE (RISE SIR) 12. SODAPO (SODA POP ADOS)
26. PALINDROMITIS 15. REVOLT (REVOLT LOVER)
29. ONEL (ONE LENO) 18. ORDERS
30. REAL 20. IRIS
32. ESTOP 22. OILO (OIL OLIO)
35. SORRY 25. ESPRIT
36. CHER 27. ANYONE
38. ROT (ROTOR) 28. METEOR
39. SESAME 31. AYAHS
43. ENACTS 33. THROW
44. TORT (TOR TROT) 34. ARES (ARES ERA)
45. SERIALS 35. STAR
46. DRAWNI (DRAWN INWARD) 37. EARN
40. ETA (ET ATE)
41. MAD (MADAM)
42. STA (STATS)
C-1. OURS
C-2. Visiting inn in country off of beaten path may raise odds of having bee be in room too to uncomfortable tevets
C-3. Skiing combines outdoor conviviality with knocking down trees with your face. Dave Barry
C-4. Topic opening fifth annual "Paranoids Anonymous" colloquy: "Protect yourself from your bodyguard."
C-5. Characteristically snarky headline in The Onion: "New study reveals most children unrepentant sociopaths."
C-6. Chronic rheumatoid arthritis restricts backswing; golfer thus forced into early retirement.
C-7. Escaped jaguar cornered inside fine arts museum. Panicked animal creates oricinal clawed Monets.