1. be, avers maxixes
2. OURS
3. OURS
4. robot, boot
5. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev; Leibniz, chervil, hoyden
6. Baluchis, blue cheese
7. Hulk apt, in
8. Iron Age, nonagenarian
9. OURS
10. OURS
11. florist, First Folio
12. OURS
13. OURS
14. (Marce)l (Marce)au
15. non-Romanova
16. why pout, wipeout
17. Nature's, restaurant, art; art, rat; organic, no cigar
18. sis, saint
19. centrality, certainly, clarinet, recital
20. OURS
21. milde(r/w)
22. model train, lie dormant
23. OURS
24. OURS
25. Loki, look, alike
26. farcicality
27. in re, outre
28. Sendak, nakedness; Wild Thing
29. local, lo-cal
30. OURS
31. sulfide. self-issued, diesel fuel
32. adoze net as
33. Portugal
34. M&M, Om Nom
35. sticklers, ice
36. OURS
37. OURS
38. polyenic, Lincoln penny
39. Adolf Hitler
40. trash, ashtray
41. costarred star-crossed
42. OURS
43. ugly, fenced, against, flee
44. rather, rat her
45. Mike, chyme
46. OURS
47. OURS
48. OURS
49. The Cabin in the Woods
50. demimondaine
51. in one fell swoop
52. the semantics of a word
53. OURS
F-1. OURS
F-2. OURS
F-3. DEMETER
SERIFED
DERIVES
DENIMED
SEVERED
RETIRES
DEFINER
REVIVED
F-4. FATHER
ATHOME
THUMBS
HOMBRE
EMBRUE
RESEED
F-5. B
MAT
SOLEA
MONARDA
BALANCINGACTS
TERCENTENARY
ADINFINITUM
ANTIFEMALE
GENEPOOLS
ANIMO
CATAO
TRULL
SYMES
X-1. A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. Gian Vincenzo Gravina
X-2. Tequila makes your head hurt. Not from your hangover. From falling over and hitting your head. Wayne
X-3. OURS
X-4. Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. Henri Matisse
X-5. CARROTS RECESS V8 Juice
L E U E E E H T
UNFIT CABALLERO
N R L U U E B M
GLACIAL FERMATA
C E A F Y T
WATERCRESS ECHO
E O S B A E
AWRY SLIDERULES
K S E E A C
NOBLEST SPINACH
E E P T K N N O
SWEATSUIT IDEAL
S T I C O E A L
PSYCHE PARSLEY
X-6. STOREDPEONS D-Day beaches:
CROOMHOLLOW Juno
HASTEALIENO Sword
ISTARTYDOOR Utah
CHARGEPEWSD Gold
KJUNE6DDAYU Omaha
UUTAHPERSON
SNOWUINEPTH
IOPARTOMAHA
NEARLYTIDEN
GOLDSRETARD
C-1. Rhyming riddle: why did the fly and the toad cross the road? The prey to get away and the predator to get at 'er.
C-2. Baseball rulebook includes clause whereby umpire may call runner out for "making a travesty of the game."
C-3. Prime-time soap about suburban neighborhood women's woes ends. Disparate doused lives as hysteria wanes.
C-4. As some quick, sagacious eyes may see, my message uses wacky gimmick. Awesome? Okay? Cockamamie? You say!
C-5. Alan Turing, born one century ago, broke German machine cipher using subtle symmetry of its coding rule.
C-6. Opossum dropped into garbage barrel joyously nibblimg jettisoned Ruffles requires egression assist.
C-7. OURS.