1. interval, (alternative, tea)
2. maudlin, Amal Alamuddin
3. ball four, Balfour
4. true, accurate
5. OURS
6. asympto(ma)tic
7. OURS
8. Pentiums, ununseptium; takes in, eka-astatine
KU-1.
9. (bi)shop
10. rooibos, ribs; match(a)
11. Pauline's, uilleann pipes
12. understand Seurat
13. heralds, dress rehearsal
14. Potomac, camo top
15. Malibu Barbie's, Malabar boobies
16. OURS
17. recaptured, departure, aperture, Rapture, rear up, purer
18. pudgier, pedigree
19. Alph, Alpha Papa
20. OURS
21. (b/d)ossier
22. strain, (Transnistria, trains)
23. OURS
24. trimeter
25. tamarind, tamarin, tamari, Tamar
26. Alpine, Nepali, pineapple
27. the snit, see, Tinker tailed Penn
28. (re)hearse
29. at least, A L East
30. OURS
31. behalf, before; behalf, benign
32. Iraqis, Rockies
33. section, notices
34. Story of O, strife; Histoire d'O, hysteroid
35. acrimony, cremini, ceremony
36. OURS
37. loose morals, mousse laurels
38. auks, skua
39. kin(d) (removeD)
40. jackal, Jack-a-Lent
41. OURS
42. misled, my sled
43. (t)autologous
44. OURS
45. cynosure; cure, Sony
46. front, on
KU-2. gladness, Gladys
47. Carioca, karaoke
48. by June, new gibe
49. relation, international
50. OURS
51. halo, Gena, Tom
52. (l)over
53. "Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
F-1. JEJUNE
ELANET
JARRAH
UNRARE
NEARER
ETHERS
F-2. ASIDE
SHREW
IRATE
DETER
EWERS
F-3. OURS
F-4. BRBRDSL
RBRTDLN
GRGSSRT
HNRMTSS
F-5. PAPER
ADORE
POMES
ERECT
RESTS
F-6. OURS
F-7. PP
RNPO
SOONTO
SOUNNOTT
TOTOUSOUSR
F-8. OURS
X-1. "Why am I surrounded," his usual understanding self today, "by statistical illiterates?" T. Pynchon
X-2. Conscience: the inner voice which warns us that somebody may be looking. Mencken
X-3. "Faith" is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see,
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
E. Dickinson
X-4. Confusion evolves into order spontaneously. What God really said was, "Let there be chaos." R. Levins
X-5. You've always groused
When I say "Proust,"
Because you're used
To hearing "Proust."
X-6. JUNO UTAH MITES
O I F R A U E W
HAPPINESS LENTO
N A L A T B T R
DISTEND EMERALD
O M R T
NOSH DISCURSIVE Extra letters spell CODENAME
N Q O L A Y V X
EQUIVALENT ZEST
A E O R
ONWARDS NEPTUNE
M K L P I I P M
AMIGO RECONVENE
H N R I A K N L
ALGID GOLD DDAY
BACK
X-7. K I N K E D H S A L S slash, kick, list, beat, tie,
C O U C H A N K C I K camel, packers, paper, bench,
I T S I L L A I R D E slaps, street
T A T P T A E B E I T
S B E G U N L E M A C UP
S L S R E K C A P R H stick, sun, pick, clean, braid,
R E P A P H C N E B E set, risers, slope, stage,
E S S M O S T A W I G
S S P A L S E B B S A Hidden word is backups
I R O N S A P L A N T
R A T T Y T E E R T S
The 20 entries are entered right to left or bottom to top and can be combined with the word 'back' or 'up'
X-8. Product placement is everywhere. But not here! Some things will never change, like the great taste of Coke.
X-9. I'm not afraid of facts. I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. Cynthia Ozick
C-1. A man sedated his trained grizzly. Asked why, he glibly said: "I have found that there is safety in numb bears."
C-2. Soldiers quartered in a populous town will always occasion two mobs where they prevent one. John Adams
C-3. Rather than creating our world in seven days, the Lord goofed off for six days and then pulled an all-nighter.
C-4. Nutritious vegan diet: corn chips with black bean salsa or onion dip, zucchini bread, carrot cake.
C-5. The official state "flower" of Maine is the white pine cone and tassel, but these are actually strobili.
C-6. Everyone misspells Pig Latin. You should write "cat" as "atcae," not "atcay," since the idea is to mimic real Latin.
C-7. Fat feline sat atop lap of luxury until daydreaming owner absentmindedly arose. Purrs ended. Cat was put out!