1. Buster Keaton, turkey, bustin'
2. sandals on (S and also N)
3. banana peel, ban an appeal
4. soup, supine
5. stand-up that is (ST and UP that is (id est))
6. dipstick, diptych
7. Elysia, easily
8. OURS
9. b(rode)rie; br(Oder)ie
10. dec(i/a)de
11. pul(i)
12. Filipina, philopena
13. thunder and lightning (TH under and light N in G)
14. ballerina, baa, hog, hollering
15. Pa stomachs twelve owls (PASTA mixed well, vowels)
16. makin' do; Kokomo, Indiana
17. fate, fat; waist, weight
18. men, many
19. cellophane, cell phone
20. catastrophe, apologue, catalogue, apostrophe
21. knife is what's; wife is nuts
22. OURS
23. fissure (F is sure)
24. Ruxpin, actor, rucksack, Pinter
25. Btnirn, about aneurine
26. parade is lost (Paradise Lost)
27. soon, Sunni
28. AI SF. Ora pro nobis (A is for a PRO - no, B is)
29. Yo/Semite
30. Cree vices, crevices
31. arbutus, reboots
32. foreseeable
33. OURS
34. OURS
35. incomes, socioeconomic
36. owner, onerous
37. jequirity, rolled, jollity, required
38. lamb duff-lipped
39. onion soup (on ion, SO up)
40. dais, daisy
41. bonobo, boo-boo
42. reigned, gender, underage, dragon
43. MoMA, Dada
44. Chinese; eyne, cheese
45. OURS
46. traveler, relevant
47. pe(atsta)ck
48. brisket, biscuit
49. peer, Pyrrhic
50. sold(i)er
51. carte d'entree; cart, Eden, tree
52. took ill, to kill
53. c(off)ee
54. OURS
55. epenthetic, epithetic
56. prognosticate, operating cost
57. Dou(g)las, firs(t)
58. esti(m/v)ate
59. marzipan, Lingus, marlin, Zipangu's
60. cane, canine; feel, feline
61. Treesong, seat wrong
62. (de)liberate
63. shopping mall, mopping shawl
64. Exeter be a Muppet
65. Kinky Boots, stinky book
66. mazurka, be, maze, burka
67. grass; brass, glass, gross, grabs, grasp
68. itchy, touch
69. rabbi(t) (or maybe musli(m))
70. unbaled, Blue Danube
71. vie whenever
72. (rever)berate
73. (sc)Avengers
74. Chianti; fiasco, focaccias
75. may shrew, Eyre Massey Shaw
76. WNFR
77. trampolined, Portman-Millepied
78. repay, rupee
79. lip-read, parallelepiped
80. abaci (a B, a C, I)
81. (b/h)olster
82. fulfilment, film, G, fulgent
83. OURS
84. salt lake, basketball
85. philately
86. canine teeth, ninety-three's, caries
87. caps, copious
88. noise, (sessions, sss)
89. di(visiv)e
90. OURS
91. I nab, CSA Andes witch, not
92. core, a baroque
93. inherit, in her it
94. mensal namelessness
95. pains, PS
96. cull, color
97. wroth abuzz, Elizabeth - or
98. Chilean volcano erupts
99. "space: the final frontier"
100. forty-five
101. Cuban-American relations
F-1. JOEL
AURA
CENT
KNEE
F-2. OURS
F-3. WNGRPS
NCLCTC
GLFCLB
RCCHTS
PTLTCH
SCBSHVSSNGR
SCHBRT
SHDRCH
NBRTNG
GRCNRN
RTHGNL
F-4. B L A S T O F F
R A S H E R S
A T T E N D
S I R E N
S N A P
K A Y
N L
C U P
B A C H
P A R K A
D E K A L B
L A T E F E E
I N T E R E S T
F-5. CCCCCCCC
CALLALOO
CLEARING
CLARETTE
CAREWORN
CLITORIC
CONTRITE
COGENCES
F-6. OURS
F-7. OURS
X-1. If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist, he'll get rich or famous or both. Hagerty
X-2. Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died. Erma Bombeck
X-3. To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering. Aldo Leopold
X-4. There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
X-5. Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision. Hsi-Tang
X-6. C H A R T R E U S E A F R O
A D R W H E U V
N E O N A T E A S P E R S E
A P D S V E N R
R E T A I L W I N E L I S T
D N F N S A
B R A G G I N G R I G H T S
S E I N M N E K
C O L O N E L M U S T A R D
A A A G E I
L E T A L O N E G R O U N D
L I A D O S N Y
I N V O I C E G R E N D E L
O E D R R C U L
N O S E A S P E N T R E E S
X-7. The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades. Demetri Martin
X-8. While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist. Woolf
X-9. Anything unattempted remains impossible.
C-1. Don't ever forget that whatever you're learning this instant may someday be useful to you again.
C-2. Vancouver adopted moniker from eponymous Royal Navy captain who spent only one day exploring area.
C-3. OURS
C-4. Surefire method for distinguishing plumbers from chemists: require pronunciation of "unionized."
C-5. Scrapyard owner, antsy about lack of space, has two cars crushed; feels securer with both Fiat, Honda ground.
C-6. Otherworldly fifth-dimension option propels me into tesseract time travel warps. - anonymous absentee
C-7. First, final crypts employ identical codes. Resulting solver help: zero. Angry rioters extract refund.