1. OURS
2. word, herd, bird; group, troop; pack, rack; school, swarm
3. chadars, schema, bondage (fiery furnace guys)
4. Maronite, Team Iron Man, intermontane, ornamentation, Marie Antoinette
5. nsec, senescence; infancy, unfancy
6. samphire, sapphire; samphire, seraphim
7. forte, east; foretaste
8. coastline, constellation
9. Solvay process, solve ape (rah!) suss
10. lest, mort; lest, Leicester, mort, mortar
11. umami, Miami
12. tent w/o Sanders (ten twos Anders)
13. liens, tilers, beers (lions, tigers, bears)
14. Katniss Everdeen, seven deer! I stank
15. OURS
16. Medici,medicine
17. muskmelon, Elon Musk
18. Alabama, Sterno, alabaster, mano
19. tape, pate
20. u(seles)s
21. bicuspid oars, buy cuspidors
22. the n(eme)(sis)
23. Riga, Latvia; TV
24. Styx, sticks
25. Trump, Duck; dump truck
26. OURS
27. cur, curry
28. greatly, art gallery, tattletale gray
29. cliquey, true; tricky clue
30. Leicester Square, quester's lair
31. t(hi)(rst)ie(st)
32. forfend; ford, fen
33. Man(assa)s
34. beet, mall (beat, maul)
35. hard to use, stouthearted
36. quest, guest; guilt, quilt, built
37. rogue wombat'll (roe, Guam battle)
38. OURS
39. decided, iced
40. nominally (nom in ally)
41. ubiquitous, bouquets
42. Sumatra, traumas; Borneo, Oberon; anti, titania, ait
43. OURS
44. proscribe; crops, bier
45. (sub)lime
46. re(pro)bate
47. pan(et)tone
48. A minus, animus
49. car, away; caraway
50. Old River; wool driver
51. to insist on
52. Arlo zip, pizza parlor
53. drive, an Uber, Danube, River
54. OURS
55. bads , wines; bawdiness
56. douse, dice
57. OURS
58. shiner, shrine
59. Canadian; Canaan, Di
60. coronet (c or one T)
61. punter, entrepreneur
62. rape, Europa
63. term limits
64. perk up, per cup
65. manliest, sentimentalist
66. were, whir; whir, worry
67. vindicate, indicate
68. Colorado; cola, ordo
69. kenning
70. sit, city
71. Vermont; Monty, very
72. expect to rate, expectorate
73. Everest, rest
74. sir, Surrey
75. colonization (colon I Z, a TI on)
76. thousand-dollar (thou, sand dollar)
77. OURS
78. foe, faux
79. tents, tense
80. tickled pinker, pickled tinker
81. curare, cue; cure, cue
82. fine mist, feminist
83. fire-hot, the Firth of Forth
84. Reince Priebus
85. The New York Times
86. counterfeits
F-1. T O S S P O T
O U T T A K E
S T L U C I A
S T U D E N T
P A C E C A R
O K I N A W A
T E A T R A Y
F-2. A B E L I A
P O L A N D
P R A I S E
E N T R A P
N E E D N T
D O S S E S
F-3. Q N T Z D
Q S L N G
Q S T N D
Q S T R N
Q N C N X
F-4. A T T A C H E S
S H A V U O T H
P A T E L L A E
S T A R L E S S
F-5. Q P P P
P P P P
P P P P
P P P Q
F-6. I S R A E L
D U E N N A
I N G O T S
O S I R I S
M E N A C E
S T A K E S
X-1. Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. L. Mumford
X-2. All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science, they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them. Charles Buxton
X-3. I spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. Steven Wright
X-4. It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation. Rob Gilbert
X-5. With unapologetic mighty red white and blue, we'll have peace. Sarah Palin
X-6.
R A C E C A R R O A C H M A Y
A A O A E M A A E
K A R A M A Z O V B A V A R I A
E O B E U I E I R
S E L D O M S P E N T I N V A I N
S M U U U I M I N
L A M B D A S G A T E P O S T S
I Y E T R U I E
M I S U S E S S L A U G H T E R
M E U T N O T
E S Q U I R E P L E A S U R E S
R U C E
N A T I V E R A D K N I G H T
G R N D S R I R E
N U R S E I D A H O G R O A N
A E S T L O H U S
T I L E S S H E E P T I T L E
"I have not kept my square."
C-1. OURS
C-2. I am not very smart before morning caffeine. Addiction possibly damages mental skill. Give cup me!
C-3. Many beaches surrounding Great Salt Lake are composed of tiny sedimentary rocks called oolites.
C-4. Superman deciphers secret messages only during the day because he is terrified of "crypto night."
C-5. Any organism, whether an amoeba or corporation, moves or makes changes only if it is uncomfortable.
C-6. "Dissectologist" sounds like some kind of frog carver-upper but it just means "fan of jigsaw puzzles."
C-7. Novel title suggested by overweight domesticated avian friend of Harper Lee: Two Kilo Mockingbird.