Road to BeaCon - The Final Stop
vacu(UmT)ube - m
milky(WaY) - a
eleve(NsE)s - s
repr(IsA)l - s
runningt(ItL)e - t
souven(IrN)otepads - r
shenand(OaH) - a
hy(PnA)gogic - n
maxvo(NsY)dow - s
complex(CiT)y - i
war(MtA)basco - t
MASS TRANSIT
1. rhotacism
2. an El Paso mimosa plena
3. apparent, in tow, up arrow
4. adrenaline; Arne, Denali; Denali, denial
5. being, canny; benignancy
6. the birds and the bees, Iran
7. outrages, stegosaurus
8. miser, mesmerism
9. munchkin, Mnuchin, Munich, cumin
10. bozo, rebozo
11. pi(nc)er; pin(c/k)er
12. White, Ludden, when, Luddite
13. Hey There, Hathor; (p/g)uzzle
14. do no(t (lea(n aga(ins)t) d)oo)rs
15. b(illi)ard
16. predisposition
17. loiter, lighter
18. alternate
19. camp/anile
20. big, legible
21. meats, stemmata, messmate
22. kris, dirk; (d)irk
23. pesky, Skype; passkey, pesky
24. sapient, panties
25. car keys, khakis
26. Chablis, inter, chain, blister
27. senoritas, assertion
28. OURS
29. weeds Tupi, Danish
30. sulfone, cell phone
31. s(app)hire
32. Reading, dead ringer
33. kibosh, Kobayashi; manga lore, Mangalore
34. Morioris, ms.
35. eerie movie
36. indigo N
37. nook and cranny, crook and nanny
38. termite, emitter
39. saga/city
40. Howard, word-hoard, road harrow
41. bylin(a/e)
42. OURS
43. military, multiyear
44. who, had, howdah
45. ca(la)boose
46. satiric, courteous
47. (u/a)mber
48. assistant, Satanists
49. Sod's Law, Waldo
50. Rudyard, air-dried
51. OURS
52. arco, orca
53. man/drill
54. tuck, Tacoma; Se(a)ttle
55. centigrams, race against time
56. forecasting, carton of cigarettes
57. Crwth, Krewe
58. gues(thou)ses
59. "Beat It"
60. spa, I ran dinners
61. the error that can not be named
62. comedian Donald Jay Rickles
63. coitus interruptus
64. Sean Spicer
65. Mar-a-Lago
66. Massive Ordnance Air Blast
67. bank account
68. American Gods
F-1. STANLEYCUP
HONEYMOUSE
ORNAMENTED
PROTESTERS
F-2. PNTL
NMNS
TNMS
LSSRSCP
STNT
CNDR
PTRL
F-3. ANELE
NIXON
EXACT
LOCKE
ENTER
F-4. STAPES
TENANT
ELAPSE
REDIAL
EGESTA
SUMMER
F-5. PENCE
NAIVE
CIVIC
ELECT
F-6. BOSTON
AREOLA
LIPIDS
KOALAS
ALLEGE
NESTER
F-7. AE AE AE AE
AE R O S
AE O L O
AE S O P
F-8. JUSTAPOSITION
USHERS FRESNO
XHOSA BRASH
TEST NATO
ARA CAL
PS RD
O S
SF TB
IRB BRA
TERN HAIR
ISAAC BABAR
ONSTAR TRIAGE
NOHOLDSBARRED
F-9. OCCUPIER
KOLNIDRE
ROADTEST
ANNOTATE
F-10. SHERLOCKHOLMES
BREATHEAVEIN
MEDIAEVENT
SETTLERS
SITINS
SENS
DG
F-11. MAMMOTH
AQUARIA
MULLETS
MALAGAS
OREGANO
TITANIC
HASSOCK
F-12. BATHOS
ITHACA
POINTS
OMEGAS
DIVINE
SCENES
F-13. S
CTA
GRAMS
BADMENT
HENSPLANT
X-1. PUZZLE A
SCAVENGERHUNT
I U N R O N A
NIGHTIE STAIR
C M R A S G R
EVERY TBILISI
N S N N
RATIONALIZING
E C L T
PUNGENT TACKY
A A A L I H O
INCAN ANTIFLU
R H I K L O T
SCORCHEDEARTH CAESAR SHIFT the 12th letter in each
Puzzle B clue
PUZZLE B
ERATOSTEM
CSPANPUPU
OPEOLEVEL
NARCOABET
GREGORYII
OTTOKNEST
INSTEPDTU
NEMORAGED
GRINSCENE ...an amount equal to the position of the clue's SECOND E
Two-word overall title: Sincere Pairs
Four-word description: billing in the flanks
X-2. The three worst words in this life are "batteries not included." Fredrik Backman
X-3. not counted
X-4. I envy people who drink. At least they know what to blame everything on. Levant
X-5. Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem he has to solve. Erich Fromm
X-6. Full and minute statistical details are to the lawgiver, as the chart, the compass, and the lead to the navigator. Henry, Lord Brougham
X-7. War is what happens when language fails. Atwood
C-1. Sometimes, to annoy my psychotherapist, I will ask her how my lack of progress makes her feel.
C-2. I liked audiobook of historical novel, All the Light We Cannot See, so much that stoplights were good news.
C-3. Forest expels abandoned Hoover due to postulate, attributed to Aristotle, that nature abhors a vacuum.
C-4. Fenway Park fits puzzle into baseball world with monstrous scoreboard sporting Morse code phrase.
C-5. Have you heard about newly proposed Academy Awards for best actor and actress playing themselves?
C-6. The isosceles triangle gave up her career in photography; she realized she'd never have the right angle.
C-7. Marmoset named Mr. Moto plays harmonica made of ormolu, gives sermon to hormonal Mormons in Vermont.