1. Elton, cider, El Cid, toner
2. (tinnit)us
3. OURS
4. love nest, cant, lest, covenant
5. LAbel, REform, BILboa; liberal
6.cope? Ascetic; copacetic
7. reveal fee) wadi masse Loy tied
8. striptease, tapestries
9. b/latent
10. domination, admonition
11. OURS
12. LEvi, ARea, SIbyl; Israel
13. La Nina, Latina
14. senorita, notaries, stentorian, senior senator
15. why me, rhyme
16.ordeal, ore deal
17. isotherm, some time or other
18. the Bard, bad breath, threadbare
19. strain, raining, sting
20.
21. cinnamon, cinema
22. aye, louts eyed blue Moses. Pay Celt N
23. Sur(i)name
24. ad hoc, odd hack
25. silhouette, hotel suite
26. a Texas Tech
27. notices, inconsistencies
28. mustier, summertime, sestertium
29. Kara, arak
30. ice cap, ipecac
31. observe, verbose, observe
32. "Love Shack", shove lack
33. chart/reuse
34. H(ack)ens(ack)
35. PENguin, ALCOhol, DEacon; penal code
36. Bora, Road to Rio, broad, oratorio
37. crashed, cheddar cheese
38. OURS
39. faucet, facet, fact, fat
40. surfeit; sir, fit
41. colutea, galatea
42. (p/v)illage
43. FOment, NETwork, IChtheology, ACclaim, ROStrum, TICker, CULINary, IGnoble, MUmmers; phonetic acrostical enigma
44. snippets, stepping
45. jet set sits in
46. centered; cede, rent
47. Samarqand, a
48. permeating, impregnate
49. kilt Ubers with once. Tone
50. discourse, discord
51. regal, eagle ray
52. Brandeis, rabidness, Bernie Sanders, raised in a barn
53. imbalance, ambulance
54. geosmin, Imogen’s
55. Th(er)anos
56. o(pop)(ana)x
57. discrepant, piece de resistance
58. history
59. Tr(o/a)jan
60. lobster; lob, stir
61. EVIdent, TAVern, REScue, NOCturnal; conservative
62. sent, semiretirement
63. Rogaine, nonagenarian
KU-1.
64. p(rote)(station)s
65. write, Twitter, wittier; Twitter, wittier; T(w)itter
66. no reply, pronely
67. OURS
68. mutiny
69. Austr(al)ia
70. (p/g)anache
71. Pho(t/b)os
72. LUCifer, ILLEgal, BALLarat, ANDrew, DESIre, ARNold, AZalea; Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
73. the Oxford commas
74. Tiger Woods
F-1. GRGSBZT
ZLTNKDL
TCHKVSK
F-2. MANATARMS
ABIMELECH
VOTINGAGE
IVENOIDEA
SERENADER
F-3. RNCPLND
SMLBRBR
HRLDRLN
F-4. JMSHLZHR
KNJNNNGS
RCKTSCNC
F-5. LANE KENT
ADAM ENOS
NAGI NODA
EMIR TSAR
F-6. STAIN ABASE
TORSI BUSTS
AREST ASEAT
ISSUE STATE
NITER ESTER
F-7. BASICS
ALIGHT
SIGNOR
IGNORE
CHORDS
STRESS
F-8. BUMSTEADS
ANIMALFAT
MINORMODE
BOULDER E
INSTOREAD
F-9. JAZZ ARET FALL HAIL
OLIO JAZZ ILIA ARNO
VIOL AGRA JAZZ DEED
ETNA REAR ISAY JAZZ
F-10. CATSGAMES
AGRA CANT
BOULDERCO
ANATOLIAN
LINEGAUGE
ACTRESSES
F-11. OURS
F-12. AB
SHIV
BOULES
EARLGREY
STANLEYCUP
F-13. OURS
F-14. OURS
F-15. CONVOCATION
FULLERENE
NEEDLED
INREM
TIS
C
F-16. VISCERA
INCOMER
SCAMPER
COMPILE
EMPIRES
REELECT
ARRESTS
X-1. The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. Gibson
X-2. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach
X-3. Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps the singing bird will come.
X-4. There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton
X-5. Waking consciousness is dreaming - but dreaming constrained by external reality. Oliver W. Sacks
X-6. The rule "I before E except after C" is ancient but weird.
X-7. We are given a brief but glorious moment in the cosmic drama unfolding on this provisional proscenium. M. Shermer
X-8. S H A B B A T D E B T S
T E X A S P E A C R E D
U X L A T E X T U A N O
D E E S E X T E R N A L
I D F O P D E L I D C E
O S L O P I N I O N E D
C H A R I O T S S E A L
H A T B A R S T O W A A
E S T I M A T E M A N X
A T E T A M A X I M Z I
P E N S S A P T R E A T
O N S E T L A T E N C Y
Happy 10th X Cheater and many more
C-1. My internet service provider said I can't use "beefstew" as a password because it's not stroganoff.
C-2. Ancestry.com analyzed my DNA. Ultimately my forefathers came from Mars, the distaff side from Venus.
C-3. Unerring Boulder atomic clock leaves convention attendee lacking credible tardiness excuse.
C-4. Fabricated falsehood, was caught, froze with fear: paralyzed, made another untruth to cover my tracks.
C-5. True story. Old friend e-mailed me. Did not recognize her at first, because in high school he had another name.
C-6. Smartphone app delivers biblical stories on demand. Initial posting from Judges: Samsung and Delilah.
C-7. In deli, Hindu mystic asked for pound of foie gras, but heavy-thumbed butcher weighed down upon the swami's liver.