1. bail, biblia abiblia
2. impure, umpire
3. trade show, death rows
4. sea fort, reafforest, Tears for Fears
5. eyegasm, ageism
6. therapy, contortion, theory, contraption
7. apology, plug
8. My Antonia, an O, myotonia
9. Asterix, Artaxerxes III
10. lizard of Oz (wizard)
11. plum(e)
12. scree, screed; scree(d/n)
13. devil(f)ish
14. lisp litmus ad, O main
15. DITher, TOheroa; ditto
16. illness, Nielsen, environ, keening
17. two-hander, "Road to Nowhere"
18. bum zucchini, bikini, Zoom
19. hibernate, inbreathe
20. so tag 'solstices'; sec, it's Los Gatos
21. misfortune, mortiferousness
22. housebroken; Hoboken, user
23. epopt, pop
24. catatonic, cat a tonic
25. pore, stasis, get; postage, resist
26. (m/n)ature
27. torques, questor
28. pompous, pampas
29. polyarch, apocryphally, chlorophyll a, propyl alcohol
30. dibs on, Gibson
31. pan(Dem)ic; Dem, med
32. lizard, gizzard, scissored
33. stung steno; scar," Bono
34. pond gaucho, poncho, gaud
35. uninflated
36. Nu Shooz
37. lean-to, teen loo
38. las(s/h/t)
39. PERsonify, LUSTrum, RATEd R; perlustrate
40. lar gone, Larsen ice
41. mastermind; as, term, in - MD
42. scourge, courage
43. binary, brainy
44. iridescent, indiscreet
45. mustard, Dumpster
46. Pur(c)ell
47. third strike
48. Constantinople
49. social distance
50. social distance
51. pandemic
52. Tunisia
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E-1. You are much happier when you are happy than when you ain't. Nash
E-2. I was so cockeyed with weariness my clothes had begun to hurt. Sue Grafton
E-3. Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. Margaret Atwood
E-4. Treat yourself to a little chocolate chip ice cream, my favorite flavor, every once in a while. Sincerely, Joe Biden
E-5. Time on our hands seems inconceivable. How can we have anything on our hands if we are constantly washing them?!
E-6. The day you decide to do it is your lucky day.
E-7. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute, G. B. Stern
E-8. You could tell he was congenitally unsettled by confrontation. Amor Towles
E-9. What do you call a waffle lying on the beach in Southern California? Sandy Eggo
E-10. I've heard of April showers, but May snow squalls? Too ridiculous.
E-11. Regarding Trump: He's not FDR or JFK. He's LOL. Bill Maher
E-12. A comfort zone is a beautiful place but nothing ever grows there.
X-1. CANASTAAUTHORS
AREOLEFRQUEBEC
SOPRANOMONROEA
IRACPARLIAMENT
NULLJNAILGISTS "lost in the shuffle"
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DBIGTHREEDGKUE
ESSAYEDACMANIC
ULTRACIRHINOSA
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X-2. REGIMEN STPETER
I A E E M O I E
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TREAT ESKIMOPIE
T E E A I C
AIR ENVIRONMENT
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COMFORTZONE ESP
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T D L O I N I
IDEAL LIQUIDATE
N R E I A O F N
GASTRIC BOUQUET
C-1. I don't understand why "cant" and "can't" are pronounced identically but "wont" and "won't" are pronounced differently.
C-2. Twenty years ago, terrorists caused downturn and I got laid off. This time, virus. Need a database programmer?
C-3. You spend your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
C-4. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time. Richard Powers
C-5. My two favorite eighties bands are going on tour together: Poison and The Cure. Only one can win.
C-6. When PETA condemns mistreatment of innocent, sapient creatures, technically that does not include humans.
C-7. Scoring insider dineros, discerning cosigner considers rescinding endorsing decision.