July Answers
Joker, Kapry Korn, Lirath, Billy the Kid
1. tingle, intelligent
2. OURS
3. clambake; lamb, cake
4. quasquicentennial; (QUAver, SQUIshy, CENsus, TENdresse, NIche, ALive)
5. pile carpets, triple-space
6. emus, Ernie, rocs (score in resume)
7. OURS
8. roles, or else, sore loser
9. subscribe, underwriter
10. Guinness; inn guess
11. tide,tidy; neat, neap
12. OURS
13. amore, a moray
14. (bu)colic
15. pilaster, plaster, plater, pater
16. flirtation, filtration; dreck, trek
17. OURS
18. Conorado, Coronado; "Shamu Rocks", shamrocks
19. doze, "nah, 'Alf' often (dozen, a half of ten)
20. Stahl Hats
21. pans, pansy; dais, daisy; peon, peony
22. wine pairings, awe-inspiring
23. tufa, tuff
24. Star Trek, Keats
25. firestorm, reformist
26. OURS
27. beating, between
28. Palmer, polyamory; Arnie, army
29. OURS
30. Google, go ogle
31. gin shortage (G in, short a Ge)
32. recoups, ropes course, cross-purposes
33. strychnine, stricken
34. insect, scientist
35. OURS
36. reopen (REmote, OPtic, ENergy), colonic (COre, LOop, NICene), enigma (ENcore, IGloo, MAnic)
37. scared, sacred
38. sweats; set, was
39. Demosthenes
40. boomerang, Boo meringue
41. spondee, respondee
42. oryx, sixscore
43. smackeroo, macaroon
44. OURS
45. recountal, Ann Coulter, countercultural
46. manta ray, Man Ray
47. Ipanema, Ipana
48. anodes, Sedona
49. poison, prison
50. Lyon to pare Anne (LY on top are an NE)
51. sugar, coexist, sexist, cougar
52. square-cube law
53. OURS
54. guidance, guy dance
55. tennis, tenace
56. OURS
57. Hamlet, at the helm
58. Jesse L. Martin
59. Botox, buttocks
60. stand-alone; sandal, tone
61. bowl, bowel
62. OURS
63. bone ash, Beau Nash
64. snugly, snuggly, Snugli
65. bitterness, tenebrist, interest, testier, sitter, trite, tire, ire, re; formulates, foulmarts, farms out, sfumato, famous, foams, sofa, oaf, of
66. portable, potable
67. pity, City
68. staccatos, SOS
69. OURS
70. Virgil, vigil
71. tea party; teepee, art
72. boo, boas, boat
73. hideous, hideout
74. germanium, geranium
75. OURS
76. OURS
77. obliteration; literati, Obon
78. Berlitz, Berlioz
79. OURS
80. bearing straight, Bering Strait
81. Machu Picchu, matzo pizza
82. wonder, renowned, word nerd
83. unde(r)served
84. <imposter>; <impostor> (I'm, post, ER/OR)
85. a man DA? yes? no?" Witz (Amanda Yesnowitz)
86. them?" "I'll ice it," he (the Mile High City)
87. OURS
88. nasty clique, quasquicentennially
89. (t)race
90. OURS
91. sidekick, psychic
92. apricot, boil, April, boycott
93. purr, purl
94. ladrone, one dollar, Deal or No Deal
95. blase, babbles, baseball
96. stale, least, steal, slate
97. decease; (De Ce as E)
98. Ob' verse
99. immaculate; I'm late, Macu
100. a sale: phlox, anemone under (as Aleph, lo X an EM one U NDE r)
101. OURS
102. phoned; PhD, one
103. manual, alumna
104. Regan, reign, regain, region, Aragon, Oregon
105. choke a coach
106. flirty, flurry
107. myrmidon (my R mid ON)
108. (g)elastic
109. swooned, wound
110. Antigone ('anti' gone)
111. ample, maple; syrup, pursy
112. OURS
113. OURS
114. "a one and a two" half often
115. tritical(e)
116. senile, sea lion
117. triangle, tringle, tingle, tinge, tine, tie, Ti, t
118. Aries, Aires
119. OURS
120. Pecos, spake, aches, say
121. constrict, construct
122. torrent, for rent
123. boar, Bob Barr, Bora-Bora; rain belt, Libertarian
124. cordoned off
125. high, HGH
126. melancholy, Mellon, collie
127. OURS
128. medium of exchange
129. la dolce vita, knuckle down
130. oration, ovation
131. contraption, contraction
132. Crax (CRaft, AXiom)
133. utter cad, tear duct
134. tetrameter tame
135. shylock, shlocky
136. wraith, rope, rarity (faith, hope, charity)
137. Iron Man; heavy metal
138. OURS
139. mental, metal
140. yeah, who; yahoo; uncle, unclean
141. check, ice hockey
142. timeworn, Time Warner
143. OURS
144. OURS
145. hydrogen, Hyde urgin'
146. doodle, Google
147. income, outcome
148. tasting, fasting
149. OURS
150. OURS
151. Navy, aviation; nation
152. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
153. Graffiti on the Sphinx
154. seventy-nine
155. ninety-seven
156. hundred one
157. one hundred
158. hoot owls
159. Mayor Gavin Newsom
160. Sony Blu-ray
161. Yves Saint Laurent
162. editor Craig Hamilton
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7. DISCLIKE 8. MOREOVER 9. GRAM 10. SIZE 11. EVE
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X-2. Quotation: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. Bierce
X-3. Do not go gentle into that good night,...rage, rage against the dying of the light. Thomas
X-4. ASDIC
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X-5. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin
X-6. There are two cardinal sins from which all the others spring: impatience and laziness. Franz Kafka
X-7. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work,so most people don't recognize them. Ann Landers
X-8. You must have misunderstood my order. The towels were supposed to be monogrammed, not anagrammed.
X-9. My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing; land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrims' pride, from every mountainside let freedon ring! Samuel Francis Smith
X-10. The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. wrongly attributed to Mark Twain
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Unclued 13D entry is US President
Special entries are for people with Presidential names:
George Washington Carver
Calvin Coolidge Ermer
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
Franklin Pierce Adams
James Monroe Ingalls
James Buchanan Eads
Theodore Roosevelt Dalton
Grover Cleveland Alexander
John Quincy Adams Ward
James Madison Carpenter
ACROSS DOWN
1. ADAMS 1. ALEXANDER
7. INGALLS 2. DUAL
12. LURING 3. ARSENAL
13. UINTAH 4. MITUS
14. EASTON 5. SNORES
15. CEDAR 6. IGNORANT
17. EUROPE 8. NIVEA
18. BASS 9. ATE
19. AWNS 10. LHASA
20. ERRATIC 11. SIR
22. EADS 15. COTTA
23. AES 16. DACE
25. TEENA 18. BIER
27. DALTON 21. CARPENTER
30. CARVER 22. EAR
32. ERWIN 24. SCENARIO
34. TIE 26. NET
35. SKIT 28. TIRO
37. ARIADNE 29. ONION
39. SERE 31. VIETNAM
40. INRO 33. WARD
41. SEA CAT 35. SECEDE
43. LADEN 36. SNAFU
45. RENNET 38. ASSAI
46. FAT CAT 39. SANER
47. IDEATE 42. METE
48. GUTHRIE 43. LOG
49. ERMER 44. ETH
X-12. PASCAL ASTERISK
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ANDHOW SCRIBBLE
S E R R Z O A
AVALANCHE ACRID
N R O T B N S
TIMEANDTIDE
S S G E V T D O
REFRESHMENT
L S A E L L O
OCHER NAYSAYERS
A O I D T G C
DEFRAYAL TOMATO
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PARASITE HEREBY
ACROSS DOWN
1. PASCAL 1. PEASANTS
4. ASTERISK 2. SIDEARMS
9. AND HOW 3. AGORA
10. SCRIBBLE 5. SECRETIVELY
11. AVALANCHE 6. ELIZABETH
13. ACRID 7. INBORN
14. TIME AND TIDE 8. KNEADS
18. REFRESHMENT 12. CODEFENDANT
21. OCHER 15. AGRARIANS
22. NAYSAYERS 16. DELEGATE
24. DEFRAYAL 17. OTOSCOPY
25. TOMATO 19. LOAD UP
26. PARASITE 20. SHOFAR
27. HEREBY 23. ATONE
X-13. ARROWS ICEPICKS
R O A B R I O I
MOBSTER ACCLAIM
A O E A B N X O
DETER TRADITION
I I M P C A
LICKEDPOPSICLES
L L O L N U
OUTDOORSETTINGS
R N C H A P
TRANSIENT ENSUE
I F E L O P C N
TAFFETA SEAWEED
L I D I S R N E
EXCUSING SKATER
ACROSS DOWN
1. ARROWS 1. ARMADILLO
4. ICE PICKS 2. ROBOTIC
10. MOBSTER 3. WATERMELON SEEDS
11. ACCLAIM 5. CRAB APPLE
12. DETER 6. PICNIC IN THE PARK
13. TRADITION 7. COAXIAL
14. LICKED POPSICLES 8. SIMON
17. OUTDOOR SETTINGS 9. BRAT
20. TRANSIENT 15. PORCELAIN
22. ENSUE 16. SUSPENDER
23. TAFFETA 18. TRAFFIC
24. SEAWEED 19. NASCENT
25. EXCUSING 20. TITLE
26. SKATER 21. TOSS
X-14. We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. Pogo Possum
X-15. Twas brillig and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; all mimsy were the borogoves and the mome raths outgrabe. L. Carroll
X-16. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Churchill, not talking about the NPL
C-1. ALL WOMEN BECOME LIKE THEIR MOTHERS. THAT IS THEIR TRAGEDY. NO MAN DOES. THAT'S HIS. OSCAR WILDE
C-2. WHEN SOLVING CRYPTS, DADA WASTES TIME USING ELABORATE SYSTEMS, WHILE I SENSE ES AND NS QUICKLY.
C-3. UBIQ TAKES ONE QUICK PEEK AT A CRYPT AND ANNOUNCES ES FIRST, THEN NS WITH NO TROUBLE. WOMAN'S INTUITION?
C-4. BARBER CITED FOR MONDAY WORK. POLICE IN HOUMA WON'T CUT HIM A BREAK FROM OBSCURE DECADES-OLD LAW.
C-5. SNAKE CHARMER MARRIES MORTICIAN. AMONG WEDDING GIFTS ARE TOWELS MONOGRAMMED "HISS" AND "HEARSE".
C-6. SKELETAL YUPPIE WANNABE MULTITASKS, SWAPS BLACK COFFEE FOR HIGHLY CALORIC FRAPPUCCINO. TALK ABOUT UPSCALE!
C-7. HOW SUNBLOCK WORKS: LOTION CLOGS FACIAL PORES. SUBSEQUENTLY, ANGRY RED ACNE DISGUISES SUNBURN.
Joker, Kapry Korn, Lirath, Billy the Kid