1. po(rtr)(aya)ls
2. oar, moray
3. OURS
4. OURS
5. notice, Continent; euphoric, EU-phobic
6. Kill List, tsk
7. ask, tsk
8. meganthropus, The Hunger Games, Part One
9. ill-defined, fill-in
10. OURS
11. OURS
12. OURS
13. Italy, laity
14. bargain, aubergine
15. lay in store, Tyrion Lannister, International Style
16. sartorial
17. thirty-one, thirteen
18. sh(ipoopi)
19. OURS
20. OURS
21. OURS
22. grade, rage
23. Miro, Mirror Mirror
24. creak, creek
25. OURS
26. magnet; magnate, a; management, mean
27. fa(c)ulty
28. leap month, on the lam, ethanol, loathe, hotel
29. OURS
30. largesse
31. OURS
32. the puck, ketchup
33. Mandela renown
34. rounded, year and a day; rounded, duodenary
35. U
36. OURS
37. outlines, L'Illusionniste, solution tension
38. dead as a doornail
39. OURS
40. OURS
41. Boardwalk Empire with Steve Buscemi
42. Two and a Half Men with John Cryer
43. April seventeenth
44. Myrna Loy in The Great Ziegfeld
45. Speaker Newt Gingrich
46. April Fools' Day, two thousand twelve
47. Rick Santorum
F-1. S T A R S H I P
T E N U O U S
A X O N A L
T A M E R
I S I S
O L E
N O
O M N
C R A G
S L A S H
S H I N T O
P L U N G E R
S L A T T E R N
KU-1. OURS
F-2. GLASS
REICH
AGORA
FELID
TRIPE
F-3. OURS
F-4. N
SGD
CTHLC
STRSBRG
SWHVNBNNS
PRTRDGNPRTR
JMSNDTHGNTPCH
F-5. X
XRT
XMCHN
XCRSCNC
XSTNTLSTS
F-6. OURS
F-7. Q
CSR
FRNCT
JZZSNGR
VWLLSSPRMDLWNDMLL
SXSMBLS
THRBR
RLK
S
F-8. XX
XMRN
XGNTHT
XPNSCCNT
X-1. Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. Andre Maurois
X-2. CAPITALIST BARD
U L R E O R V N
RIATA BARCELONA
B Y W A B B I T
PARLANCE UNDUE
D L O T T S
IRONMAN SITSOUT
S N A A T I
CYGNETS DOLPHIN
O S O E E G
MULCT CBATTERY
F O R K R E W E
ONEMOMENT NAIVE
R S S Y H O S L
TASK MESSENGERS
X-3. PLC FDDLR PNLZD
O E I I O A E I
LMNGRSS MNTNTPS
I T E T U E T E
THRTD RVL NSHRN
I A E I U T E F
CJL PNCRS MBRDR
A A A T A E E A
LWMKR MPNDD BLN
A E T A D I E C
SPRTM NCR CHLLH
Y I E A E I I I
LNCHNNG MCNGGTS
U A T E U E H E
MRNTS RBSQS TXD
X-4. Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. Mother Teresa
X-5. OURS
X-6. USA now owns the "bad luck" Hope diamond. Our fate worsens. Why not give it to Iran or North Korea and display a fake?
X-7. Music played when bringing very important baby to mohel: Pomp and Circumcision.
X-8. A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope. Charles M. Schulz
X-9. Music is the soundtrack of your life. Dick Clark
X-10. OURS
C-1. I before E except after C or when sounding like A... rule exceptions: either, heist, or keister. Weird!
C-2. Between he and I, we know our grammar really good. The types of frays are defendant, codependent, and inordinate.
C-3. Kindergarten teacher, irked because mulish brat won't nap, calls police. Cops come, nab kid for resisting a rest.
C-4. OURS
C-5. Lions stage Occupy Serengeti protest, demand slower gnu to prey on, end of corporate-run safaris.
C-6. Skier in avalanche, saved by booze-toting Saint Bernard, subsequently accused of skiing while intoxicated.
C-7. Tympami, marimba, xylophone players form murderous conspiracy, commit crime with mallets aforethought.