Road to Beacon: One More River
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Yellowstone
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1. g(o/a)uge
2. conjure, kanji
3. constellation, consultation
4. g(love) (le)ather
5. tenors, testosterone
6. OURS
7. salmon, famine
8. signori, iron GIs
9. (l/p)uncheon
10. French cuisine; quench. Frizz, e'en
11. condensation oxidation
12. machine translation
13. horse sense, horn
14. return on investment
15. rakish Alf wasabi, nag oat-
16. tempura, premature, temperature
17. fl(oat)ing
18. disaster, desserts; hapless, hassle
19. clapboard, clabbered
20. ranges, eagerness, green as grass
21. OURS
22. Quidditch, puny, quiddity, punch
23. duma, bigamy, digamma, buy
24. babble, ale
25. Pet Shop Boys, thaw, Pep Boys, that's how
26. condor; CO, ND, OR
27. insinuate, annuities
28. Kod(i)ak
29. (s)anguine
30. daze, bludgeon, dudgeon, blaze
31. brat, A-Team, bream
32. it rains, it pours; it pains, it roars
33. OURS
34. fake news, feign coups, Fey's nuke
35. Peres/troika
36. fa(s)tuous
37. aloha, hola
38. Tunisian communications
39. qi, cheese
40. A clues, causeless, calculuses
41. intersect, interest
42. fl(utter)ing
43. emi(g)rate
44. titration, attrition
45. Lon, lofty
46. OURS
47. open sesame, pianissimo
48.
49. drone forfend
50. (oppo)(nen)T
51. her epinephrine
52. Che, cheese
53. toe-hacking, icing on the cake
54.
55. br(e/o)ad
56. LeBaron, Lebanon
57. awful, offal
58. entertain Sandy
59. c(lamb)ake; shellfish, selfish
60. plate grains, Great Plains
61. dewlap, Mr. Ed, drap, mewled
62. hey/awake
64. (h/c)omely
65. OURS
66. mace, Evan, thud, ale eight're
67. rebut, butterbeer
68. The Zookeeper's Wife starring Jessica Chastain
69. coral bleaching
70. Speaker Paul Ryan
71. role model
F-1. VICTORIA OPOSSUMS ULULATES SPUMANTE
AVAILING VICTORIA LANOLINE PERIGEAL
SENTENCE ENTIRELY VICTORIA INITIATE
ASGOODAS REARISES ANISEEDS VICTORIA
F-2. ZZZZZZ
ZOOEAS
ZOONIC
ZENITH
ZAITHA
ZSCHAU
F-3. M
RAF
POLIT
CASTLES
PORCELAIN
CINCODEMAYO
CATCHESSOMEZS
F-4. OURS
F-5. DRES SING DOWN
SING LEMO THER
DOWN THER IVER
F-6. OURS
F-7. ACMIC CLOTS
MHORR RIDEN
IONIA ANISE
CRISP PESTE
IDAHO OTTER
F-8. REP AIR MAN
AIR GUI TAR
MAN TAR AYS
X-1. Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind. James Lowell
X-2. To talk much about oneself may also be a means of concealing oneself. Nietzsche
X-3. If animals have moody days, they handle them better than humans do. Betty White
X-4. My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four, unless there are three other people.
X-5. It's below par which is good in golf. Duff Beer Slogan
X-6. Nothing produces such odd results as trying to get even. Franklin P. Jones
X-7. My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. P. Golkin
X-8. The power that created the poodle, the platypus and people has an integrated sense of both comedy and tragedy. James Thurber
X-9. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. Harry S. Truman
X-10. IMPOVERISHED
P A U A D E E O
REENTER ELAPSED
O S S D A R P D
SHTIK RELATIONS
P R I O L I
EGOTRIP YODELED
C T I O
TOOTSIE CARPING
R X L T M H
AGGRAVATE YOBBO
L A L L A P U U
GANTLET ROOKIES
A Z O E U O N E
ANTHROPOLOGY
X-11. OURS
X-12. MARSH M ALLOW
A U I R I I
TEMPT R ESSES Mr. E
I O C N Z E
NORTH E ASTER
C-1. The lazy author of this puzzle should be awarded a no-prize for failure to avoid the error that can not be named.
C-2. When the baby is done drinking, unscrew it and put it under the tap. If it does not like fresh milk, boil it.
C-3. Little Brewster Island illuminated safe passage for wayward vessels with first lighthouse in New World.
C-4. Overheard on The Big Bang Theory: "Today is Star Wars Day. May the fourth (Force) be with you!"
C-5. Canada institutes spring festival honoring pavement repairs after brutal winter: Sinkhole de Mayo.
C-6. Despite massive misgivings, five wives skydive, survive, thrive. Then appear on "Live at Five".
C-7. Cook brown, red, and black varieties of Oryza sativa together, to mimic Zizania aquatica; call this "tame rice".