1. Veda, VE Day
2. Aida, aria
3. PERform, SIdeman, FLAmenco, GEnome; persiflage
4. her(a/b/c/d/e)
5. fare, pail
6. marine; rine, mine, mane, mare, Mari
7. a(crony)m
8. margarines, misarrange
9. sandpiles, see (S, and pi less e, e)
10. cometographer, deter, "Come Together", draper
11. thorn, shout, sate, stew
12. inquire, sward, inward, squire
13. MEaltime, ANgle, TIle, MEan; meantime
14. endoplastic, post-Diocletian, special edition
15. (g)elastic
16. going on
17. teach, cheat
18. U-Haul, luau
19. kibosh, Wrybosh
20. Tzotzil, oil
21. ve(get)al
22. perCA, garNI, borNE, scarLET, charTERS; canine letters
23. Pentecost, Leroy
24. Hippocrates; hippo crates; Harpocrates; Harpo, crates
25. quarantine; warrant keen
26. redaction, contradicted
27. vectored, Victoria Day
28. Dolley, daily; Madison, medicine
29. her/niated
30. me/antime
31. javelin(a)
32. snow, tune, none, no (one N, one Nu, two Ns)
33. l(an)t(an)a; Atl.
34. anisogamy, gymnasia, mayings, saying
35. pistol, solipsist
36. Ty Burrell; Uruguayan, Aragon, origin, Oregon, region, oregano
37. BINaries, GEWgaw, ATtain, CHase; binge-watch
38. wahine, whine, wine, win, in, I
39. aviation (AV, A shun)
40. tail end, dilettante
41. itself, stifle
42. literate liar
43. left double Cambridge hexagon
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E-1. Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. A. Camus
E-2. Teach the young people how to think, not what to think. Sidney Sugarman
E-3. Birthday greeting for a bureaucrat: "This card intentionally left blank"
E-4. With considerable portions of life spent in virtual meetings and socializing online, time just seems to Zoom by.
E-5. It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else. J. M. Barrie
E-6. Fear an ignorant man more than a lion.
E-7. Common sense is very rare. Voltaire
E-8. The patron saint associated with including e-mail recipients in addition to the main ones is St. Francis of a CC.
E-9. I don't measure America by its achievement but by its potential. Shirley Chisholm
E-10. The Answer to the Great Question of Life, the Universe and Everything is forty-two. Adams
E-11. What should we all give a marvelous subeditor? Let's hide "Vroo" in a grid.
E-12. Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. Liebling
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C-1. "Don't put on airs," said the rattler to the cobra. "I knew you back when you didn't have a pit to hiss in."
C-2. Green grape to purple grape: "Breathe, you idiot!" When I stepped on a grape, it didn't cry. It let out a little wine.
C-3. En suite furnishings, linens, duvet, soap dispenser with pop diva theme, purchased at Bed, Bath, and Beyonce.
C-4. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. George Bernard Shaw
C-5. If only certain Norse parents had named their boy Bo instead of Eric. For girl, Di or Inga would have done nicely.
C-6. Precluding crypt six from using the most common word could paradoxically simplify solving.
C-7. Ecstatic critic rates aptly named inorganic chemist spy pic Bond, Ionic Bond: "IC (sic) percent! Iconic!"