(p.3 Charade) con, stable; constable
1. stuffing, if Utz
2. Francia, African
3. OURS
4. chocolate (CHO, CO late)
5. THECla, damASK, O'FAolain, verMONT, ILLinois, colorADO
"The Cask of Amontillado"
6. nasal, as an
7. flare-ups, (false plural, all)
8. million, minyan
9. sum(psi)mus
10. OURS
11. emotionless, loses no time
12. scab/bard
13. mess(u)age
14. entrails, Interstellar, illiterateness, Lesser Antilles
15. stop, snap
16. jacke(d/t)
17. cat(h)ouse
18. OURS
19. OURS
20. A to Z; oohs, eighty
21. sea-lanes, Atalanta; Alan
22. sedan, Sudan; car tomb, Khartoum
23. olfactory nerve, Earl of Coventry
24. fur coat, rotator cuff
25. jonquil, track, jock, tranquil
26. whirl, way I roll
27. Camus, camera; us, era
28. Lake Baykal, eBay
29. OURS
30. comprehension, heroic poems
31. needines; seen, Dines
32. consumerist, misconstrue
33. OURS
34. one-calorie, nuclear
35. retains, transients, itinerants
36. distal king (D is talking)
37. Blu-ray, blurry
38. every once in a while, dad ventures; everyone sin. A wild adventure's
39. true (accurate)
40. Rides, entry, rien, Destry
41. uranyl, urinal
42. horsewhip, whoreship
43. education's, United States Constitution
44. antic, tactician, Canaanitic, Cincinnatian
45. OURS
46. do unto others, untooth, doers
47. nude, renewed
48. relations, transliteration
49. fraud, clonk, Frank, cloud
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X-1. I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage. Erma Bombeck
X-2. In Mississippi, no Indianian is wise in finding ice, I think.
X-3. Jump? You don't even crawl distantly within sight of a conclusion. Dorothy Sayers
X-4. Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. O. Wilde
X-5. Action without study is FIRST. Study without action is SECOND. Mary Beard (fatal, futile)
X-6. Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. Darrow
X-7. Life is a jest, and all things show it,
I thought so once, and now I know it.
John Gay
X-8. "Surely you can't be serious." "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley." Airplane
X-9. The most dangerous food is wedding cake. James Thurber
X-10. Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. G. B. Shaw
X-11. P L A S M A F A M I S H
A U D I O T A P E S T E
N C R A T I N H A L E R
D A E M O N T I N O P E
A N N A R E A D I E S T
A N A D E M S N E T I O
F E L I D A M O R I S T
A L A M E D A S L E T T
I L I A T E B E E P E R
T O U G H I E J T I R E
H N D E E R H O U N D S
S I E R R A I B I S E S
Across Down
I 1. PLASMA S 1. PANDA
N 5. FAMISH 2. ADRENAL
10. AUDIOTAPES N 3. SIAM
S 12. INHALER A 4. MOTORED
13. DAEMON M 5. FANTASM
E 14. NOPE 6. APHID
R 15. ANNA E 7. MEANIE
T 16. READIEST 8. STEPSISTER
A 17. ANADEMS I 9. HERETO
L 23. AMORIST 11. CANNELLONI
24. ALAMEDA N 18. MADEIRA
E 26. LETT F 19. NOSE JOB
T 28. ILIA 20. TIEPINS
29. BEEPER U 21. FAITHS
T 31. TOUGHIE L 22. IMAGER
32. DEERHOUNDS 25. ETHER
E 33. SIERRA 27. TRESS
R 34. IBISES L 30. ETUI
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X-12. What you've got is statistics, the lowest grade of information that exists. O. Henry
X-13. Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs it is the rule. Nietzsche
X-14. I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one. Darwin
X-15. A T A L L T W O S T E P
S O L O F E E S H N N R
I N L V I E A G O U T I
M E D A L S S A N K H S
O F A G E V E N E E R S ALL for ONE and ONE for ALL
V I Y E N F L A G D A Y
A S P H A L T P S V L S
T H I A M I N A T I L T D'ARTAGNAN
T B O N E T W E I R D O
L A N G U R E S G G O N
E L S S D E F T M I L E
E L I T I S T C A L L S
Athos, Porthos, Aramis - The Three Musketeers - A. Dumas
C-1. Baby anteater approaches toddler but doesn't bite. Moral: a little aardvark never hurt anyone.
C-2. End of Death in Venice, by Thomas Mann: hero dies. To keep some surprise, will not tell you where.
C-3. OURS
C-4. Victor Borge asked if the composer's fear of Stalin's censorship gave us the phrase "chicken Khachaturian."
C-5. OURS
C-6. Eyebrow arch over insidious remark kept rapt audience waiting with bated breath for sarcastic repartee.
C-7. Audacious chutzpah! Cryptogram having fifth symbol lipogram - without twofold inscriptions, short words.