1. nougat
2. trepidation, partitioned
3. a(s)cetic
4. Kodiak, okeydokey
5. B(act)rian
6. sea bream, Tucson, videotape
7. ghouls fold, fool's gold
8. Buffalo, New York (buff, alone, WY, Ork)
9. Hilbert, I'll Be There
10. toady, today
11. play "Truth or Dare", plate rue, Thor'd air
12. averse (a verse)
13. zephyr, fur
14. Yemen, enemy
15. slack, Alaska-class
16. delude a lewd aloo
17. tuxedo pants; tuck, see, dope, aunts
18. (pen(et(anguish)e)ne
19. coastline, sectional
20. erran(t/d)
21. s(k/p)ill; skill, skillet
22. Ghana flare, eyed rifts (ganef lair, I drifts)
23. Movember; move, ember
24. caduc(e/o)us
25. curates, crustacea, tartar sauce, sea creature
26. morph, form
27. cellist or bassist on (C El is to RB as S is to N)
28. Skype, Pesky
29. (recer)t(ifi)ed
30. Antigone, anti gone
31. meander, blow, meow, blander
32. sing "U" -lard earth (singular dearth)
33. true, root
34. leave no scone unkerned (leave no stone unturned)
35. gnu, GNP
36. Short Line, chortling
37. w(illi)(waw)
38. c(a/o)ckle
39. thir(s)ty; laze, zeal; (o)pen
40. inve(s/r)t
41. covenant, cove, REM, remnant
42. bandoliers, released on bail
43. United States, testudinates
44. flesh out, flu shot
45. VIZsla, CAse, YAle; Vizcaya; TEsla, RUse, ELle; Teruel
46. centaurs, Etruscan
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E-1. In a democracy, the most important office is that of citizen. Please vote!
E-2. The basic question is this: given human nature, are any of us really capable of change? Grafton
E-3. A light and diplomatic bird
Is lenient in my window tree.
A quick dilemma of the leaves
Discloses twist and tact to me.
G. Brooks
E-4. The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. Voltaire
E-5. That's the wonderful thing about crayons. They can take you more places than a starship. Whoopi Goulberg as Guinan
E-6. You can bring a horse to water but good luck on the bathing suit.
E-7. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring. C. Sagan
E-8. I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. Langston Hughes
E-9. Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. Jonathan Swift
E-10. Once he found a dove cage in the bushes.
He took it home
So he could
Keep it empty.
Nobelist Szymborska
E-11. I can see Russia from my house. Not Sarah Palin
E-12. Common sense has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. Russell L. Ackoff
E-13. Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football. Bryson
X-1. LOFTACINTACT
IMAMSALARMED
SEIZINGGAILS rial=rail
TNREDNESSDIO late=teal
SENSEADTHING egale=eagle
THETUBERISER hatc=chat
ELSIEIMMERSE crean=crane
TESLASICRANE nter=tern
ETRETAGERETA
CHATEFORELEG
MAITREDTRIAL
ALLONESSISLE
Flying south is for the birds
C-1. My level of religious observance is such that I obey a prime number of the Ten Commandments.
C-2. Old song, per pols: "You take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in office before ye."
C-3. A lot of components go into creating a monster: cruelty, savagery, callousness. Patricia Cornwell
C-4. The lovelorn B stood crestfallen on the A, not so funny between lanes. Her heart C. She needed relationship D. (median, comedian; aching, coaching)
C-5. Rene Descartes' famous philosophical observation modernized during current pandemic: Covido ergo Zoom.
C-6. Aqueous precipitation throughout Iberian Peninsula remains endemic chiefly among regional lowlands.
C-7. Scary Syfy Channel flick, Trumpnado: The Donald gets swept up by huge whirlwind and deposited in your town!