1. shan't rebuild, Lee Daniels' The Butler
2. OURS
3. growled at, dog-eat-dog world
4. Saudi Arabia, birds
5. co(me)dy
6. Inhambane, in-ham bane
7. A Chorus Line, unheroical's
8. OURS
9. OURS
10. sensuousness, S
11. Ca(member)t
12. done with the wing (Gone with the Wind)
13. laager, lager
14. OURS
15. quite so, toties quoties, it's quiet - too quiet
16. OURS
17. Walter White, welterweight
18. infect, Ceftin
19. subvertical, cruciverbalist
20. Ernest Hemingway, ernes the Ming way
21. bowlin(e/g)
22. trouncedish, One Direction: This Is Us
23. OURS
24. (h)air conditioner
KU-1. Clara, Laura
25. redaction, contraindicated, interior decorator
26. OURS
27. triples, pipistrelle, slipperiest
28. effaced; F, aced
29. remnant, remat
30. Espana rad
31. Eli, Yalie
32. OURS
33. s(equine)d
34. go blind, Em) and, pace (goblin demand pace)
35. OURS
36. (ca)b ride; (le)groom
37. oh, Rob
38. loca, lidocaine
39. the Lincoln Memorial
40. OURS
41. life on Mars
F-1. BOO S T
BOO T H I A
BOO T C A M P S
S H A B B A T
T I M B E R Y
A P A R T
S T Y
F-2. WMNSSMTMTHNG
TNTNCSSRLS
PRGNDBSS
SMMRTM
BRRD
ST
F-3. OURS
X-1. OURS
X-2. Experience: a comb life gives you after you lose your hair. Judith Stern
X-3. War is God's way of teaching us geography. Paul Rodriguez
X-4. S C G E P M T U Planets
EARTH CHEVALIER
R E E H S R M A
ARTDECO TESTBAN
P I I U U
HONORROLL DUKES
I O X E E T
MERCURY NEPTUNE
E G G C O E
SABLE ELECTORAL
A U N A G
TAKEAIM JUPITER
U I B A A A I A
RUNNERSUP VENUS
N G D K E E G S
X-5. FRUHOTPANTSHT Fads
RUSSORAMPROUE
IBUZZEIMSUALN
SEABEDNOTEPAD
BELLBOTTOMSHO
ELDERSBIWICON
EAHAPPYFACEOP
AVISVANFRAPPE
MALEISURESUIT
BLOSSOMERASER
UACAAWBIOVUMO
SMUGKEENAURIC
HPMOODRINGYTK
X-6. The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man. Robertson Davies
X-7. There's nothing funnier than the human animal. Walt Disney
X-8. If a man says he will fix something, he will. There's no need to remind him about it every six months.
X-9. Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. Thomas Henry Huxley
C-1. We saw this really good Rolling Stones cover band last weekend. They are called the Rolling Stones
C-2. It is difficult to explain puns to kleptomaniacs because they are always taking things literally.
C-3. This world is made of sugar. It can crumble so easily, but don't be afraid to stick out your tongue and taste it.
C-4. Repeat
C-5. Acronyms "concealed" really obviously never yet made interesting cryptograms. Denounce overt hypocrisy!
C-6. Hyena sings hymns to cygnet in halcyon sylvan canyon, strains larynx, asks python for anodyne.
C-7. dyslexic anorexic vexes Texan sexists, reflexively texting them as gods versus dogs during cachexia.