1. OURS
2. Krewe, Crwth
3. skeleton (note leks)
4. rain cats and dogs, deign rats and cogs
5. char(donna)y
6. extensions? No way
7. die, day; day, Dade; die, dyed; day, deign; die, dire
8. OURS
9. e-taper, MIT
10. EPicure, EXist, EGad, ESchew, ISland; epexegesis
11. so, tush; stoush
12. Scan/din/avian
13. (New En)gland
14. undercover agent
15. OURS
16. rot a teak into Ben, gal." Is he Dis
17. ant, antic
18. friend, redefined
19. Pisces, Caesar; pyre
20. guitar, beau, Guiteau, bar
21. limerick; LIthe, MEsh, RICKets
22. Madagascar, mad aga's car
23. easy chair, cheesy air
24. usquebaugh, squib
25. spa/re tire
26. licorice, lickerish; peck, peckish; bit bitter
27. plague, Prague
28. alas, reversal
29. Frum's Smurf
30. integrated, denigrate, regained, reading, Derain, Andre
31. sheer gift, gearshift
32. OURS
33. coccyx, sock kicks
34. OURS
35. knocked urns, nocturne's
36. psalm, cayenne, Seine, Khayyam
37. OURS
38. iced coffee; I do
39. Israel, is real
40. spinning wheel, winning spiel
41. in retrospect, interceptors
42. dry cell;rice, del
43. party line
44. box, bauxite
45. T, torso
46. paints, antipasti
47. s(Trump)et
48. o(ogle)a
49. disinclined
50. forb(id)
51. Marco, Occam
52. fearful teller, tearful feller
53. going abroad, good bargain
54. OURS
55. (p)regnant
56. OURS
57. Friedrich, fried rice
58. The Birds, therebeside
59. deadlines(s)
60. ghost war, Hogwarts
61. ABCs, take; backseat
62. Gu(inn)ess
63. enumerated, determine
64. seldom, meddlesome
65. swabbed, endive, swan dive, ebbed
66. tech, Teck
67. OURS
68. OURS
69. bandore
70. Biden, bidin'
71. slumber, daughter, slaughter, dumber
72. shopping cart; pink, are, shot
73. hide, hied; seek, Sikh
74. bitter, beet
75. OURS
76. member, remember
77. van, vanish
78. Tylenol, lonely
79. exit, excite
80. stoner, testosterone
81. steroid, asteroid
82. nummary, summary
83. a tee rash (Hs are eta)
84. coed, cold
85. OURS
86. element, clement
87. sforzandi
88. solar, so far
89. American Ultra
90. Tropical Storm Erika
91. Brian Blessed
92. Clean Bandit's "Rather Be"
93. dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
94. Star Wars Episode Seven: The Force Awakens
95. "You're gonna need a bigger boat."
96. Ashley Madison
F-1. A
Mu S A
Chi A S Mu S
A U D Iota P E S
F-2. P
NRN
PRMDS
NTRNCTD
NVRTDPRMD
VWLLSSPRMDS
F-3. OURS
F-4. GGGGGGG
GREELEY
GEORAMA
GERSUMS
GLAUCUS
GEMMULA
GYASSAS
F-5. D
WAC
HIRAM
MATINAL
LITHUANIA
BODHISATTVA
RADON NITER
EVER SEND
TEN RUE
OS EN
N T
F-6. OURS
F-7. CRNVLFTHNMLS
THRTFSPRNG
RHPSDNBL
LLSWTR
NNLZ
SD
X-1. If you come to a fork in the road, take it. Yogi Berra
X-2. There is so much Everything/that Nothing is hidden quite nicely. Szymborska
X-3. OURS
X-4. It needs either a close analysis or none at all. Tovey, on Brahms' Third Symphony
X-5. 1. Marconi 2. jas 3. armour 4. sin
1/2 Canis Major 2/3 Ursa Major 3/4 Ursa Minor
4/1 Canis Minor
X-6. Moon landing was real. Evolution exists. Tax cuts lose revenue. The research has shown this a thousand times. Enough already. A. D. Goolsbee
X-7. I could have gone on flying through space forever. Yuri Gagarin
X-8. There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad. Salvador Dali
X-9. One must never confuse error and the person who errs.
John XXIII
X-10. OURS
C-1. I solved all but one of the July extras. That one was mine! Eventually I gave up and looked in my "sent" folder.
C-2. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. - wisdom of the Dalai Lama
C-3. Citizens divided concerning best thing about living in Switzerland, but all agree the flag is a big plus.
C-4. OURS
C-5. Wheel of Fortune category: "Travel Guide." At stake: vacation prize. "DA_T_'S I_F_R_O" turned over by Vanna White.
C-6. Why write without wry wit when one can create comical, crisp, or cynical comebacks? Punny pens preferred.
C-7. Rectitude requires recidivism receive recrimination. Obeisance obliges obduracy obtain obloquy.