1. sadly, salad days
2. mixed nuts, nixed mutts
3. n(i/o)ne; none(t)
4. Godel, blini, goblin, deli
5. Hi(Malaya)s
6. riches, Cheshire cheese
7. pirate, pyrite
8. coupes, spook
9. statue, stout
10. ca(boo)se
11. se(a)ward
12. fir(e)man
13. Sukkoth, neat, Sunni, Coast
14. chants, catch-as-catch-can
15. unde(rgr)ad
16. penetrated, predentate
17. seminary, nary, binary
18. supersonic, percussion
19. understand it
20. (c)heck
21. spa tub - axe whiny, stunned Edward
22. Ap(ollo/sis)
23. record, decor
24. (b/w)eaker
25. Kamala strum (comma, lustrum)
26. ghastly, hastily
27. limber up, plumber, rumple, lemur, mule
28. mediocre, Medicare
29. bizarre, brazier
30. saw lute, lawsuit
31. burgee, burgoo
32. blares, releasable, beer barrels
33. locating, ontological; Somewhere in Time
34. ottoman, autumn
35. camel, mammal
36. (f/l/d)emur
37. Minotaur, mentor
38. Andrew Marc Greene (warned, cram, renege)
39. log, googol
40. pro(rogue)d
41. hiragana; here, gone
42. queasy, Kesey
43. evzone (EV, Z one)
44. Potterhead, Deep Throat
45. wh(it/al)e
46. apple, apply; supple, supply
47. seminar, Asia Minor
48. co(u(ma)r)in
49. poll tax, poleax
KU-1.
50. C(r)etaceous
51. b(all)(ad)eer
52. Yorkist, you're kissed
53. scar/city
54. Gil Scott-Heron, clothing store
55. Biles, Birx
56. po(ll)ster
57. P(ortho)s; Po(r)thos; p(o/a)thos
58. Slovenia, manly, slovenly, mania
59. pe(dime)nt
60. trou-de-loup, toodle-oo
61. formulate (for M, U late)
62. espies pi
63.
64. panda-ordered road nap
65. must
66. hifalutin
67. red or blue state
68. Love Island
69. Fresno County, California
70. the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris ticket
71. American food banks
F-1. BD
CTCL
SMTHRC
MSSMMNDS
HGGLDPGGLD
F-2. COFFEE
APIARY
REGINA
ORATES
MOROSE
SNORTS
F-3. ANALECTIC
DEMOCRACY
DELICATES
SPAREPART
F-4. DYLAN
REEVE
ELWES
FLIRT
TESTS
F-5. PAIN*ZAP
IN*TRIBE
NOWHERE*
ETA*CCTV
SHINTO*A
*ETERNAL
TREVI*GO
A*DEXTER
F-6. W
LWL
LLWLL
WLLWLLW
F-7. OF
FLIT
MOIRES
SOLVENTS
CALLIOPEAN
BOUTONNIERES
HALLOWEENPARTY
F-8. UPRIVER
PUERILE
REMODEL
IRONAGE
VIDALIA
ELEGIES
RELEASE
F-9. PPPPSSS
PPSSS
SSS
S
F-10. MEGADOSES
LIVEFOREVER
LATINAMERICAN
SETTLERSOFCATAN
PASTES TNOTES
CULLEN TUTTUT
POTEEN TERROR
POLICY REELED
DAKOTA SCENIC
RENATA FEUDED
DEWARS NARROW
SALAMI CARVES
YORICK DANCES
GATHERRESOURCES
THEREALMCCOYS
SCRAPMETALS
KIDSSEATS
F-11. S
AW
TRE
ORCA
TREAT
ARCANE
SWEATER
F-12. I
ANY
AZTEC
INTRAOSSAL
YEARLINGS
COLDROOM
SIRYANS
SNOA
AGON
LSMS
F-13. ASCEND
SCORER
COARSE
ERRATA
NESTOR
DREARY
F-14. BOTCH
BARROOM
HANGOUTAT
PARKINGSPOT
POLLEE HELPUP
REFERS STELMO
ESPY GOBS
PIECES MORALE
SENORA ABODES
SCREWDRIVER
ENCOUNTER
STUDIES
STEER
F-15. THANKSGIVING
AMELIORATE
ISOGLOSS
SOLENT
FUMY
MS
F-16. TAPS
LEGATO
REHIRING
VEGETARIAN
PARADROP
LATEEN
NERD
F-17. D
HAG
CYMRU
RAPIERS
LINEATION
TABERNACLES
E-1. You are only young once but you can stay immature indefinitely.
E-2. G
SEW
STOAT
GEORGIA
WAGON
TIN
A
E-3. Life? There's no such thing, I see lines, planes and bodies, and their transformations in time. Olga Tokarczuk
E-4. Barbara Walters: What would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?
Isaac Asimov: Type faster!
E-5. The clientele seemed to lean towards the flamboyant side of eccentric. Crombie
E-6. Suggestion for husbands seeking an amicable divorce: buy a disengagement ring.
E-7. It's always better to know the truth. I've found out that much in life. Rhys Bowen
E-8. He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much...who has left the world better than he found it. Bessie Stanley
E-9. The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in time of crisis. Thurgood Marshall
E-10. There was a coffee table that hadn't seen a coaster since the moon landing. H Coben
E-11. King Henry II laid down the principle that everything is either legal or (preferably) illegal. Sellar and Yeatman
E-12. Let us, then, go down and confound their speech there, so that they shall not understand one another's speech. Gen. 11:7
E-13. CRABS
REMIT
OPINE
CONGA
STEEL
E-14. What's the difference between a bookkeeper in New York's Garment District and a U. S. Supreme Court justice? One generation. The Notorious R.B.G.
E-15. Cricket is an art, not a poor relation, but a full member of the community. C.L.R. James
E-16. You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway. John Steinbeck
E-17. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. S. Johnson
X-1. A. singleton
B. ripen, keno
C. shortstop
D. selective
E. misaligns
F. shad, guava
G. eccentric
H. nursing
I. filched SINE CURVE
J. nominee
K. betided
L. moocher
M. close-up
N. pioneer
O. missive
P. strewed
C-1. Atkins diet shakes helped me lose a lot of weight. They were so disgusting I didn't drink them.
C-2. When His Majesty went on an extreme diet, everybody in the country was DOOR, "What a DO OR he is!" (thin/king)
C-3. Do the events of the current year feel more like the ten plagues of Egypt or the Book of Revelation?
C-4. Clueless corrupt creep contradicts contagion containment coordinator, confuses citizens, causes chaos.
C-5. Semisoft cheese named for French commune available in Scotland with appellation of Loch Ness Muenster.
C-6. Jamaican DJ with lame gags at Pikachu's party in Tulsa jail. "Okeydoke: do the hokey jokey Okie pokey, mon."
C-7. Ghoul hauntings? Order service today! Businesspeople use spook-ray to eradicate rancorous specters. (Ghostbusters)