1. labor, steal, last, boreal
2. candidates, studio audience
3. exce(r)pt
4. OURS
5. dominate, innocent, docent, innominate
6. re(mines)cent
7. though, tough
8. OURS
9. Marian Paroo, marry in Peru
10. OURS
11. Emma Stone, must-own; eyas, Easy A, aye-ayes
12. quadrisected requiescat
13. OURS
14. worse, squeak; workweek
15. treasure, reassure
16. OURS
17. boss a nova; bossa nova
18. exce(r)pt
19. OURS
20. base, Abe's; kind, find; five, I've; notes, none too soon; sing(ab)le
21. OURS
22. OURS
23. conceal, cancel
24. Scantron, Scranton, Cranston
25. hypocrites, psychohistories
26. OURS
27. Suzuki, zookeeper; supper
28. laciest, elastic, ecclesiastical
29. Doctor Scott Kominers; economist, emoticons
30. OURS
31. sheikh, shake; shiekh, chic; chic, quiche
32. lyric, Cyrillic
33. PayPal, papal
34. found(er)
35. bonobos, so
36. fete doormats, date formats
37. OURS
38. misanthrope, one man's meat is another man's poison
KU-1. hence, Sence
39. international bailout
40. Anthony Weiner
41. the Great Pyramid of Cheops
42. OURS
43. debt ceiling
44. debt ceiling deadline
45. Timothy Geithner
F-1. C H A S T I T Y
R A I L W A Y
O L D I E S
S L I C E
S U N K
E C G
X I
B A N
R E M O
Z E L I G
D I V I N E
D E N I Z E N
P R O C E E D S
F-2. OURS
F-3. QUACKS
UMBRIA
ABSENT
GREASY
GAITER
ALLEYS
F-4. NV
HCND
DRKNSS
LVSFGRSS
SVNSTRMNTN
LFNTHMSSSSPP
F-5. SOS
SHUNT
SHUTEYE
OUTRAGE
SNEAKER
TYGER
EER
CF-1. his knee, Disney
CF-2. mon(k)ey
CF-3. Hagerstown, "The Greatest Show on Earth"
CF-4. conflate, con flat
CF-5. repeat, taper
CF-6.
CF-7. heros, horse
CF-8. chemotherapies, mother, cheapies
CF-9. turquoise non sequitur
CF-10. Wheel of Fortune; buy, be; vowel, Powell
CF-11. paint horse, senatorship, Aristophanes, prehistorians
CF-12. giantism; gats, mini
CF-13. anonym
CF-14. stream, remaster, Sesame Street
CF-15. yacht, Chatty Cathy
CF.16. tunic, unicorn, torn
CF-17.
CF-18. sing-along, ganglions
CF-19.
CF-20. eternal, rental, later, rate, ear
CF-21. Sisyphus
CF-22. driver, rider
CF-23. Yellow Submarine
CF-24. urbanely, Barney Rubble
CF-25. Giants, against, tasting, assassinating; instead, assassinated
CF-26. Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
CF-27.
CF-28.
CF-29. Becket, bucket
CF-30. a con, flat
CF-31. conifer, Connie
CF-32. wee, ewe
CF-33. mentorship, northern hemisphere, "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son"
CF-34. on trial, irrational
CF-35. monarchy, monochromacy
CF-36. ba ba, bbaa
CF-37. woods, goods
CF-38. art, heart
CF-39. mi re do re mi mi mi (Mary had a little lamb)
X-1. From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night, good Lord deliver us.
X-2. STARBUCKS (stars named Buck)
NEVERSOIL
OCHLOEWNU
WHEYGREET
MANSEGNAT
ANRTRASHI
SKYESLIME
SHOWALTER
X-3. You're not famous until my mother has heard of you. J. Leno
X-4. There is
One art,
No more,
No less:
To do
All things
With art-
Lessness
Hein
X-5. Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. Jean Baudrillard
X-6. A definition is the enclosing of a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. Samuel Butler
X-7. Knowledge is an old error remembering its youth. Francis Picabia
X-8. It is in language that an expectation and its fulfillment make contact. L. Wittgenstein
X-9. Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. Arthur Helps
X-10. Tonstant Weader fwowed up. Dorothy Parker reviewing The House at Pooh Corner.
X-11. In prose, the worst thing one can do with words is surrender to them. Orwell
X-12. SEATBELT
TAXIASSA
ASLATTES
LEARSALT
EMBATTLE
MELSWELL
AGATESIE
TAZUEVES
EVENNESS
C-1. Gran's wastrel nephew was kicked out of the house so often we called him our second cousin fifty times removed.
C-2. The modern TV comedian follows a variation of Teddy Roosevelt's adage: "Speak loudly and carry a big shtick."
C-3. Neither embrace nor reject an idea until you understand why it survuved to come to your attention.
C-4. OURS
C-5. United Arab Emirates: longest country name consisting of alternating vowels and consonants.
C-6. World champion crossword puzzler succumbing to unchecked ailment requests burial six down, three across.
C-7. Tamagotchi tchotchkes fall into Scotch broth, soaking diner's pants. Splotches make him crotch-ety.