February 1
1. Edwin Howard Armstrong, lost, war, weak, 2. Hedda Hopper's head, playboy bunnies, bouncing baby boy, 3. christians and chris' chin and china, chin and knees, 4. emigrate, ingrate, F a great, too, 5. King Erwig, the earwig, 6. Visigoth, and gothic vampires, 7. extirpation, and turpitude, and stupid turpentine, 8. prohibition and conhibition, 9. choose your jews, 10. warrant and ranting about war, 11. sexy execution, 12. Prescott, ascot, mascot, and Scots, 13. a mean queen, 14. Vietnamese and Vietnam-yous, 15. true trooper, false fall, Falstaff, 16. Thang Long, the long and short of it, 17. recession, obsession, and scotus in session, incest, outcast, outcest, 18. do you buy Byron?, 19. air, of course, and Corsair, 20. a gloomy groom, feeling doomed, 21. cops that copy, 22. eruption, ebikes, email, 23. shut up, Sam Houston, 24. Battle Her of the Republic, 25. OED took over 43 years to publish, deo, 26. a red real-estate developer, 27. Tzu-hsi eats sushi?, 28. Liz in Lisbon, 29. US Marines, dominating (sub-marines), 30. Versailles, and verse I, 31. tootin' is common, 32. clinging, craving, want and desire, e.g. to power, plug-in, static cling, 33. banned bands, on the Banda sea, 34. juggling in the jungle, 35. Hirohito, hero?, 36. field Marshall, feeling martial, 37. sexual Minuteman icbm, I see bm, lol, 38. demons and demonstrators, 39. a cleric named Claire, 40. fundamentalism, mentalism, fundament, ass, 41. putting Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on the ark, Arkansas, ark and saw, 42. disintegration, a sin, 43. sit-ins and stand-ins and satan (!), 44. Sir Edward Coke, doing cocaine, drinking coca-cola, 45. afd, American film director, 46. atcg, acting, and clark gable, 47. SJ Perelman, and jesuits, 48. twinkletoes and Twinkies and twinks that think, 49. Boris Yeltsin, yelling about sin, is a bore?, 50. ample samples, and Joe, 51. Papillon and Perpignon, 52. Stormy, Sunny, and Prince Rainier, 53. feel or flee? 54. 2 tonics, for my Teutonic friends, please, 55. untying Juan in Taiwan, 56. Did you say Newark or New York?, 57. my fill of mayonnaise from Mayon, Philippines 58. abolishing playing ball, 59. Yes, this wig is from Schleswig, 60. pray for Pretoria, 61. souls in Seoul, 62. Lord Roberts and the Boers, 63. Liz' hair in a bun, 64. are you on Regis' side?, 65. International relations, and relay races, 66. yes, there will be a quiz on Quisling, 67. MG, Marshalls-Gilberts raids, Matt Groening, 68. Voice of America, and Erica, hearing voices, 69. he's still still, 70. Kuala Lumpur, and a lump on my koala, 71. RC, and a runway collision, 72. a pal from Bhopal, 73. CDA, communications decency act, 74. rear admiral, admiring her rear, LEF is not laughing, 75. how things unfurled for Daniel Pearl, 76. Hodgman and Hajj pilgrims, 77. what is said about Port Said, sad, 78. it's hard to climb the Shard, 79. avoiding the void, bladder and bowels, adders and owls, abutment of the butt, and unbuttoning, and pap about papal people, smoking a pipe when you poop :-), 80. hells bells, and owls bowels, 81. excretion of an ex-cretin / cretan, 82. Yunmi, you and me, menu, U and I, suicide, wee!, 83. (bathroom) tiles, thai isles, aisles, islands in Thailand (at least 62), eye land, observation posts, lookout!
February 2
1. Boris Karloff, BK, Burger King, Frankenstein was a hit - helpless, inarticulate, tragic, 2. ants on a sponge, and Nancy Spungeon, 3. Otto before autos, 4. Nas, and Native American slaves, 5. Christopher Columbus, clinging, craving, Assisi, and capitol cities, 6. Pedro de Mendoza, good air, putting on airs, in the evening (p.m.), 7. wake and bake, earthquake, aches and pains, 8. will shake spear, 9. men in hats, in Manhattan, 10. orks and orcas, from New York, 11. p.s., power struggle, 12. elocution and execution, 13. Robinson Crusoe, Roman Catholic, chilly in Chile, 14. establishing the identity of the stabber, 15. sea otters, and the ought of the Holy See, 16. Treatys and treats, treatment, mints, 17. restrooms and giving Rumi a rest, arrests, r and r, wrestling and real axe!, 18. open and closed, penis and clothes, 19. MT, emptying himself, 20. ague and leagues, 21. G-D, first in 1887, (Groundhog Day), (hermetic order of the golden dawn, too), 22. 77 round boxing match!, 23. delivering mail, and de-livering male, 24. detector tech, Keeler keeling over, 25. quizzical about Quisling, 26. atm, atw, around the world, about 23456 miles, 27. BR, Bertrand Russell, berkeley, brr chilly, beyond redemption, 28. P.W. Botha's password, 29. Nelson Mandela, and a full nelson, mandala, 30. b.s. about the battle of Stalingrad, 31. women hissing about being actress, mistresses, poetesses, etc. 32. joyful Joyce, 33. Halas' palace, 34. Ayn Rand's AR-15, 35. Elaine stritch, a stretch, eldritch, 36. James Dickey and Dickie Smothers, 37. agar, aspic, and Alaric, 38. Heath, Heather, heathen, and heat, 39. a cat in Italy, wholly roamin' prr-er, 40. impressing the empress, 41. Terra Mariana, land of Mary, merrily married, lives on, doing lats in Latvia, and getting stoned, in Estonia, 42. tards from Torda, 43. argh! Tina is a gent?, 44. RC, royal crown, 45. Osaka, put a sock in it, 46. finishing reading Kivi, and a Finnish kiwi, 47. pink punks from Punxsutawney, 48. I can't bear Canberra, 49. Tartu Treaty, and a tart treat, 50. Ulysses and me listing c's, 51. Iditarod, I did it, rod!, 52. x-m, export/import, 53. Did Pauly pass the polygraph test?, 54. using the stall at the Grad (restaurant), Stalingrad, 55. i.p. (indo-pakistani war), 56. the M.O. of Milton Obote, 57. Hama, Syria and Hamas, 58. essay on the Soviet-Afghan war, 59. playing a part in Apartheid, 60. Federer, fed an error, 61. same-sex marriage, spared by the s.s.
February 3
1. Eufala, Oklahoma - you fall, okay, 2. Woodrow Wilson's wife ("virtually president, for nearly 17 months"), 3. the day the music died (like Armstrong and Vicious), 4. John Simon Ritchie, Ritchie Valens, and Richie Rich (comics!), 5. holy barbara, batman; holy r emperor, fred barbarossa, demon barber of fleet street, 6. vlad monkey, mongols seize Vladimir, 7. Gutenberg, becomes goo, 8. paper money (another p.m.), 9. silly Sicilians, 10. Swiss chi, immersed in commerce, 11. independence, in depends undergarments, 12. Belle Starr b.s., 13. Housatonic, who's a tonic?, 14. Stuka, my name is Luka, pukka shells, hookah, bazooka, and dukkha!, 15. Luftwaffe, 99 luftballoons, waffles, 16. cars like fish, with tail fins, 17. crikey, jiminy cricket, buddy holly and the crickets, francis crick, a crick in my neck, and "that'll be the day", 18. a wind of change, hot air, 19. storms on the moon?, 20. escargot embargo, 21. dynamite, ay el dolor, mighty mite, at the Dolomites, 22. fuck, Fuchs, 23. Elizabeth Blackwell, making the black well, 24. Cecil, sisal, if you say so, 25. Junkers aircraft, littering the skies, 26. Grr, true (Gertrude), rude, 27. Norman Rockwell, rock of ages, 28. pretty boy Floyd, a model prisoner, (well, not really), 29. Battle of Diu, India (mon diu!). 30. ragtime in Ragusa, 31. any gals on the galleons?, 32. ice cream at (Edward) Fenton's, 33. Mara, the Maratha, 34. a chat with the Chattrapati, shut your trap, 35. an earthquake, in the Algeria area, 36. Sint, the saint, sin/cross, 37. you stay, in Eustatius, 38. Monty's video, from Montevideo, Uruguay (you are you!), 39. Battle of San Lorenzo, Saint Lawrence, (dad/middle name), 40. Jose de San Martin, and Julie, Sam, and Miette, 41. eek! a greek creek, I feel weak, 42. come in, income, 43. Otto from Ottawa, 44. warfare, war is unfair, 45. opportunities in Oporto, 46. mad cow disease, in Kowloon, 47. lebensraum, in my living room, 48. a battle for an atoll, seizing some See's candy, 49. Sao Tome, St. Thomas, ST, 50. Olga didn't like Operation Looking Glass, 51. soft serve, soft landing, hard vampires, and rigor mortis, 52. 4000 Iranians dead in a '72 blizzard, 53. SS space shuttle, (133 successful flights), 54. stressing about Stroessner, Paraguayan dictator, 55. Eileen, lean on me, Collins, call in, 56. fraternity rush in Russia.
February 4
1. rare giant Saguaro cactus, cackling at us, 2. Septimius Severus (septicemia (blood poisoning), severe, several severed heads, snape), 3. Richard the 1st had a heart transplant, lol, 4. tex avery sold into slavery, 5. leather stockings?, 6. telegraph avenue, a nickel/word, 7. csa, controlled substances act, child sexual abuse, confederate states of America, 8. Jefferson davis, j.d., 9. Darwin's Descent of Man, and Jesus' Ascent of Man?, 10. Gavin and galvanic skin response / batteries, 11. Motherbaugh, Longabaugh, and Firebaugh, 12. bang, bank, rain, train, 13. Manila foes, and manila folders, 14. Prince's fingerprints, 15. diseases linked to (lack of) vitamins, go easy on them, t.i.e. take it easy, dis-ease, 16. a roar in the Ruhr, 17. teflon and tesla and tough teshara, 18. cookware, cook where? kitchen, kitsch, 19. Rick and the Richter scale, and rigor mortis, 20. merely the Mir in the mirror, 21. Path, Patrick Hennessy, Patty Hearst, phd, 22. Slayer, and the Symbionese Liberation Army, symbionts, 23. Dietrich and his die trick, 24. bob, back of the bus, 25. Betty Friedan, cannibal frying dan, 26. dan quayle, quailing, whales, wailing, ailing and failing, a and f, 27. chicken cooper, co-op, coup, anderson, auto, and a builder of barrels, 28. your kill, in York, 29. cool cats from Catania, Kate and Tanya, 30. 46 seppukus (nuts!), 31. Conan the ronin, 32. triple A in Macapa, Brazil, 33. electoral college, gotta go to college to vote (not), 34. loopy about Guadeloupe, 35. Chilean lays, and Cochrane's cock, 36. eerie premonitions on the Erie Canal, 37. Miami, my friend, 38. pioneers, with pie in their ears, 39. breakaway states, like KitKat, 40. vanilla, and the thrilla in Manila, 41. Harbin, a harbinger of things to come, 42. scarred by Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt, 43. crime in Crimea, 44. pikachu, peek at you, pokoku, a small coup, 45. Paul on the Apollo, 46. Patty Hearst, phirst, a thirst for the worst, 47. Hugo Chavez, bust a cap in his ass, (Carlos Andres Perez), 48. sick about a Sikorsky crash, 49. Grateful Dead in Afghanistan (David gans), 50. A.D., (amadou diallo, not diablo) shot 41 times (jeezus), 51. world cancer day (Cancer sun sign, sunlight is a carcinogen, is 6/22-7/22), 52. electrocution, fry, and the federal republic of yugoslavia, you go, slave, S and M, serbia and montenegro, 53. Keelung river, lungs are key, 54. don't have a cow man, cowabunga dude, Macau.
February 5
1. make-up and wardrobe departments, dept. of war, making up for insult/lost time, 2. Was Scipio a scorpio?, 3. Gui Folques and Guy Fawkes?, 4. Charles of Anjou, and jew?, 5. Why was Rhode called an island?, 6. unique dominique on martinique, 7. carol in carolina, scarred in SC, 8. Swedish weed, 9. prince of Wales, prisoner of war, pow!, 10. periods of insanity, a bloody mess, 11. roam about Rome, amor, listening to Rameau, with Omar, 12. OS, Oregon spectator, a spectacle, the oracle, 13. calculator invented, 1850, by Parmalee, in a land called Hanna-lee, 14. proust and lorraine, in a duel, both fire deux/dual shots, and miss! miss your missus, 15. roller coaster patented by Ed Prescot (1901), RC, pat, scot, 16. land reform, earth sent to a reformatory, 17. GDMA on MDMA, General Douglas MacArthur on ecstasy, 18. drug smuggling, ugh, 19. icebreaker, a surface ship, and "breaking the ice", and a kind of breath mint, 20. cobblestone in Kabul, 21. Taliban means. "students" or "seekers" (a sikh stew), 22. Reese and John (Witherspoon), 23. Sir Robert Peel, layers of the onion, appealing, like a banana, 24. Moody, the mahdi, and ace, atheist, american christian evangelist, angel, c.e., vampire hunter d, moo says cow, 25. dunlop's sex described as "pneumatic", illmatic, like nas, 26. maxim's machine gun, and the magazine, spitting madness, 27. Biggles books, little free library, 28. Adlai, and false advertising, 29. Junkies, Junkers planes, litters of pets, white trash, refusing to throw away refuse, and gar-bazh at tar-zhet.. 30. John and Frank Muir, 31. Hank Aaron, ha, 32. earthquakes, emotional intelligence, and e.q., 33. who's who of Hoosiers, 34. memes, viruses, and the lecter vector, a rude read, 35. Dillard, the dullard, 36. bondage and. bandages, 37. Beatles, beetles, and six socks, 38. Elvis' elves, 39. homeward, hammered; bored bear at the bar drinks beer, gets bare, 40. insane muscle gain, a mean machine, stupid cupid, ugly bug, cruel fool, sick prick, 41. brain drain in Ukraine, 42. any bot can do botany - taught rotten cotton botany, 43. guns, buns, and funny mun-e, you're number one, hon, have fun in the sun, one and done, 44. hottentots and skalinkinlot! that Motts hit the spot, 45. bathroom: broom, Matt/Kurt/Rod bath mat, curtain rod, win-win - nguyen window, shao lin shower, angkor wat water, thai tiles, Elizabeth bathory, toilet, toil/let, a vampire with a work-ethic, 46. Frito-lay, toe-gasm, foot fetish, satisfy my sole, footsie, and socks sex!, 47. dags, dogs, degrees, doug, and and dig-dug., 48. mississippi, ms., microsoft, market share, and milestones, 49. Idris and iblis and the bliss of an ibis, 50. rats eating newspaper, and ratifying articles, 51. Cadiz and codfish, codpieces, codicils, and cod almighty, 52. hermit crabs, hermetically sealed, and hermitage museum, 53. Rom and Ian, Romanians, 54. strangers, stranglers, wranglers, anglers, and fangs, 55. general hospital, I spit on generals, 56. fantastic plastic, sarcastic spastic, elastic mastication, 57. church, and Charlie Chaplin, 58. Mary Pickford, Robert Redford, Stanford, and affordable fords, 59. witches in black, eating sandwiches, at the royal greenwich observatory, observing which witches are witty, 60. cat rebellion: mew-tiny, 61. frank speaks frankly about frankincense and Frankenstein to Francisco Franco, 62. Cairns, Karens, and the battle of Keren, 63. never-recovered lost hydrogen bomb!!, hidden hyde?, 64. de Gaulle's gallbladder, galling golf, 65. R and D, regulations and directives, 66. cultural revolution and chili relleno, 67. the third punic war (Carthage v. Tunisia) lasted 2131 years!?, 68. smug smugglers, dragging drugs, 69. middle earth and Medgar Evers, 70. Hosni in Grozny, etch a sketch in Chechnya, 71. tornado, and torn gonads, 72. yabba dabba doo, in Abu Dhabi, 73. busted on a bus.
February 6
1. unhealthy humours, ha ha, 2. a bout, a rout, about a route, tongues of the Trungs, 3. Fiji, fee? gee, 4. first written check, 1659, on a british bank, river bank, where the ground "gives a little", 5. king Chucky, 6. ratatouille and ratifying cheese, 7. Sierra Leone, and the lion from Zion, 8. Snoopy and CD, Charles Darwin, on the hms Beagle, legal eagle, flying eagles, fleagles, fleeing fleas, 9. mania in Tasmania, zeal in New Zealand, 10. Maori and Mao and m.a.o. inhibitors, 11. a nation, nashing its teeth, 12. nasty Thomas Nast, Uncle Sam, USA, samsara, sam I am, ss, samsaric suffering, 13. a stitch in time, and looming war, 14. hoods stealing hood ornaments, 15. the right to vote, the left, staying home, 16. Weimar Republic, why? Mary, merry, married, marred, at the pub, licked, 17. limping at the Olympics, 18. M and M, of mice and men, 19. migrant workers, ants and orks, 20. Afrika Korps, and the kkk, 21. antiwar and propeace, 22. status quo and Kwajalein island, 23. Manchester, oh Chester have you heard about Harry, he just got back from the army..., hip hip hooray, 24. warheads, and peace hearts, 25. Arlo Guthrie and Christopher Marlowe, hero and Leander, San Leandro, 26. chang and eng, in Eng-land, 27. Aaron Burr, that was cold!, 28. swerving on Irving, 29. Babe Ruth, and ruthless adults, 30. Ronald McDonald, ray guns, railroads, and RR!, 31. leaky Leakey, ants on the ark! (anthropologist, archaeologist), likes looking at lakes, (babbling on:) loco luke, lack lick lock luck, elect, lech, 32. uss Cole, using coal, not a lie, nat and gnats, 33. fleeing the fleet, 34. bullfight, bulldogs, bullshit, bullion, and papal bulls, 35. Dandara, Dan, and Daria, 36. Ruffles, raffles, and Singapore, Song Dynasty, 37. lies, beer, layla, bier, liberty, and Liberia, 38. colonoscopy called for, in a colony, 39. minstrels, ministers, minestrone, and minced mint, 40. bushfires and the biblical burning bush, 41. defeated by Foote, 42. USS, United States senate, 43. vague about plague, in The Hague, arbitration at Arby's, 44. devoted votary of the right to vote for a vat of vittles, 45. battling bats with baseball bats in the calm combat style of a wombat, 46. integrated studies, the integrated circuit, integrity, integers, and integuments, 47. Lockheed and dreadlocks, 48. overthrow and undertow, 49. harp, harpoon, and stephen harper, 50. maiden flight, maidan, made in America, and Iron Maiden, 51. Blinky and Binky and Antony Blinken and on the blink.
February 7
1. Nick Adams, and mad st. nick, 2. "death thou shalt die", angel of death dies (Mengele), nazi monster, sadistic experimenter on children, in Brazil, of stroke, age 67, 3. St. Ignatious and the Spanish Inquisition, 4. no one expectorates the spanish quiz!, 5. trippy alliance, trying trinity, 6. seething at the siege, 7. an altar at Gibralter, 8. flotilla, ill if don't float!, 9. deadlock, and the key to living, 10. bare-knuckle boxing (!), crushing boxes, John L Sullivan Chevrolet, 11. liver in a pool of blood, in Liverpool, 12. x-rays and Ray, her ex, 13. bible libel, labile babble, Emile Zola drinks a cola, 14. great baltimore fire wasn't all that great, if you ask me, 15. a germ sub sinks a brit steamer (named california), off ire (fourplay), 16. Nieuport aircraft, Newport cigs, 17. CW, Cold War, civil war, culture war, chemical warfare, creative writing, 18. profits, prophecy, and pro-fitness, president's council on physical fitness, pump you up, not gabby and flabby, 19. ghetto, get O, 20. beachhead, lol, 21. Holloway and the hollow way, 22. baby doc?, 23. wontons and tontons macoutes, machetes, secret police, 24. Molly the mop, and a monopoly on power, 25. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, John tron steed, aristocrat, first freely-elected (fe!) president of Haiti (god is love), 26. the Euro, and year O, and gyro, 27. SI, shark-infested, too, 28. Beatles, in "pudding-bowl" haircuts, 29. author of utopia beheaded for treason (!!), 30. dear John, John Deere, a deer named John?, 31. CD, seedy, Charles dickens, 32. (James) Murray, OED editor, mother Mary, mores, moray eels, mares, Miriam, Moira, Myra, Maura, and merrily married, 33. (Laura Ingalls) Wilder, gettin' crazy, 34. Eubie Blake, ub40, 35. Sinclair Lewis, sink lair louis, in sync, 36. Gay Talese, and gay tales, cocktails, happy and queer, 37. earl king and urls, girls, irl (intimacy, romance, love), 38. POW, prince of Wales, 39. regions, religions, add lithium, 40. Bagan kingdom, pagans, and paying again, 41. selves, selling elves, 42. middle earth, my elf, and. eye, 43. I beer Ian, S+P, Spain and Portugal, 44. New Madrid, MO, 45. f-k Farquhar!, 46. Semian, simians, seamen, and semen, 47. miners and minors and my nerds, 48. a tonic for the bubonic chronic, 49. Pinocchio on pinterest, pinned in the penitentiary, penning penalties in Pennsylvania, 50. imperial peers, higher ark key, 51. grenades and grenadine from Granada, 52. Downing Street, you down?, 53. tricking the masses, catholic mass magic, and Maastricht, 54. Islama-good!, 55. modern jewelry, and the laboratory module, 56. Mississippi (missus sip pee? ew), e.w. Elizabeth Warren.
February 8
1. Mary Stuart's dog, a terrier, died of grief, dawg, 2. 100 alleged witches imprisoned, 19 executed, 3. educated, edge kate, 4. William and Mary (Third and Second, respectively), and you, number 1!, 5. Peter the Great (the judgement of history? or did he call himself that, lol), 6. "union forces" (sounds like rape), 7. immodest Modest Mussorgsky, bg opera, boris godunov, beegees, bill gates, bhagavad gita, 8. Pushkin, pushing kin, buy a kindle, 9. settlements, payouts, and places for communities to live, 10. Russo-Japanese war, a ruse, a pan, and port arthur (who was Arthur?), 11. Orville and Wilbur Wright, redenbacher, write/right/rite, model A (ford, too), 12. racist birth of a nation, bon mot, bonneville salt flats, my bonnie lies over the ocean, 13. John Logie Baird (I'm JLT), and TV in 2022, and a transatlantic image, imago, 14. Teshara, RA, red army, 15. only from the mind of Mindszenty, sentenced to life, alive! 16. keen on ken, in Kenya, 17. e-rock and Iraq, 18. SI, supply and infiltration, during VW, in Laos (lousy lice, like german germs), 19. Chinese chi in Chihuahua, Wawa pedals, Washington, waa!, 20. Sherman, sure, man, can you dig it, 21. JV, Jules Verne, and junior varsity, and Jesse Ventura, joint venture, 22. how deep is a league? 3 miles, 23. Earnest Ernest, worthy words of Wordsworth, 24. Jack Lemmon, lemonade, squeeze my lemon til the juice runs down my leg, Lululemon, Liz Lemon, LeMons, Lemony Snicket, 25. James Dean, J.D., 26. hurry, Holy Roman Empire; worry, western Roman Empire, 27. Sade's crew, on a crusade, smooth operator, 28. power-sharing, split utility bill, 29. babbling about the Babington plot, baby, 30. crocket and tubbs, playing cricket with Tobias, 31. Dawes act, da? nyet. 32. dutch genocide of acehnese and bataks, aches and attacks, 33. Nevada executed with a gas chamber, 2 in the chamber, chamber's dictionary, judge's chambers, 34. a burger in Burgos, 35. talking rich, in Singapore, 36. ac/dc and the dutch colonial army, 37. orange rinds, wine and dine, on the Rhine, 38. Ozzie in the Stasi, 39. Sindh, Pakistan and satan picking sin, 40. pleasant pheasants for peasants, 41. Windsor and Rainier, 42. Sharon from Charonne, 43. chess moves, take a Ba'ath, pure shooter, 44. drinking a daiquiri with the NASDAQ, 45. Ho Chi Minh trail mix, 46. a fabulous lab, 47. amped about trampled tramps, on the ramp, 48. a devilish/satanic dust storm, 49. Qods, Iran, codfish, and cod almighty, 50. MP, minister of parliament, military police, melting point, Madhya Pradesh, 51. Af-gone-istan, 52. king gizard and the lizard wizard, in a blizzard, 53. grim reaper on pills, says the pilgrim to stan milgram.
February 9
1. Fyodor Dostoevsky, and David Foster (bad grades, good authors), 2. Zeno, insomniac, 3. papal throne, pay pal thrown, 4. strange string of stranglings, 5. JQA was illegitimately elected (lost both popular and electoral college votes), 6. Hoosac tunnel cost 200 lives (who? somebody should've been sacked!), 7. Dwight Filley Davis (DFD, bad grades, good tennis), 8. Brest-Litovsk, you crane your neck to see breasts lit up!, 9. airmail, before email, 10. witty prattle, Pratt and Whitney engines (on a 747), 11. Mae West said, "you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough", 12. AH, Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda (my favorite book as a kid), Alex Haley, roots, 13. fabulous fables, 14. Amy Lowell (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, alliterative itself!), namesake of Lowell high school?, 15. RC, Ronald Coleman, actor, is not Ronnie Coleman, bodybuilder, (Brendan Behan, Bertolt Brecht, British battleship, behind bars, Banting/Best), 16. Ernest Tubb, and Sinclair Lewis, lol, 17. The Quare Fellow ("hiberno-english pronunciation of queer"), and squares, queer S, 18. WHH (William Henry Harrison, White House hellion), only served 30 days! daze, caught a cold, god playing catch, 19. Zeno, what a zero, 20. Rudy at the Roodee, 21. bishop, shopping for bisexuals, 22. ack! acclamation, 23. most of road eyeland is on the mainland (but there IS an eponymous isle), 24. what's the haps? Habsburgs, 25. Russian rush concert, 26. Haiti v. DR, can't we all just get along?, 27. snakes on hiss-paniola, 28. chewing gum in Montgomery, 29. smoking a joint, finger joint, joint resolution, spike lee joints, 30. throwing allies under the bus, and Falstaff, 31. my name is mud, Harvey mudd, and the mud march, soldiers in the shit, muddy waters, mudwater, 32. Bernie burned by the Berne convention, 33. brother athletes from the Balkans, 34. Jen from Genoa, 35. daylight savings time, dissed (disrespected), 36. quod, quad, Guadalcanal, 37. reds with a blood fetish, 38. unarmed citizens, sitting, zen like, without arms, lol, 39. hussars from the USSR, yessir, 40. egrets with regrets, in the negro league, 41. Apollo 14... troop 14, rah, 42. moon landing, Plymouth Rock landed on us, 43. Buddha, buddy, Budd, smoking bud, budo, and (bad bed bid bod boo'd), 44. Biden and Baden-Powell, 45. Lithuanian rock (-lithic), 46. seecefyre, 47. glide and collide, what a ride, 48. Sarah-money ceremony.
February 10
1. Wayne's way, 2. Hulegu, hu the hul ru, (grandson of Genghis Khan), 3. my paleontology pal, 4. Lancaster, MA (and CA), 5. UC system (Upper Canada!), 6. Voltaire, high voltage, revolting, and voldemort, 7. Champqubert and Qbert, video game, 8. Bonaparte, blown apart, 9. Pushkin, dying from treachery, let that be a lesson, 10. "queen Victoria detested babies, pregnancy, and childbirth, but produced 9 children", 11. Giselle, named after the Great Salt Lake (?), 12. Brigham Young gets old, 13. PT Barnum, and PT boats, and Peggy Teshara, 14. schist rock and fascists, and Hard Rock Cafe, 15. Dreadnought, and at peace, without dread, wearing dreadlocks, tuff gong, when the going gets tough..., 16. Gary Kasparov beat Big Blue, 3 wins, 2 ties, 1 loss ('96), 17. did he who made Charles lamb make thee?, 18. Jesse G. Vincent, designed the first V-12 engine, 19. Boris Pasternak, pastor, out to pasture, knickknacks, boring past, stern, tern, turns, urns, and dr. Zhivago, written long ago, 20. Tilden, tennis champion, park namesake, 21. Jimmy Durante, J.D., 22. Big Mac and "Super Mac" (Harold Macmillan, British pm), 23. an Oxford riot! (over beer quality!), 24. the sex is over in Saxe-Coburg, 25. anglican anglo anglers wearing angora sweaters in angola, 26. Texas Tech! cool name, and sex eh?, 27. Michael krasny is such a bore (and the battle of Krasny Bor), 28. Powers for Abel, powerfully able, 29. singing in Korea, Kaesong and kwangmyongsong, 30. carne carnage at the carnival, 31. the dope says this is some dope dope, 32. earn some euros working for the bureau, 33. soccer jock takes some knocks, 34. fame and fortune, rich and porch, 35. simile, homily, family, and amelie, 36. chewing chow at church: chex, churros, chervil, cherries, and chorizo!, 37. a pan of prawns, penning puns, and pinning down the pawn, 38. chiromancy in Cairo, 39. nature, nurture, and legislature, armature, ligature; a picture capturing texture, 39. wax and wane, sacks of grain, with an ax, insane, your brain on smack, attacking Jane, lax security on the plane.
February 11
1. suicide "fad" in Japan (!), 2. jews and J, ew (me?), 3. Francis Drake (f and d), 4. Rene Descartes dies in Sweden, I think, therefore I am (no longer), 5. Sacajawea, (sock o' jaw way uh), shoshone, shows, sho' nuf, 6. nickname, not nick, 7. Jesse Fell, of PA, and cheap, clean-burning anthracite coal, 8. herr, hair, hare, 9. dear lord, (a vision of) vm sighted at Lourdes, 10. canonized is not shot by a cannon, 11. Cardinal Gaspari and gasping for air (!), 12. General Motors, and cars for generals, 13. a vision of fission, 14. a cruiser's crew, 15. Yalta, and yelling, y'all, at Yale, 16. Ohsumi satellite (oh? sue me?), 17. MT, Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Teshara, Eminem - feel so empty without me, 18. blood sugar isn't bullshit, 19. TAE, Thomas Alva Edison, taebo, movies/light bulbs/phonograph, and over a thousand other devices, de-vice, Miami vice, 20. SS, wrote windmill of the gods (moved over the face of the deep, a breath of fresh air, or hot air), Sidney Sheldon, vicious shell, 21. King Farouk, king or rook, going far, 22. Burt Reynolds, and Ernie, Reynolds wrap, aluminum recycling center, 23. Sergio Mendes, are you into S and M?, 24. the best beast, 25. Nero is my hero, along with DeNiro, 26. the universe undone at the university of London, 27. ee cummings, emperor of Ethiopia, hi Lou, 28. kingdom of a wad, (Awadh), 29. Amadeo, am a god, or at least a king of Spain, king of pain, 30. Vienna, v in ya, 31. kicking the bucket in Bukit, 32. international relations, and the Iranian revolution, 33. VV, vicar verser, victor verster prison, 34. vw, and violence against women, 35. Saratov airlines, and Sara.
February 12
1. Kant can't cunt, says Kent, (also, Kunta Kinte), 2. peach, mint, and impeachment, 3. p.c. Peter's chair, 4. who was Mary Tudor's tutor? two doors, 5. soothing or seething?, 6. east-west, ew, jew, schism, schizo, 7. fugitive slave law, fu, 8. Jose de San Martin, and JSM (Julie, Sam, Miette), 9. gr, gold rush, Gershwin, glorious revolution, Chuck Yeager, yay-gr, anger, hunger, 10. deliverance, includes delivering ants (also god's creatures), 11. T'ung, china's last emperor (6 years old), the Chinese tongue, mandarin or cantonese?, 12. beleaguered leagues, 13. caw, Cambodian Angkor wat, buddhist temple, crowded with crows and cro-magnons, 14. Anatoly Scharansky, Anna, 'Shara, 15. fast asleep, breakfast, Belfast, and haste, 16. Swammerdam, swimming in a dam, a sea of blood, 17. CD, Charles Darwin, toe, theory of evolution, 18. A link to Lincoln, honest Abe, ha, war is the art of deception, 19. Omar Bradley, Roma, Rameau, fighting vehicle, generally gentle, 20. playwright, play right, don't cheat, DC!, 21. RC, Russian cosmonaut, 22. BR, Bill Russell, bad religion, bromine, blade runner, Baskin Robbins, 23. vascular Vasco de Gama, 24. Iago from Santiago, 25. ogling Oglethorpe, 26. creek indians, eeking out a living, 27. take a lap around the equator, Galapagos, Ecuador, 28. anarchist antichrist, 29. Harold and the purple crayon, and colored people, 30. a. bowl of men, bolsheviks and mensch, Vicki, 31. ribs, r.i.p., rhapsody in blue, 32. adi da ("conscious light") and operation deadlight, 33. toe, theory of everything, touch of evil, ow, orson Welles, 34. wow. 10 year olds torture and murder a 2 yo..., 35. Clinton's lint brush, 36. Slobodan was a bit slow, 37. core bad, in khorramabad, 38. a meeting of two primates, lol, 39. carol, krill, kirill, ill kills, 40. mastodons celebrating mass in Macedonia.
February 13
1. n-gr mugger, 2. the bombastic balderdash of Wagner, I'll wager, 3. CS Lewis, cs monitor, and Charles Schulz, 4. RA, raise an army, 5. church, and Catherine Howard, 6. Tycho Brahe, taiko drums, aikido, aiko aiko all day, brassiere, 7. sam, sun and moon, 8. Galileo Galilei, and 2 gals, 9. driven from the throne, and thrown from the driven, 10. LT, lake tanganyika, yikes, tan, zany in Tanzania, crazy as a Cray computer, insane in the Seine, and mad in Madagascar, 11. Jesse James was a confederate vet, 12. Yo, Han, waltz and Great Wall, and Walt Disney, 13. quintuplets, let up, 14. Alexander Fleming, phlegming, A and F, shared Nobel Prize, no bells or whistles, 15. dim sum and Sumatra, in the summer, 16. Budapest, and Buddhist pests, insects in sects, gr - got religion, big, believing in god, holy, in holes, 17. Hungary, hungry, Gary is hung, a hunk in a noose, 18. the power of horses, and horsepower, 19. Barbie dolls, named after Ruth Handler's children, Barbara and Kenneth, (Mattel has sold over a billion dolls), 20. hard-liners and soft-liners, hawks and doves, eagles and owls, 21. Huckleberry Finn, hedge fund, heart failure, high five, 22. Sophie tucker, red hot momma, saint, 23. wingy manone, taking flight, an angel, one man, 24. caroling Farrell, Will Ferrell, 25. Stephen Segal, George Segal, and seagulls, 26. Oliver Reed, read all of her, 27. Jerry Springer, SJ (lol), 28. Stockard, in the stock yard, 29. kings and rulers, taking measurements, 30. Glen Coe, Scotland and the Church of England, 31. chianti in Giyanti, 32. Borat from Banat, 33. sensei senses the senne, 34. doll eye law ma, 35. Was Nero a negro?, 36. a ton of phlegm on my jersey, in Flemington, NJ, 37. germs? hunger? blood? buddha? pests? (germany, hungary, red army, siege of Budapest), 38. Marsden in Dresden, 39. nuclear jerboa?! lol, 40. Dead Sea scrolls and a dead See, 41. lunch counter, how many lunches? launches? lynchings?, 42. coso artifact and Kosovo, 43. anal hoods at the hood canal bridge, 44. Naples, Nepal, nipples, and the nape of your neck, 45. suicide girls and the stolen generations, 46. a poon rash, and Pune, Maharashtra, 47. Attila the Umatilla.
February 14
1. Cpt. James Cook, JC, his goose is cooked, 2. mob killings in Chicago, Chica-gone and went, 3. Valentine's Day, and vd, 4. Candlemas, xmas, and Swiss miss, 5. canonized, and shot in the eye, bloodshot, 6. jews in sin-erated, 7. Bolingbroke, and going broke, bowling, 8. starving stars, 9. Pinta beans (Nina and nine inch nails), 10. bats, burned at the steak, 11. why, Hawaii?, 12. hobbling, and defeated, 13. well-heeled souls, 14. Jim Marquis and the marquis of Queensberry, 15. Suspension bridge, and suspense films, 16. Socialite, shedding social light on social darkness, 17. given fire, and returning fire, 18. micro-mike, tiny Tim, small Mel, and itty bitty Mitt, big up yourself, 19. Salman eats salmon, dying from rush (drug), 20. you are as a deep wave, Honduras, 21. impermanence, in Perm, Russia, 22. ordaining ordure, holy shit, 23. Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, he's the right type, 24. Jack Benny and bennies (benzodiazepines? benzedrine), 25. Edmund George Love, and Courtney, a god and goddess, 26. Florence Henderson, Ricky Henderson, Mr. Anderson.. and arson, our sun, 27. resigned to submitting my resignation, but dominating Dominicans, 28. Gregory Hines, and a gory highness, 29. Kasserine Pass, in Tunisia, 2 asses, or the ass of an ass, 30. vicious dad, abbasid, 31. moo (cow) gall (wasp), Mughal, 32. citizen robots, voting machines, lol, 33. a bowl of chili, in Bolivia and Chile, 34. tig notaro and contiguous states, 35. Strait of Malacca and (Steve) Malakis, 36. an offensively odorous fistula, (and the Vistula-Oder offensive), 37. Star Wars and Mostar, 38. a basset hound in the Knesset, 39. QR code, quiet revolution, 40. Adolph Dubs and Warriors (go dubs!), 41. Fraudulent Frodo, 42. University of California, and Union Carbide, 43. a mass shooting in Bangalore, 44. Yaounde, ya one day, (Cameroon), 45. tinted windows? dy-no-mite!, 46. Davao City, and ow, Dave, 47. annoying ill gunman in Illinois, 48. massacre requiring catholic mass and acres of land, for aches and pains.
February 15
1. Marlon Brando and Marlen Knusel, and Marx/Lenin, 2. suffering suffragists, 3. Socrates, such a tease, 4. Knights Hospitaller, and nights in the hospital, 5. Cistercian sisters, 6. mustard, and laxatives, must turd, (not an analgesic, for pain), (diuretics don't make you die, either), 7. Islam, and St. Louis, Missouri, 8. Chestnut, and nuts about chess, 9. "permanent" international court of justice, for war crimes tri-bunals, trying tri-als (3? false cognate), 10. Anton Cernak and FDR (ACFD, grades), 11. Bismarck, earning a mark of B, 12. BM, Benedictine monastery, bombed, shit!, 13. Russia and China, mutual defense, "impossible to defeat", eating D and F, 14. atomic reactor, and the reactive mind; mine, mined, 15. Dakar, Senegal - cynical about driving, 16. submersible, have mercy on us, 17. S and M, in Santa Monica, 18. decimating and mating in December, 19. Richard Feynman, a fine man, 20. NorKor and berserkers, 21. yin and yang in Hengyang, 22. Obi won Kenobi, in Kenya, Nairobi, 23. sabotage, arbitrage, menage-a-trois, and garbage, 24. prime minister, the primary primate, 25. an anthem for Jeremy Bentham, 26. John Sutter's bread and butter, muttering about clutter, utterly in the gutter, Hutterites, nutters.. 27. grim reaper, and McCormick's mechanical reaper, 28. Shackleton, breaking free of his shackles, freedom and liberty, not confined or enslaved, 29. RC, remote control, race-car, 30. the pitch for capitulation, 31. Theodosius made me nauseous, 32. Khosrau caused a row, 33. prrr-sian cat, 34. prodromal symptoms at the hippodrome, 35. Anglo-French war (a or f? ace or flunk?), 36. a nerd named Ferdinand knows his ferns, 37. in the Moldavian mold, moldy, 38. SIT, Steven Institute of Technology, 39. Have Mercy, Havana, 40. is rum a serum?, sebum, 41. assault on your salty ass, 42. Narva? the nerve!, 43. what's up, university of Pennsylvania!, 44. distant early warning, much less pleasant than dew, 45. sighting satan, 46. Dahmer got life, so what's eating you?, 47. Halle (Belgium) burials.
February 16
1. Cave City, KY and K-Y, cavities, concavity, caving in, calves, konk, and Boulder, 2. FC, Fidel Castro, FB, Fulgencio Batista, 3. growing clementines in inclement weather, 4. tales of brave Ulysses (s. Grant), 5. thieves in Thebes, 6. how are you, Howard?, the word ward, 7. ubiquity of bic lighters, big lies, and bickering, 8. Cylons wearing nylon at the salon, sail on, to Ceylon, 9. urgency in Bergen, Candace and Edgar, 10. Bataan, bait on, tawny bay, 11. chop, hell (chopper, helicopter), 12. warmongers like killmonger and fishmongers, 13. tet offensive and and tats on tits, taught tots, tight rope and taut, and king tut, tut tut, 14. Saturday night fever, and peeved at reever weavers, 15. I.D., Ivan Demjanjuk, terrible arable wearables, 16. helled responsible, 17. hey, T! Hi, Lee! Haiti and Haile Selassie, 18. Johannes Rau, it's easier to ask forgiveness than seek permission? prr mission, 19. trippy Tripoli, 20. frigate? fuggedaboutit!, 21. theremin therapy, 22. ha, Henry Adams, 23. Charles Take Russell, JW founder, don't tase me bro!, 24. snug as a bug in a rug, hug; 2b ornette 2b, hornet, ornithology, 25. bunny snowshoes, buenos noches, 26. behra, baritone, bear, bare, 27. Mack n' row (John McEnroe), Big Mac and caviar (roe), 28. Khagan and Elena Kagan and k, again, 29. HL, Hendrick Lonck, 30. in a trance, in Transylvania, 31. Sri Chinmoy in Sri Lanka, 32. marquis vs. marquess?, 33. cpr on the Canadian pacific railway, 34. pharaoh plays faro, 35. Sharia law and Hezbollah, 36. mashed potatoes and mobile army surgical hospital, 37. peace and quiet in Quetta, 38. errata in Kherrata, Algeria.
February 17
1. holy Moliere!, drama queen, like stephen king, 2. "god will forgive me - that's his job", 3. apaches called hospitals "death houses", 4. war of the roses, a rose is still a rose by any other name, rows, roe, arise, 5. bang, bangkok bank banquet, 6. Michael Jordan "on fire," and Giordano Bruno, drink no brew, (beer? coffee? witches? brooding), 7. Miles Standish, lying, sitting; puritan pilgrim, celebrating mass in Massachusetts, 8. Poland is not at a pole, but it's the land of Po, (actually, the Po is in N Italy), 9. Edward Gibbon, literary ape, 10. HR, House of Representatives, home run, Human Resources, 11. draisine patented in 1818, 12. HL Hunley, confederate submersible, heather Locklear, Hannibal Lecter, headline, House of Lords, holy land, HL Hunt, Attila the honey, 13. Blondie Boopadoop and Betty Boop, 14. Truk, Caroline islands, it's a girl my lord, in a flat bed ford.., 15. Wernher, warner. Von Braun, gone. 16. take a proper gander at this propaganda, 17. atomic Tom, a bomb bum, 18. dress casually, fashion police casualty, 19. beetles, Beatles, beadles, and being dull, 20. democracy demography, 21. steth? chest! Seth's stethoscope, stealth health; draisine and visine and magazines, the 'zine scene, 22. MW, Merriam-webster, Montgomery ward, Waltzing Matilda, 23. minister of war says, mow them down, meow, 24. yoyo ma, and Marion Anderson, yo mama jokes, 25. Alan bates, abatement, 26. Rene Russo won the Russo-japanese war?, Rene Laennec, laying and necking, 27. MJ, magic Johnson, Michael Jackson, Mary Jane (marijuana), 28. the taste of "bitter" fighting, 29. funicular funambulist fundamentalist funeral fun, with funding, 30. experimental mentalism, 31. (sentinel!) sent scented sentiment, maybe baby, yours of course, 32. open and shut, pins and shit, stage play, 33. news you can use, an olds to roll, 34. cosmic microwave background radiation, and god starting some static, 35. big bad bodybuilder with a BB gun, 36. kors, marine corps, peace corps, apple corps, michael, 37. push-ups and a push up bra, 38. drowning, pushing down, a down comforter, 39. nao wut?, 40. Rudau and polite pleasure, 41. Mircea, have mercy!, a wall around Wallachia, 42. Miles, making the military march miles, 43. Strait of Magellan, and crooked Ellen, 44. mara the Maratha, 45. Julie and Greg stole a calendar: they each got 6 months!, 46. Mormant and mormon ants, 47. misery in Missouri, compromise a calm promise, oh my, my eyes, 48. zulu zoo, 49. the Saigon cemetery, 50. easy Sue, at the Suez, 51. army armory, 52. Eniwetok Ewoks, 53. l'chaim, Weizmann, Potok, 54. M'ba of Gabon, and an MBA from SMC, 55. Adam and Eve, taking a rest, climbing Everest, 56. ice cream, I scream, blizzards and mudslides, 57. urban Serbia, 58. Gaddafi's coffee, 59. bah! rain!.
February 18
1. you want a casket? ask it!, 2. Gurley magazine, 3. Ernest Hemingway, eh?, 4. caught lying in a cotton cot, 5. effing midgets, and knowing little, 6. mom's whining about malmsey wine, 7. pp, pilgrim's progress, grim pills, progressive progression, aggress and egress, 8. Billy the Kid at Burger King, 9. monster minister of Munster, 10. MPs and the Manhattan project, 11. a platonic relationship with Pluto, 12. stock-car rock star, 13. Mary persecuted Catholics (!), 14. Count Volta says you've got potential, kid, 15. palling around with Palance, 16. Deighton in Dayton, 17. beloved boulevard, blvd, bull vd, Toni Morrison, 18. Yoko and YoYo, oh no, owe no, bono, romo, homo, don't know, solo in yolo, 19. pp, Pulitzer Prize, urine you're in, 20. gone to, and gone in, Ghana, 21. Aisin, ay, sin, 22. white rose movement, a row with the blacks?, 23. annoyed in Hanoi, and Illinois, 24. CS, church of scientology, christian science, cs lewis, common sense, chicago seven, 25. bomb yield, and yield to pedestrians, 26. Ira Gershwin, Irish Republican Army, Individual Retirement accounts, and irate, 27. Indonesia and outdoor-nesia, 28. Chelsea (wo)Manning, 29. riot, wry wit.
February 19
1. timorous Timur, 2. blossom bubbles and buttercup, bubbles the tap dancer, 3. rotation and revolution, Copernicus, copulating cops, 4. prince Andrew, pa, grand old duke of York, 5. Ford Fiesta, Festiva, festival infestation, festering uncle fester, fast fists, 6. slam bam at Bramham, 7. Donner party goners, 8. weather, we at her, 9. serfdom and dumb surfers, 10. Sea of Marmara, mama see?, 11. FDR, feeder, 12. a peel, appeal, pealing of bells, 13. take a lap around the Galapagos, ooze and oz, oxidation of hydrogen sulfide, 14. martian marsh, 15. mukden manchuria, muckety mucks, yakety yak, hip hop, tired of tards, 16. going mental about mentos, mint mentation, 17. jack tells jokes about Jake the jock, 18. beer bar, 19. bike book, the bicycle builder's bible, 20. baking bacon, Kevin, Francis, Roger, 21. button fly, cockroach, 22. hellion rebellion, 23. taco al camaron (shrimp), Cameroon, Cameron Diaz, James Cameron, 24. severely septic Septimius Severus, 25. an idle idol, and a hard-working rock musician, 26. crowned and drowned, 27. Putin aware of Huaynaputina (p.s. peruvian stratovolcano), 28. with the Treaty of Westminster in tow, 29. where's the privy? (supreme privy council, lol), 30. children of trees, and treason, tree-daughter, treats, Cyprus, sigh, 31. Shetland islands, and shithole countries, 32. rotten republic of Texas, 33. necks and annexation, 34. Don survived the Donner party, 35. Sick Sickles (sickle-cell anemia, and temporary insanity), 36. the foes of the phonograph, 37. a tornado outbreak, ax of god, like measly measles, 38. Go Pedro!, president of mexico for 45 minutes (my Knute), 39. don't give me no lip about Gallipoli, lost in space, 40. AA in Addis Ababa, adding baba ganoush, 41. Is Darwin Australia named for Charles?, 42. the seer says, I see (internment camps), Jah and the Japanese, 43. making calculations in Calcutta, 44. Pounding Ezra, 45. I sense a ship (censorship), 46. orgasmic blast at the Oblast, 47. a sounding rocket, a smelly rocket, a tasty rocket, rock and roll, and the rockettes, 48. raising a convict, and raising consciousness, 49. Khanh, convert, controversy, wrath of, 50. Cypriot sipping a riot, mm, delicious, Delhi, 51. lanky Sri Lankans, obese obi wan, 52. odyssey space probe, odysseus, thermal emissions, farts, 53. joggers and track athletes from Iran, e-ron, chevron, chevy chase (person, place, thing), 54. chip off the old block, and shipwreck, 55. prison brawl, crawling priscilla.
February 20
1. Frederick Douglas, FD, bright and black rights, 2. Walter and Walda Winchell, 3. prostate cancer, and antistate statements, 4. logical derivation, financial derivatives, and christianity from judaism, 5. insight into incitement, 6. tack attack, pin pain, tactics, 7. passe pussy posse, 8. Sara from Saragossa, 9. Olustee honesty, 10. periodic table, sometimes used as a desk, 11. wrath of Khan (Iranian), Pahlavi palaver, shah Shaw, 12. Hamas and the Bahamas, 13. Paul's appalling policy, 14. arrested, woke, sleep leap, 15. Ansel Adams, in AA, 16. Gloria Vanderbilt, in Grass Valley, 17. hernia in Hibernia, 18. dowry and the dow, 19. Abbie Hoffman at Westminster Abbey, baby goes wah, in WA, 20. mama gives birth to. Berthier, papal papa poop, 21. battle of salta, an assault on the salty seas, 22. b.s. about the barber of seville, babarous evil, 23. a concept about conceiving at chilly Concepcion, Chile, 24. earthquakes, moonquakes, and sun quakes, 25. Krakow, and painfully detoxing from crack cocaine, 26. trippy triple tripe, 27. MMA and the NYC (metropolitan museum of art), amusing metro muse, cate cat mews, mixed martial arts, an artful mix on Marshall Islands, eye Lynns, 28. I liked taking a leak during Swan Lake, but missing the show makes me loco, 29. Tchaikovsky drinking chai tea, 30. venal convening, 31. shunning 2 cons tits, constitution, 32. smallpox and big pox, 33. fm radio and a futurist manifesto, 34. gory Gori, says Al, 35. lowering down and uprisings, 36. a nun's convent, and everyone at the convention, 37. a painful campaign, 38. kicking your ass, and seating feet (setting foot?), Mick singing, and Caroline Mikkelsen, 39. FA, flying ace, (five or more), 40. MIT and Emmett, 41. MMA, merchant marine academy, 42. AA, and the avro arrow program, Apollo astronauts, 43. John Glenn, pissing in the forest, 44. cast of characters at the China Academy of Space Technology, 45. space satellites, slithering and sliding, hissing hussy, 46. god farted (h2s) in Indonesia in 79, 47. occupation, occupying Mir, merely, 48. NKJV and Nagorno-karabakh, 49. tyranny in Tirana, envy of Enver, Hoxha a hawk?, the mob and the masses, hordes of whores, 50. kamikaze, translated?, divine wind, flatulent fury, 51. f.m., floods and mudslide, eff 'em, d.c. doesn't care, have some madeira my dear, in the mad era, 52. playing kazoo at the zoo in Kalamazoo.
February 21
1. Black Muslims and bm, 2. Manassas, VA, as a man's ass, 3. Marx of the beast, 4. Beck, Becket, and a bickering racket, 5. clerisy heresy, a measure of pleasure, taking a read for a ride, 6. Tamara at Lake Tama, 7. S and M, saint and martyr, 8. Benedict de Spinoza, and bible study b.s., 9. Hollywood Mogul emperor, 10. slim shady and Richard Trevithick, 11. a hokey okie-dokie, 12. conclusion of occlusion, 13. abdicate, abs, dick, kate, 14. Sikh and destroy, 15. incisive commentary, indecisive outcome, 16. obelisk and lutefisk, 17. harlot zealot, eating shallots, 18. magazine issues, and military discharge, 19. Greta Garbo eats garbanzo beans, 20. Tojo, and Joe's toes, 21. Kissinger, kissing her, 22. amused on the Meuse, 23. done with Verdun, 24. Jean Louise Calment, died at age 122 (!), 25. I'm over ya, Segovia, 26. Anais Nin, a nice nun, 27. Murray Kaufman's coffin, 28. Larry Hagman, bag man, 29. effin' Geffen, 30. martyred turd, 31. bishop confessed to torture (!), 32. p.c. Prussian confederation, 33. a welsh whale, or pod (princess of darkness), 34. Sequoia trees and Sequoyah, inventor of Cherokee syllabary, 35. sewing machine, so?, Charlie's mom, 36. a lush at the pub, publishing, 37. directory, direct me to the rectory, 38. monument, sacrament, liniment, ointment, adamant, parliament, government, enlightenment, ., 39. Nick from Munich, 40. constituents in stitches, 41. NRA troops (Chinese), 42. Bengali Language Movement, Black Lives Matter, blam!, balm, bomb, 43. CND, campaign for nuclear disarmament, candy, peace sign, footprint of American chicken, halt 'em, Holtem, 44. ex-Malcolm, 45. psychotropics in the tropics!, 46. Nixon and Saint Nick, santa and satan, 47. normalizing normal eyes, 48. fa, fighter aircraft, a long long way to run, 49. truly a truce, spruce goose, juice for the roose, 50. sentenced to writing sentences, judging judges.
February 22
1. supremacy of the Supremes!, super soup, 2. Andy Warhol and A and W root beer, 3. vampire umpire empire, 4. Edinb-argh!, 5. Hebrew and she brew, 6. hereditary and him blue itary, 7. inept and out, 8. boots on the ground, beaten, bait on a boat, 9. merciful mercenary, 10. a pistol in Bristol, 11. Ho-shen, in the ocean, emotional motion, 12. (Mexican) Battle of Buena Vista, and the (cuban) buena vista social club, 13. faith in Nathan, 14. playing by sense of smell, olfactory golf, 15. military, and a mil for Terry, 16. essay, speech and assembly, 17. laps, lapse, collapse, Galapagos, lap dogs, and laparoscopy!, 18. bat talons and battalions, 19. Sukarno and Suharto (weird), 20. the upshot of Aldershot, 21. ready, Aldrich Ames, fire; aa and firewater, 22. old Nubia, 23. symbols, cymbals, and Abu Simbel, 24. taking acid at Lake Placid, 25. happy birthday, George Washington, from a dirty country, 26. shopping for Schopenhauer and Chopin, 27. healed by helium, 28. hertz, spain, suffering succotash, 29. lord Robert Baden-Powell, and ladies, 30. Marguerite, eating margarine, 31. Jane Bowles, bowling after a bowl of oatmeal, 32. a threnody for Kennedy, 33. dictionary, educated in words, Edward, 34. a nasty death, dynasty, 35. taking a nap in Naples, 36. Medici and ici, 37. a flood of mud, mud bloods, 38. amended, amen, 39. Greenpeace from Fishguard, Wales, 40. James Black was white, 41. what's wool worth? the price of tea in china?, 42. an obelisk for the noble goebbels (oh, bull), 43. around the world, a round the whirled, rifling, 44. Mongolia scores a goal, 45. a cute ex, executed, 46. a thought about Thuot, 47. liaison, luau, raison, lee a zon?, 48. Samuel Byck, bickering about a bic lighter and a benefits i.d. card, 49. miracle on ice, moi?, 50. moose murders opens and closes on the same night, Sam the knight, 51. neon deon and the Eugene o' Neill theater, 52. people power revolution, and Soylent green is people!, 53. Salvador Dali, Dolly Parton, and dolly the (cloned) sheep, 54. freedom of religion in Christchurch, shaken up, 55. rock of ages, for deaf leopards, 56. pah, police, army, 57. Viktor, lost, 58. passengers, messengers, Kissinger, and injury, 59. boats capsize, and the size of your cap?, says the mad hatter.
February 23
1. John Keats, j/k, and tb, tba, tuberculosis: mother, brother, and self (!), poetry called "fricassee of dead dog", 2. JQA, an old roue, ruinated, rumination, 3. Stan Laurel and SNL, 4. dazed knights, 5. purse, perseverance, and persecution, 6. papareschi, il papa, and his paparazzi, 7. conquistadors, adoration, the doors of perception, the doors are now closing, and dorling-kindersley, 8. hiding in Hyderabad, 9. Cornwallis, and amazing corn mazes, 10. John Keats bites the dust, aged 25, 11. tubers and tuberculosis, 12. Alamo, you lame-o, 13. evolution, revolution, and love, 14. Lake Tahoe, and lawn tennis, long-term, 15. Isil, and diesel, 16. sex and candy, footsie and tootsie rolls, 17. remorse code, 18. surfing the airwaves, 19. Iwo Jima, e woe - gee, ma, 20. both sides always commit war crimes, imo, 21. playing polo with polio, 22. Fangio's fangs, 23. Dodgers drive dodges, 24. Schindler's list, Liszt's notions, and chandler's handlers, 25. Pepys drinks Pepsi, 26. Handel and dull, 27. cheers, chairs, chores, and charity, 28. Watts, English painter, a riot of color, 29. getting to the heart of Burghardt, 30. wrestling with Wesselman, 31. chasing Sylvia, 32. fond of Fonda, Peter, Henry, Jane, 33. Boesak, and Sacto (Sacramento), 34. a jones for Howard Jones, 35. Diocletian, dying of lesions, 36. media in Nicomedia, 37. this just in, Justinian is building something for that hag, Sophia, 38. assayers, writing essays, for Sasanians, 39. going mobile (The Who), and (non-sedentary) hunter-gatherers, and the movable type (Gutenberg), making moves, movies, gypsies on the move, migratory, great tories, 40. von Steuben eats a reuben, 41. cabernet, cabaret, cabins, cabinets, and ministers, monsters, minestrone, mastery, mysteries.. , 42. Shakespeare conspiracy, that's the spirit!, 43. passing the SAT in San Antonio Texas, 44. BM in Baltimore, MD, 45. union and me onion, 46. trustworthiness, and anti-trust law, 47. honking tonka trucks in Tonkin, 48. Brainerd and brainy nerds, 49. stinky air of the privy, in the riviera, 50. CAD, grades, cpt. Alfred Dreyfus, such a cad, 51. first fist, brits take hits, 52. in perpetuity, and 2 perpetrators, 53. RC, rotary club, first service club, 54. AEA, aerial experiment association, atomic energy agency, 55. SP, St. Petersburg, 56. FCC, poor grades, Calvin Coolidge, too, 57. what's up? the uncertainty principle, 58. hell's bells, Belgium, Benelux elect, and ineluctable eructation, and Annie Lennox, 59. Borg on Pluto (Seaborg isolates plutonium), 60. Who's Saint Barbara?, s and m, saint and martyr, Hanna-Barbara cartoons, car tunes, road trip, trippy Rhodes scholars, 61. gr, greek resistance, 62. gushing about the Ingush, 63. tao, the textbook airborne operation, 64. polish polls, 65. soviet, so what, a v, 66. Salk vaccines, soccer, socks, stream of consciousness, sociology, and socks the cat, 67. Salah Jadid (s.j.) did the deed, St. Jerome, 68. firing a scud missile, at the spanish congress of deputies, 69. toxic dioxin, Missouri misery, 70. shut up about Saddam Hussein, 71. struck structures, 72. Ankara turkey and ankhs, ankles, and uncles, 73. Iraq attack!, 74. Bob from Al-Bab, 75. pry it open, prison riot.
February 24
1. church, and cerebral hemorrhage, 2. eagles, beagles, seagulls, and bagels, bogle, boggle, 3. Kent was a cunt, 4. wondering wanderer, with a wand and the wind, 5. gag me with a spoon, Gagliano, 6. Nadir Shah and apex twin, Ralph Nader and aphex, 7. AI, Agustin de Iturbide, 8. emperor at an emporium, 9. wailing in Wales, weeping and gnashing of teeth in the nation, 10. indemnity for dems, 11. colt revolver, and Coltrane, 12. googling Nikolai Gogol, 13. eviction, conviction, factions, action, and fiction, 14. only 1 survivor (of 769) of the torpedoed Sturma, sturm und drang, 15. black beauty, and white sands, 16. Pulsar, taking your pulse, and compulsion, 17. George Washington and the gulf war, 18. AOE, accumulation of everything, 19. admiral, admiring all, 20. tank you, Kurt Tank, 21. Legrand knows the score, 22. theology of Theo (Bosch, absurd nonsense!), 23. happy birthday, Steve Jobs, s.j., 24. commandos, commanding O (omg, o-sensei...), 35. Han, hand, handle, handel, and Anne, dull, 36. ass, masses, take a pass, and lasses with glasses, 37. Huneric, honey, are you vandalizing those perfectly nice nicene bishops again?, 38. St. Ignatius, and Scottish independence, 39. King assassinated at Buda, 40. pavlov in Pavia, 41. progress in bohemian grove, Prague Bohemia, 42. zap! king Zapolya, of hungry crow ate ya, 43. orphans watch L'Orfeo, 44. Ronaldo watching Rinaldo, 45. carnal desire and the battle of Karnal, 46. what constitutes destitution? restitution to an institution, 47. Choctaws outlined in chalk, 48. Andrew Johnson and AJ (apple juice), 49. Edvard Grieg drank grog with greg, 50. esssay on Spanish-American war, 51. Hanssen with Hansen's disease, 52. ant, Arizona New Mexico Texas, and ww1 Zimmerman telegram, 53. fa, false alarm, 54. (biblical) Job has a job, slogging through Japanese-occupied Burma, 55. the present president, in mindfulness meditation, open mind, closed mines, 56. AA, armistice agreements, 57. sitting, at the citadel, who's Hue?, 58. AI, all India, Arab-israeli, artificial intelligence, amnesty international.. 59. playing Tuba in Yuba county, 60. CAF, grades, cuban Air Force, 61. subdue, do sub, U-boats and subway sandwiches, going under, 62. hugs and kisses in Oxnard.
February 25
1. why was he named "bluebeard"?, 2. Tennessee William, "don't look forward to the day you stop suffering - because when it comes you'll know that. you are dead", 3. nicotine, teenage nick, and Nicanor, 4. conversation about conversion, 5. pd and the death penalty, 6. Pius, pious, and pie us!, 7. silence and ex-communication, silent night, holy knight, 8. porn, and the url of sex, earl of essex, 9. high treason, low treason, and goodly tall trees, 10. fly fly, sir christopher wren, ascent, assent, a scent, uh sent, 11. privy to the location of the privy, 12. grouchy at Grochow, 13. the war on crime, and the crimean war, on top of the treaty of Paris, 14. pay the piper with paper, 15. Revels, revelation, revel in your time, 16. empress dowager, dow, kuang hsu, kung fu, 17. vc, vacuum cleaner, 18. incense, censorship, the census, and common sense, 19. brass tacks and the gas tax, 20. drive-in movies, dim mak, 21. Mitchum's bitch, 22. HMS Ark Royal, an aircraft carrier (and beastly humans), 23. Pierre Auguste Renoir, par for the course, film noir, 24. Dulles, avoiding excitement, likes things nice and dull!, 25. Dame Myra Hess, same day, birth/death, 26. keeping it real, fighting bull, 27. ooey gooey was a worm, mr. magoo, goodness!, 28. Anthony burgess and Jess, 29. George Harrison, and (Kamala) Harris sin (vice! weepy veep). in the champion camp! a gem dem :-), democrat at bat, go Joe!, 30. god of luxury, and the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, 31. Tbilisi, tibble-easy?, says George from Georgia, 32. anger of rangers, camp ranger and USS Ranger (aircraft carrier), 33. and, Amsterdam Netherlands Dutch, 34. ooze and oz and jaws of jews, 35. your impression of the Prussian press?, 36. isp, internet service provider, and the Hungarian independent smallholders party, 37. coup d'etat and back in the day, 38. cops and a cult of personality, 39. Surinamese surnames!, 40. Ferdinand Marcos, f 'm., 41. Budapest, Buddha of the past, pissed at pustules, postulants, and blog posts.
February 26
1. Southerners didn't have the industrial capacity to copy the Gatling gun (they might've won with it, no?), 2. Yakety yak (he didn't come back), 3. cedar, seether, crusaders, sadists, and seder, 4. Fred and Frida, 5. Britney wants to know if any brits are in Brittany, 6. be nice, Venice, 7. when I dip you dip we dip, dying in prison, 8. Denmark of the beast, 9. sweet Sweden, 10. No way! Norway!?, 11. isle, aisles, exile, and miles of smiles, 12. Jessica Alba in Elba, 13. steeplechase? chasing waterfalls?, 14. pneumatic, illmatic, new mattock, 15. microbe, your crobe, 16. lexicographer in a Lexus, 17. Becquerel at your beck and call, 18. wintun Indians, wonton soup, Winston Churchill, wanton desire, and the Winton Bullet, 19. Pontiff in a Pontiac, 20. goring Goering, toro y moi, 21. cabinet members (and jeffrey dahmer), 22. ps, passenger ship, 23. strippers, all mine, at the strip-mine, 24. victor hugo and loser boozer, 25. Buffalo Creek and Buffalo Bill, 26. Jackie Gleason, ack, glee, 27. Betty Hutton, in a hut, you bet, 28. Washington and Novak, wash and no vacuum, 29. Johnny Cash, Czech, charge of the light brigade, I.M. Pei, 30. Ian's valentine, Valentinian, 31. Eva Braun and Ava kingdom, 32. eos, earth orbits sun, greek goddess of dawn, 33. piracy, race, pie, writ, and trafficking in humans, arms, and drugs, 34. (christians)Borg in Copenhagen?, 35. elbows from Elba, 36. Susan's suzerainty, 37. boat sisters (ha), brothers grim, 38. grand canyon, and Anne, 39. TV and the treaty of versailles, verse sigh (all is vanity), 40. gg, governor-general, golly gosh, 77, Star Wars, and Nepal, 41. one bee, and Apollo program, Saturn rocket (didn't go to Saturn, I think) 42. you can't do what U Thant did! earth day, a day of mirth, 43. what is the earth's worth?, 44. line at the supermarket, and the Superliner (Amtrak) train, 45. a dip in diplomatic relations, taking a dip under the great dipper, the dapper going deeper, 46. jolly at Khojaly?, 47. Jackie Gleason and Nick Leeson, what a joke, 48. derailed train of thought, runaway trains, and training/practice, runaways on the runway, 49. hot air about hot air ballooning, 50. Balakot apricots, 51. 279 girls (ages 10-17) kidnapped in Nigeria (in 2021) !!
February 27
1. can a child commit adultery?, 2. Red Skelton, and a bloody skeleton, 3. Constantinople has no pull, 4. awesome trees in Austria, 5. dhampirs put a damper on Dampier's dumper, 6. John Evelyn and evel knieval, 7. come on, commons, 8. sick lawyers, and illegal unlawful criminality, UCI, UC Irvine, 9. Fat Tuesday and even fatter Wednesday, dog, day of gluttony, MG automobile, mardis gras, 10. care to ride a carriage?, 11. aftermath, and prior calculations, 12. a sack of saccharine, 13. fm, flying machine, 14. Neutron, newt and Ron, jc, James Chadwick, 15. stags, staggering, reichstag, and going stag, 16. laureate, lorry it, 17. barley and haunted borley, boring law, 18. java sea, hot coffee, and a jaw full of lava, 19. political dissent of the police department, do not tarry, military, 20. leaning tower of pizza, 21. AIM toothpaste and the American Indian movement, 22. objects, abject, objection, objectives, 23. exoplanets, xoxo, 24. on the account of sex, lol, 25. Wordsworth and Wadsworth, 26. Longfellow and short fellow, 27. in debt to Dame Ellen Terry, 28. dames, and damsels in distress, damn stress, 29. dodge, (Hubert) Parry, thrust, 30. Ah, Alice Hamilton, 31. the sonic caresses of Caruso, 32. John Steinbeck, s.j., 33. Durrell and Duracell, 34. Elizabeth Taylor and E.T., 35. Ralph Nader, nadir, apex, aphex, aphid, Nadia, naughty ya, 36. Nicene christianity, a nice scene, nativity scene, all the world's a stage, in stages, chris and Anne, chi, and sanity, 37. ants in Constantinople, constantly, 38. emperor Taizu, at the thai zoo, 39. Eudocia, you go, CIA!, 40. lao and the Liao dynasty, die, dining, nasty rhinoplasty, 41. treaty of Berwick, the candle's wick is burning, brr, 42. crowned king of the kkk, getting ack-ack, 43. Baltic Sea and balkans and balls, 44. angry Ian in the Ingrian war, 45. a donkey playing donkey kong, with the key to Liaodong? says Lao Tzu, 46. Niu Briten, new spelling, 47. prison hulk, and hulk hogan, and the amazing hulk, 48. Lord Byron, hears a siren, oh the irony, of a fiery diary, 49. the doctor from DR hates Haiti, 50. King George, gorgeous, in charge, gorging on margarine, munching on lunch at Munchen, 51. all over, near Dover, 52. vampire listens to Enya, in Vienna, 53. Kamen eats ramen, Ruben eats reuben, and cars make carbon-14 (rah!), 54. die, dutch east indies, 55. true to Trujillo, 56. AI, artificially-induced (abortions), American Indians, accelerating inflation, 57. hospice, under the auspices of oss-piss, 58. waiting to lose weight in Kuwait, 59. faith in the Firth of Forth, 60. a muslim mob torches a train, in Godhra (I didn't even make this up), 61. Shoko Asahara, Teshara is not Japanese, sho' nuf, 62. sarin, sahrawi, sahara, sarajevo, and Sara, 63. Menznau, Switzerland, and woman's-then, his-story.
February 28
1. HL Mencken, and Hannibal Lecter, Incan, 2. smuggling through customs, is it customary? the customer is always right, 3. Cambridge, and Bridget came, 4. consult, and console, the consul, cancel culture, 5. witches covens, convents, conventions, and covenants, 6. on trial for falling asleep in church, lol, 7. lostlings and foundlings, 8. Tom Jones, Thomas Jefferson, and JT, John Tyler, 9. in the maw of the Mexican American war, 10. legislature and armature, 11. free blacks and expensive whites, 12. tearing up the territory, 13. an essay on synthetic abrasives, 14. Boer bores, 15. uninhabitable siberian jewish district as a buffer against china, and cyber buffering, 16. tryna help china, 17. $460 Model A Fords, 18. Gone with the wind, and Tuesday, 19. beachheads, warheads, and beavis and butthead, 20. suicide bombers, and a supreme being, somebody, 21. well-endowed museum, lol, 22. MG, Mikhail Gorbachev, 23. missiles, missus, don't miss, the long, medium, and short, of it, (wow, how phallic metallic), 24. David Koresh, and dk books, apok running amok, 25. Boz scags and Bosnia, 26. nautical miles are longer than regular miles, ("about 1.2"), 27. Through the looking glass, and a bleeding, shredded mess, 28. don't fall into Niagara Falls, 29. Linus Pauling, minus appalling, plus peace, 30. Bugsy Siegel, bugs and seagulls, doing what was in his nature, 31. Sir Stephen Spender (hey big spender), 32. Zero Mostel, Zorro, a real nobody, the euro, hostile, hostel, and a fossil apostle, 33. you're O, euro, 34. BM, British museum, benedictine monastery, 35. liu bang and shot (bang) while using the bathroom (loo), 36. making a mockery of Cuahtemoc, 37. Allah wrote the Kalevala, 38. uncivil civilians, 30k killed, in Taiwan '47, 39. JW and FC announce discovery of structure of DNA ('53), 40. Count Dracula counting on counties and containers in countries, 41. Elliot See couldn't, 42. Moorgate wasn't, 43. a referendum on reefers, 44. chutes and ladders, and statutes and law doctors, 45. SF, season finale, sci-fi, San Francisco, -ucks, and society of friends, 46. stocking the pantry in Stockholm, 47. whacko in Waco, 48. grabbing a gerbil, Gerber and garb, and gamma-ray bursts, 49. memory of a military memorandum, bok bok! chicken in turkey, 50. cattle from Seattle, 51. Gujarat, goo J- T-ara (should I take this personally?), vlad tepes takes everything personally, tepid response, tepper, teepee, indian drowned in his tea pee (joke punchline), a line to punch, stoning the devil, and the movie Airplane, spiking the punch, Spike (Buffy), and putting the v in volleyball, 52. Tai want ease, not the difficulty of cults, 53. bombing the mortuary (embalming).
February 29
1. Melvin Purvis, 2 v's, a perv is he?, "I'm a perv" anagram of 'vampire', 2. PEN (public enemy number), pentitentiary, the penitent man shall pass, 3. Honen, honing his Buddhist mastery, 4. sectarians and aryan sex, 5. Christopher Columbus' magic trick: making the moon lose its light, 6. Martin LuTHEr, William Tyndale, tinder - kindling - fuel (tender kind fool), 7. q and a, Queen Anne, who won? 8. bill gates, brigadier general, big guy, 9. my lawn in Milan, concerned in Lucerne, wit in Switzerland, 10. solid helium, healing him, do me a solid, 11. socratic and democratic in the attic, 12. was Horthy worthy?, 13. bored at church, kneels boar, Niels Bohr, 14. prime minister, prime numbers, prime rib, and minestrone soup, 15. raising funds, for a city on a hill, 16. psychlo-tron, 17. running a marathon, and running for re-election, 18. Playboy Clubs, very pc, 19. South Korea fought in Viet Nam, Skor scored, 20. a demonstrating archbishop (demon op?), 21. bill's building, 22. cats in Peru, 23. calm.com, 24. Rossini and rossignol skis, 25. Holland, Irish, hauling ass, inventor of first true submarines, navy audiovisual (a.v.), and aviary aviation, 26. Nemerov, Pulitzer Prize Poet (plus novels, and short stories) ppp, alliteration, littering my letters, 27. batting away Batavians, 28. ready, willing, and Abel (Tasman), 29. nbc and mbc, Massachusetts bay colony (sneezing at mass), 30. Bar Confederation (pass the "bar" exam!) of the polish nobility, no bull, 31. JT and the Jay Treaty, 32. St. Petersburg, FL (S and P), 33. Atua (almighty in Tokelau), take a toke, clock is tickin', Tolkien, a tike named took, 34. adopted and adapted, 35. int on incidence of ent incidents, 36. AA, academy award, 37. earnest Ernest, scary Larry, and piggy Peggy, 38. Agadir, Morocco, and agh! my dear, 12k xx, 39. 2-2, Desmond Tutu, and ballet tutus (tout), 40. faucet, Fossett, Farrah Fawcett, Faucett (airline), and fa - sit!, 41. cheech and chong and the Chechens, 42. fabricating fabric, and fables, and fabulous faberge eggs, 43. doing happy at Doha.
