(from Grim Reaper’s book of days, then Today in History (book), then Wikipedia)
-GR, TH, W-
May 1
GR: 1. Aries missionaries, 2. Livingstone, dead as a doornail, 3. Subject and supra-ject?, abject injection project, 4. Henry the hen, 5. Satan law and Stanley, 6. Searching the Sur, 7. Henry Stanley’s high school, 8. Died, karma for deeds, dude, 9. Suffering fluffer, Woody would get wood, 10. Bruce Lee, badly, 11. The hemorrhoids of my garment, 12. The cowboy spurned spurs, but sported a sportcoat, 13. Insurgents in surgery, 14. colorectal, that’s correct, 15. Tears for fears, beers for cheer, steer to avoid a deer, and synesthesia: seers of things they hear (here! here!), 16. Invalid? In-valid! outvalid (!?), 17. Polish sailor tied to a pole, sailing toward the N Pole, 18. Burying Barry, the bear, 19. Getting an ulcer in Ulster, 20. A complicated compliment, 21. Essay about a skywriting airplane, 22. rotten in Barotseland, 23. David Livingstone drives a Volvo DL, (lazy and dumb!), 24. (Charlie Osborne): 68 years of hiccuping (every 1.5 seconds!), holy shit, TH: 25. John Dryden, j.d.; JD power and associates, deejay, 26. poesy and heresy, 27. Wham! and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 28. Figaro eats figs, I figure, 29. buffalo bill Cody used a Springfield (not a BB gun), 30. Super Grover and grover s. Cleveland!, 31. Saw the spanish-american war, wrote an essay, 32. beacons and bacon, 33. ESB and ESP, (Empire State Building, extra-sensory perception), 34. I just adore Tommy Dorsey, 35. Louis CK and citizen kane, 36. proper propaganda, 37. original origami or gin, 38. Jackie the jockey, 39. SP, spy plane, 40. Khrushchev's crew, 41. nasty Anastasio, unique Nicaragua, 42. pristine Priscilla, 43. Amtrak, am on track, destiny, to be railroaded, into.. 44. QT city (Quang Tri, Vietnam), 45. PS, psychological stress, 46. crime, crying, and discrimination, 47. elves rule, and pillows (PLO self-rule), 48. Gus Grissom, astronaut, and Gil Grissom (csi character, tv show), 49. the crystal palace had a glass ceiling, 50. Joseph Addison, Joe Summers, Joe the plumber, Joe Strummer, 51. George Inness, and Guinness, 52. Calamity Jane, known for "riotous behavior and unladylike appearance", 53. Joseph Heller and a bird of paradise, 54. Scott Carpenter (astronaut) and Karen Carpenter, W: 55. Maximian to the maximum!, 56. Diocletian died of...(some theorize suicide), 57. 'Nea Ekklesia' ('new church'), and an ecclesiastical (of or relating to the church or clergy) Neo (matrix character), 58. Norm is a normal Norman, 59. merciful mercenaries, 60. Erin and Scott, Irish and Scottish, 61. Isabella, beautiful Jesus, 62. Nauvoo, Illinois and now vous, you be illin' , 63. my pal Chris, at the crystal palace, 64. confederates fated to win the battle of Chancellorsville?, 65. an emphasis on Memphis, 66. race riots (1866) and an ace diet, 67. 46 and 2, just ahead of me, forensics and Jesus, 68. working on international worker's day, 69. cock and arm, Coxey's Army, 70. Mercalli intensity, in Cali city?, 71. dwarf planet, a planet of dwarves, lol, 72. the vampire state building, 73. pills at the bar, in Pilbara, strike that, 74. mayday!, mayday!, 75. have you seen the vaccine? it's pink, 76. Vickers Viking crashes at Blackbushe, 77. hampering Hampshire, 78. powerless Francis Gary Powers, 79. bawl if they abolish ball, 80. a lambo in Cambodia, 81. anthrax on Amtrak, 82. pre-prix, 83. Valerie Mallory, Sara Teshara, the middle riddle, 84. Dublin your income, 85. same-sex marriage and a self-supporting minister, 86. beatifying the beat poets, and drummers, 87. The Naxalite takes Paxil, 88. Miwa (neighbor) was born before Reiwa.
May 2
GR: 1. Getta Cloux, 2. Leonardo Da Vinci drove a Light Duty Vehicle, 3. John Edgar Hoover, hoovering up data, 4. Hoover’s ghost hovering above, 5. Birdman of Alcatraz, and boa constrictors, 6. Birdman’s burden, TH: 7. JC, John cabot, Italian navigator who claimed NA for England, 8. ordination, coordination, in an orderly nation, 9. Hudson Bay Company and hbcu's, 10. hippodrome and a prodromal hippo, 11. good housekeeping, and keeping your house (!), 12. Newark and a new ark, 13. just the fax, m'am, 14. Jack Benny and jingle bells, 15. blue network was for a radio show (go figure), 16. Allies and Al's eyes, 17. Pulitzer Prize, pew and rise, 18. Johannes-burgers, 19. San Quentin and Saint Quentin, martyred roman who "performed many miracles", 20. gas chamber, what a gas, 21. Astor? ask her!, 22. did the "early bird" satellite get the worm? Dennis Rodman in space!, 23. Siddartha at Martha's Vineyard, 24. essay on Spiro Agnew, 25. a Fokker in the Faulklands War?, 26. Mandela, mandala, and the Mandelbrot set, 27. Scarlatti had a lot of scars, 28. Catherine the Great (really?), 29. Hurt (Theodor) Herzl, 30. Vernon Castle (a pawn?), 31. Red Baron and Monty Python (2 flying circii), 32. Lorenz Hart, and Gary Hart, 33. Benjamin Spock and S'Chn T'Gai Spock (Star Trek), 34. Bing Crosby, Bill Cosby, Bill Clinton, before christ, 35. Evelyn and John Neville, I gotta level with ya, 36. Engelbert Humperdinck, Bert and Ernie, humping dinks (double-income, no kids), 37. Courtney Love and Lorenzo Music, 38. Inverness and the Loch Ness monster (plesiosaur? please! pleasing! not monstrous at all), W: 39. Smashmouth plays Portsmouth, 40. wait: adultery, incest, treason, AND witchcraft?, holy shit, 41. bawlin' Boleyn, 42. Fort Knox, John Knox (reforming Scott), 43. Scottish, kind of like Scott (toilet paper?), 44. Mary, queen of scotch tape, 45. King James and Queen Melissa, (friends), 46. Holy See sees a siege, not see's candy, 47. good old Mona and pneumonia, 48. Ottoman mechanics, 49. Cree at the creek, Assiniboine and coccyx, 50. Nakotas in the Dakotas, 51. Electric engineer in the Ethiopian empire, 52. Menelik licking men, 53. a city of Indians, Indianapolis, 54. store rations, and restoration, 55. wobbly at Wobbelin, 56. death march, vs. a pro-life march, 57. vomit on a de Havilland comet, 58. Sounding rocket, not named after sonic sound, but rather measuring, as in nautical depth, or sondear (do a survey or poll), 59. Chernobyl, chair noble, 60. Austria, awesome trees, and ostriches, 61. hitting a statistician with a cluster bomb, 62. a cold mother in Burma, me and the sea, in Myanmar, 63. argh, Nargis, 64. cyclone and doing psych alone, 65. Satan behind Chaiten!, 66. Vulcans, cane sugar, and volcanoes, 67. can you canoe?, 68. mastermind and servant brain, 69. Ellen in my past, and pastel colors, 70. inexperienced politicians from the Green Party.
May 3
GR: 1. Psychoanalyst with a psycho anal list (!), 2. What side is Sue on? Suicide?, 3. Jerzy in New Jersey, TH: 4. Jamaica me laugh, 5. Is Hellespont hellish?, 6. get up, standup! downfall and uprising, 7. sales tax, the price of tacks, 8. a money-producing 'mint' is etymologically unrelated to the plant, fyi, 9. Tuesday's /gone with the wind (Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Margaret Mitchell), 10. a hit song, blew me away, struck with blows (lol), 11. covenants and a coven of ants, 12. Tennessee Williams was from Colombus, MS, 13. Kate feeling low at a location, 14. Dodgers who drive dodges, 15. Okinawa is ok, 16. Ferris wheel in Paris, 17. barbiturates are a bitch, 18. demons like demonstrations, 19. Laurie the gory tory, 20. solar energy celebrated on Sun Day (5/3/78), 21. peaceful coexistence is politically correct, 22. a palace in Dallas, 23. Obuchi like Gucci, 24. mocking Machiavelli, 25. Goes, dutch poet, so it goes, 26. electron diffraction, a different faction (elect Ron!), 27. playwright, mommy he's not playing right!, 28. Dodie's roadies, 29. Golda Meir and mere gold, 30. Bob Seger and Peet Seeger, 31. a boxer in a box, 32. Henry Cooper drives a Cooper, and makes barrels, barrel-chested, 33. Frankie Valli and sun valley dairy, Frankie goes to Hollywood, 34. David Ball, bawling, play ball!, 35. making your bed and spreadsheets, W: 36. Mayan ascends throne in May (752), king Bird Jaguar IV, 37. KOK, it's not okay to kill, Kingdom of Kongo, 38. the French in Florida, and (the other) San Mateo, 39. eating an eclair during the eclipse, 40. Edmond in Redmond, 41. comedians performing in Washington d.c. (and DC comics!), 42. Finnish him!, 43. psychiatrists in Madrid, 44. studying math in Athens, 45. bowling with Bolsheviks, 46. The country of Georgia is named after (the Persian word for wolf?) (Jorgians are fond of St. George, too), and the (US) state of Georgia is named after George II of Great Britain, 47. Kanye West is a gemini, West Virginia, 48. civilians, civil villains, 49. Solomon Islands, Southern Ireland, successful invasion, St. Ignatius (we are SI), 50. hitting the note C, c-note?, a choral C, and the coral sea, 51. real estate in an unreal state, 52. tree relief (a pun), 53. just a plain old airplane, 54. the Dodgers got the name from "trolley dodgers" (in Brooklyn), 55. worms in Birmingham, 56. wassup, socialist unity party?, 57. The 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak produces highest windspeed ever recorded: 301 mph (+/- 20), 58. a black day on the Black Sea (2006).
May 4
GR: 1. The 3 stooges made 190 shorts over 23 years, 2. Publisher at the pub, 3. A and W root beer, and Alice in Wonderland, 4. Crows in Nature, and natural causes, TH: 5. Love and War, war of the roses, rows, rosa, 6. I'll sell you all of NYC for $24, says Peter Minuit to the Inuit, 7. Rhode Island, and driving from the Bahamas (ha), 8. ED, erectile dysfunction, and the epsom derby, 9. painful campaign, 10. warfare (but war is never fair), 11. OH my god, opera house in Ohio, 12. Al Capone in Alcatraz?, yes (for 4 and 1/2 years)13. worms serving terms, 14. The naked and the dead, the clothed and alive, (baby alive doll clothes!) 15. Norman mailer, sending mail to Normandy, 16. drinking ale at Yale, 17. a Prince concert at Princeton, 18. Dennis the menace plays tennis, 19. Peter Gunn, gunning for you, 20. New Orleans (losing weight: lean!), 21. eyes on the prize, ryze, 22. Kent State (in Ohio), and the pentagon, agony, gone, 23. a watch (Nixon) with the resignation designation, 24. Tito and teetotalers, (nephalists!), 25. Royal Navy destroyer is "lost," 26. MT, margaret thatcher, prime ministress (okay, I know, minister), 27. MT, empty, 28. Bartolomeo Cristoffori (inventor of piano), 29. Horace Mann, whore man, horseman, ("be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity."), 30. Speke spoke about denial (the nile), 31. Heloise, hello ease, 32. Hosni Mubarak at a bar, 33. Ah, Audrey Hepburn, burning for you, 34. Randy Travis, feeling randy, W: 35. Augustus the augustinian monk, and Aggie, go ags!, 36. an augury for Augie, 37. here a tick, there a tick, everywhere a tick tick (heretic talk), 38. Swedish weed, 39. POW, battle of tewkesbury, princess of whales, whale rider, 40. getting into it with (Peter) Minuit, 41. Allahabad, Budapest, Mysore, and other (possibly) derogatory place names, 42. Elba toast, 43. AOL, AOD, AOH, AOG - angel of the lord, america online, angel of death, ancient order of the hibernians, astor opera house, act of grace, 44. Panama Canal, plane crash, p.c., 45. anal about animals, 46. a V, eh? nay! says the Navy, 47. Rhodesia, the island of Rhodes, Rhodes scholars, road, rowed, rode, 48. ten men in Tiananmen square, 49. mobster, stirring the mob, 50. hamburgers and new end games, 51. pp, urine, you're in, Pulitzer Prize, 52. Greenpeace (and red war?), 53. Sincere for an hour, atop the Sears Tower, 54. kangol hat from Angola, 55. Sexy Exocet (missile), 56. lat muscles and Latvia, 57. Soviet? so be it, 58. gazing at strippers on the Gaza Strip, 59. Mare of London (lol), 60. Cecil Rhodes, diesel road.
May 5
GR: 1. Island of St. Helena, St. Helena California, and mount saint Helen’s (volcano in Washington state), 2. Bonaparte, blown apart, 3. Salt Lake City, and stomach/liver cancer, 4. Napoleon taking a nap with the lions, 5. AE, albert einstein, autoerotic, TH: 6. Killingly, Connecticut (no joke), 7. Ama, love for the american medical association, 8. Cinco de Mayo (1862), mexico defeats france, 9. Sitting Bull (and Supreme Being), 10. carnage at Carnegie Hall, ch 11. massacre at mass, 12. Bilbo on a billboard, 13. Bette Davis, and Betsy at UCD, 14. Abyssinia is unrelated to an abyss, just like jewelry is unrelated to jewry, 15. Abyssinia (Ethiopia) is derived from arabic HBST (Habesha), 16. mining in Oregon (ore gone?), 17. Jim Bailey beats the four minute mile, a first, in 1956 (3:58.6), or was it Roger Bannister (1954), (3:59.4), (some confusion), 18. herding cats, a leopard shepherd, 19. b.s. about Bobby Sands, bible study, bachelor of science, bullshit, bunny snowshoes, Barbara Streisand, 20. biting a burger in Bitburg, 21. promotion, yes I am pro-motion, 22. Oklahoma City bombing, not okay, 23. Timothy McVeigh, timid, MIT, moth, mind control, inveigh against, TV, tmv - true market value, the mars volta, 24. Soren Kierkegaard, sore at the guards, 25. Karl Marx, left his mark, 26. wearing a Stetson in my Edison, 27. get on up to Niagara Falls, 28. Michael Palin (palindromes in rome?), W: 29. car and driver, a car magazine, and the Magna Carta, 30. making jam in Jamaica, 31. knight and daimyo, day me o, day-oh, night-z, 32. for example, the Estates-General, 33. tired of Mechelen, 34. IZ and Ignacio Zaragoza, 35. government "dissolved" (in a vat of acid?), 36. band of Lakota, singing, 37. a walk in Milwaukee, 38. Carnegie hall, what's the haul?, 39. Cy Young, and psy Jung, 40. Haile Selassie, and high watching Lassie, 41. rhymes against Hugh's manatee, 42. PS, Palermo Sicily, Papal States, Scottish Parliament, 43. secretly singing an aria about Secretariat, 44. unpleasantness at Mt. Pleasant (section of d.c.), 45. beefcake from Bishkek (capital of Kyrgyzstan), 46. I sing of the poor, Singapore, 47. Cameron Diaz in Camaroon, 48. austerity and an awesome stare, 49. Vangelis, tangelos, and angels in between V and S (vampire and satan?), and T and OS (cross and operating system). stuck in the middle with you - Beatles.
May 6
GR: 1. Concord and a kurdish king kong, 2. Sitting and sneezing at catholic Mass in Massachusetts, achoo! 3. Sneezing on a train (achoo-choo), 4. FD, poor grades, financial distress, 5. SOS, snake oil salesman, secretary of state, sultan of swat, son of sam, 6. L Frank Baum, balm, bomb, (and pebbles and bambam), 7. LFB and LRH (L Ron Hubbard), TH: 8. Heralding Harrold, 9. Dr. Moriarty patterned after Adam Worth (what is eve worth?), 10. getting an eyeful near the Eiffel Tower, 11. John Steinbeck, won both Pulitzer and Nobel prizes, 12. a corridor in Corregidor, 13. a Phillip's head screwdriver and ball peen hammer, in the Phillippines (pining), 14. Maria Montessori, like eminem, 15. knight at night, dazed by day, 16. Prince Rainier and princess sunnier (grace kelly), 17. Profiles in Courage, so p.c., 18. It took me eons to read Long Day's Journey into Night (Eugene O'Neill), 19. Raymond Burr (Perry Mason) and Aaron Burr (Thomas Jefferson's Vice President, killer of Alexander Hamilton), 20. an uncommon commoner, 21. chancellor, by chance, 22. Hindenburg defeated by mere static electricity, killing 36, 23. Sigmund Freud, unafraid of being called a fraud, re: sexual frustration, suck n fuck, etc. (sometimes a cigar is just a cigar), 24. Green Party in Greenland, 25. shrieking sheik, 26. Rudolph Valentino's valentines (Gina and Natasha), 27. Orson Welles, ow, 28. TH White was not black, 29. Willie Mays, amazing, 30. eager to see Bob Seger, 31. Tony Blair, something to do with ministry and prime numbers, W: 32. sacraments, a sack of ramen, and the sack of Rome, 33. f(x) and Francis Xavier, s.j., effects, 34. a fraction of the faction, 35. Trump and a Rump Parliament, 36. verse I, the visual universe, and Versailles, phallus palace, 37. mental guitar riff, metal mentality, asylum (sigh, psy), rhymes with phylum (kpcofgs), 38. taxonomy and classification: kingdom phylum class order family genus species, 39. Christopher Smart, and the IQ of Jesus, 40. Lunatics, ticks on the moon, 41. Siam, -sigh-, I am, 42. King Buddha (Yodfa Chulaloke), 43. Steve and Penny, and the penny black postage stamp, 44. Jesus Christ, Arkansas, ark and saw, carpenter, carpe diem, 45. church and Crazy Horse, chants about ants, 46. (legal) exclusionary principle, and the (1882) chinese exclusion act, 47. I fell from the Eiffel Tower! (splat, an eyeful), 48. Gorky park and the Gorkhapatra (Nepali newspaper), 49. Tara the Tory, defending her territory, 50. Babe Ruth was a pitcher!, (real name, George Herman Ruth, jr.), hum baby!, 51. SY - steam yacht, 52. Reunion island, named (in French, it means meeting or assembly), where Vietnamese emperor (duy tan) was exiled, 53. New deal for nude eels, lol, 54. take proper gander at the propaganda, 55. I twisted my ankle in Ankara, 56. Ottomans are mean to Armenians, 57. martyrs at Kmart, 58. eat drink and be Mary (in Maryland), 59. a kiosk outside the mosque, 60. Sexy SpaceX, and Kevin Spacey and Sissy Spacek.
May 7
GR: 1. Losing at cards on the Cunard liner, Lusitania, 2. Torn by a torpedo, 3. Munitions on MUNI, (SF public transportation), shakyamuni, too, (wise sage), TH: 4. Pontiac auto and Ottawa chief Pontiac, pontiff ack, 5. House of Burgesses?, urge jess to research, what is the meaning of this?, lol, 6. dynamite, dinosaurs and mites, 7. wussup, Holmes? (a serial killer with 200+ victims), 8. access to the Axis, axes, and acts, 9. chatting in Chattanooga, (a city in TN), 10. getting the hang of hanging war criminals, 11. Rushin' river, 12. Parallel parking in Vietnam (at 17th), 13. burning man, a burning van, and van cliburn, 14. take control, stealing the remote, 15. Telstar II (twinkle, twinkle, little star), 16. Twinkies, twinks, twinkletoes, and winks, 17. Watergate cover-up (and covering down, too?), 18. embassy embarrassment, 19. humorous Hume, 20. Robert browning, a colorful poet, 21. Johannes Brahms, calmly dropping napalm bombs on 'Nam without qualms, just like Sommes, alms, om, dom, mom, islam, palm, romcom, tom... (sorry), 22. go skiing with Tchaikovsky, 23. Yugoslav slavery, 24. theologian low on gin, 25. Kitty Godfree, free them cats, work like a dog, 26. Evita Peron, prr on, W: 27. awkward aunty in Antioch, anti-auk, pro-chicken, 28. HS, Hagia Sophia, high school, heaven sent, Holy Spirit, hassium, 29. Allah God in Malaga, 30. Berbers burning Edinburgh, 31. Stockholm and your pantry, 32. COSB, cult of supreme being, 33. cambridge chronicle, composer and conductor, si! si!, 34. Halloween Treaty, (trick), 35. the tornado tore my 'nads, 36. killed her? I'm bewildered, why? I cry, murder is absurd, killing isn't thrilling, war is for bores, or demons at Lehman, 37. Manchuria and woman-chores, in a hurry, 38. A Native American red army, 39. Francis Crowley vs. 300 (!) cops, 40. French francs and Francisco Franco, 41. Frank Lee, I don't give a damn, 42. Do you know the way to Norway?, 43. freighter fright, a fifth of scotch, off the Firth of Forth, 44. US, unconditional surrender, eh?, 45. My little pony likes Sony, (phony), 46. Geoffrey Dummer's integrated circuit, and the dumb/ damned Jeffrey Dahmer, 47. Indochina is neither India nor China, 48. seven seas, and seven summits, 49. nazi space shuttle, social security, st. stephen's, sunspots, shan states, syracuse sicily, (not! z), 50. manic pope, and Romania, 51. Great Britain, good/bad, and Guinea-Bissau, 52. Vlad the impaler, and Vladimir Putin, 53. pissing into the ocean, and the Yellow Sea; an ocean of tears: wailing whales.
May 8
GR: 1. sad, syphilitic and destitute (Paul Gauguin), 2. first united church of kansas (lol), 3. Recruit and re-cruit? What’s cruiting?, Retrieve.. what’s trieving? TH: 4. the spanish have vanished, desaparecidos, 5. a Courvoisier with Lavoisier, guillotine some poor teen, 6. Matamoros (kill more O's? cheerio cereal killer), 7. Frank Robinson, a bookkeeper, did the coca-cola calligraphy (first sold by John S. Pemberton in 1886), 8. a bookkeeper who gives away his books!, 9. Heat in Tahiti, cool at school, 10. thinking about Paramount Pictures in the bathroom, 11. Sweet Sweden! abolished capitAl punishment in 1921, 12. armed pilots (and fighter pilots), 13. peace talks (and war actions), 14. eh? speak louder, I have a banana in my ear!, 15. lemurs from Lima, 16. The (NY) "Mets" is short for "metropolitan," 17. Did Marco Polo play (invent?) polo? No, it's Balti (a Tibetan ethnicity) for 'ball', 18. mining the land is different from military mining (of ports, or landmines); I don't mind, never mind, I DO mind mines, acktually, 19. Wounded Knee wasn't that, it was a massacre of 300 Sioux, 20. smallpox eradicated (1980), large pox (chicken pox can be fatal, but there's a vaccine), 21. New Coke came out in 1985, 22. cyanide, sigh anne eyed, 23. Panamanian animosity and mania, 24. Oscar Hammerstein, getting hammered on a stein (of beer), 25. (John Meade) Falkner, not (William) Faulkner, 26. Harry S. Truman, hissed, 27. eating raviolis with Mussolini and Rossellini, 28. Don Rickles tickled my pickle, 29. David Attenborough, thorough, like Thoreau, 30. Peter Benchley, law from the bench, 31. Boycott, and truancy/kidnapping (boy caught), W: 32. state of Jin (china), gin, gin rummy, djinn (arab), and Jen!, 33. Honorius dishonored (Rome sact), 34. an edict regarding electronic dictionaries, 35. Holy Toledo! (3rd council of), 36. jew witch, Julian of Norwich, 37. see J, siege, 38. kill the ents in Kent, 39. Alessandro Volta, revolting!, 40. Sanskrit diacritics, 41. putting the bi in libido, 42. Pink Floyd performing at Walls, MS, 43. Misses Yippie! down by the river, 44. Bevis Bulmer and butthead, 45. loth to mention west Lothian, 46. at war with Peshawar, 47. traitorous traders, 48. Taylor's tailor, 49. prime minister drinks a patent medicine in the p.m., 50. sister's system, 51. book burnings and lit literature, 52. eat her at the theater, 53. Mount Pelee, and sex with soccer players (bad for legs? says Rocky), 54. Rocky Balboa and Rocky Marciano and Rocky and Bullwinkle, 55. Noah and Joan, 56. armistice, arm the mistress, 57. cpr, communist party of Romania, 58. NATO (30) and EU (27), 59. Edward George, Honey? Attila, hun?, 60. mammals in Memel, 61. kleptos in Klaipeda, 62. hurry, John, here comes a Harijan, 63. Kerch merch, 64. the peninsula needs insulin, 65. reading a lot on board the Lexington, 66. kookoo for cocoa on the cocos islands, (named for coconuts), 67. flying over Keeling, keeling over, 6 feet under (only 2, I hope!), (all insects have 6 legs), 68. arachnids have 8 legs, 69. all centipedes are venomous, and have an odd number of pairs of legs (so none have exactly 100), ranging from 30-382, 70. some 300 species of octopi, 71. rebellious kittens and mew-tiny, 72. don't jeer the Algerians, 73. BB king and bog bodies, king of spades, 74. state visit, and L'Estat, 75. Davao, and ow, 76. women's lib, let it be, 77. not all goods are. , 78. a picnic with tricky dick, 79. six fags at six flags, 80. magic mountain and eminem, eating M and M's and Hershey's, 81. a QNA session: Quebec National Assembly, 82. the joy of joining, 83. Jess, and the number one electronic switching system, 84. approaching a roach, 85. Pat, a patient, not a patriarch, filed a patent, 86. Caine and Abel in Kabul.
May 9
GR: 1. William Bradford drove a rad Ford, (Robert Redford stole a red ford?), 2. Popped! (peering over a parapet), TH: 3. Christopher Columbus sailed to New World 4x, 4. Captain Blood, bad blood, vampire, imaperv, be lewd, bloodthirsty, draining, ingest, in Jess T..., 5. Jesse Lee Reno, Union General (me, bruce, and Janet, lol), 6. Woodrow Wilson proclaim new US holiday, Mother's Day, in 1914, 7. Byrd, the pilot, 8. JL sell, 9. Nato? neato!, 10. Beatles play rock, find a beetle under a rock, 11. the bombing does not bode well for Cambodia, 12. college campus, cc rider, canadian confederation, st. francis of Assisi, 13. Reputations of representatives, 14. Tricky Dick Nixon, and the NY Knicks (knickerbockers), get your kicks on Route 66, 15. eat the peach during impeachment hearings, 16. queers fearing earrings, leering at nearby peers, merely spearing rears, dear, dreading bed, 17. residency and presidency, 18. terror in error, correct tech, 19. a safe Ringwraith, 20. a slap on the wrist for terror-wrists, 21. freight fright, 22. Boris Johnson and Boris Yeltsin, 23. the full list? A bore is, 24. Yeltsin, yelling about sin, 25. a buttload and a boatload, 26. birth control pill birthday (FDA approved this date, 1960), 27. John Brown wasn't, Hank Snow was, 28. Jimmy Carter (president #39) and Howard Carter (co-discovered tomb of king tut), 29. Mike Wallace (and Grommet!), 30. Richard Adams (Watership Down) and Douglas Adams (4 part trinity), 31. Alan Bennet, Bill Bennett, 32. Albert Finney (AF), always/forever, 33. Glenda Jackson, Michael Jackson, 34. Dick Morrissey (sax player), Peter Morrissey (from the cast of characters of my youth), Morrissey (band), 35. Candice Bergen (Murphy Brown), candy and burgers, go Browns, if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down, 36. gambling in Reno, fool me once, re-no!, W: 37. Athenasius in Athens and Asia, 38. jealous of Melus, 39. Albert lying with the ants, an alliance with insects, and buggery, 40. walking with Joaquin, 41. Punch and Judy, and the Panchen Llama, Ponch and Jon, 42. phish and Chips, 43. jabbering with Kareem Abdul Jabbar, chitchat with cheech and chong, pooch and Junie, 44. palaver with the paladin, 45. EE, Erik Estrada, 46. Crown Jewels and jewish crows, 47. Molly houses in Mali, 48. dirty sodomy and sod, 49. Malcolm X's Plymouth Rock proclamation, 50. IFB, international freedom battalion (Syrian civil war), and index of forbidden books, 51. big bird, Richard e. Byrd, Larry Byrd, 52. Ethiopia and either/or, 53. holograms, holodeck, and the holocaust, 54. Poor Ted, deported, 55. burnt Umberto, 56. stealing the shoes of Robert Schuman, 57. Enovid, had enough of the vampire identity, Brian Eno video, 58. Ovid wrote about covid?, 59. grocery checkout, scan dull, scandal, 60. peach/mint dish, judiciary impeachment, 61. Liberian beer, 62. narcotics in Norco, 63. I can bear Canberra, 64. ehem, Bethlehem, 65. head to bed.
May 10
GR: 1. Jonathan Jackson (“stonewall”) died from friendly fire (ironic/stupid- he ordered his sentries to shoot first and ask questions later), 2. JC, and Joan Crawford, MP, Mildred Pierce, killed fierce, 3. Listening to soul music in Seoul, south korea, TH: 4. Tom Jones and Johnny Tremain, JT and pi, 5. rants in France, 6. Ethan in the ether, 7. Hoover as FBI director ('24-'72), 8. book burnings, boo- K!, earnings and yearnings for learning; Berlin, brr Lynne, 9. Winston Churchill, win/church/hill (?), 10. Rudolf Hess, a mess, life sentence (talking for 100 years, heckuva run-on) apparent suicide in '87, 11. Prague-gress (aggress? congress? ingress/egress?), 12. Earl of Snowdon, and Edward Snowden, 13. FM, Francois Mitterand, socialist socialite, 14. Sandinistas, grains of sand, sandow, sandler, thou-sands, 15. Nick, agua, car, Nicaragua, 16. The MAN, Manuel Antonio Noriega, mas el manantial, 17. arrested, take my rest, 18. Tiananmen, Tian n' men, Tian means 'heaven' (celestial aspect of the cosmos), 19. John Wayne Gacy (JW, gay, see), executed for murdering 33 men and boys (a cute ex?), 20. arms control, and babies with no control over their arms, lol, 21. golden spike, gold prices, and promontory point, Utah, Union Pacific meets Central Pacific, 1869 (wussup), pp, going down, 22. JW Booth, 23. pioneer with pie in his ear, 24. Fred Astaire, thousand yard stare, 25. James Earl Chaney and Dick Cheney, 26. Homer Simpson, high school, hs, heaven-sent, Los Angeles (the angels), 27. Bono and Yoko Ono and bonobos, W: 28. Henderson the rain king, and love, reign o'er me!, 29. being an author doesn't make you an authority!, (or maybe an itty bit), 30. researching Reeses pieces, and reassuring Reser, 31. Elena Kagan, and mongol Khagan, 32. Amerigo Vespucci, go merrily! without dispute, 33. do caymans eat turtles? Cayman Islands (named Los Tortugas), (yes, they do), ok/'k man, 34. JC, Jacques Cartier (what a signature), 35. Canada, can o' duh, can o' whoop-ass, 36. Ay! watta goo Siam!, 37. JW, John Wilkes, 38. Boston, like a boss, 39. Louis XVI, P as ack, (guillotined), 40. Ticonderoga, time ticks on, 41. Tea act, and 'tact' and tactics, 42. Adda river, subtract 2000 soldiers, 43. a trippy trip to Tripoli, 44. National Gallery, National Geographic, and Ng (Vietnamese surname), 45. Darren the mandarin, 46. paying specie for species (at the pet store), 47. Satan, hating man in Manhattan, fattened and in satin, 48. Meerut and Beirut, 49. Go Raiders! quantity and quality, ill Will Quantrill, 50. cc, cream cheese, si si, por favor, 52. get your fill of Philadelphia, 53. Carol, king of Romania (not queen), (Charles, married to Elisabeth of Wied), 54. pronounce Wied weed?, or wide? 55. Neuwied, and newlyweds, 56. bellybuttons and Audi, 57. graft in Grafton, 58. Kingman reef (and queen woman ), 59. JEH and FBI, a fib about satan, eh?, 60. I sense censorship sinking, 61. house of uncommons, 62. Irma from Burma, 63. B2 bombers and V2 rockets, 64. Tesharas in the Sahara, in a past era, 65. the incredible bulk of the Incredible Hulk, 66. (sigh)borg, 67. 200+ of Santa's elves die in Thailand (toy factory fire), 68. working on my abs and core in Khorasan, 69. ensign Hanssen, (an fbi fib), 70. easy Sibyl in Tibilisi.
May 11
GR: 1. Nature in Moscow: moss, cow; also, mosque, ow, 2. Had your fill of Kim Philby, 3. Evil villain, in a villa, TH: 4. New Amsterdam became New York, like Istanbul and Constantinople, or Leningrad and Petrograd and St. Petersburg, 5. demented and insane, dai, died, 6. Minnesota, Land of 10,000 lakes (and Canada Dry, lol), 7. Robert E. Lee, Berkeley, Bruce Lee, and holy frijole!, 8. GNP, glacier national park, gross national product, 9. Oscars for Oscar the grouch, 10. PS, power steering, 11. NBA, national book award, 12. Attu, achoo, tattoo, 13. Japa-knees, 14. war-torn, mended fences, paris repairs, 15. D-day, o-kay!, offensive killing, 16. Dacron in Akron, 17. Israel is real, admitted to UN as #59 in '49, 18. Africa, America, ICA (immaculate conception academy), formica, cia, 19. "hamburger hill" (hill 937, aka Ap Bia Mountain), vw, 20. Bob Marley in Boston Massachusetts, 21. cancer, crying, wailers, whalers, big fish, 22. Bunny Livingstone and bunny snowshoes, (buenos noches), 23. pb and j, playboy bunny and jesse, 24. jam-packed soccer stadium (jam!? lol), pact, 25. pole position, what is the polish position?, 26. Klaus Barbie doll, 27. Gestapo, guess top O, 28. lion in Lyon, says Leon, 29. conniving to get ivory, ivory soap, 30. atomic blastocyst, 31. IBM, Men in black, deep blue, deep thoughts with jack handey, handyman, hanuman the monkey god, Ahriman.., Kasparov the friendly ghost, 32. chang and eng had a bunker mentality, 33. Irving Berlin, merlin, and whirlin' and twirlin', 34. Paul Nash your teeth, 35. Salvador Dali, savior doll, door open to Dolly, 36. Marjorie Sykes, Wanda Sykes, psychs (psychology and psychiatry), 37. the mindstream of consciousness of Foster Brooks, Brookings institution, and flowers that flow, liquidity, wetware, 38. Jackie Milburn burned through a mil, 39. Mort Sahl, morte Saul, death of the sun (sol), 40. Valentino (FD, fashion designer), 41. Louis Fair a khan, faire a con, fare Akon, Farrakhan, (Fawcett!), 42. Butch Hartman (a butcher at heart), W: 43. the only constant in Constantinople is change, 44. Robert Gray, Heath White, Jack Black, Violet Beauregard, Red Fox, Blue Mountains, Walgreens, and some yellow fellow, 45. SP, Spencer Perceval, 46. passengers and crew, p.c.!, peacy, peachy, 47. DOW, and a declaration of war, making a killing, 48. seizing deli from the peckish british, 49. Minnesota (32), supersize me, 50. Mussels have muscles, 51. wildcat strike at SICP (saint Ignatius college preparatory), 52. calm kamikazes, 53. a happy Mossad, 54. bombing or om-ing, medicate or meditate, 55. Lubbock took a drubbing, 56. taking a leak, and the pentagon papers, 57. William Bradford, Yorkshire pudding, and a stadium fire, 58. Klaus and Maus, 59. a cog in the machine, (chemical oxygen generators), 60. Deep blue, and shallow red (puddle of blood), 61. atomic Tom, 62. Chechens with etch a sketches, 63. a coalition against coal, 64. David Cameron visiting d.c., 65. orca off majorca, 66. kin from Kinshasa, 67. ISIL rolls the dice.
May 12
GR: 1. Orgy, engorged, and borg/ gorgons/ organizations/ forge/ georgy porgy, 2. Forgetting valley forge, 3. Prince Aly Khan, Pakistan, pac-man, convicts, and allies, TH: 4. sing like a canary, sing sing, Ossining NY, 5. Mormons, morons, moons, mermaids, marmalade, more Mondays, more monkeys, more money, 6. Manitoba, "man, obi won, it's over", manatee, 7. nickelodeon, nick and Ian, 8. doctor's doctoral thesis on documentaries, acumen, 9. Omar Khayyam is ok, 10. urinating in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 11. arrested, tried, and executed (ATE), 12. axel forces, Axl rose, and Axis of evil, 13. true troops, false flag, 14. surrender, end of the south, 15. citizens, sitting zen, 16. ABC, american bowling congress, 17. JK Rowling, bowling, and owls, 18. broncos in the bronx, 19. AJ Foyt has some fight in him, the juice is loose, 20. the communist community, 21. Saigon, -sigh- gone, 22. LBJ, b for bane, beans and bones for Boonah, 23. poet? you know it!, 24. steer by the stars, 25. in an inne, international incident, 26. Fatima, and yo' mama is so fat, when she sits around the house, she sit AROUND THE HOUSE (lol), 27. Babi Yar, and baby in the yard, a year old, 28. massacred has sacred in it (!!), 29. a limerick about a shamrock, 30. Nurses nursing babies, 31. Jules Massenet, mass monster, at catholic Mass, 32. Otto's automobile, 33. Anne Frank and Joe Frank, 34. Katherine Hepburn, and George Burns, 35. Tony Hancock, John Hancock, 36. Yogi Berra, yoga bear, bare under my toga, 37. SW, Steve Winwood, southwest, 38. Tony Hawk, Robin Williams, Larry Byrd, Jackie Crow, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Eagles (rock band), Seattle Seahawks, 39. Bluebeard the murdering misogynist, bluebird the thrush passerine, 40. nazis and easy knots, and Otzi the iceman, 41. headquarters and chopping heads like heads of lettuce, a quarter for head? (lol), W: 42. sacrifice, and burnin' for you, self-immolation, blue oyster cult, fire in the belly, hearts on fire, 43. novationist eats a nova lox bagel, 44. Tang Dynasty drinks tang, 45. sniper from Cyprus, 46. papacy and PayPal, 47. what do you do for money, honey, 48. roaming Rome, calling Rome home, 49. still communicating with my ex, 50. do cats eat beans? (Lima, Peru), 51. spontaneous remission, spontaneous combustion, and spawn, 52. tortured for libel, you ain't kydding, 53. empty beats chucky (1743), 54. fingerprints and fingering Prince, 55. Charleston, carlos weighs a ton, too many Charleston chews, 56. Venice is nice, the Great Lakes are great, Paradise is heaven, 57. The Finnish war finished (17 September 1809), 58. tootsie rolls, tsetse flies, and Valtetsi, 59. Greek books, eek boo, 60. honoring the donnor party, having an old friend for dinner, 61. boundary between bayagoulas and oumas, a red stick, (Baton Rouge), 62. fighting in "mule shoe" with the jawbone of an ass, 63. RA, royal assent, 64. Tunisia, 2 needs ya, (Jesus, jew, beast, tu, too), 65. Borneo, EO Wilson, neo, born a bore, 66. nobo and nopo, north borneo, North Pole; no car in North Carolina, 67. Lindbergh eats limburger, 68. AAA, agricultural adjustment act, 69. baby crying (wah!) in Westminster Abbey, 70. Zeus and (Conrad) Zuse, 71. SS virginia sunk by nazis (go figure), 72. tanks and tankers, 73. loons on the moon, 74. vampires and King Kong, (Viet Cong), 75. scout camp in Kampuchea, 76. order in Oregon, 77. a net in the bay, and a bayonet, 78. San Berdino, also a book burner, 79. silencers, and a quiet riot, 80. cuban cubicles, 81. pounding the compound, 82. sleeping during Mass, and mass unrest, 83. Sichuan earthquake, 2008, kills 69,000+ (Szechuan beef?).
May 13
GR: 1. Gary Cooper was a wax museum subject; anecdote: his elderly mother, after he died, would sit by the likeness for hours, once or twice a month, TH: 2. Maslow in Glasgow, 3. salsa on my burger, in Salzburg, 3. penal colonies are so p.c., 4. patenting a practical printing press, 5. Poe, Tom, Mack on the Potomac, 6. Louis Botha both a lou and lewis, 7. duke of windsock, 8. Order of the garter, and garter snakes, 9. gator in a gutter, 10. I have a dream, to vision quest, and then watch tv, 11. dmv, Virgin Mary dogma, 12. airmail and bare males, 13. Marlene Dietrich, and the trick to dying merrily, 14. cyber-sieber, 15. hey God, where should I park this ark?, 16. parking near the king of the park, 17. Saint Lawrence and santa Larry, 18. a ruckus in Caracas, 19. rubber bullets, and shooting blanks, 20. moved by the color mauve, 21. a philippic in the Philippines, 22. NPA, new people's army, national parks association, 23. computer servers, restaurant servers, tescoflex service pedestal, service economy, to serve and protect, and a wicked tennis serve, Sir V, serves you right, 24. criticism, schism, critique ire/ spite/ malice, 25. worldwide and world-narrow (?), it's a small world, after Allah, 26. Chechen war, church, city hall and capitol hill, 27. cs, christian science, chinese scientology?, cs lewis, critical but stable, clipper ship, 28. changing name from chris to Ian, 28. clear state: clear views, clear perception, clear understanding, medical personnel shout "clear!," 29. MT, empty, Maria Theresa, Montana, Margaret teshara, mistletoe, 30. Josephine Butler and Mike Butler (part of the cast, from my past, of characters), 31. Arthur Sulllivan and Patrick Sullivan (same), 32. Georges Braque, Barack, Brak, 33. Daphne, don't be daft, 34. Beatrice Arthur (in golden girls), ba humbug! a B.A. in aging, senescence, and elder care, 35. Jim Jones, Jonestown, poisoned over 900 followers, mass murderer, m and m's, 36. Ritchie Valens, rich in valor, drinking gallons of Valens, 37. Alan, Allen, alien, 38. Stevie Wonder eats wonder bread (I wonder), 39. Dennis Rodman, that's a menacing rod, man!, 40. a lien on an alien's property!, essay on space aliens, 41. clarity and larry T, Tesla and larry teshara, dead dad, foot fate, fighting with feet, fit or fat, footage of feats, 42. photos of photons, 43. creature feature, 44. I see sutures in your future, 45. nature and nurture, 46. departure of an archer, 47. melanie's felony, 48. cherie's berries, 49. ellen's melons, 50. Karen's heron, 51. Betsy the tsetse fly, 52, merry Mary, 53. upset Annette, 54. Janet's planet, Teshara 'as earth', 55. leggy Peggy, 56. busy Liz, 57. unruly Julie, 58. Farrah and Sara and Tara Teshara, 59. darlin' Marlen, 60. Theresa's geese, 61. Jeannine's lean green mean machine, 62. icky Vicki, 63. Rose's nose, 64. can you smell Mel?, 65. helter-skelter, 66. Esme wears a fez, 67. summer is neither dumb nor numb, which would be a bummer, 68. bird is the word, 69. MiMi! say the baby birds, maybe, W: 70. Candy Man, convicted of treason for eating Riesens, 71. Malcolm executed, 72. Teschen, John Tesh, Jesse Teshara, 73. taking a trip with Laura Dern to Derna, Tripoli, 74. Ecuador is mostly south of, 75. Kurdish incursion, 76. I'm from the federal republic of mexico, 77. go backpacking with Stan in Pakistan, 78. apparition apparates! (apparatus?), j/k, 79. Meuse? not amused. 80. Serbs, kicked to the curb, 81. Idi Amin, and Israeli Declaration of Independence, mean, (unkind, cruel) massacre, from mean beiginnings, AI war, 82. upper house, upstairs, 83. Caracas rocks!, 84. Aryan sect, sectarian insects, mosques and mosquitoes, 85. veterinarian in Kuala Lumpur, koala with a lump, 86. what are Hindus into?, 87. socks made in Osaka, 88. go slow, belle, in Belfast, 89. the urge to merge, emergency surgery, and urgent insurgents, 90. Falun Gong, fucking gone, 91. Bangkok, Bangladesh, chitty chitty bang bang!, 92. sanctions on sanka, 93. for goodness sake, snake!, 94. uzis in Uzbekistan, 95. buddha and 49 dismembered bodies (discovered in mexico, 2012), 96. kermit the frog, kermit the baby-killer, 97. miners and minors.
May 14
GR: 1. Blues rock in red rock, 2. Sipping a margarita at a casino, Rita Hayworth’s real name was Margarita Cansino, 3. Alzheimer’s, all’s forgotten, 4. Spic and span: hispanic and spanish, TH: 5. losing the battle of lewes, 6. a fanatic in the attic, 7. upstairs, a puppy up there, 8. placement in a basement, 9. alternatives to Alfred lord Tennyson, 10. Nicole earned a nickel, 11. who's Sousa?, 12. war and gore vs. boring chores, 13. venomous toward (Carlos Saul) Menem, 14. MG, Mikhail Gorbachev, mentally gifted, Morris garages, machine gun, 15. internally international, 16. mad about Belgrade, 17. Edward Jenner and Bruce Jenner (Jen Brucer? Caitlyn Jenner! kate, ellen, jen, 3 in 1), 18. Fahrenheit invented the mercury thermometer, a fair height, sell see us, 19. Sidney Bechet and Sara Brown (somebody) and Supreme Being and Squirrel Bait (cat), and suicide bombers, 20. kooky about George Lucas, 21. David Byrne, cremated, (not made into cream), 22. I met Cate Blanchett on set, you bet, 23. sexy Lexi, a wet pet, W: 24. Frank, France, franks, and hotdogs, 25. Nicaea is nice, too, 26. losing Lewes, (Henry III), 27. hello, Agnadello!, 28. the british defeet the french in some austrian war (?) that was, 29. Tabasco, Velasco, ask O, 30. axon Jackson, dendrite White, 31. head bashed in, in the Boshin war, 32. Boston and Phloston paradise, 33. vacuuming in rugby?, 34. Fiji, for example (e.g.), 35. Liz' hair in a bun, in Lisbon; Sara in pain in Spain, 36. a 5 y.o. girl named Medina becomes the youngest mother in medical history, (1939), 37. ooze and AHS (Australian hospital ship), 38. a run-in with a walkout, 39. Jennifer Aniston, and Anniston Alabama, 40. lost sock in Lusaka, 41. ambient music from Zambia, 42. simple samples from Sumpul, 43. man or mouse, in Manaus, 43. baffled by Buffalo.
May 15
GR: 1. Emily Dickinson, family homily, and an allusion to (anal or oral) sex, 2. Butch Cassidy (lol), TH: 3. flying fish, and cape cod, 5. GR, gold rush, general relativity, 6. Amherst, am hers, 7. tactfully attacked, 8. tic tac and tactics, 9. no hiding from a hydrogen bomb, 10. pacifists pissed off in the Pacific Ocean, 11. Medal of Honor, meddling with goners, 12. malice toward governor Wallace, 13. wavy gravy in the navy?, 14. Jean Wahl, staring at one, 15. damned hamster from Amsterdam!, 16. listening to the Beatles in my vw beetle, bugged by the Vietnam war, 17. ciao, Amy chow, gymnast reporting on nasty Jim, W: 18. pissing in the bay, and Liu Bei, 19. shoe, shoo!, Shu (Han), 20. Vienne is not Vienna, 21. who authorized Authari to author a book about being in awe of Thor?, 22. Liberia, Iberia, Siberia, and beer, 23. the torture of hair ticks, 24. Bartholomew rides BART, 25. Peace of Munster, monsters in pieces, 26. Friends church, Friends hospital, Friends (tv show), 27. sissy Sicilians? that's silly, 28. solid gold dancers, Rush (band), and gr (gold rush), 29. Sigel's seagulls, 30. eagles, beagles, legally regal, 31. watch reruns or read the Rerun novarum? (lol), 32. loss Vegas NV, Wynn-Nguyen, 33. Winnie and Peg, in Winnipeg, losing their minds, 34. earn a living in Annapurna or Smyrna, 35. Luftwaffe, and getting a lift from the smell of waffles, 36. don't know much about the dutch and such, 37. (Richard and Maurice) McDonald (1940, first restaurant), 38. calm intern, 39. skirmishing worms, 40. Ma'alot, pa...a little, 41. eating a croissant with Edith Cresson, 42. Lousy lice, and loss in Laos, 43. among the Hmong, 44. merely Mir in the mirror, 45. filling the tank's tank, 46. Fenton's ice cream, in Kenton.
May 16
GR: 1. Andy Kaufman with an AK, 2. WWW, and the wicked witch of the west, wild wild west, 3. Pneumonia and a new Mona, 4. Some educators complained that Sesame Street made learning “too much fun” and thereby caused disappointment with dullness at schools (!), 5. Sesame Street nazis, TH: 6. epistles like missiles, 7. Versailles, vs. I, -sigh-, 8. a bad situation in Badajoz, 9. drinking Hennessy in Tennessee, 10. Renoir and Lenoir, 11. hitting a home run in the House of Representatives, 12. Cincinnati Reds, singing the blues, sin-sin: naughty, 13. satan and devil, starvation and disease, student demonstrations, 14. leaders in lederhosen, 15. valor and pallor of my gal pal Sally, 16. combat, stressed mosquitoes, 17. reaching the summit during summer, 18. JT, Junko Tabei, 19. Teshara and Shoko Asahara, 20. Hara, laughing at the sungod, from my happy buddha belly, 21. Seward and sewers and psych wards, and 7.2 million dollars, 22. a hug for Hughes, an invention you can use (microphone), 23. tenor, a perfect 10, 24. clobbering Richard Tauber, 25. poser composer, 26. fond of Henry Fonda, 27. Studs Terkel, and a studly Erkel, irked in Berkeley, 28. Liberace's rotting chi, 29. fiercely pierced, 30. a pianist's penis, 31. piano, p and o, piss and cum, W: 32. doing origami with Murakami, mon ami, 33. Charles the Bad, Magnus the Good, 34. rinse, wash, repeat - in Florence, 35. Gigi, governor-general, 36. geese on my porch? (Portuguese), 37. a peer, an imp (imperial), 38. my soul, solely in Souli, 39. Nick and Ellen, earning nickels, 40. Sykes-Picot agreement, and the psychology of Pikachu, 41. Trump is guilty of sedition, 42. transexuals on a transatlantic flight to Transylvania, 43. Pierre, Piero, and pie!, 44. Mohne, Sorpe, and Eder dams (moan, sore, reed / eider) in the Ruhr valley (roar in the rear), damned dams, damsels, dames, 45. Tritons, greek gods of the sea, 3 of them, holding up a Maltese fountain (not falcon), 46. Maiman, my man!, laser, lays her, 47. cult evolution, and the cultural revolution, 48. Venus and Tito, penis and tits, 49. church of cocaine and heroin, c and h, pure cane sugar, hernando cortes, 50. suffrage? suffering succotash!, 51. Endeavor, final flight (end) in 2011, 52. Obi, can ya get ta Nairobi, Kenya?
May 17
GR: 1. Disgruntled. What’s “gruntled”?, (metro) PCS: pleased, contented, satisfied, TH: 2. prostitution in the constitution, 3. monarchy money, 4. patching things up with the Apaches, 5. homeland, holy land, hannibal lecter, and Hal's hellhole, heather locklear, heath ledger, half-life, House of Lords, 6. stop botherin' the sovereigns, 7. godly Thor (Heyerdahl), 8. slaying the SLA (symbionese liberation army), 9. dead members, and viagra, 10. is it a mistake to miss steak?, 11. Rwanda, moving on, 12. Erik Satie, satiated, 13. mania for Khomeini, 14. was Jackie McLean fat?, 15. Dennis Potter, and Harry, 16. a rabbit named Dennis Hopper, 17. Nicholas Bacon, and Kevin, 18. surly Sugar Ray Leonard, 19. Enya (is it in ya?), 20. Brown vs. bored of education, 21. Julie, Judy, Giuliani, Jubien, jews, and justice earl warren, W: 22. bovines in Rovine, 23. 'tis the season for treason, 24. Muhammad Ali (wali of Egypt, 1805), golly Wally, 25. constituents, constitutions, and constant constipation, 26. Rosalia, my Galician gal, 27. wizard of Oz, taking a whiz (ahh), 28. HH Asquith and Sir Harry Hands, 29. anarcho-syndicalist CNTs, 30. Lions vs. tigers, on tv ('39), (Columbia vs. Princeton), 31. SP, shining path (sendero luminoso) in Peru, 32. I and I, Iran and Iraq, 33. There are 2 Congos (DROC and ROC), 34. There are 2 Galicias, too (and a Galatia), 35. Taking molly in Mali is folly, 36. Mali is not Malawi.
May 18
GR: 1. The thyme of your life (cannibal recipe), 2. Eating pez with the pres in Fresno, 3. Exception and ex-ception (conception with ex?), ception, again: reception, TH: 4. Napoleon and The Emperor (Star Wars), Bonaparte, playing a part, 5. pro-freedom and antislavery, free the bound periodicals!, 6. Vicki eats a burger near Vicksburg, 7. Plessy v. Ferguson, Jesse v. Fergie, 8. separate but equal, Sacred Books of the East (50 volumes, public domain), 9. In God we rust, says Metallica, 10. The Panama Canal is so p.c., 11. Italy, laity, it's a lie, 12. Lake Success, NY, full of liquidity, 13. the end of Monica, and Menachem Begin, I could like Likud, 14. Al, Rick, and Alaric, 15. Mounting Saint Helen, lol, 16. Indian nuclear detonation on the traditional anniversary of the Buddha's enlightenment (seriously?), 17. light and enlightenment and self-immolation, says The Bright, about consciousness; vs. a brain kept in the dark, campfire vampire, suck it in, 18. Bertrand Russell's side hustles, 19. groping Gropius, 20. Frank Capra, bust a (radioactive) cap in yo ass, 21. Big Joe Turner, JT, 22. Perry Como, and Mario Cuomo, 23. ballerinas and ballers, 24. Pope John Paul II (number 264), I am not a number!, 25. po-po (polish pope), W: 26. Antichrist anarchist, it doesn't matter if you are or you aren't: he no longer exists!, (you can be anti-christian, though), Chris and Ian, 27. the hair on my chinny chin chin!, 28. opal from Constantinople, 29. Sade's crew, crusade, 30. aqua man of aquitaine, and acquittal, 31. Babar the elephant, and Baybars (mamluk sultan of Egypt), 32. aches and pains, acres in spain, and propane and bdsm, couches and paint, hertz rent a cars, and suffrage, 33. Flemish phlegm, 34. Ming and Wyoming, 35. vuvuzelas and Venezuela, 36. enjoy a malt in Malta, 37. Christ is over, Christopher!, 38. what's up, doc? what's goin' down? Christ is under, too (soiled reputation, a pure psychopath fights dirty), 39. Tex Avery despises slavery, 40. 1695 earthquake kills 52,000+ (shannxi), 41. Amiens, amen!, 42. Mass hysteria, laughing hysterically at a priest's joke? ha, 43. playing bongos in Tonga, 44. I'll have Samoa that, please!, 45. conscription, and what the prisoners write, 46. bloodbath, in Bath Michigan, and the Baathist party, and Elizabeth bathory, 47. TV and the TVA (tennessee valley authority), and TGV train (320+ mph), 48. (crime, Ian!): Tatars with tartar sauce, 49. JC, Jackie Cochran, Johnny Cochrane, 50. Cohen, owing, 51. SB, sound barrier, smiling buddha, Santa Barbara, 52. smile, Somalia, 53. rye it in the deli, riot in Delhi, 54. plate of food, hydration; Pluto and Hydra, Nix and necks, 55. Jamaican monarchy, mon, 56. nazi school shooting (maybe).
May 19
GR: 1. Gonorrhea, gone, 2. Samuel Johnson, s.j., 3. Rubric, words of christ in red, the scarlet letter, 4. L.A. and Lawrence of Arabia, died (age 46) from a motorcycle crash. homosexual, enjoyed being beaten, 5. A (Stupid) 11y.o. named Juan Perez got eaten by polar bears in 1987 at the zoo in Brooklyn (wan P, P as ack), 6. hundred, dread of huns, TH: 7. bee-headed, 8. hunting game, game law, game theory, 9. Spotsylvania hits the spot, in a trance in Transylvania, 10. heavy fighting by light infantry, 11. cute men, and acute meningitis, wild Oscar says ow, 12. TE Lawrence: author, archaeologist, war hero, 13. L'estat makes a statement, 14. ratify is an ugly word, and cockroaches have nothing to do with cocks, 15. the cloister eats oysters, 16. Johns Hopkins, and Anthony, 17. Sarah Peale, appealing, 18. Ho Chi Minh, only human, 19. Pol Pot, political polls and potent pot, 20. Malcolm X's exes, 21. Francis Scobee, commander of Challenger, challenged to make a scientific classification of a bee, 22. PT boats, and Pete Townshend, 23. The Who and the World Health Organization, 24. alone with Joey Ramone, W: 25. assault and salty ass, in Assam, 26. Prome kingdom, pro-me :-), 27. parlous parliament, amen, 28. we are all ill-fated, 29. $15M for California, NV, UT (and parts of 4 other modern US states) at end of Mexican-American war (1848), 30. Samsung and Samsun and Samson, 31. Zeno and Zveno, 32. units, munitions, muni, and moonies, 33. anal Sue, the Suez Canal, connecting med to red, 34. IOS, isthmus of Suez, and apple iPhone operating system, 35. BLM, Bengali language movement, Black Lives Matter, 36. LBJ, letter from Birmingham jail, Lyndon Baines Johnson, 37. US gun legislation (in '68 and '86), 38. a referendum on reefers, 39. ellen takes medications in Medellin, 40. gr, grassroots, 41. better a car bomb than tsar bomba, 42. barrels, bare El, (crude), and SLB, too, (schlumberger), SARA (saturates aromatics resins asphaltines), Popeye (Quentin Tarantino and Tom Cruise) and Olive Oyle, black gold, polluting Paul, causing a stink, 43. Paris to Cairo, pairs (like chi and rho), 44. Meghan Markle, and Eminem and Miwa, Mike, and Mitch Matsuno (neighbors).
May 20
GR: 1. Grim Reaper came for Gilda Radner (ovarian cancer), 2. S and P, strength and power, TH: 3. vascular gamete, and Vasco de Gama, 4. marvelous Marvin, Merv griffin and MIRVs (multiple independently-targetable reentry vehicles), marvin the martian, and MARV (montgomery Alabama to Richmond Virginia: moved confederate capitol), 5. tennis, cat gut, heartstrings, 6. Amelia Earhart, a carnivorous meal of ear and heart, 7. beefeaters beefing up security, 8. Which came first, Bikini atoll or the sexy swimsuit?, 9. Hyde, Roe, Jen, Baum, 10. Hill 937 actually had no strategic value (abandoned after 10 bloody assaults), 11. 53 y.o. Mavis Hutchinson became the first woman to run across America (3000 miles in 69 days), in 1978, 12. Trebek and a trek across Quebec, 13. Pray for Pretoria, 14. don't give me no lip about life in prison, 15. pencil vein ya, 16. presidents, legal precedents, and prior precedence, 17. Balzac's ball-sack, and John Stuart Mill's jism, 18. William George Fargo (founder of Wells Fargo), 19. The Premier's preemie, 20. Earl's girls wake up early, url - uniform resource locator, W: 21. at last, an atlas! 22. ecumenical acumen, 23. dissing dysentary, 24. picture the Pictish army, 25. the bride of Bridei III, 26. king of Alt Clut (an alternative cult?), 27. a stolen hat, and taken captive, 28. links to Lincoln, 29. martial marshall named Marsha, 30. Castile got its name from castles, of course, 31. I don't mean to Braganza, 32. massacred, and sacred mass, by the HRE, (city of Magdeburg, 1631), (around 20k), 33. Yangzhou massacre (800k), Qing topped the catholics, 14 years later, 34. troop losses is different from losing my glasses, 35. sex in Saxony, 36. Russia, Prussia, and usher, 37. trippy lie: germs, hungry ostriches, and it, (triple alliance, 1882), 38. Krakatoa, cracked toe (ow), 39. playing tuba in Cuba, 40. a Jedi in Jeddah, 41. Lindbergh ('27) and Earhart ('32), 42. Chiang Kai-shek, kai green, kaiser, shekels, 43. NSA ('49), gnashin' null, cure age!, 44. CMB, cosmic microwave background (radiation), and the center for mind and brain, 45. HIV is also a district in Iran, 46. guise and gals, gays and lesbians, 47. clams, clementines, inclement weather, and clemency!, 48. AI, artificial intelligence, amnesty international, nasty fish art, 49. baseball and ISU base units (a baseball weighs 5-5.25 oz), 50. Mariupol: marry you, Paul? merry u Pole, Mary Oople, mar re ooh pull (?), undertow.
May 21
GR: 1. PS, proving superior, 2. Ending a sentence with a prOposition, 3. 2 leos, Leopold and Loeb, lyin’ lions, TH: 4. medicine man, mm, 5. Hernando de Soto claimed divinity, 6. in 1819, bicycles were called "swift walkers", 7. BM, Boston MA and Baltimore MD, and PP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 8. Z-land, Lala land, Netherlands, Zorro, 9. the ill will to thrill kill, 10. awkward auks on the falklands, 11. Gila monsters, gorillas, and guerrillas, 12. Plato on my plate, 13. (Elizabeth) Fry the minister, 14. "Fats" Waller and Walmart shoppers, 15. Lawrence Tureaud (Mr. T, of A-team), like my dad, Larry and my grandfather, Ben; I could be Mr. T, too. 16. Daly City and Janet Dailey, daily, W: 17. carnivorous cannibal, unless you're eating a vegetable (!), SF of Assisi, 18. Galerius Caesar, hilarious, see's her, 19. Agh! it's the aghlabids!, 20. milling around with the militia, 21. libel? lie/bull, 22. Ellen and Lenape, 23. Lawrence, KS, Larryville?, 24. Ionian islands, ions, keeping an eye on, 25. communist retards, communards, 26. fear of Porfirio, and mad Madero, 27. dairy in Derry, 28. demon core, and d.c., 29. race riots are retarded, 30. Stonewall riots and Stonewall Jackson, 31. Margaret Thatcher gave a "sermon on the mound" (not mount), 32. Gandhi, gone, 33. aridity of DRY (democratic republic of Yemen), roi Roy, 34. Suharto, straight from the heart, the smiling general, born in the Godean area, 35. Jack's car in Jakarta, 36. was Alger Hiss Algerian?, 37. S and M in Serbia and Montenegro, 38. (2011) Harold Camping's personal April fool's day, (or are we all in heaven?), 39. insane in Sana'a (ya, man), 40. Mr. T and Mass Rapid Transit (Taipei metro).
May 22
GR: 1. Floyd, Virginia and losing virginity to pink floyd, 2. MW, merriam-webster, martha washington; she was paranoid her slaves were plotting to kill her (George’s will said they would be freed upon her death), William and Mary, TH: 3. Called war of the roses because each side wore a different color rose as badges, (red for Lancaster and white for York), 4. By the pool, living the life, in Liverpool, 5. India, Indiana, and Diana, 6. germ tact pole (germany attacked poland), 7. the doctor is in, doctrine, 8. Truman was a true man, 9. the cause be ill: bill cosby, 10. Ceylon, silver girl, 11. lanky Sri Chinmoy in Sri Lanka, 12. Summit: 42!, 13. massacre, sucks ass, but mass occurs, 14. Wagner's dog wags, 15. AC/DC and Arthur Conan Doyle, 16. JC, Judith Crist, 17. (Peter) Nero played piano (while Rome burned?), 18. Naomi Campbell and soup and the bell at camp, and oh me oh my, 19. misery, modus operandi, and MO, Missouri, 20. OT, Old Testament, operating thetan, Oregon trail, overtime, W: 21. Saladin's paladins, 22. Damietta, damn: sad, sacked and destroyed, 23. Zeppo Marx in Aleppo, 24. the Twinkie defense, and hashish assassins, 25. anti-king! anti-christ! antimatter!, anti-ant (raid), 26. lace, and the lewis and clark expedition, 27. Aaron Burr, that was cold, 28. a wry wit about the riot, 29. nazi steamship, 30. a book about Preston Brooks, a summer with Charles Sumner, 31. ow, Oliver Winchester, 32. cpr, civil and political rights, 33. asexual, amoral Aromanians, 34. 9.5 moment magnitude earthquake in Chile, in 1960 (most powerful ever recorded), 35. mansions and birds have wings, but politicians? right and left needed for a government to fly?, ("we are each of us angels..", quote), 36. aqua and the gulf of Aqaba, 37. Tehran and Tiran, 38. Micronesia and Macaronesia, 39. Ceylon, sail on, 40. Sinn Fein and San Francisco, 41. meerkats in meerut, 42. Hey, T, 43. Al Jaffee in Jaffna, 44. apples, hotdogs, and cherries (and Bobby Frank Cherry), 45. Mangalore, and mangled gore, 46. Janice in Joplin, MO, 47. up-left and upright accents (?), e.g. coup d'etat, (over the e) 48. kicked in the crotch in Karachi, 49. (60 miles!) ultramarathon (21 died in 2021), in Gansu China, 50. anal sores in the Azores.
May 23
GR: 1. Piracy, pi, and pie, 2. HI, Hawaii, and Henrik Ibsen, 3. Bonnie and Clyde died in Louis y Ana, TH: 4. drinking burgundy if you like Joan of Arc?, or burgundians, lol, Ja rule, 5. Aragon, Teshara-gone, 6. Jason Kidd and captain Kidd, j/k, 7. Carolinas, named after Charles I of England, 8. learning about plants in nursery school, 9. Joe Borden pitched the first no-hit game in NL history, Joe Biden takes his hits, 10. Ramon, Ramona, Mona Lisa, and ramen, amen, 11. Nate and Erica, native Americans, 12. a hungry ostrich in the zoo in Austria-Hungary, 13. Abie's Irish Rose and the air I breathe, 14. were Crow Indians named after the bird? (yes!) : absaroka means children of the large-beaked bird, 15. seek and destroy, sad, 16. his unholiness Heinrich Himmler (ss chief, swallowed cyanide a day after capture), 17. even the ants take a stance on resistance, 18. Adolf Eichmann vs. Albert Einstein, 19. M-sicks teen, 20. Mesmer plays the klezmer, 21. reading (poet Thomas) Hood in the 'hood is good, 22. MT mom teshara and Margaret Fuller, 23. (Douglas) Fairbanks and unfair banking, 24. Johnny Carson and Jeannie Carson (English comedienne), 25. JC, jesus christ, julius caesar, joan collins, dynasty, dying a nasty death, nasty girls, nas in your area, 26. Newcombe, nuke 'em, (tennis and eschaton), 27. ciga-wretched, marga-wretched, W: 28. friction, fractions, factions, and fiction, 29. b.s. about being burned at the stake, burned steak, 30. John Churchill, and Winston, 31. ruskies, and ratifying the u.s. constitution, 32. French farmers in Famar, 33. Carney, and carnie-folk, 34. rabbi rabbits, 35. hopping around the federal republic of germany, 36. hello Hilo, highs and lows, 37. Let's Split this place (Croatia), 38. Kyoto Protocol and Kaiser Permanente, 39. faggots, maggots, and bob saget, on the Skagit river, (named after tribe), 40. esprit de corps, killing spree, spree candy, 41. tarts in Tartus, 42. a lead-hand jab in Jableh, 43. SF cable-cars, and the aerial tram kind, too.
May 24
GR: 1. 300 killed in 1964 in a soccer riot in Peru; the worst sports riot, though, was after a chariot race 1400 ya in Constantinople, where 30k people died, and most of the city was leveled (!), TH: 2. Copernican revolution, and rotation, Coperni-cussing the ignorant, renaissance polymath and polyglot, Polly wanna Krakow?, 3. God and Gounod, 4. London Ontario, ellen undone, 5. AOL and the Angel of Death, (dr. Josef) Mengele, 6. BG, The Bee Gees, bill gates, barry goldwater, benny goodman, blood glucose, basal ganglia, 7. does duke Ellington ring a bell?, 8. jog your dog in the fog, 9. brained or garroted? the Concorde!, 10. Tommy Chong in Hong Kong, Cheech Marin eating chicharron in Marin county, 11. bob dylan, bd, bass drum, big data, bipolar disorder, bachelor of divinity, 12. BB, gun, brooklyn bridge, buffalo bill, bodybuilding, big and bad, buffed burly, big brother, bela bartok, brigitte bardot, busy beaver, bed and breakfast, benazir bhutto, bibi (netanyahu), W: 13. John Wesley, method to his madness, not JW (Jehovah's witnesses), 14. SB, Simon Bolivar, Super Bowl, 15. Quito, and "Quit O" (omg), step down, satan / devil, Budapest / Allahabad.. 16. Samuel Morse, into S and M, 17. William Hurt and Patrick Francis Healy, 18. The orange free state is next to the Orange river was named after the dutch house of orange, which in turn was named after Orange, France, which was derived from "in front of the ear" (or something, lol), 19. coyotes from coyoacan, 20. Luger in Lugano, 21. what's up, United Press?, 22. Kraprayoon (last Thai dictator) resigns ('92), considered crappy, 23. 0 years in prison, yippie!, 24. leadership of Leeds, reading at Reed, 25. luv DAE in Uvalde (unvalued).
May 25
GR: 1. Mona at a monastery, staring at the mona lisa, 2. Bede, beads, and beedle, 3. Sn Elizabeth and Tin Lizzies!, TH: 4. AOC and the articles of confederation, 5. Badin, a priest, abreacting like Gore, 6. spay and neuter in spain, 7. Shannon and Shenandoah valley, 8. Jesse Owens, O wins, 9. rage, revolt, rebellion, rising up, 10. Addis Ababa in the summertime, and Addison, 11. Shakespeare, shaking with fear, 12. St. Louis Missouri, SLM and Islam, gateway arch, gateway computers, gateway drugs, and opiates of the people, 13. down the rabbit hole at O'Hare Airport, 14. rouble trouble, tribbles, and tribes, 15. where's Ralph Waldo Emerson?, 16. Vangelis, angels, and evangelists, 17. Mike Meyers, eminem, and me, myself, eye and eye, 18. Star Wars opens, in '77, and fighting movie stars!, (and SDI), 19. Sikorsky wasn't sick of the sky (!), helicopters aren't hell, traversing the heavens, W: 20. trumpeting a triumph, 21. military order of christ, turning the other cheek, 22. my inlaw is an outlaw, 23. Manchus are human, chew on that, 24. quorum, forum, santorum, and the chronicles of corum, 25. mexican executions, and the elocution of cute exes, 26. GI's (general infantryman's) gross indecency (ew, gross), infant try man?, 27. Ukrainian People's republic, and uppers, 28. panthers capture bologna ? bunch o' baloney! (Panzers, Boulogne), 29. who's from Houston? what's in Watsonville?, 30. playing jenga on mount kangchenjunga, 31. going gaga over the Gateway Arch, 32. re-yod? Riyadh, 33. Sierra Leone, mountain lion?, (yes), 34. Mars has a "green valley" region, 35. Indian National Congress, and murder incorporated, (bruce Springsteen song, too); damage incorporated, Metallica. Corps prr.
May 26
GR: 1. wrist, diarist, eucharist, 2. SP, Samuel Pepys, 3. Druggy druggists, TH: 4. Pequots don't have to do squat, (and peeking at kumquats), 5. mounting Anna in Montana, 6. fed up with the confederacy, 7. ack, Dracula, 8. Red Cross, and a right cross, 9. U-2 spy plane (you, too?), I spy, with my little eye, up in the sky, something nigh, 10. quips and lies, equipment and supplies, 11. flight deck, and throwing cards, 12. tie-dye and thai die, 13. Pushkin and pushing kith and kin, 14. John "Duke" Wayne and JWs, Jehovah's witnesses, 15. craving Lenny Kravitz, 16. going along for the Ride with Sally, 17. Stevie Nicks (Steve and Nick), 18. high and bi, W: 19. Germanicus in Germania, with germs, man, 20. mean Armenians, sassy sasanians, 21. air, apparent (a thick fog), 22. Smog and Smaug (dragon), 23. kkk, (1293 earthquake) 23k killed in Kamakura, Kanagawa, 24. Choctaws and Chickasaws, ch ch chia, church, 25. Growing up in Grue; grue sum? 113+, 26. e-mancipation, AIs ask for employee rights, and personhood, (?), 27. galvanizing Galveston, 28. take this job and shove it, and acquittal in Quito, 29. Andrew Johnson drinks apple juice, 30. Dracula, ack you law, 31. done with Dunkirk, 32. from left to right in Iceland, in 1968 (!), 33. mock 2, (jesus) lol, 33. sue the maker of the tsunami!, 34. hating a tugboat named "love", 35. SF, shit! fuck! severe flooding, 36. Pink Floyd and George Floyd, black.
May 27
GR: 1. Gangrene makes the skin turn greenish-black, but that’s not the etymology, TH: 2. moving on from an eye of a newt, which sandwich will witches switch to?, 3. Jed's dead, Jedediah died, 4. what's your reason for treason?, 5. ripped and tornado, 6. singing, washing, in Washington, and sing sing, 7. universal studios, and mr. universe the stud, 8. Tom Sawyer needs a lawyer, Huck Finn needs to fuck Hinn, 9. I shot the sheriff, and 3 little pigs, 10. Maidan voyage, 11. SS Death's Head division gun down and kill 97/99 surrendering british troops, G-D, 12. you sunk my battleship!, 13. Eden and Sweden, meeting need, 14. God is a man of war - bible (gun down and mow), 15. men in hats, and Manhatten, 16. St. Ignatius and Staten Island, 17. Isadora Duncan, donuts and basketball, what's your ID, 18. dashing Dashiell, kissing Kissinger, 19. his holiness, his highness, hubert humphrey, hi-ho, happy hall, heinrich himmler, heil hitler, heaven and hell, heavenly host, his/hers, hehe haha, hulk hogan, hitchhiking, 20. prime minister on prime day, 21. GGB opens this day in '37, W: 22. Maine and Mainz, 23. Capulets and Capetians from Capua, 24. Malcolm IV (king of Scotland) and Malcolm X, 25. playing Aachen sack, 26. achoo! fu Manchu, choo-choo, 27. a detached detachment of buddhist warrior-monks, 28. The New Deal (the nude eel? lol), 29. XTC and the FTC, 30. Bismarck in none of my business, 31. Hell's Kitchen, and Helsinki, 32. referendum, and reefer end um, 33. Gwangju massacre, more dead ju's, 34. cease-fire (embers?), 35. a pal of Juan, on Palawan, 36. heros of Hiroshima.
May 28
GR: 1. Actor (in roles playing an evil villain) died of terror of Cthulu (who he thought was hunting him!), 2. DOW and the duke of Windsor, 3. The body is surely a temple, TH: 4. bowling with anne boleyn, 5. combat, come back, 6. Ouija board, squeegee, and Oui, 7. first movie with sound and color in '29 (On With the Show), 8. evil in his chambers, neville chamberlain, prime minister at night, 9. calling Belgium, ring a Belgian?, 10. dial M for murder, 3-D, ddd, diabolical devils and demons, 11. granny at the grammys, 12. freedom, free edam (cheese please), dominating the dumb, and meditation (om) at reed, 13. soccer, sock her, 14. thrown off the throne, 15. read, aim (toothpaste), fire (warm your bones), 16. MOE, murder on the orient express, 17. identifying remains, dentist in Maine, 18. oh no! Kosovo, 19. was Slobodan a slob? Was Slobodan Milosevic into S and M?, was he a bit slow?, 20. John Steinbeck, s.j., 21. masterpiece and master your piece, the master at peace, 22. John the Fearless, and No Fear brand, 23. a doctor invented the guillotine (Hippocratic oath, hypocrite), 24. William Pitt, and Brad, 25. Ian Fleming's phlegmatic temperament, 26. Patrick White and Lewis Black, and Jack, 27. Betty Shabazz, and all that jazz, 28. Rude Rudy jewel lee ani, 29. Gladys Knight and Doris Day, 30. the clear mind of John Fogerty, of CCR, (not foghat), W: 31. suicide by poisonous tang? (Sui to Tang Dynasty, 32. Quentin Coldwater and Creedence Clearwater, 33. taking a cold shower, in hot water, 34. essay, Spanish Armada, 130 ships/30k men (!), 35. Irish Republican Army, and Indian Removal Act, 36. Sierra club, and sea air, 37. I declare, this is a tasty eclair!, 38. Polish Paul needs shoe polish, 39. bird chicks and AI (am-nest-y international), 40. if birds don't observe borders, why should humans? 41. DF, dismal failure, 42. have a blast at the Oblast, 43. Shah named Shaw, 44. go-rilla, went.
May 29
GR: 1. Is Middlesex a type of sex? Or related to sex in any way? (middle Saxon province of essex); so, is Essex a reference to sex, then? Essex, Wessex, and Sussex all mean Seaxe, meaning Saxon (so, no), 2. anticipation of dissipation, (self-indulgence, or intemperate living, especially excessive drinking), 3. James Whale, JW (suicidal depression leading to depressing suicide), a witty witness, je-ho ho ho-vah, TH: 4. do philatelists know about the Stamp Act?, stomp!, 5. ratify and mousify, 6. taking a peek at Polk, 7. what's a "dark horse"? black knight, and black stallion, and batman, dark knight?, (from horse racing, a horse the gamblers don't know about, making placing odds difficult), nothing to do with chess, 8. adjure the badger, 9. impress the empress, don't oppress, 10. veteran becomes a veterinarian, dogs of war, 11. ho hum, humility or humiliation, 12. hisstory of snakes, 13. white Christmas, black kwanzaa, 14. ribbit went the frog, rivet went Rosie, 15. Fanny Brice on fb, 16. African-Americans in Alcoholics Anonymous, and auto accidents, 17. Cold War, cool at the pool, and thawing of relations, hotheads and fireballs, 18. Star Wars vs. United Artists, 19. Canterbury cathedral, can't bury history, can bear cool cats, 20. catholic cats, purr-posely purr-fect, you dig?, 21. I won't lose REM sleep over a stolen Rembrandt, Brent!, 22. Britain vs. Italy in Belgium! 35 die in '85, 23. Peru, per you, prrr ooh! act of dog claims 56 lives in '90, 24. San Diego padres, catholic fathers, parole, and sherpas, 25. Everlast and Mount Everest, and rest (re saint), 26. Patrick Henry, dead (phd), 27. chess, chest-beating, and Chesterton, 28. Bob Hope, and Burlingame High, 29. JFK (#35), Kennedy - Ken and Ned, 30. Al Unser has cancer?, 31. cancer answer candor, 32. toying with LaToya, 33. Annette Bening, American Beauty, ABBA, W: 34. it's a hassle to locate Dassel, 35. Djinns drunk on gin during the Jin dynasty, 36. a dare in Kildare, 37. Mustafa the moose?stop insulting the sultan, 38. pharmacist, assisting farmers, 39. Queen Draga was not a drag queen (I think), 40. a flood of blood, 41. copd, congress of people's deputies, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, 42. guns, banjos, and Olusegun Obasanjo.
May 30
GR: 1. Canonizing the human cannon ball (a man of great caliber), and the famous HR Giger sculpture, (with anthropomorphic bullets), 2. Voltaire quote, “a clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.” (i hold a different view, projects like this blog take effort!), TH: 3. Joseph Stein, Jill Stein, and Joe Stalin, 4. Candy Lightner, sugar and cigarettes, not alcohol, 5. Peter the Great, was. 6. high school heresy and sorcery, lol, 7. do L, dual duel, knights jousting, jesting, Jess T - ing!, you do you!, 8. free to freeze, 9. give my regards to Beauregard, 10. as daft as William Howard Taft, 11. morale and more Albert, 12. Attu boy!, 13. for every problem, there's an Aleutian!, 14. David Gans and the Grateful Dead of Afghanistan, 15. Mel Blanc, mount blanc, and drawing a blank, W: 16. hussy, don't give me no lip (battle of lipany, Hussite wars), 17. goal? gold!, 18. mormon in a Marmon, 19. the bane of Albania, the boon of the boonies, 20. raising a stink in Cologne, Germany, 21. dykes, dikes, and die of k, 22. Ringo and Ngo, 23. angry birds, and the angry brigade, 24. Goddess of Democracy, good god, 25. gnashin' nationals, 26. (Liberian president) Charles Taylor wore converse chuck taylors?, 27. crewed spacecraft, in a crude craft.
May 31
GR: 1. 2295 died in 1889 in PA because a fishing and hunting club placed screens on a dam’s spillway (to prevent the escape of fish), which clogged and then burst the dam with 20 million tons of water (!), 2. Adelle Davis, health-food “expert” who blamed cancer on bad nutrition (and coined “you are what you eat”) found herself surprised to die of bone cancer, age 70, TH: 3. Biden listens to (Franz Joseph) Haydn, 4. skittish british and boring boers, 5. USA! (union of South Africa? oh), 6. Wake up, Waco!, 7. cretins paving (concrete) over the island of Crete, 8. freaking out over calm communist communities, 9. hanged for hanky-panky? AIDS, maybe, 10. Deebo and Deepak at home depot, 11. JC, RC, Jim Clark, race car driver, 12. prudish whore in Prudhoe Bay, 13. a feud with Freud, 14. Reagan with a ray gun, lol, 15. human rights and animal lefts (making a righteous stink about extinctions), 16. Joe Ehrman wasn't German, 17. argh! why am I a target?, 18. Walt Whitman, Walt Disney, witty hitman, and the it-man (Stephen King?), 19. machine age, aging machines, and an appreciation for depreciation, 20. Fred Allen (FA, musical note, father, forever/always, a long long way to run), 21. Alan the alien, Marvin the martian, Jules from Jupiter, satyr from Saturn, urinating on Uranus, a tune from Neptune, Plato on Pluto, 22. Norman is not normal, 23. sculpting a skull, painting pain, 24. Monica from Monaco, 25. Clint can't cunt, but Kent can, dirty (language) harry, 26. (Terry) Waite, waiting for freedom, the weight of history, hostage in Lebanon, 27. B.S. about Brooke Shields, protect our water!, 28. Joe Namath and the math behind names (numerology!): Joe (1-6-5: 3) Namath (5-1-4-1-2-8: also 3), a sexy name (6), W: 29. emperor, stoned to death (everybody must get stoned), 30. human Cumans (eat cumin), 31. copyright on copying the left, 32. black and blue, Mount Blaxland, Blue Mountains, 33. msg, monosodium glutamate, and Madison square garden, 34. Quito, Quetta, quit it, be quiet!, 35. young gays in Yungay, Peru, 36. cobblestones in Kabul.
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