1. The rabbit is inside the dresser, peeking from one cuff of the bondage pants.
2. Hamilton, Ontario (unless you are very cross-eyed).
3. STURGEON
SNURGEON
PNURGEON
PNURGEOT
PNURGENT
INURGENT
CNURGENT
CNURGANT
CNURMANT
CNURMINT
CNURFINT
CNURFILT
CNUEFILT
CNSEFILT
CASEFILT
CASEFILE
4. Lost mitten
Apoplexy
Carbuncle
Halved by pirate sword
Ruination of father’s firm
Yersinia pestis
Missed the swimming pool
Ostracism
Sixteen years at sea
Elevated cholesterol
= LACHRYMOSE
5. The answer is 57. (All of the others are a size of detergent container in milliliters.)
6. You should have a drawing of an American dollar bill, but with a sad flamingo where the eagle normally is.
7. Auntie Mae is mistaken. Chester Alan Arthur wasn’t elected President for another 111 years.
8. The next number in the sequence is:
170,141,183,460,469,231,731,687,303,715,884,105,727. (they are all double Mersenne primes, of the form [2^2^p-1] − 1 for prime p.)
9. The greatest difference between two professions that can be formed by adding the title of a movie = Cosmologist / CosmETologist
10. The scissors are.
11. “A MOTLEY HESITANCY” = “METHYL ISOCYANATE”
12. Mister Smith lives in the red house with the white cat. Mister Green owns the pickup truck and works in the city. Mr. Bellamy owns the publishing house and cries on weekends.
13. The fourth cube (iv) is the same as the example, if it’s rotated clockwise through 90 degrees and the front is painted over.
14. BICYCLE WHEEL is to DAISY as TILDA SWINTON is to CAULIFLOWER.
15. None of the crossword clues are helpful. The finished puzzle should look like this.
