Three from LAT:
American with picayune chapters (5)
Eviscerate Einstein's proposed universal formulation (3)
Sonic result of addition to power unit may be partial (8)
Two from ST:
Indian agency untruths about small Polish onion rolls (7)
Conductorless noise from French department where Beauvais is located (4)
 LAT |  Seattle Times 7/25/14 sNYT |
Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
Even in | jail, singing | even (5)
[even letters] [jAiL sInGiNg] = [ALIGN]
They parent, | clean up, | provide a home (3,3,4)
[THEY PARENT] [anagram] = [PAY THE RENT]
Where | did the | mischief-maker | say? (4)
[LOCI] [=] [LOKI] [homophone]
Killed | a bunch (4)
[SLEW] = [SLEW]
Driving dog | has | fur on the floor (6)
[CAR PET] [=] [CARPET]
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▦ The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.
ReplyDelete▩ A synonym ambles into a pub.
▦ A gerund and an infinitive walk into a bar, drinking to drink.
▩ A hyperbole totally ripped into this bar and destroyed everything.
▦ A run on sentence walks into a bar it is thirsty.
▩ Falling slowly, softly falling, the chiasmus collapsed to the bar floor.
▦ A group of homophones wok inn two a barre. Ewe think they wood of scene it write their.
▦ The Oxford Comma dropped out of a debate at the bar that included his parents, Ayn Rand and the Bishop of Canterbury.
Here's a whole list of jokes like this. A slightly different list is here, which has a bunch more in the comments.