You really knew "friable", or just looked up "brittle"? Come on, be honest! 9. Potemkin (didn't know the connection with "hollow", which is an interesting story actually, I'd just heard of a "Potemkin village") 13. Cynosure (I looked up "beacon") 20. Olber
Nice work!! I knew there was a word something like "friable." I think I got there by searching for "frisable." Martin
Answers: 1. Strip: Mobius Bottle:Torus 2. obsessive:compulsive 3. Lacking moneyenurious, Doting on ones wife: solicitous 4. Mice:Men Cabbages:Kings 5. Tire: retread Parchment: Palimpsest 6. All is one: Monism All is self: Dualism 7. unknown 8. unknown 9. unknown 10. Pillar:Obelisk Monster: Baselisk 11: unknown 12. Gold:Malleable Chalk:Brittle 13. unknown 14. Legs: Ambulate Arms: Gesticulate 15. unknown 16. Hear: See Temporal: Spatial 17. unknown 18. Jekyll: Hyde Eloi: Morlock 19. Unknown 20. Stephen Hawking 21 through 24 unknown Couldn't sleep. Took 10 min Steve