Oxymoron

One of the clues in last Friday’s cryptic crossword in the i newspaper (№ 2162 by Morph) is:

My solution is PHOTOCELL. And I notice that the phrase “still mobile” is an oxymoron.

Phone American city. (6)

Answer: MOBILE. Mobile (pronounced [məʊˈbiːl]) is in Alabama, USA.

Would something that is a little big look pretty ugly?

If things seem to vanish, they appear to disappear.

A person who is unable to tolerate the telling of falsehoods cannot stand lying. (And True Lies is a 1994 film directed by James Cameron.)

American city recovered from cyclone, remaining backward (4)

Solution: RENO.

Reno is in Nevada, USA. It describes itself as “the biggest little city in the world”.

Open Secrets is a collection of short stories by the Canadian author Alice Munro, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

Come to think of it, most secrets are hardly secret at all. In Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Professor Dumbledore tells Harry: “What happened down in the dungeons between you and Professor Quirrell is a complete secret, so, naturally the whole school knows.”

A surface that is more or less even is roughly smooth.

I have still water and sparkling water on my SandwichMan round each day. I rarely sell them, but when I do the chances are that it is the still rather than sparkling one that people buy – even though the prices of both are the same. Why are people so picky? Yes, still water is water. But isn’t sparkling water still water?

Oxymoron

Poor Rich is pretty ugly.
Rich Rich is pretty pretty.
Randy Randy is going to come.