Not being able to see the answers after countless tries and many monitor cleanings, I'll make the following guesses:
1. Who wants to be the 51st state, when there are only 50?
MEXICO
2. "Condoleezza" is a misspelling of what Italian musical direction?
LA DOLCE VITA
3. What combines "Rice" "with sweetness"?
NFL HALL OF FAME (RIP, Walter Payton)
4. If "television is just wrong," then that means the reign of the maintream media is ____
IN SPAIN.
5. Anagram, please, of "Over."
VERO (Life is a Beach)
6. So who is it that lives in Washington, D.C., and checks ("Chex") all of the posts on FR, to see if they meet with his approval?
DICK CHENEY (D.C., get it?)
To see the answers on post 18, you need to rub your cursor over the blank lines below the questions with the left-click thingie pressed down while you do it!