I never did get C2 either, but the others were not a problem for me. For C2, I kept saying to myself "nowhere without any..." (from N E) but of course this is an incomplete phrase. Since this stuck in my mind, I could not think of anything else. Also, it's been a very long time since I've been in the middle of nowhere, and so it is not something that I think about.

I never did settle on anything for A2, tried to come up with something about contact sports, boxers, sports ring, etc., nothing worked. Don't think I'd have ever figured it out. 'Sixteen' was my first guess for A3, then thought that couldn't be right. (Glad to see others came up with the same thing.) and changed my mind to 'Dean's list'. Had 'Follow the dots' for B3, close enough? And 'One Day at a Time" for D1, and that song has been going through my mind ever since. Never did get D3, even with the hints. All I could see was something to do with cards, but I don't know enough card game terms, so thought maybe 'Jack of Diamonds'. But knew from the clues that that was wrong. (But I like it better than the real answer.) And the bonus gave me some trouble, too, until I realized I was reading the 'o' as a zero. Then it got easy. This was really a good puzzle, a good mix all the way from easy to durned near impossible. At first glance it looked like it was going to be really tough, but after a closer look, some were pretty easy. Lots of fun, as always, thanks, Jasdip! Rusty

Bonus- Batman and Robin, Sonny and Cher, salt and pepper, …. eta Just as I wrote that I thought of a another answer but it’s just one word different. I guess it depends if you work together or if you are a follower. Rusty, like I said earlier, I’m not very good at hints. 🤔 But I like to try 🙂 My thought for Be Right With You was things that are always together.( eg. I’ll be right with you through thick and thin. I’ll always be at your side.) Then, as I was looking at the puzzle I realised that it could also be read as Be Right Behind You, thus my comment about work together or be a follower. After I thought about, I went with Be Right With You as it seems to be a more common phrase, especially in stores and things like that.

patriciae, I just read up on Owen Wister. I had never heard of him but my husband had. I think you are right about developing what we think of as cowboys. It’s funny how one thing can lead to another. While talking to my husband, he told me his father named him after a writer named Norman Fox who used to have a weekly cowboy story printed in the Toronto Star newspaper. His father loved western stories. That discussion led to me asking my husband how he would define a cowboy. He felt that there were several folks he would call cowboys.😀 All that he knew was that he grew up with cows around and chickens and pigs and geese and horses and combines and tractors. Even though he had spent a lot of time chasing cows, herding cows, nutting bulls, loading cattle he never once thought of himself as a cowboy.🤠 I think it’s because they were farmers and didn’t have oil on their land. 😄 My father, who emigrated from England, the first thing he did upon arriving in Calgary was to have a custom Smithbilt cowboy hat made so that he would fit in at the Calgary Petroleum Club but I think the closest thing to a cow that he was ever around was on his plate with Yorkshires and gravy. Ken Burns has an excellent documentary on Cowboys. eta I still have my dear old dad’s cowboy hat from 1955 when he arrived in Calgary. His initials are printed in the inside headband to show it was custom made. What a fun conversation this has been!