1. Dulles train, dullest. Rain
2. peccadillo, picadillo
3. via God, Godiva
4. camper, camera; epicure, picture; wo(o/r)ds
5. chauffeur, faux fur
6. foxy gene, far-gone
7. so arm us tinges tofus, fan DJing
8. passion, pensive, passive, pension
9. body modification
10. convicted
11. xerox; eXERcycle, mOXie
12. sto(n/v)e
13. ternery, ternary, Turnery
14. pro, end; Pernod
15. plenish, Philippines
16. designer, resigned
17. precautions, nurse practitioner
18. (r/p)outine
19. stung steno, scar Bono, snick ELO
20. wino, nosewise
21. pyroxene; aye, rocks, peen
22. scansion, ascension
23. ingrate, Argentina, giant anteater
24. (unu)sable
25. transpontine
26. fingerp(r/o/a)inting
27. diopside, Stan, dyad, stop sign
28. lam(plight)er
29. kernel, colonel
30. Grease, agrees
31. vegan, Negev
32. hold back, bold hack
33. (b)anal
34. lead us, no nexus
35. fin, finish
36. poetry, prototype
37. toccata, attacco
38. grown-up, group
39. bereaved, beavered
40. Eta Geminorum
41. night, ninth inning
42. mixed nuts, nixed: mutts
43. whit, wheat, white
44. creping's, Ginger Spice
45. night and day
46. Roug(he)ned; odor, Odor
47. ado/le/scent
48. tomb, form
49. tio dine (Boise; two l framboise
50. c(h/o)oker
51. flat cover, Lovecraft
52. wild, Manchu, Wu, man-child
53. squirreled water, world squatter
54. mendacity, mend a city
55. lust, slut
56. formagen, Morgan Freeman
57. capital's slower, Hal. Funders stop (capital S's lower half under S's top)
58. (ap)petite
59. (r)at, (r)ant, (r)egality, (r)am, (r)ape, (r)otter, (r)avine, (r)egret
60. Harmonite, Another Thin Man, trihemitetaremorion
61. upstage
62. manet, tea, eager, germane
63. imp(a)lement
64. (Uru)gu(aya)n; Ur(ugu)(aya)n
65. blasted, database table
66. relating, triangle, altering, integral
67. (L/D)ublin
68. tiny ell (tin, yell)
69. nitrous, (nutritious, UTI)
70. (mittim)us
71. Kalamazoo, Missouri, calorie
72. fallaway, fallacy, Wac
73. Odubel, double
74. (n/b)aked
75. stag, stagger
76. the bea(r( we(n(t(over t)he m)oun)t)ai)n (overt, them, noun, wet, Rai, The Bean)
77. Brother Rat and a Baby
78. soil, sail, sully, assail, slew, slow, sole, sell, soul
79. silicone, resent, bong, scone, resilient, boiling
80. mirador (rod, a rim)
81. room, rumor
82. Incan/descent
83. Cardiff (card (JQKA) if F)
84. sideromancy, Syro-Macedonian, secondary emission, Dear Commissioner Snyder, dynamic random-access memory
85. mar/Jo/ram; mar/sala
86. think pieces, pink thesis
87. estate taxes
88. ass, morass
89. tabor probat
90. defensive indifference
91. Flin Flon, flip-flop
92. trice Ra tops, triceratops
93. (b)owl, (b)ananas, (b)oat, (b)ovine, (b)oil, (b)lend, (b)utter, (b)read, (b)raise
94. Tyrion Lannister
95. a presidential rumming mate
96. OURS
97. OURS
98. candidate Donald Trump
99. Trump's "Make America Great Again"
F-1. CRAX
LANE
ATOM
MENU
F-2. JOTHE
OGRES
TRUST
HESSE
ESTER
F-3. LEXMAN
INHALE
SHOVES
TASERS
ELANCE
DOSSES
F-4. POSSUM
ENCORE
PLANES
LIRATH
UNFREE
MESSRS
F-5. QUICKS?LVER
SCENERIES ?=I/O
ELEGANT
LENTO
DOE
S
F-6. OURS
F-7. PPPPPPPP
PUERILER
PERICOPE
PRIVATES
PICADORS
PLOTOSID
PEPERINO
PRESSDOM
F-8. TEKI
EDIT
KITE
ITEM
F-9. BTNIRN
ARANEA
TANDEM
ACTIVE
TEETER
ASSESS
F-10. VROO
REND
ONTO
ODOR
F-11. INCAMERA
NEONATAL
SALTLAKE
TRESTLES
F-12. OURS
F-13. OURS
F-14. SC
WLRS
CRPNTR
LWSCRRLL
LCNWNDRLND
F-15. PORTLANDMAINE
OPHIO ESSEX
RHEAS SHILH
TIARA SEALI
LOSANGELESCAL
A GLAIR A
N EARLS R
D LILAC A
MESSERSCHMITT
ASHES MANEI
ISIAC INDIO
NELLA TEIAN
EXHILARATIONS
F-16. ASTOLAT
SCALAGE
TAKETEA
OLEMISS
LATIFAH
AGESAGO
TEASHOP
F-17. FRIES
RONDO
INREM
EDEMA
SOMAS
X-1. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce, Ulysses
X-2. A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
X-3. The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
X-4. Money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised. Harari
X-5. GOLDFINGERTHU Goldfinger
EDERLEESVKOLN Thunderball
YEGNORAVEELED Diamonds are Forever
EUROENTEREDXE Goldeneye
NMOOREBLUNDER Dr. No
EBONHOOTPLUMB Octopussy
DVMCONNERYSEA
LATHSADZEBOWL All are James Bond films
OCTOPUSSYRUPL
GUBROSNANIPAD
RULEREOREOCSI
EMUSFAIDSZOEA
VEROFERASDNOM
X-6. The hot dog is the noblest kind of dog as it feeds the hand that bites it.
X-7. Donald Trump has just turned seventy or, as Bernie Sanders calls it, "the good old days." Larry Wilmore
X-8. Live every day as if it were your last because someday you're going to be right. Muhammad Ali
X-9. MASSTARRIEST
APPLENOVOLTA
SPILLNOODLES
TONLEEKCISES
CINEMADANGLE
ANECELINEMAN
STRATUSDSALT
SMILESTINNED
EABDRWADEAWA
STEEPERASTIR
STARREECLEFT
HERALDRYBEES
Double letters in the 'GRID' or the 'clue' are altered as shown below
ACROSS
1. MALL-MASS
4. TATTIEST - TARRIEST
10. ADDLE - APPLE
11. utter - upper
13. SPIFF - SPILL
14. NEEDLES - NOODLES
15. LOOK - LEEK
17. sheets - shoots
18. loss - loll
21. patter - passer
24. robber - rotter
26. choose - cheese
28. TIFFED - TINNED
30. crook - creek
32. STOOPER - STEEPER
33. fully - fuzzy (or 'fussy' or 'funny'I suppose)
34. STALL - STARR
35. cunning - cutting
36. toff - toss
37. BOOS - BEES
DOWN
1. ripping - rigging
2. ANNOINT - APPOINT
3. SPITTER - SPINNER
4. waffle - waddle
5. APPEAL - ANNEAL
6. REEK - ROOK
7. grimm - grill
8. EGGS, ELLS
9. STOOL - STEEL
12. ACCENT - ASSENT
16. carry - caddy
19. ACCESS - ASSESS
20. connecting - correcting
22. swiller - swimmer
23. hemming - herring
25. poorer - peerer
27. MASSE - MATTE
29. summer - suffer
30. WOOD - WEED
31. allows - arrows
C-1. Trivia buffs, your POTUS factoid for today: there's never been a U.s. president who was an only child.
C-2. "To be or not to be (or both and neither simultaneously), that is the question," posited Schrodinger's cat.
C-3. OURS
C-4. OURS
C-5. Discoveries disprove dominant "dust, darkness" dogma. Dinosaurs died defending democracy!
C-6. Caviar consumption considered significant health hazard according to sturgeon-general's warning.
C-7. One wonders what word might be crafted by those who deny the doctrines of disestablishmentarianism.