1. coveting, Vietcong
2. gouache, gauche
3. Lindy Hop, podophyllin; ma(yap)ple
4. Macron, macron
5. mesh/UGA
6. optician; op, Titian
7. crude, clued
8. schmear, cream cheese
9. droniest, Rod Rosenstein, dernier ressort, nondisinterested
10. fustigate; fuss, tug, ate
11. to(ast), fu(me); tofu
12. OURS
13. PayPal, papal
14. maudliner, Lin-Manuel Miranda
15. certain, advise, brand, vex, vices, pain, Cain, advertise, Bertrand, vertex, vertices, pertain
16. parallelepiped, rid
17. junk mail, Kumail Nanjiani
18. Comey, goy
19. cerium, crummier, circummure
20. poem, pome
21. "Ah, falafel!" "Awful."
22. vociferant, revivification, interactive fiction
23. panties, pan ties
24. elongate (E long at E)
25. desiccant, accidents
26. umph, triumph
27. ra(n)ge
28. ankle brace, clean break
29. rays, raise
30. OURS
31. Gal, do too, Gadot, loo
32. rev/amp
33. macaroni, marocain
34. Midsomer, misnomer
35. Rubrick, rubric; Burge(r/s)s; Ero(t)ica
36. noting ET's ear spar is I, ant. Heavier
37. requites, air quotes
38. viola(te)
39. lobotomies (low bottom Es)
40. Cole Porter, colporteur
41. brat, vein, brain, vat
42. expose, purist, exist, purpose
43. reclosing, consigliere, gross negligence
44. rhenium, inhumer
45. M. Jony Ive, Jimmy Iovine
46. Perry, Perrier; pier, Perrier
47. crumble, creme brulee
48. unstop, soup to nuts
49. gorge(ou)s
50. (ele)mental
51. Marisa Tomei, "It's-a me, Mario!"
52. POTUS, pouts
53. qua(rr)y; qua(sk)y
54. alerts, real estate
55. garment, anger management
56. talking heads, hawking Ted's
57. crashed, cheddar cheese
58. to buy, Dubai
59. there's a way, Theresa May
60. guest pass, pest gas
61. OURS
62. open, peon, nope, pone
63. topical, optical
64. Ce(d)ric
65. cruel, cluer
66. grittier (Tiger), opposition (Piston), nonillion (Lion), wedding ring (Red Wing)
67. Dracula, douroucouli
68. (a/o)verage
69. Mvuba, nu (MV, U - ban U)
70. winged, Edwin, wine, new
71. b(r)other
72. cramps, scram
73. Ruddigore, hiccoughs
74. ter(cet), se(ver); terse
75. exemplary damages; sale, EDP, gym, are, max
76. Folio oil of
77. M(ede)a
78. Christopher Asher Wray
79. Jared Kushner
80. Turkey's President Erdogan
81. the Trump White House
82. iPhone
83. United, American, Delta
F-1. DATABASE
ENAMORS
AGNATE
DENIS
OLIN
NFC
AO
SRO
HERD
TUNIC
BULOVA
MUBARAK
MEGASALE
F-2. P
MAR
BYTES
PRORATE
SOAPOPERA
GOLDENSTATE
F-3. J
BPR
SLLBS
FTZGRLD
THGRTGTSB
TNDRSTHNGHT
F-4. RADIANS
ACERBIC
DEBORAH
IRONAGE
ABRAHAM
NIAGARA
SCHEMAS
F-5. Z
SEA
DIORS
RUNLATE
CUNEIFORM
PESCATARIAN
SMOKEDETECTOR
F-6. LEEK
ERIN
EIRE
KNEE
F-7. K A E S
P A L T G N P I
S A N A N T O N I O T X
S I G
K A S C E M
A U S T R A L I A
F-8. CANADADAY
MEGAHIT
TOTEM
GEM
S
F-9. A BA SES
BA LLG AMES
SES AMES TREET
F-10. BASIL
APPLE
SPELT
ILLTH
LETHE
F-11. OURS
F-12. UNSNAP
PANAMA
CROSBY
UNRULE
RITTER
LASERS
F-13. GOODN EIGH BOR
EIGH TYO NE
BOR NE O
F-14. S
PNS
KRSTN
RNTTBLD
BRGTNLSSN
VCTRDLSNGLS
F-15. OURS
X-1. OURS
X-2. OURS
X-3. Solitude would be an ideal state if one were able to pick the people one avoids. Kraus
X-4. Bad news travels at the speed of light. Good news travels like molasses.
X-5. I had gone away worried and alarmed but I came home in triumph. No creditors had gone to the office, I learned, and I had saved fifty-two dollars to send to New Haven. I hadn't brought home any presents for the family, but I presented the chameleon to mother. Clarence Day, Life With Father
X-6. PARTHENOGENESIS
L E I Y O O T T
AMALGAM AVOCADO
I L H P L S M P
NEIGH HYPHENING
C S O O N A
LIMERICKS TRAMP
O S H T E M
TRUCE ITSONSALE
H N N N R A
EASYCHAIR EXAMS
S C O T I S M U
MORELLO DESPAIR
A E I W G E I E
NEWSCONFERENCES
C-1. Please reencode the first word of the ciphertext of this puzzle to find the name of a gross root. (twelve)
C-2. Just two English words are both ROT-thirteen twins and synonyms, but they do not appear in this sentence.
C-3. See all our hospitality suite puzzles! We should be socially responsible, plant ten trees each year. Go green!
C-4. "Take me to your liter", alien was heard to say. Country not being metric, they brought him to quart instead.
C-5. Egg marketing board suffers intellectual property loss. Their best ideas are always being poached.
C-6. Lazy Jinn offers to do bidding for liberal bridge player: "What wish [singular] wantest thou, master?" "One? No Trump."
C-7. OURS