1. placoderm, emerald copper, Palma de Mallorca
2. precipice, PR
3. mean, eon; anemone
4. tirade, irritated
5. OURS
6. quotes, madrigal, quadrigas, motel
7. list, under, sexy; line
8. Spartan, token, spoken, tartan
9. Grace Kelly, gray scale
10. disconsolate, consolidates
11. OURS
12. corpse, process, press corps, pooper-scooper
13. OURS
14. despiser, disperse, presides
15. resent
16. (b/v)egan
17. Tahoe) diver answer can a crew snare video? Hat
18. textile, exile
19. Bud, rite; bruited
20. lip-read, parallelepiped
21. phonic, Chopin; Schumann, Schulman
22. (z/h/d/e)ither
23. OURS
24. stagier, seagirt, triages
25. comb/in/at/ion
26. helipads, Philadelphia Phillies
27. Yannick, unique
28. wrong chalet, "All Along the Watchtower"
29. detruncated utterance
30. rutile, tellurite
31. quick, wick
32. tenet, tweet
33. laughable, affable
34. feta, tamale, female
35. OURS
36. post/face
37. (Di)laud(id)
38. banalities, insatiable
39. gnar, gnathic
40. POW, powwow
41. gui(De s)tar
42. (f/t/s)aint
43. OURS
44. cast a net (C as tan ET); cast a net, castanet
45. texting, tech sting
46. uncoils, collusion, conclusion
47. laboriously, leisurely
48. Lacoste, lactose
49. corkiest, stock ticker
50. set, was; sweats
51. subsist (SUB, S is T)
52. dowitcher, dowager
53. OURS
54. (Ic)eland(ic)
55. co(m/r)morant
56. faked, fact
57. platonically, call into play
58. lime rickey, limerick
59. Iron Gate, interrogation
60. The acrostical enigma flats
61. feathered friend
62. the redacted Mueller report
F-1. T R I M S B A C K
H E R B T E A S
A G R A B A H
T R A D E R
S E D E R
D E S I G N
M I A S A R A
M A S S E T E R
D A I S Y S E E D
F-2. ALLELE
MAYDAY
AMRITA
TEASES
INTONE
STENTS
F-3. OURS
F-4. STOCKADES
NOTREDAME
AUTONOMIC
PROPOSERS
F-5. R
RAW
REMIT
RAMADAN
WIDER
TAR
N
F-6. OURS
F-7. SWOOPS
PEORIA
ASLANT
STICKY
MOTHER
SNEERS
X-1. My grandfather didn't know what a compass was, so he knew he didn't have one. Lloyd Jones
X-2. She herself, to use the King's phrase, was "a candle flame blowing in the wind." Landon
X-3. Men forget themselves too quickly, and a mercy is often the first thing revoked. Esi Edugyan
X-4. Life is a long lesson in humility. James M. Barrie
X-5. We face danger whenever information growth outpaces our understanding of how to process it. Nate Silver
X-6. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. V. T. Nguyen
X-7. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. Jack Kerouac
X-8. Science, the partisan of no country, but the beneficent patroness of all, has liberally opened a temple where all may meet. T. Paine
C-1. What do you call a pod of musical whales? An orca-stra! What do you call a pig that does karate? Pork chop.
C-2. OURS
C-3. The product of two masters of ceremony is pure energy, since Einstein proved it is equal to emcee-squared.
C-4. Scramble "one version no techs can decrypt" to get flat type making second nom on page into what other word? (reversed phonetic consonantcy - numbskull (LeXman))
C-5. Whether ordered using mean altitude or marijuana consumption, Centennial State ranks highest in America.
C-6. Wrote palindrome curtailment on "cigarette" but persnickety editors would likely claim words related.
C-7. Antoine purloins sirloins. Disappointed at low point, commits to life of needlepoint in Des Moines.