1. Abel lying - Old Navy (a belly in gold, navy)
2. OURS
3. bolts, creed, metre (BC, 'MORE' letters, DE)
4. c(l/h)owder
5. (w)ides(t)
6. nastier, itineraries
7. Pulitzer prize (pullet surprise)
8. an A-bomb, B. Obama
9. OURS
10. just flatlines
11. Wiccan, polo, wan, piccolo
12. OURS
13. law to, say, retire (write erase it all)
14. Bush, bull
15. SHOULDer, BEStow, UNGone; should be sung
16. abysmally (A by small Y)
17. blander (BL and ER)
18. insane (in S an E)
19. novocaine (no V, OCA in E)
20. do(y/z)en
21. altruism, marital status
22. lion tamers, Listen to Me Marlon, transition element,
anti-Aristotelianism
23. OURS
24. OURS
25. quadrisect, acquired taste
26. terra cotta, attocarrot
27. Pocket Apocalypse, lips, to, pocketa-pocketa
28. buffa lowing, buffalo wing
29. leopard, paper doll, rope ladder, Doppler radar
30. plain/tiff
31. be forever, O Feb/a DNA guava Uganda (before V, Aug and a)
32. lobster mousse, mobster loose
33. Requiem, rent; requirement
34. ceramist, camerist, criticasterism, Mistress America
35. OURS
36. Anais Nin, eats even (an A is nine, a T seven)
37. verse, serve
38. gre(at)co(at)
39. OURS
40. ethrogim; might, ore
41. in(terpret)
42. balsa. Meek whines (ball some equines)
43. OURS
44. canopy, greener, can opener, grey
45. jar/rah
46. Ranchi, raunchy
47. dwarf, fraud; plane(t); mass, gas
48. stayed in bed, bayed instead
49. OURS
50. Dems, Ed Meese
51. OURS
52. inwardly; sandy swirl
53. write-in vote, interview, invitee, event
54. raga/muffin
55. do, fuss; doofus
56. opus, octopus
57. re(viv)alist
58. going nuts, knowing guts
59. menus, mayonnaise, means
60. Gemini, gamine
61. (w)Allah
62. mother-in-law, wallow in the mire, Willie Mae Thornton, "mirror, mirror, on the wall"
63. toilsomeness, lose no time
64. vanilla bean available
65. macabre, brew, macaw
66. Cho(l/c)ula
67. (m)Islay
68. OURS
69. c(oven)ant
70. (co)splay
71. coccyx; cock, six
72. Xander Bogaerts
73. OURS
74. Trump as president
F-1. P
SRI
LEONI
SEXTANT
PROTECTORATES
INACCURATELY
INTUITIONAL
TORTELLINI
RAILHEADS
ATOLE
TENIA
ELAND
SYLIS
F-2. S T A C C A T O
H A R R O D S
O L D E S T
S K E E T
H O N K
O F T
N T
H E H
M O R E
N O H I T
D E N O V O
M A T T H E W
B A S S H O R N
F-3. FFFFFFF
FILARIA
FLORIST
FAREAST
FRIABLE
FISSLES
FATTEST
F-4. GUARDAGE
UNDERRUN
ADYNAMIC
RENEGADE
DRAGOMAN
ARMAMENT
GUIDANCE
ENCENTER
F-5. HEART
ERROR
ARISE
ROSIE
TREES
F-6. OURS
F-7. OURS
F-8. SNNVRBNTRVT
PTRLSBRGS
LPSSLNG
SNSSC
GNS
G
F-9. BF
FLRD
RGNTRL
MNNSTFTS
TNNSSWLLMS
X-1. Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. Bernard Baruch
X-2. Advertising is the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Leacock
X-3. C A A L L I E R A L A B A M A
L I M B O S S E R A R E C R U
O S M O S I S A G O D S E N D
S N O U T S E L O P E E S C E
E E N C H A N T S I N T R O S
S A S H E D C I Y O N S I T E
T I G E R N E E D L E K M E C
C R A S T E R S R P S E U D O
H E R D Z S P L A N D E S O N
I D D U I S L E G T E N E R D
L A I R D M A G N U M O P U S
D L S H I P S I E X O S I E R
R E T O O L M S T E T S X V I
E V E N T U A T E D E C E I T
N E M E S E S S M O S E L L E
clue number, department
X-4. Reality is always more conservative than ideology. Raymond Aron
X-5. Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination. Ruth Benedict
X-6. OURS
X-7. OURS
X-8. I dream of a world where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.
C-1. Success is the result of...hard work...and persistence. Colin Powell (or someone else; I did not bother to check.)
C-2. Park rangers at Death Valley asked that visitors stop attempting to fry eggs on the sidewalk.
C-3. Frustrated psychiatrist cannot convince stubborn hypochondriac that migraines are only in his head.
C-4. Adobe Photoshop software, developed as raster graphics editor, now helps people with low selfie-esteem.
C-5. Pacifist denies instigating food fight outside Indian restaurant - claims she only practiced naan violence.
C-6. Showing unrivaled chutzpa, narcissistic artisan works own name into beaded clothing pattern.
C-7. Past Enigma contributor Dmitri Borgmann authored groundbreaking volume on recreational linguistics.