Monday, October 14, 2024

Puzzle No. 97: Three-Piece Suit

Three-Piece Suit

By teamcrazymatt
Three of the four vertical 12-letter answers are 16s; the fourth is comparatively honest. It suits them.
(Originally published as MyCrossword #1820.)
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Squares filled: 0/145
Exolve Print Notes Jotter

Across
6Every time leaving school (4)
7Stray half as loud naturally (2,6)
10Mocked no-good grid I clued badly (9)
12Split hearts, being heartless (5)
13Latest in Nintendo forbidding Pong (5)
14Streams remixed covers: final pieces from Pulp and Boney M, for example (9)
16Initially few of us at far edge of cliff left to escort one going to bluff (4-7)
19Yankee drew nicest shot and ran (9)
20Many lonely residents stocking material (5)
21One Parisian gets ahead of westbound Soviet sub (5)
23Football star returns with anthems, snubbing clubs with beasts on the field (9)
24Grind hole, ignoring hole at ship's stern (8)
25Taps into energy over sound again (4)

Down
1Transmission of '30s film star by holding tablet (7)
2Verdict oddly dropped, charging corrupt office - base gets chilling wake-up (4,6)
3Ash & Ron broke up and repeatedly got back together for holiday (4,8)
4Spoken, heard, spoken (4)
5Queen of detectives disheartened chasing Jack two directions to find American's gems (7)
8Hunter failed to eat slice of yak, passes old farts (5-7)
9Bishop has ultimate in protocol for everyone left trapped by sins: fess up to get to heaven (12)
11Everything essential to racing motorcades resuming velocipede exercise, unless it goes around the Triangle (12)
15Top bananas lent truck to go around Spain (10)
17One standing by Knight's sample from Newcastle's Quireboys (7)
18Those confused after playing standalone game (3-4)
22Fool policeman over opening of the last letter (4)

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