Spies have their own vocabulary, and most of it's plainer than you'd think. Nine clues, nine words, and every one of them is something a case officer would say without blinking.
Mini crossword: medium
Underscores are blank squares, dots are blocked squares, and numbers mark where an answer starts. Letter counts are in brackets.
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Across
- 1 File kept on a person of interest (7)
- 3 Protection a turncoat asks a foreign government for (6)
- 5 Name printed in a fake passport (5)
- 8 An agent's invented life story, in the trade (6)
- 9 Go-between who keeps two agents from ever meeting (6)
Down
- 2 Head of an espionage network (9)
- 4 Bug on a phone line (7)
- 6 Long watch on a building from a parked car (8)
- 7 Officer who switches sides for good (8)
The answers are below.
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