Inter(cep|sec)tion
"We have this stack of intercepted messages," says your instructor, handing you a pile of slips. "They’re cryptic, but you should be able to cross-reference them to figure out how they fit together. Once you’ve done that, a cross-reference in a different direction should put you on the right path."
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- Weakling types parting unkempt hair (7)
- .45 for 007, perhaps hidden in Scali bread (7)
- Pilot creating message reordering literary works after Arlo leaves (9)
- Standard cab is out of control... (5)
- ...careening near a colosseum (5)
- Banned 2012 film acquired by reporter traveling with troops (9)
- Demystify defunct aircraft for those listening (7)
- Anonymous United Nations demand nearly sent back (7)
- Scramble to smear person running the show? (7)
- Ben leaves bench, interrupting one kind of panel researcher (7)
- Dismissing recent G.I. Joe’s initial reforms (9)
- Entire excavation in a report (5)
- Problem is, Mideast canal doesn't close (5)
- Pair of spies catching westbound train in public stayed dormant too long (9)
- Demands first among various sins (7)
- For example, plays tricks at first with gun (7)
- Gaffe from military intelligence post (7)
- Pope ally disturbed leader of England's nonclergy (9)
- Not exactly five in a row of heads or tails (5)
- Cryptanalysts may discover one glib speech by end of session (7)
- Arctic residents remove back 30% of car I bought (7)
- Without fail, drunken barfly garbled hint for maze (9)
- Pre-Oscar party
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sentences like this (5) - “Through holding commanding officer” put into ciphertext (7)
- Assailants take carts here and there (9)
- Most chill half of melons, at minimum (9)
- Short skirt worn by beauty with James Bond's cocktail (7)
- Threatening operative at the front without inhaling oxygen (7)
- Woman ultimately abandoned by coziest intimate (7)
- Go back in, crossing Green territory (7)
- Flies circling small kids (5)
- Our group has a Saint to kill (5)