This month's crossword is heavily based around the Live And Let Die story arc featuring Facade. Um, and of course this review was written a long time back when Nathan Chattaway was on the PPP staff.
Across 1 Named, in the company of Bryce. (9) 4 The X-Man on the PPP staff. (4) 6 Crime never. (4) 8 Friend... or...? (3) 9 A ton, perhaps, of trans-Altlantic soldiers. (9) 11 It's a long story, a gas, but mixed up. (4) 12 Three invisible guys. Quiet, and they make you quiet. (9) Down 1 Killed by Facade... after a spear? (6) 2 Belonging to a young photographer. (7) 3 French, by name. Mutant by nature. (4) 5 Ox, Montana, Dan. What they do. (7) 7 What Facade does to Lance's camera. (6) 10 Go against, in defiant ideas. (4)
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