About these answers
Mini #312's ten answers fill 23 white squares, and every one of them is crossed, so each letter belongs to one Across and one Down answer. The longest answers are FORTE (5-Across), ELITE (6-Across), LACED (7-Across), COLAS (1-Down), ERICA (2-Down) and OTTER (3-Down), at five letters; the shortest are CEOS (1-Across), TSAR (8-Across), SEED (4-Down) and FELT (5-Down).
The grid uses eleven different letters. The most common is E, in five squares, and 10 of the 23 squares hold a vowel (A, E, I, O or U). There’s no J, Q, X or Z in it.
The trickier clues, explained
- 1-Across, “Corporate bosses, for short”: the short form is CEOS.
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