Crossword Clue Game

Thread Games
1062
  1. What extremism in defense of liberty is not
  2. Illegal ring
  3. Police division that puts on the squeeze
1063
  1. Beginning President
  2. Police squad
  3. Sloth or avarice
  4. Opening versa
1064
  1. Cigarettes or booze
  2. News organization
  3. Almost president or principal
1065
  1. Squad concerned with hookers’ busts
  2. Follows ad- or de-
  3. Something not to be signalled
1066
  1. Woodworker’s clamp
  2. Mutually, per Cicero
  3. Second in command, at first
  4. Eventually can become a habit
  5. These grips turn stuck nuts
1067
  1. Precedes versa
  2. Gambling, perhaps?

FYI, for us American pedants:

Definitions

The noun vice means an immoral or undesirable practice. In titles (such as vice president ), vice means one who acts in the place of another. The expression vice versa means conversely or the other way around.

In American English, the noun vise refers to a gripping or clamping tool. As a verb, vise means to force, hold, or squeeze as if with a vise. In both cases the British spelling is vice .

1068

Damn you, Noah Webster :unamused:

1069

I was totally unaware of the British spelling, and was about to disqualify any reference to “vise”. Be that as it may, I’m giving it to:

Take it away, @FastDan1!

1070

Nice!

Let’s try AGENT

1071
  1. An undercover one can be a double one
  2. Orange in Vietnam
  3. What’s free in sports
1072
  1. Flood was MLB’s 1st free one
  2. J. Rivers’ “Secret ___ Man”
  3. S.H.I.E.L.D. operative, on TV
  4. Talent representative
  5. Provacateur, at first
1073
  1. Choking, blister, blood, or nerve
  2. Free athlete
  3. Celebrity representative
1074
  1. Broker
  2. Secret Powers?
1075
  1. Follows re- or free
  2. Talent or foreign
  3. Have yours call mine
1076
  1. Author’s representation
  2. Man, briefly?
  3. 86 or 99
1077

The nominees are:
86 or 99
Secret Powers?

And the winner is:

@Rebo wins it!

1078

Thanks! Let’s go with…

INSIDE

1079
  1. Where to keep your voice down
  2. Pitch location, maybe
  3. A criminal’s job, perhaps
1080
  1. ID is found here, literally
  2. Where kids go after dark
  3. Chancy type of poker straight
  4. Eucker line "Just a bit ____ "
1081
  1. Type of joke only a select few will get
  2. Type of job usually performed by traitors
  3. Non-cosmetic beauty location