Here is another mini-cryptic crossword. Solutions to these clues are in the grids below, EXCEPT FOR TWO OF THEM. Those two clues point to a person recently in the news. Your mission is to figure out who this person is.
Here are the clues. I have given you one to start the ball rolling.
3A. Plots Boris
Yelstin’s murder after losing brother (10).
4A Island takes
second place in cooking paper-thin burgers (4)
5A. Associate
deception with subtlety (7)
6A. Chair support for
quarrel about metric unit (5)
8A. Fish stank? (5)
11A. No alternative
to Spanish gold (3)
12A. Is it found in
the “out” section of the newspaper? (4)
1D. Switches a hundred jazz solos (6)
2D. Captain Kirk swaps left hand and returns to Enterprise
duties (7)
3D. Type of cat has work as private investigator.
7D. Cat in his element (4)
9D. With endless charm, perhaps, and wise (4)
10D. Another reaction to 8 Across ? (3)
LAT |  | Seattle Times (NYT //14) |
Here are the solutions to yesterday's clues:
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