Safecracking

 

Edison was incredibly worried about competitors stealing his inventions and so kept all trade secrets locked inside his vault.


ROW CLUES
  1. Garottes
  2. Audie Murphy, for one... (2 words)
    ... and whence he became one
  3. Straightforward (2 words)
    Dynamo
  4. Noxious plants?
    Expostulate
  5. Like a rudderless ship
    Laid down
  6. Loose-leaved
    Expense
  7. Adherent of Hinduism or Kabbalism
    Minnesotan travelers
  8. Welcomed guest (2 words)
    Ootybay?
  9. Cause of jet-setters' insomnia (2 words)
    They're catching?
  10. Swell feeling?
    High speed pursuer
  11. In dire straits
    Put away
  12. Twelve-times-given gift
DIAL CLUES
PINK
  • Straw matting
  • Put up again
  • It has pros and cons
  • No longer unspoiled
  • Travel from pub to pub
  • Hollow
  • Removes stitching from
  • Euryale's sister
  • Evangelist's address
  • Daises
  • Instinctively stiffened
  • Assembly
  • Least healthy
  • Seeder preceder
WHITE
  • Consent to
  • Relating to element #7
  • Electrician on set
  • Australian swimsuit model, Bailey
  • Tapering towards the center, as a cross
  • Electrical actuators
  • Nit to be picked, say
  • Equipped
  • With all parts directed to one side
  • Wrong doings
  • Old fashioned phone
  • Rid one's mind, as in doubt
  • Door knocker
  • Seconded?
GREY
  • Treat with contempt
  • Open with a 'click'
  • Pink, for example
  • Least done
  • Extraordinary occurrences
  • Tiebreaker
  • Tarnishes
  • Evildoer
  • Remove from stock exchange
  • Step lively?