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[leo9]

Dean Mayer is the bane of my crossword life....
Help please for 6 ac Skirt or skirts for boy? I don't know (6) b-p-s- looks like bypass but why?

Thank you for your help!

[bookbinder]

To bypass something means to go around it, or to skirt around it. The bypass skirts London.

[roslyn251254]

yes bypass
b(o)y + pass ( answer when you don't know an answer)

[Baldric]

BYPASS skirt around?

[BOB1957]

b(0)y pass (mastermind - don't know)