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Jenna, the 3-letter abbrev. in 1a is pretty common in crosswords. I think of it as an acronym for a 3-word phrase (4, 3 and 3 letters) that's frequently used in USA. [The phrase was used in World War I with a different meaning.]

Don't know why that went up twice but apologies

Thanks, geeker. I'm certainly familiar with the phrase, it's the abbreviation that I've never heard being used.

I think the abbrev. is mostly a UK thing.

Indeed, there was a satirical tv show here in the 1980s with that name