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The last three words are the definition as in baseball

Grandma1 - It is a double definition clue. X is one definition. The rest describes a mathematical property whenever a number's final digit is round.

I had all of that but thought that something else was needed! Thanks.

Thanks Cypherhouse. 👍

It took me a minute or two to understand the second part but the penny did drop in the end. 🙂

No problem! Also very sorry for spelling your name wrong in my response post 😅

Finished after 4 days! That was an epic battle.

I am still slogging my way through the clues and I now have answers for the long entries at the perimeter of the grid, although they do not fit the spaces available. I can see a way of entering the answers I have to make them fit the spaces, but the entries would not be symmetrical. Could I be on the right track, or does the lack of symmetry mean I am wrong?

Opt0 - rubric says 90 degree symmetry so you are not on the right track.

I finally have a completed grid. I think I have the 12 extra words and the letters following them make a well known 3 word phrase.

But the words themselves don't read like a cryptic clue, they make no sense at all to me.

Can someone confirm the initial letters of the 12 words are cdeitriwrims?

Thanks

God, this is hard work.

Have solved the nonsense clues so now have the writer. Now have no clue on which particular quotation is required. Is there any way of figuring out the quotation?

Have googled the writer with the phrase and nothing seems to come up.