Possible Clues:

• Cross face concealing endless anguish
• Slanting support raised along breaks
• Slanting line
• Crooked Shakespearean character enters country from the south
• Green Goddess comes round at length: it crosses the square
• Shortcut, at times
• Like the lines on argyle socks
• Crooked Democrat's in gaol with a criminal
• One may cross and another may make one cross
• *Shortcut path, maybe