US bank oddly lied to recruit First Lady (5)

Independent Cryptic #12232 | 22 Down | 2025-12-22
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

Odd letters of l i e d around Eve(=First Lady in biblical sense). The bank here refers to the dykes used in the US to hold back flooding (which famously failed in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck).

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