Crossword puzzle clue "no one but"

"He's a complicated man/but no one understands him/but his woman"

DESIGNER: "But I'm innocent!" LIEUT: "Maybe so, but we have ___."

Besties who also literally hate each other's guts but we're besties but we hate each other so much it hurts sometimes

Feature of "butte" but not "but"

"Now he's got the pizza - but the TV's showing nothing but snow! He quickly gives it an ___ ..."

Activity in which people talk to the dead (but not really) (but maybe)

"I'm not ___, but I play one on TV"

Christie who wrote a mystery novel about bridge (but presumably never closed one on purpose to be a dick)