Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 7 1998

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As it's up to the rent of a priest till all is blue SAPPHIRE
Be good to be this and be in possession of it BEHAVE
Don't give in what is among what's left RESIST
Fit for the tale? ATHLETE
Gee! The earth of Rome is up where there's room at the top GARRET
Give a pup a cover that's twice as firm on this COCOON
Hardly the first thing to include your 22 down LAST
Has the cat got the tin broken? Not so INTACT
Have a couple of pints with 'er? Not half! QUARTER
How crafty the painting is if it's frozen ARTIFICE
If it's an emergency then weep, sister, by the sound of it CRISIS
Is the orchestra old enough to be bound to get around? BANDAGE
Might this be the run he had been engaged in? BETROTHED
No bar's A1 if it's only up to scratch like this ABRASION
Not stiff like the start of the supplement LISSOM
See you shortly, Penny COPPER
Seems the Muslim's on to get her ALISON
Sew the lid together, as one has it in hand WIELDS
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Sounds as if one knows it's like this NASAL
Sounds as if the clock has stopped in the Milky Way LACTIC
Sounds as if the man will be near to being sole HEEL
Stand up and up with T? PUTUPWITH
That miserable accountant has the measure of 7 down CARAT
That'll give one an initial leg up to Heaven ANGEL
That's quite confused and fairly able EQUITABLE
That's the way to agree without reservation TOTALLY
The strapping force of this will make it stronger REIN
There's not any longer not there, by the sound of it UNTIED
This could be for the cargo, see? BEHOLD
This could be prior warning, of course BEFORE
This will try a response before tea, perhaps TESTAMENT
Thus might the South be loud for Neptune STRIDENT
What's the matter with being 17 down in the end? AFFAIR
You can't believe that you'd come back by train LIAR
You child of Ulster! Altogether so, by the sound if it UNISON
You won't get out of it before it is inside trouble ENTER