Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 22 1998

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Being such a skinny little dear, I leave at last EXCERPTS
Call back for attention at the double up and down RATE
Cave? That's all for show ABOARD
Don't see too much, so as to keep it clean SCUTTLED
From the South to royalty, just to keep things going STRIKER
Gee! Run into me very lightly BIGTOP
Get them soundly up from the sun EYRE
Have those medicine-men over for your stomach, just to keep it going SHIPMENT
He's dissipated, bound (by the sound of it) to be currently disturbed, and all at sea FRAILTY
How one gives off what was formerly with you, Desmond LOBBED
If the enamel were, there'd be nothing left in it ELEPHANT
If the South were to do this, one might have a wave with such impulse NERO
In the face of this one might fail for about a century INNATE
Is that about to give one change for what's grand? HASSLE
Is that OK? No, but it will end about, perhaps INSTINCT
Is this, 'Ta, O.C.?' No, faith INFINITY
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It's hard to get this into skeletal form ADVERSE
It's RIP, but not for the body REVERE
Might ten serve instead of a thousand to stop things going from bad to worse? RECEIVER
Might the sheep turn round about the holy man? PINOCHET
Not too stuffy for an eagle, by the sound of it LOFT
Sure, you must use force to get it inside CAFTAN
Symbolically in turn, you could get five per cent from this MODISH
That damned R. is in there in the dock PRECINCT
That's a bit because it's up for the Governor DIVINE
That's the last last thing you'd have or before a soldier TACTIC
That's where it could be soothing, in a manner of speaking, for royalty ROOTLESS
The position is that you can get at it with a duet CRUCIBLE
There's four such, and not a landlubber among them ATTICA
There's nothing in such a reign to make one pretend it's not there STRIVE
What madness to get a French one about a child! SCEPTICS
You'll need to keep your head well down, Mother, by the sound of it, if you want that bit of paper DENSITY