Irish Times (Crosaire) - Oct 9 1999

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A female first for 21 across HER
A short twelve-month in Scotland AYR
Drink like this and you may get your motor over the water in Yorkshire CAROUSE
For the common folk, up with the firearm for the fish RAGTAG
For the time being, bury this. I am to finish it INTERIM
Get your hand around it and strike about fifty HILT
Give the grass a bit more and it will fizz SOD
His boy Desmond is back, but not with applause HISSED
How bad it makes the South to be ready for riding SADDLED
How the Danes take the chair in France SEDAN
Hurries out of the water RUSHES
I'm going to have what sounds like a bargain GOODBYE
If confounded Fido has vanished, he may go either way in the end DOGGONE
If she is to get her own back in Scotland, that will mean a rupture HERNIA
Is it the business of the leader to give one a hand? GENERALDEALER
It's only fair to be like this twice SOSO
It's up to stitch up once more the ratty river WESER
Managed the detectives in such a bad way RANCID
May be good enough to reach the top in the theatre SURGEON
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May be good enough to reach the top in the theatre FITFORTHEGOD
Men get to be the devil and all with 17 across DEMONS
Never go for a drive with one IRON
Not happy to have given a start to 22 across SAD
Not to be acceptable is enough to give it a tic at this point HERE
One may put on 27 acrosses, by the sound of them AIRS
Pinch it to see if it sounds like 6 down STEAL
Port may cause it, but never gin, it seems GOUT
Pro-con? FORANDAGAINST
That range is all the rage ANGER
That's the way not to do your duty SMUGGLE
That's their duty - to get you tea in the clan TRIBUTE
The sound of it gives a backward sound of 27 across ARIA
The way to be in the bax at the match? ATTEST
To get 12 in each of them sounds quite an achievement FEET
What a pest to be so firm in the swell! SCOURGE
What Daisy Bell and her husband must have had to learn to do GETONTOGETHER
What's so stout about the French is that they go to waste OUTLETS
Wound made what's said to be great over what he had GASHED