Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 29 2000

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17 across needs nothing more to be edible OATS
Has 'e got the trial over by ten in the morning? EXAM
Has one of the top jobs been registered IMPORTANTPOST
Have a look over the sable? SCAN
How boring for Edward to get UUUUUUUUUU, perhaps TEDIOUS
How capital to give small measure to the Academician! ACCRA
In church, before Number One turns up, it's 22 across SECTION
It's always in one girl, or a few of them SEVERAL
It's not so fine when it sounds like being on the throne RAIN
It's wrong to teem with gin when there's business to be done MEETING
Knock it back, my dear, in the engine TAPPET
Never leaves on this ARRIVAL
Not being the first of 8 down, there's only four in 6 down TRIVIAL
Not far from the North, but not of late NEARLY
Not Quite the sole knock is all that's left HEELTAP
Of the alphabet, this seems to leave only Z for children TOY
One who goes camping with a stretcher TENTER
Perhaps digest of the funny device of the conjuror, by the sound of it GASTRIC
See, it comes from the well in a roundabout way COIL
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She's old enough to be a drag with a man GRANDAM
Snores, perhaps SLEEPSSOUNDLY
Sounds as if it takes large links to make that BIGCAT
Sounds as if you are up, for instance URGE
That sort of decree's in reverse NISI
That's how to drink it back in the top class manner REGAL
That's what children get for lying COT
That's what you're like in pants SHORTOFBREATH
The answer to this is to do your work over again REPLY
The little bits are all that are there to be bitten SMALLPORTIONS
The short drink with which you may toast your pet SIP
The sort of drink with which 22 across gets charged PORT
The taste of this won't get pussy down CATSUP
There's something fishy about playing them SCALES
They may sound sore, but it's easy to see through that PANES
They're wild enough to be sore about the American soldier ORGIES
This gets in so smoothly SAT
Troop in for a helping of this PORTION
What's left in the river goes with the hay, by the sound of it PRESTO