Irish Times (Crosaire) - Feb 9 2000

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9 across is never G, perhaps GREENBACK
Adam must have had one for the First Lady SPARERIBS
Are one's fellow-countrymen straining like these? COLANDERS
As of old, call around as like this CLASSICAL
Fastened in between the first of Charles and the first of Edward CHAINED
Half of the ermine is in 21 across but not in company HERMIT
How the First Lady gets me back to the papers? EMPRESS
How the insect gets around to keeping the engines going? FLYWHEELS
How Ulster might get caught in the act REDHANDED
In the folds? That's more like it! INCREASES
In the present age one gets a grip on counsel ADVICE
Is the cost of the toy up to the Academician? DOLLAR
It starts to keep you warm; with a broken cane it keeps you hot FURNACE
It was a considerable loss when I got married after the first of last month DECIMATED
It's a terrible blow if it gets torn ADO
It's quite a blow for one to have tea with spirits with a boy TRUMPETER
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Keen to indicate this SORROW
Might one comb the street with a bit of the wheel? STRAKE
Neither unusual nor maternal to reach fifty NORMAL
One symbolic law degree between them? EMBLEM
Peers on them in the pubs BARONS
RE becoming ER? RETURNING
Sounds as if it looked good to have a horse in front and a driver on top HANSOM
Sounds hard to hold, and this will make it harder ANNEAL
Steer with what only a cow has at last RUDDER
T's frequency? OFT
The right time for this to get round to getting very soft or very musical OPPORTUNE
The turn of the tide round the turn of the den for the leader of the Press EDITORIAL
The way to get one injury? IMPANEL
This will get her to the end until now HIT
What stae does with a swallow EATSUP
Would, by the sound of it, have been in 20 across ASH