Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jun 19 2001

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Be, in short, in the boat at the head of the house (5) ABBOT
Does one gather that this might be comparatively compulsive, perhaps MUSTER
Entitled to put one on the end of the skipper (7) CAPTION
Fed up with having lost what to do in 5 down (6) DEFEAT
Feline employer of the medical officer, perhaps (6) MOUSER
First came home (7) NESTLED
For a start, that's what I did in 5 down (8) INITIATE
How rats might get to the top of the bill (4,4) STARTURN
How Ronald claims, perhaps, to be useless as a driver (4) IRON
In order to get it up before it passed on (6) TIDIED
In panic one put one's foot down over Edward I and Edward II (9) STAMPEDED
In time one gnawed, mistakenly, in time (6) ERRATA
Is this the drink of the South that one might put on with a brush? (7) STIPPLE
It would make a change for it to turn your stomach before you swallowed it (6) MUTATE
It's neither unusual nor enough to get Mother a pound (6) NORMAL
It's no light matter to be so ignorant (2,3,4) INTHEDARK
Knock around Ulster and they may send you away (6) BANISH
Left of late (6) ESTATE
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Might one start to be a net, perhaps, and still get mugged? (6,2) BEATENUP
Might she have her little brother round with the flag? (6) BANNER
Not a this if it doesn't matter (4) TALL
On the face of it it's turned up, and so Desmond turned up on what came from the bakery (4-5) SNUBNOSED
One deserves to have their ashes in them, by the sound of it (5) EARNS
One gets around them, or parts of them (6) ORBITS
Seems it takes the insect a month to pour this out (6) DECANT
That sounds just a little foul (6) BANTAM
The glare you might get from this is not what you'd get from 11 across (5) LARGE
The god has turned up with, on the cards, a cry of similarity (4) SNAP
The main mixture gives us a bad feeling (6) ANIMUS
The odds are not that this is shortened at the end of 5 down (4) EVEN
The way one might be placed if one were about to be 7 down (5) BESET
This trio couldn't keep an eye on 4 down (5,4) BLINDMICE
This would be in the red if it was a CID matter (6) LITMUS
Unable even to eat there? Surely not (7) CANTEEN
What a lark! Enough to make the bods grin (4,4) SONGBIRD
You could get an example in this position (6) STANCE