Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 9 2003

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A can with this has thorns like this THUS
A loud, bright blow of the whip FLASH
Awarded for what withers away after A, it seems TROPHIES
Being in the drink, the priest may have been the downfall of Adam APPLE
Being particular, I would be at speed with my promises to pay FASTIDIOUS
By the ones that are up and about there BYSTANDERS
Cut the point off and it's still got a point to go on ahead THORN
Egg with the eel in - or the lady in NEGLIGEE
Get your knife into the fly-by-nights on the way back STAB
Had a sniff of beer there INHALED
House that as a rule comes to a bad end DYNASTY
How the blooming boy gets an old pen, by the sound of it JONQUIL
If you ran like this you'd be an also-ran JOGTROT
In such verbal form one would be uptight TENSE
It's well-known to be the spur, according to Milton (4) FAME
Like a nipple behind the ear MASTOID
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Not in view by the end of play, by the sound of it LASTSEEN
One is hard on the poor to put the squeeze in the poor OPPRESSOR
One that was in about twice ten on the wheel IXION
Play-by -night? TWELFTH
Put up with that ERECTED
Seems the wife is a semi-gambler BETTERHALF
Sharp left for a wine - not a soft drink HARDAPORT
Sort of thin on the blower, by the sound of it FLUTELIKE
Sounds as if it's rising and falling in a knot TIED
Such deformity has its place in the field SHORTLEG
That's what 30 across are - honest! UPRIGHT
The broken frame in the ice-bound poets PERMAFROST
The flower of the veins of the gods? ICHOR
Times such as these IRISH
Where there are islands below the Equator SOUTHSEAS
Where you take in the fly-by-night around you MOUTH