Irish Times (Crosaire) - Apr 5 2003

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A Muslim might make himself scarce towards the North SARACEN
Around the North he is building for the church MINSTER
Around you it could even be meeting there VENUE
Bare STATEOFNATURE
Blow that, you will get your degrees shortly BASSOON
For him the capital of Russia's back there SIR
Give the geegee an onion and there's no stopping it ONGOING
Hard on the outside up here to knock out STUN
It would all go to show if the St. got one hell of a ration DEMON
It would be wrong to turn up so fast as this TROT
It's not ale that may be shed like this LEANTO
Just a bit of a helping PORTION
Oh, you fool! This will fool you OUTWIT
Once it gets involved with us they have little 21 across OUNCES
One might pick this by about to do the wrong thing (5) BERRY
One of the twins is running around CASTOR
One runs into the sea? What nonsense - only in pantomime PIERROT
Plead to have your cover under the country STATEONESCASE
Say when when it's formal STATEOCCASION
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Sounds as if he got pulled along to his hall TOAD
Sounds as if one might have done this that's beaten outside Dublin DRUM
Sounds as if one owes a great deal for such a fur OCELOT
That's not the customary way to get the mules into the country - hidden around a horse SMUGGLE
The 21 across of the horse, or the ship - in the sound of it TONNAGE
The former sort of drink that one could only get out of th country EXPORT
The sort of bay that one might find in a crossword, by the sound of it CLEW
The sort of land, perhaps, that one might give someone the lease of LET
They might get a bit of this into your head TREPAN
This comes at the end - or has one in stitches TAIL
This too one might beat if it's worth so little TAT
What a babe in arms might grow up to be WARRIOR
What might give firm support might be the death of her COBRA
What one might go to court to do WOO
Whatever may be said of the harness, this will replace it REINSTATEMENT
With such a double, you won't get one over the eight WEIGHT
With the people around, one might be bearing this MIEN
With this from the North one may get free without penalty SCOT
XX and X are enough to make one tight (7) TENSION