Irish Times (Crosaire) - Sep 16 2003

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''Mother, I get to the edge back there,'' says she MIRIAM
A hundred in the broken drain? That's bad RANCID
A northern breed of horses? ASCOTRACE
A teetotaller getting in Scotland his own gin and getting to be all there ATTAINING
All that's left after the forest fire ASH
Back there at last it's oriental EASTERN
Being so soft, by the sound of it, it's dangerous ASP
Having been to a couple of pubs, the boy is no longer 7 down BARBARIAN
How a diver might get around the girl GANNET
How the Reverend Father gets back for the beginning of his hardship (9) ADVERSITY
It is in an extremely truthful way VERITY
It sounds as if they might be polite-looking CIVILISED
It's decreed that this was just in play at last ENACTED
Long for the oarsman and for that swine FARROWING
Never crow, but might be one HEN
One may bowl them over if they get light and set askew WICKETS
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One might shut the writer up there PEN
Such a simpleton may find himself in the soup NOODLE
That's the cleric I have to put some life into REVIVE
That's when they come as a matter of course MEALTIMES
The nobleman has landed, but soon to take off again COUNTDOWN
They gather that they're not so-and-sos, it seems REAPERS
W in this COMEFIRST
Way back there the boy couldn't keep his mouth shut YAWNED
Were the seaman to take things easy he would get fired ABLAZE
What 19 across are not doing, thus to take off with it SOWING
What a bore to be that piece in the middle! CENTREBIT
What's grand and red up here is skinny DERMIS
Where there might be three serious feet of late GRAVEYARD
Works for a living, that Royal does, by the sound of it (6) PRINTS
Would Shelley, perhaps, have shut up like this? OYSTER
Yes, there are claws in it, by the sound of it AGREEMENT