Irish Times (Crosaire) - Oct 16 2003

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Across this there's growth at the bottom, but keep it under your hat ATHWART
Are, in short in time for the bishop to go on ahead MITRE
Can I follow a French one? Not likely, it seems (9) UNAMIABLE
Chicken out of a diamond in heraldry HATCHMENT
Could nothing that's mostly oil exist with a stone inside? OLIVE
Does this get to Ulster in a devious way? Well, hardly (7) STONILY
Even about half of what's in such a long poem one may get sick of EPIDEMIC
He has got good taste HERB
Heraldic bearings for an octopus to put on COATOFARMS
How one may safely ignore the promise of strike action IDLETHREAT
How one might have got hold of one's untidy garb over the bed GRABBED
How one might look questionably at a broken cane ASKANCE
If you tore this and got it coming down, you'll have to pay for it RENT
Is it all right to be such a beast as to start apiary? OKAPI
It's so simple to be in such a penniless state, by the sound of it INNOCENCE
Might this get charged with laying? BATTERYHEN
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N, perhaps, for the time being NONCE
No genuine stone for an emblem SHAMROCK
Not at first such an odd thing to occur EVENT
Oh, you cause pain! Has one quite put out OUSTING
One female and a number of males in the arts of war ARMAMENTS
One may be satisfied with what's in there CONTENT
One was in a hurry to start such a beastly place RANCH
Pa rents them to start to come out at night MOTHERS
Show it to be Eliot's beastly long runner CATS
Strictly speaking, the alternative to being at the wheel, by the soiund of it (7) AUSTERE
That bit will give you some idea of the seaman's pamphlet ABSTRACT
The best of the blowers one may be dealt with ACEOFCLUBS
The one at last makes them one of those, all the same CLONE
The Times of Italy? TEMPI
Through time I'm going with the current AMPERAGE
Turn and turn around, so that it makes one feel the pinch SPIN