Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 4 2003

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Big dish for a big flower from South America RIVERPLATE
By the sound of it, ate the parts of this OCTET
Could be tricky to get a cardinal with a cardboard cardigan THREECARDS
Don't forget this summons to be looking after CALLTOMIND
Even royalty may be soaked when it's doing this, by the sound of it REIGNING
Evil-doing as a cleric turns to it, or the other way round VICEVERSA
Got rid of the end of 27 across SHED
How mean they are to claim The Times AVERAGES
How one could be sure to be a crooked employer USER
If the fowl was not floating like this, one might duck it UNDERWATER
Is the referee no longer tired of being about the building? REFRESHED
It gets sound at that time and also soiled, perhaps EARTHEN
It's upstairs RISER
Managed like this to get in over the door TRANSOM
Not a coat of many colours - just two of them BRINDLE
Not to be overdone is so unusual RARE
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Nothing could be more forbidding than there right at the back STERNMOST
One has no liability to be placed like this ASSET
One might have this to carry out an armed robbery RIFLE
One might not give two of them in Tooting HOOTS
People are all for the better RACES
Powder gets the cat back around fifty TALC
Ran into Hitler's deputy all strapped up HARNESS
That's about a child insect, by the sound of it (8) RESONANT
That's how to get around in Latin CIRCA
The bird might be dead with 500 more, but not originally EMULATED
The bird shows how unforgiving the North is (7) BITTERN
The way do you do differs from how do you do NOHOW
The way to get 'er to a certain removal ERASURE
There's room there when one's lazy LOUNGES
there's two of it, and Jersey is part of it TWINSET
What's the end of 2 down doing in a joint like this? (9) UNIVERSAL