Irish Times (Crosaire) - Aug 10 2004

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2 down, as it goes to and fro in a V.C. back there (7) CASSAVA
After half a century one might leach with this from the Ashes (3) LYE
Although I am placed next to a boy, I have been cut off from him AMPUTATED
As is only natural, one was fed at the pub INNATE
At last counsel is getting up to it ASCENDING
Being a stand-in in the cast ACTING
Half-way along the street I have to try to make it STRIVE
He is the one I turned firm with for 19 across MANIOC
How a bee might cast one vote in eight, by the sound of it, that would help to bear fruit POLLINATE
How it hurts to have so cunning a father at home like this! ACUTEPAIN
How one might bring them with one into the ship and make them stick there STAKES
How the gentlemen of Ireland would, by the sound of it, grow in Scotland SCOTCHFIR
Is it the cleric the editor came to see again? REVISITED
Is that all a doctor does - just stands around? TREATS
Last round, of course, if your friend is up to it LAP
Lest one gets into the lace of the sky CELESTIAL
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Not lax, yet lax about a century EXACTLY
One finds it absorbing to bury the sets in bits INTERESTS
One is in the hunt for a light carriage CHAISE
Playing, but not offside INTHETEAM
Sounds as if he makes his sales from his bicycle PEDLAR
Sounds as if one is in line with what there is to pay, but there's nothing dogged about it FELINE
Sounds as if the final Disney is at the end of the ball LASTWALTZ
Support this, but not down in the bowels of the ship UPHOLD
That's enough to give a nut a turn SPANNER
There's nothing roundabout the muck round about the eastern hundred DIRECT
What a nuisance to make ground with the French! PESTLE
Whichever way you look at it, that's a little beastly PUP
Would this give one the insight to espouse the Ouse? ESP
Would this make him an unwashed old man to a relative extent? UNCLEAN
You'd be in error so to get a monarch befogged MISTAKING
You'd have to have this to make any recess of it NECESSARY