Irish Times (Crosaire) - Aug 20 2004

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A plot for counsel, himself and myself SCHEME
Begin to be without one to 15 across LACKEY
Cut out to be taxed like this, perhaps EXCISED
Death may cause merriment if it's by decapitation SLAUGHTER
Does it strike her that she might come here? HITHER
How sweet to get a black throat from this! NECTAR
How the plural, in short. is not is not happy PLAINT
In Germany must have a twisted tail ESSENTIAL
Is RO used to get like this? EXCITED
Is sulphur ever mixed to do for this? SERVE
Is the North almost too 14 across? NEARLY
Just a shade of no shave with all those wives BLUEBEARD
Just about now give it again REPRESENT
Just picture how flat they are to start with TABLEAUX
Make light of it - superlatively so VERY
Not broadly speaking it sounds as if there's not a corner here STRAIT
Not the odd way to get the Leven to the Wye EVENLY
Nothing to the East, and there you have it in blue and white NILE
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One is always late for such transport HEARSE
One month short of what would be bad, I see SEPT
One works inwards in the family SISTER
Perhaps one might make a can of this ENABLE
Postscript about the dead, and that's flat PLATES
Rode to have got around fifty-fifty? ROLLED
Seen your sound in church ELDER
Shortly to be a couple of 11 across from pole to pole SOON
So Delighted to be so still there at last ECSTATIC
So it's about pussy jumping up and down STACCATO
Sure to be about a teetotaller, sez you UTTERS
That'll eat up the miles and may eat up you too JAGUAR
The price of a rib by the sea in Spain COSTA
The Scots would have got around for them REELS
There's one such around each of the poles CIRCLE
To a very large extent there's no profit in coal COLOSSAL
Weep at last. Does that make it clear? CRYSTAL
Would a god do for a painter or for a box-opener? PANDORA