Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 10 2005

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A blooming tin like this with spikes ACANTHUS
A diet of gin will get one fired IGNITED
Bits of the wine get charged PORTIONS
Comes across the East up in this regard ESTEEM
Continent if one is up in Alcoholics Anonymous ASIA
Cross this INCENSED
Cross this with leaves in the middle of it STREET
Does this get one to like the crescent? LUNATE
E's not fair with such reversion ESCHEAT
Entirely by name during December up here CALLED
For a start one is in it for a start before one was fed INITIATE
For myself, the previous capital of Russia FORMER
Fowl! Fowl! By the sound of it, but never of late COCKCROW
Having lost spouses around the North will see them through WINDOWS
He will be able to hold his liquor BILLYCAN
How I'd 1100 to make fun of it in the rule RIDICULE
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How she encountered, I see, in an airtight manner HERMETIC
If a clock were so milky it would be soundless, so it seems LACTIC
Is that how news gets around? CIRCULAR
It's badly in need of a wash with that much back up there PUTRID
Just a bit in South Africa, but all in Greece SPARTA
Left with the threads STRANDED
Might be a double one with drink CHIN
One deals with the ruddy craft back there TRADER
Single, sour and severe ONEROUS
Sounds as if one claims to be the possessor of an island IONA
Stay shut with e'en one pound UNOPENED
That makes one swear in such a hot way OATH
The beast of the underworld was a mass of nerves GANGLION
The clue to being in Ulster gets them to the core of things NUCLEI
To get the dogs on board will make 'em do this, by the sound of it EMBARK
What a blow that it won't work STRIKE