Irish Times (Crosaire) - Aug 31 2005

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A joke with it I have for punishment PUNITIVE
A light would sound like this BALSA
A sailing tug? LUGGER
A sucker has one awash to have one for a sucker SPONGE
All the same, the gardener's wife was up and down EVE
Below the North, transport in Meath NAVAN
Can they never be menaces? Yes, they can be LADIES
Could one bear to be like what ruins the East? (6) URSINE
Emit O.T. but not of late UPTOTIME
Handy for scrubbing NAILBRUSH
I'm going to? Well, I'm not ILL
If you precede 27 across, you're from Ireland ONE
Impression Mother gets with 15 across MANET
In the sting about A to B, by the sound of it, with a knife STABBING
It's irritating to be at the bottom of the dugout DITCH
Just a little depression makes one so fetching DIMPLE
Loved to make such a ruddy fuss ADORED
Not one of ten ants OWNER
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One gets heated when they get drunk TOASTS
One is after having some extra stout with the boy CHASES
One is ready to listen and be responsive, perhaps AMENABLE
One might invest with this and be a warm man UNDERVEST
One over nine from behind without reduction NET
One would be all at sea this way ONVOYAGE
Thanks are not given for such ability TALENT
The ram get all churned up BUTTER
The torn tears are all for show THEATRES
There's nothing insane about one so moving NOMAD
They happen not to be so odd up the backstreet EVENTS
Thus one might present one's cheek IMPUDENCE
Times such as these IRISH
Up with the first-rate bit of bone! TIBIA
Was in no hurry to have given a transfusion AMBLED
What the robber does when the medicine gets too old PILLAGES
With 4 across, keep it on hold, perhaps NOTWANTED
You can't make light of a trunk call from this ELEPHANT