Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 25 2006

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&&&&&&, as a matter of course VIANDS
A lousy guest at the 34 across of the 27 across 11 down ALICE
Are you what is three points for 32 across ARTISTRY
Are, in short, slow to be in goal this time LARGO
Before five there one would have a ball INADVANCE
Bill has got in this, in a manner of speaking VOICE
Blooming well spoken at last FLORAL
Give it the sound of a knock in the engine TAPPET
Got around to the decay that swallowed it up ROTATE
Healthy? OK! VERYWELL
His work was tops HATTER
If a car can make it, it's fair to the accountant (6) AFRICA
Is it a ploy of the cat to come back with a jerk? TACTIC
Is the doctor a backward boy, all in play DRAMAS
It's dotty of Mother to come back MAD
It's not great gas in America DIESELOIL
It's said to follow the pronoun, just to make it hard CEMENT
Lame in a seedy way and no longer worked up CALMED
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Last month the artist was extreme ULTRA
Lighted one and get a case in court LITIGATE
Might she prefer to be a bit miserable? RATHER
Might the tree be in the beer? ABELE
Parts of one over the eight, but only one inside NONET
Perhaps whereat it's natural INNATE
Permit this to hinder you LET
Putting on a coat when it's not in the inside PAINTING
Seems this applies to the Middle East or thereabouts RELEVANT
Takes the skin off up for lying SLEEP
The good man was up for auction LOT
There's no profit in making a stew of this WASTE
Well, it's got off this AFFLUENCE
What Granny Smith may have been years ago: Sweet but pretty bad APPLETART
What I say about this off-shore fellow may make him take some action ISLANDER
Where they kept changing places in Wonderland TEAPARTY
With great respect there's always one in a tear REVERENT
You came first, by the sound of it ONE