Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 29 2003

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A levy is charged to get to the islands ATOLLS
From them you get the pearls that are Shelley's, perhaps OYSTERS
Go back during the concert for something so offensively racial POGROM
H saw to do this, perhaps, after the meal WASHUP
How one might listen and hear nothing SILENT
How one puts them around at here and appeases them PLACATES
How to write what is not still close in the ode OPENED
If by the end of the year I get married, that will lose ten percent DECIMATE
Is resin the cause of Mother's nervousness? MASTIC
It's bad insight for what the cat might do about the artist back there CATARACT
Lead in there and look sharp about it: that sounds all right PENCIL
Might a priest be up to being an informer? APPRISE
Might one behead the one hidden on board and then drag him off? STOWAWAY
Might she entertain those hidden on board ship HOSTESS
Not a brick love-nest? WOODEN
Not being agreeable, throw it away REFUSE
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Not so bright if one had a pig around (6) SHADOW
Not the present country, in a manner of speaking PASTORAL
Of late worth something in China, but no longer TAEL
One might have such a liking for a swan song PENCHANT
Sound of event OUTLET
Sounds as if there might be an island in my possession IONA
Straight or on the board (8) DIRECTOR
That brother, the rotter, 'e is at least decorative BROCADE
That is very largely up among the alcoholics ASIA
That spirit needs a further five hundred to be worth one buck ELAN
That's not lying OUTOFBED
The branch that's not on fire OFFSHOOT
The response about the fighting REACTION
They could hold this a bit back among the saints STRAPS
They might be designers of catalogues of dwellings unfit for human habitation STYLISTS
Worked it out about a child, Edward REASONED