Irish Times (Simplex) - Jan 27 1999

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'Confession .. .... for the soul' ISGOOD
A valuable or useful possession ASSET
Advantageous rather than right or just EXPEDIENT
Advised, counselled ENJOINED
An entire range of crumpets SPECTRUM
And so on, in brief ETC
Blazed with sudden flame - like temper FLARED
Covert sort of mathematical quantity VECTOR
Cuts apart to examine internally DISSECTS
Divisions of geological periods EPOCHS
Drenched, soaked SODDEN
Dylan Thomas play '..... Milk Wood' UNDER
Elaborately decorated ORNATE
Exhausted strength gradually SAPPED
Fleeting, lasting only a short time EPHEMERAL
French boredom ENNUI
Great Italian poet of 'The Divine Comedy' DANTE
He's about to be married - tidy him up GROOM
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In brief, American petrol GAS
Make monotonous sound as on guitar THRUM
Make smaller or lose weight REDUCE
Mother-of-pearl from shellfish NACRE
Mysterious or puzzling ENIGMATIC
Noah's boat ARK
Ode to a deer DOE
Of sky, covered with cloud OVERCAST
Process by which something becomes smaller SHRINKAGE
Rescind or annul REVOKE
Scatters about STREWS
Sculpture of Mary grieving over body of Jesus PIETA
Stick out, project from surface PROTRUDE
Tall thin man of leguminous origin BEANPOLE
Threw up, perhaps salad TOSSED
Virgil: 'I fear the ...... bearing gifts' GREEKS
Without foundation, unjustified BASELESS
Woman's full loose dressing gown PEIGNOIR