Irish Times (Simplex) - Nov 2 2000

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Clues Answers
30 minutes after the hour HALFPAST
A horse's fastest pace GALLOP
A surgeon's knife LANCET
Absurd tricks or pranks ANTICS
An optimist or romantic IDEALIST
Bits of rubbish left lying about LITTER
Capital of Finland HELSINKI
Continues to live, remains alive SUBSISTS
Credit cards are known as ....... money PLASTIC
Drug to make one sleep SEDATIVE
Eccentric person with uneven sphere ODDBALL
Flattened by demolition, razed LEVELLED
Gland near stomach, sends insulin into blood PANCREAS
Has reservations, is uncertain DOUBTS
Kick these over to be insubordinate or reckless TRACES
Left in difficulties - on beach? STRANDED
Clues Answers
Nationality of citizen of Beirut LEBANESE
Old city north of Dead Sea, conquered by Joshua JERICHO
On the shore eating tortilla LITTORAL
Palindrome for eccentric person - in America KOOK
Petition higher court APPEAL
Related or similar AKIN
Romantic Polynesian island, capital Papeete TAHITI
Scrawl aimlessly or absent-mindedly DOODLE
Sea between Greece and Turkey AEGEAN
Sharpen on stone HONE
Substance that forms on teeth encouraging bacteria PLAQUE
The line from which dart player throws OCHE
Tiny hero of nursery tale TOMTHUMB
Unit of measurement of angle DEGREE
Way of evading a rule or contract LOOPHOLE
` `Where ignorance .. ....., 'tis folly to be wise' ' ISBLISS