Irish Times (Simplex) - Apr 4 2001

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A row - or a view SCENE
Abandoned or curtailed - using hatchet? AXED
Abrade or rasp SCRAPE
American prairie dog COYOTE
An experimental test TRYOUT
Beat or defeat thoroughly THRASH
Child-minder of sedentary disposition SITTER
Cleansing substance used for washing clothes DETERGENT
Compiles into verbal attacks on beliefs POLEMICS
Cowboys' ropes with loops LASSOES
Department of 1 across in charge of the Navy ADMIRALTY
Discredited advice: ` `Spare ... ... and spoil the child' ' THEROD
Duck, move to avoid DODGE
Exclamation of sudden pain OUCH
Franz ..... composed ` `The Merry Widow' ' LEHAR
Improved trend in business or fortune UPTURN
Japanese art of growing dwarf trees BONSAI
Looking intently at EYEING
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Man who makes a will TESTATOR
Mental or emotional stimuli VIBES
Musical composition for one or two instruments SONATA
Old saying: let the .... sit HARE
Pamper, over-indulge CODDLE
Pester people to buy, like race tipster TOUT
Pre-dinner aperitif as from Jerez SHERRY
Prickly plant of lithest kind THISTLE
Redolences and bouquets ODDOURS
Signalled to or summoned, say a taxi HAILED
The British Government or London street WHITEHALL
The existing state of affairs, as things are STATUSQUO
Thin-skinned, easily offended TOUCHY
Thing or person thought to cause bad luck HOODOO
Thoughts of perfection for miladies IDEALISM
Turned aside or deflected AVERTED
Vex or chafe IRRITATE
` `.... ... tell no tales' ' DEADMEN