Irish Times (Simplex) - Feb 25 2000

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A big wave or a hair-dresser COMBER
A heathen, not a Christian PAGAN
A pig's nose SNOUT
A slow mournful song DIRGE
A tear in a stocking LADDER
Add carbon dioxide to liquid - make bubbly AERATE
Ain't this a girl? TINA
Amused by Gorgon MEDUSA
Erase, expunge DELETE
Fine table linen NAPERY
French mansions CHATEAUX
Greatly surprised AMAZED
Imprisoned, shut in IMMURED
In the beginning, initially ATFIRST
Independent system of stars GALAXY
Lather, froth FOAM
Obtained through work EARNED
Out of tune OFFKEY
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Overcome, suppress SUBDUE
Parent of the pearl OYSTER
Parroted like one who exploits others PREDATOR
Person held by kidnapper for ransom HOSTAGE
Pierced by bull's horns GORED
Proceed by instinct - without sheet music? PLAYBYEAR
Puts or throws out EJECTS
Sentimental reminiscing of analogist NOSTALGIA
The smallest of the litter RUNT
To do with sight, perhaps an illusion OPTICAL
Unit of measurement of angle DEGREE
Well-known or famous person CELEBRITY
Wide-brimmed hat of Mexico SOMBRERO
William Makepeace . . . . . . . . . wrote ` `Vanity Fair' ' THACKERAY
Worked laboriously and long TOILED
` `. . . . . . is only skin-deep' ' BEAUTY
` `Experience is the father. . .' ' OFWISDOM
` `Many a true word is spoken in . . . .' ' JEST