Irish Times (Crosaire) - May 20 2008

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9 across OLDEST
Alters for the last of them at last EMENDS
An order for backing ABOUTTURN
Authorised to make it taut in a tale STATUTORY
Bag, although it needed a blower SACKBUT
Before th present ERENOW
By the sound of it, that's what a quack is LIKEADUCK
Currently, in short, in Parliament AMP
Get fit in the rest with control RESTRAINT
He writes, indeed he does SCRIVENER
Initially that's in sight as one ESP
Invitation to the nobility to come ashore for the rent LANDLORDS
It's caustic SARCASTIC
It's caustic LYE
It's frightfully wrong to cut the head off this TERROR
Just won't do to go down DECLINE
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Little Desmond is up about little X with sugar SWEETENED
Might she err with a pod from the cliff SHEERDROP
Rose in at the top SENIOR
Steal the stream with an alloy PINCHBECK
Such king would have got punctured in the field LEA
Symbolical C CARBON
The editor we have now seems gifted PRESENTED
The layer back here is living, but not a hen ANIMAL
The sort of fetter that might cause wrists to fester MANACLE
The tune I'm dancing to MINUET
There's a nail in the ship and smoke in those piles STACKS
They're partly hafl-a-dozen SEXTET
This might soak the vet administering it DRENCH
Tie up her, or it follows EITHER
UU8O? that's no light matter WEIGHTY
We daren't go a-hunting for fear of such dwarfs LITTLEMEN