Irish Times (Crosaire) - Mar 13 2009

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About fifty-one can always be depended on RELIABLE
All the same, that's not UNEQUAL
Be free to meet most of it EXEMPT
Can be inside and came to a bloody end, or so it is told FABLED
Did get shortened and confused with the eel ELIDED
Die with a notion IDEA
Do they give news of how to help 'em back MEDIA
Dose the beast and get soaked in the process DRENCH
Err about the hat a bit RATHER
Feeling for one of five THESENSES
Give it a pat for, by the sound of it, a little biscuit PETITFOUR
Hot or in the dirt back there TORRID
How the postscript turns around at this point SPHERE
I don't believe it's what the train comes back to LIAR
I make 'em an offer in the same place IBIDEM
I'll be among the islands and sound so stupid SCILLY
In reverse the car starts in a sporty way RACILY
It's sung to start with in the theatre, all in the theatre OPERATION
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Just love to be what may be 34 across, by the sound of it ADORE
Make Father or Father at home ORDAIN
Measured three feet at a time BYTHEYARD
No ruler should be given such power FREEHAND
Not so much, or one that gets 13 down LESSOR
One very nearly can't win in the end CLOSER
Reckon how silly she is ASSESS
She's a breezy gal in a roundabout way WINDLASS
Shortage of hundreds over the soil DEARTH
Ten ants have to find it with a tear RENT
The height to which the dean's got? ANDES
The lawyer may have a knightly encounter, by the sound of it ATTORNEY
This needs a 29 down, perhaps, so to write it in an ode OPENED
Though seedy, the motor has left, so it seems CARAWAY
Will the dam die for one so bizzare? WEIRDIE
Would a French one do for Toulouse, by the sound of it? UNDO
You are a shade flaming in cover LURID
Young folk talk with it and play with it at last PRATTLE