Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 28 2009

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Able to place this in India after last month DECCAN
Being in it, Con tested it COMPETED
Being in want, Eden could have made it NEED
Can't take off despite being well off at last OSTRICH
Descent for a time at the end of the Nile LINEAGE
Desmond! They're all inverse ODES
Digs around for hundreds of sprites DELVES
Five in a ball? Go on! ADVANCE
It's base, but never a CID matter ALKALI
It's odd, but the end's not with Eve inside ELEVEN
It's stinking to have to go through the fast time once more REDOLENT
Lacking 12 across - and lacking a foundation, too BASELESS
Learned to make a rude tie with this ERUDITE
Might this be the speed to make S cold? BERATE
Never does for what 9 across do ENTERS
No toiler could afford to do this LOITER
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No W in this LOSE
Not able to have had a broken reed so fast CANTERED
Not the principal way to bury a broken set INTEREST
Repair the inside; that finishes it at last EMENDS
Sounds like the final sound organ of time gone by LASTYEAR
That's about young show beef REVEAL
That's enough to make one pale though safe STOCKADE
The boastful boss of the birds SWANKING
The main date can be a lively one ANIMATED
The sort of ruddy fuss one simply loved ADORED
The sound of a boar may tie in with mud TEDIUM
The twisters long to be in water EELS
They used to hammer out a mild cure on this DULCIMER
When the former tune has got muddled they leave at this stage in Rome EXEUNT
Where there's rice there's cross INAPADDY
Wise not to pay for it yet if it's been given BESTOWED