Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 9 2011

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A guy starts a nuclear explosion that's mythically formidable HERCULEAN
Bond heard you about, inside that pigpen SURETY
Can't be trusted, and quite batty perhaps? FLYBYNIGHT
Carelessly boast then rue returning a vandal SABOTEUR
Characters from 'Poltergeist' backed this bird EGRET
Forgo changes by the Bard's forest making an elevated plot ROOFGARDEN
He contradicts and denies the profits before the new year GAINSAYER
He sinks low, looking for gems and fruit? Awful drivel! PEARLDIVER
He's experienced enough to put an exotic tree in a truck! VETERAN
Is a current son sacrificed? Almost! ISAAC
It controls what's left outside the locomotive RESTRAINT
It might involve penalties, to tell the tout to leave? SHOOTOUT
It's underwater at 1:50 AM CLAM
Latch onto an artist in Britain GRAB
Listened to Elsie, in a piece for two that's pleasant to the ear DULCET
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Long centre for the spines PINE
Most awkward, to handle two 500s that lie in a closed hand FIDDLIEST
One sent something that wasn't a hit within a cracking year! EMISSARY
One who mistreats you, and me, in abnormally bare surroundings ABUSER
Outfit for a witty remark online? EQUIP
Penny and the alien moved like a 28-across PINEAL
Receiving a copy with the record, to enact anyway ACCEPTANCE
Sat backward, before the flute-playing refined TASTEFUL
Spring about and let go! SPARE
The lieutenant and reverend move back into Offaly quite publicly OVERTLY
The proportion of numbers the TD exchanges for the radio? RATIO
The way of operating includes a German interjection that's excessively manly MACHO
There's a lot of Irish water for that woman in the lounge for a change LOUGHERNE
Upset, elope with 13-across and use this to navigate the canal BARGEPOLE
Where Scarlett encounters the Irish kings? TARA