Irish Times (Simplex) - Jan 21 2022

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A gentle wind BREEZE
Animal young on a stretcher with the rubbish? LITTER
Annual publication, Old Moore's perhaps ALMANAC
Badly written poetry DOGGEREL
Black-and-white shorebirds with upward-curving bills AVOCETS
Breaking open suddenly from internal pressure BURSTING
Container for flowers VASE
Cut down, lessen REDUCE
Flat and smooth EVEN
Height about sea level, of a aircraft perhaps ALTITUDE
Highly-decorated glazed earthenware MAJOLICA
Hired killer ASSASSIN
In EEC many turned to the Greek city and civilisation of the Bronze Age MYCENAE
Land of the tsars RUSSIA
Large oval nuts with fibrous husks COCONUTS
Lifted or moved to a higher position RAISED
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Long detailed story depicting generations of a family SAGA
Models of people made to be destroyed EFFIGIES
Organisms within a species that differ from similar groups, of viruses perhaps VARIANTS
Plant that lives and dies within a year ANNUAL
Points in a process STAGES
Precipitous rockfaces CLIFFS
Previous Pope BENEDICT
Protection against the possibility of future difficulty SECURITY
Spherical representations of Earth GLOBES
Stadium seats STANDS
Stand firm against RESIST
Strange perils at the decorative column PILASTER
Temporary suspension of business RECESS
The worship of false gods IDOLATRY
They famously fall in North America NIAGARA
Unexpected hitch SNAG