Irish Times (Simplex) - Aug 2 2022

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'In ... did Kubla Khan / a stately pleasure-dome decree' (Coleridge) XANADU
A person, place or thing in a sentence NOUN
Believe to be guilty, but without proof SUSPECT
Beware the legendary ones bearing gifts GREEKS
Day of month and year DATE
Decorative piece to conceal fixtures, of curtains perhaps VALANCE
Diplomatic building EMBASSY
Disorderly crowd MOB
Dry, ironic WRY
Early-stage leaves and flowers BUDS
Eighth month in the Roman calendar OCTOBER
Emblem of rank or membership BADGE
Evil spell HEX
Feeling pleasure or joy HAPPY
Former Soviet prison or labour camp GULAG
Garment that covers the head and perhaps the face VEIL
Graduate of a college ALUMNUS
Gratis, for nothing FREE
Heavy long-handled hammer SLEDGE
Inactive, motionless STATIC
Informal or nonchalant CASUAL
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It lives in a lodge BEAVER
Knot-shaped cracker PRETZEL
Lacking order or attention to detail SLOPPY
Loin and leg of a quadruped HAUNCH
Man's overcoat and province ULSTER
Monrovia is its capital LIBERIA
Purchaser BUYER
Pursued for food or sport HUNTED
Refuse to give in RESIST
Ruin or defeat roundly DESTROY
Seat for a rider SADDLE
Sets of curved bones in the body RIBS
State of mental or emotional strain STRESS
System of weights used for precious metals and gemstones TROY
The sheltered side of the river LEE
The sound of a donkey HEEHAW
The way a surface feels to the touch TEXTURE
Wall paintings MURALS
Went by push-bike CYCLED
With the addition of PLUS
Worried, nervous or fearful ANXIOUS