Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 15 1997

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After such a beastly start one did not have a close shave BEARDED
Cornelius sounds silly enough to be a chip off the old block SILICON
Does the miserable one come back and get a mark? TARGET
During this month 'e gets an inside place INSET
Dye for this COLOUR
Dye Ken, John PEEL
For paintings to turn up, it's so characteristic of them TRAITS
For this might Si get new and finish in the weight? TENDON
Give the cat a grooming underground CATACOMB
How Edward II got transferred for the time being? SECONDED
How one gets the letters of sorcery SPELLS
I and Timothy are all at sea when there's a horse around MARITIME
If the end of 35 across gets a ruddy turn, will that do for being bold? DERRINGDO
In side or in time for a sewer, perhaps STITCH
Is it her in, in there with the boxers? INTHERING
Might this get the liquid out of a carrot? TROCAR
Neither he nor she could retune like this NEUTER
Oh see, see you out of breath, being in there! OCCUPANT
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One goes in ENTRANT
One must greatly respect the cleric for turning up like this in the lough REVERE
Saw what the carp might be doing with this ENTER
So it befell that one got a bloody belly TUMBLED
Suit, that's what it will get to be BECOME
That's a blooming odd sort of a drink ARUM
That's a most unusual sort of holiday for an Academician RAREST
That's all right, in a 19 down sort of way STARBOARD
The A.A. might be round about this, and that's about the size of it AREA
There's lots and lots of this - one lot about a hundred with us LOCUST
This would sound as if it takes off and leaves on it PLANETREE
Wander around and take your time at last RAMBLE
What one works with makes one sound hoarse OSTLER
What's so sticky might get ante for Quixote ROSIN
Would the baker get around to it? ROLL
Wounded, that is to say, by one's girlfriend CUTIE
You may well claim that that sounds like a good thing ASSERT