Irish Times (Simplex) - Apr 23 1998

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Clues Answers
'... rush in where angels fear to tread' FOOLS
A baked dish covered with pastry PIE
A chest-bone, may be floating RIB
A dodgy answer or excuse EVASION
A large silver tray SALVER
A palindromic single performance GIG
A soothing influence on lamb BALM
African republic, capital Abuja NIGERIA
Animated or floating BUOYANT
Arm joints ELBOWS
Basic sort of plates STAPLE
Beethoven's only opera FIDELIO
Boasts, brags VAUNTS
Destroyed internally by fire GUTTED
Fitted with glass GLAZED
Full of earnest enthusiasm ZEALOUS
Had inclination toward TENDED
Hebrew patriarch from whom Jews trace descent ABRAHAM
Line from which dart-player throws OCHE
Metal in Argentina TIN
Misgiving, pang of conscience QUALM
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Morose and moody SULLEN
Most certain or inevitable SUREST
Noise and commotion HUBBUB
None like a city light NEON
Of or like a lion LEONINE
Pent-up, held back DAMMED
Pinnacle or crest SUMMIT
Precede into dale LEAD
Result or consequence OUTCOME
Roman goddess of love VENUS
Room for a Muslim from N Africa MOOR
Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark HAMLET
Sicken by glutting CLOY
Simmer food until partly cooked PARBOIL
Slangy hoaxes or imitations SPOOFS
Slangy victim or sort of adherent SUCKER
Small flutes usually with drums FIFES
Spring down on and grasp POUNCE
Urgent and exacting EXIGENT
Walk haltingly LIMP
Whisk, agitate STIR