Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 11 2001

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A 9 across, but make it short ABRIDGE
A contrary state of mind has the editor as good as finished DOOMED
A gets down to it and starts the fire, it seems ALIGHTS
Along with Scot, you ruddy well imagined it PICTURED
Edward is just about sick of being so cultivated TILLED
Father becomes poisonous with us around UPAS
How Sam brooks a rest STREAMS
How the crook will take what's on the sheep FLEECE
In the ships, by the sound of them, to encourage the crews to leave the ships SIRENS
Is this where to find Hera undressed? INTHERAW
It's on the cards it's way over there BRIDGE
It's only water where a mother may be going cheap, perhaps ADAMSALE
Its subjects make the omnibus a stupid one, by the sound of it SYLLABUS
Learnt to have money in the Dee back there EDUCATED
Long to get home with a Homer ODYSSEY
One does not get the wind up when, perhaps, one is not agitated of late DEADCALM
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One might sound sheepish about the girl in the matter of fruit BANANA
Sounds as if I will be in the water, just a little ISLE
Sounds as if the sickle is what one should attempt to get around on TRICYCLE
Take it as read that it may be great fun GASMETER
That's being a pro AGREEING
That's the way to make it more then plain UGLIER
The elastic part of 9 across RUBBER
The employer of the seaman is the one that exploits him ABUSER
The girl gets around on the Sun CORONA
The way to make a froth of it is to assault it BEATITUP
The wood is sound and there's plenty of it GOODDEAL
There's no W in this LOSE
This may lead one to Ulster, by the sound of it, by the nose ANTRUM
Tips, perhaps for the lowly one in the old kitchen TURNSPIT
What I does in 9 across is around the end of 8 across IDEALS
With this, in a manner of speaking, one might make the girl a myth while single LISP