Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 16 2002

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All 31 across sort of a hole in the roof SKYLIGHT
All told, beer's for after tea TALES
Any amount of lack of refinement for a girl GALORE
By the sound of it, a wide area is what draws one ATTRACTS
Does the American serviceman go up in the vehicles and go up in smoke? CIGARS
For them there's always room at the top ATTICS
Funny how they're such conversation-stoppers GAGS
Has the fatherly deity a place in China? PAGODA
How asinine so to start on time ONAGER
In the matter of the loan, Mister, you're backward as usual NORMAL
Just a little light to make a repast of them TAPERS
Make a pass at the girl on her knee PATELLA
Might he let up over the fire? MANTEL
My girl! A letter at last from Greece OMEGA
No trouble to make a stand with fifty more EASEL
One cannot make a western flower of it, nor wind it EASTER
One is all for Italy TUTTI
Put your name to, or in, a miss in Italy SIGNORINA
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Saves one getting cold INVESTS
So the last R.A. has made it to the heavens ASTRAL
So to overturn a bed is very wrong, by the sound of it (6) TOCSIN
Stick a cat into a hat ATTACH
That hasn't been frozen, see? NOTICE
The sound of purchase for the birds ROOSTS
The sound of the top note is very rough HIGHSEA
There are so many to encounter back there TEEM
There's any amount of it, by the sound of it LOUD
They get to sound somewhat corny EARS
Those nippers can make you see red (8) LOBSTERS
Time for the sandy weed to make it WEDNESDAY
Useful, to go on ahead, even if they keep one back HANDICAPS
What a boastful way to blow a street up! BOMBAST
What a comedown, due to getting involved with a leg! DELUGE
What a questionable way to behave in the royal manner! (6) ASKING
Where the backward priest gets a taste for wine VERMOUTH
Where there's the very devil of a lot of 10 acrosses, perhaps STARSHELL