Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jun 12 2003

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A pestiferous half-century of this in Yorkshire (5) LOUSE
Are you simply not so much 9 down? ARTLESS
Are you soft at last to get a turnover? UPEND
Being 1 across, I see, he is copying others PASTICHE
Can the French be in water, just a little? ISLE
Don't forget your summons to look after this CALLTOMIND
Gratitude to Elsie for the powder, by the sound of it TALC
Has the motor gone and got seedy? CARAWAY
How the magician might have waved a broken reed when he did not go straight WANDERED
How the North gets 19 across that's just starting NASCENT
If you've lost the thread of it you're not all there SCREWLOOSE
In Germany a twisted tail for this is a must (9) ESSENTIAL
It gives one quite a lift to have an entertainer around (5) HOIST
It might secure a sheep, perhaps, but it also might fall to bits RAMSHACKLE
It's most unusual to get meat so underdone RARESTEAK
It's wrong to tire before you are confused in Africa ERITREA
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Metal too under fire ANDIRON
Might Ma, perhaps, be just a little angular? ONEDEGREE
Not at all all there ALIBI
One starts to get scent of it from the start of 11 across ESSENCE
Play it again, perhaps, to see how one may respond to it REACT
Scratch it into the heavens in no detailed way SKETCHY
So to bury is not in Latin the principal thing INTEREST
That may be played or spent NOTE
That's a peculiar sort of 27 across for the dancers RUMBA
That's the eight letter Hetta has had from Greece THETA
That's where to put it to make it last INTHEEND
The more confused it gets, the more it may be deduced THEOREM
The sound of food for the hunters MEETS
The wrong way to put on another E to the poetic collection EDDA
This isn't given to being for absentees NOTPRESENT
Where one would have words in the form of a lizard? (9) THESAURUS