Irish Times (Crosaire) - Oct 25 2003

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A or S in the water OARS
An occasion where the girl gets a 30 across back GALA
Everything that's ancient fits into the big building HOLDALL
Fishy enough to turn rotten, and that's flat DAB
For the main part this gets the pests back STAR
Half a hundred false friends ALLIES
He could make them a suit ARTS
Henry the First, in short, although that's fishy to a large extent HALIBUT
If you drank up there'd be something in store for you there DEPOT
In Mayo the ale will mix and set CONGEAL
It's handy to make a date with one PALM
It's over in England, too AND
It's so irritating to have to hit about a hundred such ITCH
It's too early for them to be on short time THESMALLHOURS
Light enough at last to give one a quick return BOUNCE
More than explosive enough to make Mother unclear bits THERMONUCLEAR
Of course it's no handicap to do this to 33 down SCRATCH
On the surface this is somewhat a mountain lough TARNISH
Once more it may happen in the matter of the mongrel RECUR
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One goes on foot in an easterly direction TOE
So they're lying thus at the end of 19 across UNTRUE
Sounds as if one has fallen upon evil doings FELON
Sounds as if this lady's made to be sickly to a large extent ABIGAIL
Sounds like just a few figures SUM
Supple enough to turn wet and green in the end LISSOM
That funny fellow is a stinker PUNGENT
That's a roc, Sir, and a robber CORSAIR
That's enough to give the open air lot quite a start OUTSET
The trouble with the blower is that it's so high THEMATTERHORN
There's nothing like having a little tea with one's steed around DETEST
There's something about a sign that will help you go back the way you came RETRACE
They make a cage that's spare as a matter of course RIBS
This all-rounder might sing while talking it over DISCUS
This one might make one fishy to a certain degree (6) ANGLER
To a relative extent she's not in show business THEATRESISTER
What a lousy, salty speed! NITRATE
What fun to be able to sing so high! LARK
Your aunt has lost her head; that's what makes her loose UNTIE