Irish Times (Crosaire) - Feb 20 2004

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Beat the little beast like a Teddy LAMBASTED
Bloody craftiness? ARTERY
By the sound of it, what the boy would be doing to the wood HEW
Counsel is out to get justice, but gets only scraps of it SCAVENGER
Have a split in the hoof with no hate in it CLOVEN
How beastly of them to stop the engine with NNNNNNNNNN, perhaps STALLIONS
However seedy, she's not to be found in the byre SOW
If Al, perhaps, is so ornamental on the spire FINIAL
In a sombre-shaded manner that one might rely on being inside GREYLY
Is the saint flying over for a single talk? STONECHAT
It's for the cook to cut the top off and get it up BRAISE
Just on the surface it's never on the end VENEER
Just picture all the swells there around the great lake GALLERIES
No right to start being so abandoned all by oneself LEFTALONE
Of late, it's serious to get there over three feet GRAVEYARD
One gets two such in a deadly way ASS
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One might put it on the fire, where it's been already ASH
Pleased to have got the story back to the editor ELATED
Score with the pair of 5 down TWENTYTWO
Shut up one by one, by the sound of it INTERN
Sounds as if it might make your collar black. How sweet! NECTAR
That's a brave view of us, just a shade so PALEFACES
That's the score FOURFIVES
The northern shaft sounds as if it's straight NARROW
The plan is to have the precious stone come in layers STRATAGEM
The result of the exit? OUTCOME
The X and I had, by the sound of it, gave me a squint CROSSEYED
There's blooming little of tradition in this FLORET
They make scores ELEVENS
They're bound to have a wash in the ship SLAVES
This overseer, perhaps, might cause woe about the byre EYEBROW
With this the seaman may have been wounding to his girl CUTLASS