Irish Times (Crosaire) - Feb 27 2006

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By the sound of it, the professional gives tongue, but takes long to get to the point PROLIX
Equally long to get to the point, in a manner of speaking PARLANCE
Free to butt in after you bury this INTERFERE
How the police start 11 down COP
ICI and nothing else EYE
It's a bore, and that's the sound of the whole of it AWL
It's myself along with what belongs to 'er that won't go straight MEANDERS
It's not cultivated so to cry out after you come down FALLOW
Let 'er be knowing? LITERATE
Little male bird for the Church, just a bit TITHE
Never at the end, all on the surface VENEER
No way through the back FRONTDOOR
Not even a cockney could get to grips with this OLD
Not turned out on foot INTOED
Oh, three for one from Australia OZONE
OK to have a shot at Crown and Anchor, for instance FAIRGAME
One in one in Spain is not the younger one SENIOR
One thousand and fifty fruit MELON
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Played too much OVERACTED
See you, in short, for 26 down COPPER
So to remove the tail will hurt OFFEND
Sounds as if one knows how to get so little money into the ship SCENTS
Sounds as if Polly might get on the phone back to Thomas to start this orally MOTET
SRE in water? RINSE
Subject to those ones at the East THEME
Ted was wrong not to go straight without encouragement DETERRED
The absolute fall of a couple of wickets OUTANDOUT
The century will not go on having got slack CEASED
The force of 12 across (6) POLICE
The sort of beater that might get dealt with HEART
There's a lot of ruddy fuss, but one loved it ADORED
Thye're only nine, but there are a thousand ways of using them THEMUSES
Turning out for vice to get it on EVICTION
What a nuisance to get back to the police GARDA
Wholly for the Church, by the sound of it ORDERS
Will 'e write, indeed, of what's been dredged? DEEPENED