Irish Times (Simplex) - Sep 13 2008

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Clues Answers
A round peg in a square hole MISFIT
Cancel like bad debt WRITEOFF
Citizens of Austria's capital VIENNESE
Clear meat soup CONSOMME
Decay of body tissue for want of blood supply GANGRENE
Device for carrying skiers up a slope SKILIFT
Draw out response or information ELICIT
False image like mirage ILLUSION
Famous Moorish palace at Granada in Spain ALHAMBRA
Fear of heights VERTIGO
Fit to eat EDIBLE
Gingers up to laugh in sly way SNIGGER
Grotesque carved figure as ancient water-spout GARGOYLE
Highly thought of, respected ESTEEMED
It's half ass and half horse JENNET
Land of the Aztecs MEXICO
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Live kind of badness EVIL
More godly - than thou? HOLIER
Of an empire IMPERIAL
Penetrate with sharp point PIERCE
People who think they have encyclopedic brains KNOWALLS
Phrase or sentence with inherent contradiction OXYMORON
Prefix meaning half SEMI
Quick at learning, talented CLEVER
Ready, aim . . . . FIRE
Remove by cutting out EXCISE
Scanty in amount MEAGRE
Seminar for American troops MARINES
Single thing, poor mite ITEM
Strip as of clothes DIVEST
Suffer from hunger STARVE
Waterfall or eye ailment CATARACT