Irish Times (Simplex) - Dec 5 2008

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'A watched . . . never boils' POT
'Never speak . . . of the dead' ILL
A little devil of mischief IMP
A lump of gold NUGGET
A newspaper chief EDITOR
A single performance - a palindrome GIG
A small smooth stone PEBBLE
Choose by voting ELECT
Elected . . . . . . . . .; no other candidate UNOPPOSED
Fine specimens, like good-looking women BEAUTIES
Forced in using syringe INJECTED
Forever in entirety ETERNITY
Frighten, scare ALARM
Having completed schooling, well informed EDUCATED
Informally, an awkward situation due to rashness SCRAPE
Instruments that measure electric currents AMMETERS
Invisible gas from boiling water STEAM
It holds a stocking up GARTER
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Japanese system of unarmed combat KARATE
Most domesticated, least wild TAMEST
On a horse without a saddle BAREBACK
Pinkish-brown nut used in American pie PECAN
Quite splendid, extremely good EXCELLENT
Something very scarce and valuable RARITY
Stark . . . . . . . . . - utterly bonkers RAVINGMAD
Strip away cover, make bare DENUDE
Sudden painful tightening of a muscle CRAMP
The capital of Hungary BUDAPEST
The feeling of having been there before DEJAVU
The language of Virgil LATIN
Thorny bushes like wild roses BRIERS
Tropical lizards that climb walls GECKOS
Turn into vapour EVAPORATE
Two dots indicating the same again DITTO
Unhealthily fat OBESE
Wants arm about kind of fallacy - or scarecrow STRAWMAN