Irish Times (Simplex) - Jan 23 2009

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Clues Answers
Avoid, shun ESCHEW
Belonging to us OURS
Bursts of strong wind GUSTS
Condescends DEIGNS
Cook slowly in liquid STEW
Cutting tools SCYTHES
Diffident, faint-hearted TIMID
Dish the dirt GOSSIP
Dreamlike, irrational SURREAL
Drilling edifice OILRIG
Exclamation of mistake or accident OOPS
Female monarch QUEEN
Female pronoun SHE
First in rank or degree PREMIER
Friends and acquaintances KITH
Gives rise to CAUSES
Glide over snow SKI
Graduate ALUMNUS
Hint, suggest ALLUDE
Hole dug by a small animal BURROW
Homeric legendary island of King Odysseus ITHACA
Clues Answers
It's given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met SURETY
Japanese paste used in soups and sauces MISO
Lacking neatness and order SLOPPY
Lento, in music SLOWLY
Male elephant, say BULL
Nightclub area of London SOHO
Open space between two things GAP
Partner in marriage SPOUSE
Performance held in the afternoon MATINEE
Place for plants and sleep BED
Plump game bird GROUSE
Protective cover, for sword say SHEATHE
Put down or conceal REPRESS
Reduces in size SHRINKS
Sauce for pasta PESTO
Small, playful fairy SPRITE
Smiled broadly GRINNED
Soul or mind PSYCHO
State of deep unconsciousness COMA
Understands the real story SUSSES
Unfathomable ABYSMAL