Irish Times (Simplex) - Feb 18 2010

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'Between my finger and my thumb / the squat pen rests / I'll ... with it' (Seamus Heaney) DIG
Ardent FERVENT
Aromatic bulb used as seasoning GARLIC
Changing direction abruptly VEERING
Clear tracts in the middle of woods GLADES
Clouds of smelly vapour FUMES
Commences STARTS
Condescends DEIGNS
Cuts out these taxes? EXCISES
Engage to work EMPLOY
Everything that exists COSMOS
Fail to keep up LAG
Football, badminton etc. SPORTS
Fossil fuel COAL
Gloomiest or blackest DARKEST
Handwear GLOVES
Hangs around apathetically MOPES
In case LEST
Instinctive reaction REFLEX
Larval frog TADPOLE
Liberty FREEDOM
Clues Answers
Matured AGED
Number of bowls in a cricket over SIX
Organism such as a mushroom FUNGUS
Performance by one person SOLO
Plait of braided hair PIGTAIL
Poles for walking high above the ground STILTS
Polite address to a man SIR
Probable LIKELY
Public sale to the highest bidder AUCTION
Reject bluntly REBUFF
Respiratory organ of fish GILL
Resuscitate REVIVE
Single whole UNIT
Stringed instrument CELLO
Strong north wind in France MISTRAL
Substance used as medicine or narcotic DRUG
Undergo hardship SUFFER
Using extreme physical force VIOLENT
Visions, views SIGHTS
Word that denotes an action or a state VERB
Young female horse FILLY