Irish Times (Simplex) - Aug 6 2011

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Clues Answers
''Between my finger and my thumb / the squat pen rests / I'll ... with it'' (Seamus Heaney) DIG
A word formed from the initial letters of others ACRONYM
Area empty of matter VACUUM
Brief description of an illustration CAPTION
Children's book or shop that appears suddenly POPUP
Come to understand the water depth FATHOM
Dead human body CADAVER
Declare not to be true DENY
Eastern European state ROMANIA
Egyptian felt cap FEZ
European mountain range ALPS
Exclamation of annoyance DRAT
Facial hair BEARD
Flat French cap BERET
Fortification of a low wall PARAPET
Gunning a car engine REVVING
Haphazard, irregular RANDOM
Iconic US uncle SAM
Indonesian island BALI
International distress code SOS
Item of medicine or a narcotic DRUG
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Large numbers in church MASSES
Lumps of turf SODS
Mark as correct TICK
Paved garden area PATIO
Portraits in profile carved in relief CAMEOS
Potential not realised LATENT
Room in a church for vessels and vestments VESTRY
Rough-hewn or rocky RUGGED
Secret stores CACHES
Short trips to do messages ERRANDS
Spear for fishing HARPOON
Stone mixture for paths GRAVEL
Stoops, humbles oneself DEIGNS
Stringed instrument ZITHER
Swiss house with a sloping roof CHALET
System of measurement METRIC
They work to slow a vehicle BRAKES
Using more words than needed VERBOSE
Weak, ill INFIRM
Weakling of the litter RUNT
Words written in memory of the dead EPITAPH