Irish Times (Simplex) - Mar 9 2000

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12 o'clock in the day MIDDAY
A rabbit's tail SCUT
A rugby score TRY
Arab or Muslim at time of the Crusades SARACEN
Art of public speaking or small chapel ORATORY
Baby elephant or whale CALF
Boring, monotonous TEDIOUS
Cast about for deeds ACTS
Close-fitting jacket as part of uniform TUNIC
Don't bring them to Newcastle COALS
Flinch at gamebird? QUAIL
Frustrate with fencing sword FOIL
Great poet of ``Paradise Lost'' MILTON
Hard glossy varnish LACQUER
Hesitate indecisively DITHER
Informal expression of annoyance DRAT
John ...... wrote ` `The Pilgrim's Progress'' BUNYAN
Make it while the sun shines HAY
Misrepresent in unfavourable way TRADUCE
Of fabric that doesn't need wringing or ironing DRIPDRY
Of news, so fresh it burns REDHOT
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Optical sphere within lids EYEBALL
Percy ...... Shelley, poet BYSSHE
Poetically the home of songloving shepherds ARCADIA
Prepared land for growing crops TILLED
Purloined or embezzled STOLEN
Ridicules American men? GUYS
Sauce to savour? RELISH
See Rodney over there YONDER
Shakespeare ` `If music be the food of love, .... ..' ' PLAYON
Shouts of disapproval BOOS
Stout and dignified PORTLY
Struggle like wrestling bout TUSSLE
Take back or draw in RETRACT
Test ore for quality ASSAY
The combining of two companies into one MERGER
Tiny ..., endearing Dickens boy TIM
Travelling bag - take firm hold GRIP
Very strong and powerful MIGHTY
Wager, stake BETS
` `Hell hath .. .... like a woman scorned'' NOFURY
` `In the country of the blind, the ...-.... man is king' ' ONEEYED