Irish Times (Simplex) - Aug 3 2004

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A social gathering confined to women HENPARTY
American state associated with Mormons UTAH
Breakfast food of cereal, fruit, nuts etc MUESLI
Business notation meaning this month INST
Cheerful or quick-witted BRIGHT
Choose as more desirable, like better PREFER
Classification assigned to person as, say, for income RATING
Country of N Africa, capital Addis Ababa ETHIOPIA
Expert in the study of plants BOTANIST
Give up on, recognise as lost like bad debt WRITEOFF
In progress, on the move like ship UNDERWAY
Make wide or liberal, perhaps the mind BROADEN
Not intelligent, thick STUPID
Not revealing one's thoughts readily RETICENT
Of ship, lean over to one side LIST
Old song: 'Look for the silver . . . . . .' LINING
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Opinions given, perhaps as criticism COMMENTS
Outer segment of bird's wing PINION
Produced play STAGED
Reduce volume of sound - or reject request TURNDOWN
Results - or properties EFFECTS
Rules over as monarch REIGNS
Serene and unruffled PLACID
Set fire to IGNITE
Statues or models EFFIGIES
Tasty bivalves, may contain pearls OYSTERS
Theatre and night-life district of London SOHO
This mind can hold only a single opinion at a time ONETRACK
Torchier kind of colourful language RHETORIC
Travelling in search of adventure like knight of old ERRANT
Utterly lazy, won't do a tap BONEIDLE
Word formed from 1st letters of other words ACRONYM