Irish Times (Simplex) - Dec 21 2009

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Clues Answers
Broken pieces of something brittle SHARDS
Change for the better REFORM
Choose SELECT
Cloth wound around the head TURBAN
Clubs, lodges GUILDS
Contrite, remorseful RUEFUL
Dawdler LAGGARD
Everlasting ETERNAL
Failures to maintain higher states LAPSES
Flexible container BAG
Fruit and colour LIME
Give food to FEED
Giving rise to CAUSING
Gossip, hearsay RUMOURS
Gradients, inclines SLOPES
In ..., in place of LIEU
It's given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met SURETY
Joyful religious song CAROL
Large farms in the US RANCHES
Large-eyed animal with foxy face and furry tail LEMUR
Lessening of pain RELIEF
Clues Answers
Lever to activate a firing mechanism TRIGGER
Light checked cotton fabric GINGHAM
Lion sign of the Zodiac LEO
Loads, lots OODLES
Look at with amorous intentions OGLE
Newly-hatched fish FRY
Newts EFTS
Nix, nada, nothing NIL
Obscure, undefined VAGUE
One decides in disputes ARBITER
One stands at a carnival giving loud, colourful, sales talk BARKER
Rag, tag and ... BOBTAIL
Retail establishment SHOP
Roster ROTA
Sharp, shrewd ASTUTE
Short-legged hound BEAGLE
Slow and ... wins the race STEADY
Spotted feline LEOPARD
Take exception to OBJECT
Title given to rulers in Asian countries KHAN
Trivial, piffling PETTY