Irish Times (Simplex) - Jan 3 2004

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Ability to meet financial obligations SOLVENCY
Allowable margin, latitude LEEWAY
Analyse to find the properties ASSAY
Animal to hunt rats and rabbits FERRET
Awake and watchful ALERT
Bathing suit for the atoll? BIKINI
Beautiful exotic flower ORCHID
British painter and police officer CONSTABLE
Brotherly FRATERNAL
Dribble from the mouth SLAVER
Except on condition that UNLESS
Fantastic but vain hope PIPEDREAM
Felt hat with creased crown FEDORA
Formal dance at the end of school year PROM
Fortified troop station GARRISON
Garbage collector DUSTMAN
Having no smell ODOURLESS
Lazily, without due attention IDLY
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Looking suggestively LEERING
Malicious burning of property ARSON
Member of a country CIVILIAN
Molten rock from volcanoes LAVA
Muscle in the forearm BICEPS
Proud, pompous gait SWAGGER
Receptacle for plug SOCKET
Recommendation for a course of action ADVICE
Right to retain property until a debt is paid LIEN
Shrub from Persia? SPIREA
Spookier EERIER
Stain by knotting fabric to produce a pattern TIEDYE
State capital of Georgia ATLANTA
Straight sword with narrow blade RAPIER
Substance on teeth ENAMEL
Superior of group of nuns ABBESS
Thin, crisp biscuit or bread WAFER
Write carelessly SCRIBBLE