Irish Times (Simplex) - Dec 17 1999

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A belt or cord around the waist GIRDLE
A joke to muffle? GAG
A promontory jutting out into the sea HEADLAND
A steep rock-face on coast CLIFF
Alcoholic drink from molasses RUM
An ornate style of decoration ROCOCO
Because of one's official position - in latin EXOFFICIO
Cater rto debased tastes PANDER
Coarse and unrefined CRUDE
Country music capital of Tennessee NASHVILLE
Escesses of expenditure over income DEFICITS
Fabric made from llama wool ALPACA
Going out like the tide EBBING
In brief, a snapshot PHOTO
Informally, an artificial lower limb PEGLEG
Insipid or uninteresting VAPID
It begins the tonic solfa DOH
Large powerful apes from Africa GORILLAS
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Made depression in through pressure or impact DENTED
Makes anxious and uneasy PERTURBS
Money demanded under threat of revealing unpleasant facts BLACKMAIL
Money paid for professional services FEE
Myth or fable LEGEND
Not showing proper seriousness, disrespectful FLIPPANT
Oust or unseat DEPOSE
Poet of ''Paradise Lost'' MILTON
Quarantine with easter egg SEGREGATE
Rummage, go searching FORAGE
Something that soothes SALVE
Space in centre of amphitheatre ARENA
The bands of colur as seen in rainbow SPECTRUM
The capital of Afghanistan KABUL
The joining of two business enterprises MERGER
The shin-bone TIBIA
To do with 12 astrological signs ZODIACAL
Under obligation to, for loan or favour INDEBTED