Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 3 2012

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23-down is an inert mixture under oxygen ORIENT
A breaking wave with movement and pace coming back WHITECAP
A sly slur comes to an end in the union organisation INNUENDO
Adaptation that gets the wobbly tandem around the fair ADJUSTMENT
Alert for mobile nitrogen! RINGTONE
Bring up a bee to Hal, who's up for a laugh? BROACH
Busy or curiously neat ORNATE
C/top bond activity, maybe? COVERTOPERATION
Eagerly accept a friend? LAPUP
Exclude Kay from this side of the river BANK
Getting along and getting older around the lough AGREEING
GI-men, 'tis a disease MENINGITIS
Give a little and be heard before the finale BEND
My grave contains tea by the sound of it, and that's puzzling MYSTERIOUS
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Number getting the 1:10 back in New York NINETY
Orient as in 'Alien' EAST
Perhaps time pieces for 500 with a cuckoo, say? DAYS
Sent back a sailor about to make mistakes ERRATA
She distributed semi-cut paper with notes SHEETMUSIC
Snaky work concealed by Ian OPHIDIAN
Someone in a suit illuminated the giant arrangement LITIGANT
Son coming back with how to be a skipper, in a way NOSHOW
Speeds about, if one approves RATIFIES
Spoil the doctor's alien monkey MARMOSET
The accountant returns the pint and that excites a Persian, say CATNIP
The one in front of the castle at the end of the dogleg north PAWN
The South is making a proposal THESIS
West, in and around first light DAWN