Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 24 1997

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Are short one in the pubs? That's a thorny matter BRIARS
Bury the broken sets, if that concerns you INTERESTS
Cut down on the revs, along with the ashes SACKCLOTH
For the present, might get up to eat this YAM
Get your own back and get back later before I was fed RETALIATE
Has Al been the one to make it possible? ENABLE
How mean to claim time to welcome fury! AVERAGE
How the seaman might swindle people right in the middle ABDOMEN
I have been in no hurry to have suffered such a bloody loss AMBLED
If you've got this up you're disgusted FED
If, with the aid of 16 down, they are fathers of twins, that will lead them quite a dance PASDEDEUX
Is a AN able to have been land that was promised? CANAAN
Is Father with you on the bed and slapped it on? DAUBED
Is one cute enough to go by air? FLY
Is that a case of a nondrinker's pain? ATTACHE
Is this the following advertisement he takes a lease of? ADHERENTS
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It would be fair to say that I'm not all there IMPARTIAL
It's bound to be re Pap PAPERBACK
Not, by the sound of it, the jeans to make one dominant RECESSIVE
One French, French composer? Can you get that straight? UNRAVEL
Seeing that that's what it sounds like, you'll find it in theinside CITING
She's the one that, by the sound of it, will hold Flo up DAM
Spirits of iron, perhaps, by the sound of it METTLE
That southern sailing ship is a great draw SKETCH
That's some time ago, and no walking since then LASTMARCH
There might be fighting over the East, so look out BEWARE
There's absolutely nothing like it DETEST
Tuoba? That's quite in order ABOUTTURN
What's cooking? He's T.E. there INTHESTEW
With a degree could she get round the whole of Ireland? BALLERINA
With a law degree one sounds sheepish as one is 17 down BLEATS