Irish Times (Crosaire) - Oct 21 1998

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Although full of holes, they cause stress STRAINERS
Although it is going with the girl, the material is not a heavy one TISSUE
Although it's red, the wine is not a heavy one PORTLIGHT
Amount, perhaps, that will always be annoying NAG
Any signs of the harness for the meeting after tea? TRACES
C with it by the sound of it EYE
Conditions overseas STATES
For the defence, that's enough to make one a bit sheepish RAMPART
From Heaven it sounds as if it makes the start of 6 down comparatively meaty METEORITE
Get around to turning around in that speed ROTATE
Hit the girl, rather than pinch her THIEVE
How one claims to be deep and twisted enough to hold you up IMPEDE
How one makes a further claim about the silly one andthe rest of it REASSERTS
How trains go without one around the month into the churches TRANSEPTS
I get in to do this with only light work IGNITE
In Germany, to have a twisted tail is a must ESSENTIAL
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Is William fed up with hoarding? BILLBOARD
It would exaggerate to claim to be president OVERSTATE
It's not much good to be so small and wee, perhaps LITTLEUSE
It's not the indoor lot that will give you quite a start OUTSET
One of the twins might give you the runaround CASTOR
Poetical, or the other way round INVERSE
She even gets up as she was born EEN
So, with the tube, you do not get a cute, perhaps, combination OBTUSE
That's for the birds, or it turns up in Hal HERONRY
That's the usual hundred from us to the girl CUSTOMARY
The correct weaponry for those who are not lefthanded, perhaps RIGHTARMS
The way to insist on having your hair up in a gin ASSERTING
There could be a little work for five hundred for the lough ERG
Thus one may be paid, notwithstanding, in toasted form PROSIT
When the cat is around, it's the turn of the academician to get it in the neck LARYNX
You'd be swearing that was transport of mine ABUSIVE