Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 20 2000

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A backward idiot is never a good mixer ALOOF
A frightful fifty over 27 across ALARM
Around tea the bell goes for those blooming bits PETALS
By the end of this month I get a pound INSTILL
By the sound of it, meet the wood in the ship STEAKS
For certain it's a request for happiness PLEASURE
Get a grip on this to accelerate it, perhaps FASTEN
Give 'em a cremation with an end that's heavenly EMPYREAN
He could make this 12 across - but just a bit with her RAT
How one gets to be a hindrance INTHEWAY
How the man will get around to greeting one HELLO
If it's second hand, that will soon get around like this INAMINUTE
In France he may put you inside - and finish off 27 across inside too GENDARME
Is this of PLAYAPART
It makes one footsore to get to this bally place in Kerry BUNION
Just cut out for duty EXCISE
Ma's got this for good luck with her lying COT
Not furred, perhaps - fur black and white SILVERFOX
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Not out for most of the meal after 5.00? INNER
Not places for fastidious eaters, one would think MESSES
O, that's beasty information OXYGEN
Quoting it at the inside of a coin for an award CITATION
Really their forte in what the Apostles performed THEFACTS
See about Nathaniel getting into the house SENATE
Sing below the rear of these hangers-on EARRINGS
Sounds as if one knows how to get the car broken, Mother AROMA
That'll keep time with 25 down CLOCKWORK
That's blooming early for one heart RATHE
That's when it makes 13 across go SPRING
The dogged way to get a rise in wages YAP
There's a brilliant stroke on this - that's the ticket! COUPON
There's space around the North for contests there ARENA
They get driven in, to boot HOBNAILS
This can and did make his name FRANK
Would it hurt the cockney to finish off 30 down? ARM
Would one need a stage coach to teach one this? ACTING