Irish Times (Crosaire) - Feb 15 2000

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A revolver at work ATOP
An insect has six feet, but not like this TWOYARDS
Arrive at consciousness once more COMETO
Before the three have finished, an X may be menacing THREATEN
Brush this off to give it a second polish REBUFF
By the sound of it, I got many like this - can you beat that! LASH
Can you get hundreds in such a tiny setting? Well, barely NUDITY
Can you penetrate such a deep mystery? FATHOM
Do it back about the speed, in a manner of speaking ORATED
Fellow, are you up to finishing this in Vedic fashion? MANTRA
How one needed air with trousers on, perhaps PANTED
How too like an owl, by the sound of it! Just a little WHIT
How two playful gentlemen might return a negative to the priest VERONA
Is that how her confused lad, I see, is crested? HERALDIC
It takes potatoes to give you Dutch courage SCHNAPPS
It's downright offensive to make it so expensive CHARGE
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It's nonsense to be without water. Keep it out of the house DRYROT
It's not so rare to make it more than five hundred and one OVERDONE
Just over fifty may be over the 1 down that's free LIBERATE
Not in front, in a mammalian sort of way ABREAST
Tear this in bits into a coin that'd be the making of you CREATION
That could be the last thing that might happen to you with a pound EVENTUAL
That may look questionable, perhaps ASKANCE
That's a type of a twisted tail, sic ITALICS
The 1 down of George Russell would have been great gas AERATE
They come first by way of letters INITIALS
They like a little money to be getting higher ASCENTS
They show that the plane has made a smooth take-off SHAVINGS
To take a taxi up there is precious little of a gamble BACCARAT
You may get it in the neck if you tie the girl up like this BANDANNA
You'd need to fight to get the teetotaller into a bundle BATTLE
You'd swear that was a hot mixture OATH