Irish Times (Crosaire) - Aug 26 2000

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20 downs on board SAILORS
As one who drinks, I am stopping the dribble with 'er IMBIBER
Be inclined not to be overweight at the start of 8 down LEAN
Before and behindhand to be high church? PRELATE
Employments by the thousand for inspiration MUSES
For the present for the South it's winter SNOW
Go and get up to the editor, just a bit DEPART
High enough to look close PEER
His might be tops when it comes to writing NIBS
How smoking makes one sleepy KIPPER
How the police might give the artist back his holiday ARREST
If a hundred want to get really fit they must do what thery're told CONFORM
In the ordinary way one might thus give a turn a twist with a pound NATURAL
Is that the way? Well, it doesn't sound like that SIC
It's all to the good the way it's been put together ASSET
It's the very devil to have to get to the top this way DIABOLO
k following k, just on and on WEEKAFTERWEEK
Might one be so coy overhead? ARCH
Might one get a black mark for one of 22 across? TAR
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NA with EL? LEANBACKWARDS
Not the right thing to do and run it ERR
Oh, Hades! How forgetful he could make this! LET
One follows a mean, blooming twist ANEMONE
One might be rotten about a body like that CADRE
Put - or send - the clock back REMIT
Response in the mail, by the sound of it AMEN
Sounds as if you might have met your fate on this sort of transport PHAETON
Start of the fest SETOFF
Tell the world that after one month the mail has got mixed-up DECLAIM
That could be the business of three blind mice RETAIL
That old Greek might have helped you to figure out a hidden clue before I did EUCLID
The way to get around in the theatre CIRCLE
This affirmation is not consonant with the sound of that sort of a letter AVOWAL
This won't 17 across you go to the pub with 'em EMBARGO
Was it she - or he - that deserved the medal? HERO
What a caper tossing the caper might be! HIGHLANDFLING
When you're depressed, there's surely some matured spirits to be found there INTHEDOLDRUMS
You've got to go South to get it in the neck with a bottle CORK