Irish Times (Simplex) - Dec 27 2000

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A person's private room, often inner SANCTUM
A poem of 14 lines SONNET
A song of triumph or praise PAEAN
A sudden rise as in fortunes UPSURGE
A very sharp bend, u-shaped HAIRPIN
An open shoe for summer SANDAL
Bolivia's capital LAPAZ
But what a bath! TUB
Case of top cards ACES
Choose from the elite? SELECT
Chop as with axe HEW
Commence journey, or make beginning SETOUT
Embalmed body of Pharaoh MUMMY
Feed and care for NURTURE
Forehead or hill summit BROW
Gave mute sign of boredom YAWNED
In slang, a depressant drug DOWNER
Informally thrash, or reprimand harshly LAYINTO
Informally, drug or silly person DOPE
Liable to change, fickle MUTABLE
Long-haired ox of central Asia YAK
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Majestic or imposing, like month AUGUST
Major artery in neck CAROTID
Masses of fishes swimming together SHOALS
Of or in words VERBAL
Planes land and take off on it RUNWAY
Posh British public school ETON
Protective covering for head of motor-cyclist HELMET
Remedy for all kinds of diseases or troubles PANACEA
Ridicules by comic imitation GUYS
Rips with signs of sorrow TEARS
Roman god of the sea NEPTUNE
Self-satisfied dignity APLOMB
Short high-pitched cry as of bat SQUEAK
Slightly burned on the surface SINGED
Slip into speech defect LISP
Strike against hard object - one's toe, perhaps STUB
Twists and squeezes to remove liquid WRINGS
Urgent or exacting EXIGENT
Welder being more lascivious LEWDER
Width of wings SPAN
Wily and cunning SLY