Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 5 2001

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A degree gives a foundation to one's little relative BASIS
A race fighting in a bundle INBATTLE
A skit on a naughty old man, by the sound of it SATIRE
After the beginning of the month, see, there's something the matter with it SEPTIC
Around tea one makes a song, to a painful extent STINGS
Around the north-east he gives straight entertainment HONEST
Birds such as this one might have strings attached KITE
Does it need a 14 across to re-build a town? MENDACITY
Getting value for the donkeys when they go 3 down? ASSESSING
Give it stick! COHERE
Go on leave? QUIT
Had enough of dates SATED
How the South had something the matter with it when in harness SADDLED
However sober, one finds anger all so wearing ATTIRE
I will start to have something the matter with me ILLNESS
Is one paid to get over a particle of weight? PROTON
Led on about a thousand senior citizens OLDMEN
Make light of it IGNITE
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Make light of it at last to come up quickly BOUNCE
Many hands? HIGHHORSE
One did not enforce the gesture one made, by the sound of it WAIVED
One will proclaim that the lady's lad has got confused HERALD
Sounds like what I might be doing SEEING
That will get one to Bray HEEHAW
That's in being looked after, and no mistake INTENDED
That's something about the fellow stand-in REGENT
There's a street scraper on the wheel STRAKE
They desire what stretchers can do, perhaps LONGINGS
They twist or else get twisted EELS
This could be a search for a gift BEQUEST
To 2 down, perhaps, might need many hands LIGHTWORK
What a sucker does with seamen with the rounds ABSORBS
What the ruler has to tie in a knot about 2 down REIGNITE
Without delay this might follow a century, pure and simple HASTE
You wouldn't believe how it could get back under the train LIAR
You'll lose nothing to show how painful it is WINCE