Irish Times (Crosaire) - May 22 2002

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A fat start for 9 across? BUTTER
A timber that's sound ehough to be quite a bargain, if there's plenty of it (1, 4, 4) AGOODDEAL
After stealing from the sty he beat it at the double TOMTOM
Are, in short, you coming through it? RYE
Away with the tail - that will be hurtful OFFEND
Behaving like Poles? REPELLING
Bits of THTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTHTH TENTHS
Can the little creature stand such a big creature? ANTBEAR
Clip this and steal from it FLEECE
Could you ever get up to the lough? EER
Dial this till you're sick of it LAIDUP
Do your washing before you arrive, and be honest about it COMECLEAN
Go with your beard to where there's driving GOATEE
How one is taught that one pound is all one gets for wages LEARNS
How the beastly doctor gets near to being old VETERAN
How the seeds were put in around the wall so as to be eaten SWALLOWED
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How William the Quaker got on the long way PENNON
If I bleed like this, that may be taken orally EDIBLE
It's clear that this might have the odd uncle about you UNCLOUDED
It's not honest to take a bow to it FIDDLE
It's worth seventy pounds, but sounds as if you have to wait for it FIVESTONE
Lots of time for the goddess to be unaspirated (3) ERA
Might a cockney possess such a hail? AVE
Might a French in time make them so commemorative? MONUMENTS
Might one be gifted enough so to be all there? BEPRESENT
Open for cover if the top is taken off YAWNING
Sounds as if she was a little hoarse before being fed AFFILIATE
Stay around and do the teaching in legal form STATUTORY
The season is not long enough for there to be not enough of it SHORTFALL
There's no argument that this has claws in it, by the sound of it AGREEMENT
Why one might greet the girl, by the sound of it, to 1 across HYGIENE
With perhaps the tent in the red, that caused trouble RIOTED