Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jun 17 2002

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'E has, in short, the money held with the bird in this ESCROW
A magic bird MERLIN
Anyhow there could not be anyone more stupid than that LEASTWISE
Chews this, by the sound of it ELECT
Desmond came back around the sailors and got around to making them tight SCREWED
Do gnaw it up in the tear RODENT
Either way, this will give a start to 1 across ROTOR
Having such an attack makes one so silly and sick ASSAILING
He might tell you there's some gain in futures, by the sound of it PROPHET
How everyone tumbled into the marsh FALLEN
How one might talk of toad with Jack NATTER
How the saint gets carried, yet is walking STRIDES
Is game what makes them sound so idle? IMAGES
Is Mooney that sort of a shape? LUNATE
Is there a coloured man in the house back there? ROOM
It sounds pleasant to sound bolder GNEISS
It's enough for this to be oriental for the present ENOW
It's for the artist to make them work after tea OILS
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It's for the birds to get snug with the French NESTLE
It's natural that one may get at this in nine INNATE
No go, it is after this that there's trouble inside ENTER
O, me might make them reel for the Scots EIGHTS
One drink in one of 11 across, by the sound of it, gives one somethig to chew on RUMINATE
Preparing to fight for the margin ARMING
Sounds as if he'd got across across the sea to fight for CRUSADER
That's where the ladies had got R upside down? PURDAH
The bird might have a broken leg at last EAGLE
The large lady that the editor sired? FATHERED
The lowly anaesthetic of the North? NETHER
This ran last , too ALSO
Three in a row start with the row TIERCE
Turn the doctor round one foot of spray SPINDRIFT
Up to the pub and get a bit more, and that's still beastly little RABBIT
What a drill is? That, perhaps, was the refrain FORBORE
What your bird has to meet for the blower? HORNBILL
Witness how a twisted teat can cause one such pain ATTESTING