Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 25 2003

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Because it's about really and truly SINCERE
Being so close to the kitchen makes one even fatter LARDER
Can there be water there before the end of 19 across? CANAL
Combine to stop the criminals lying, perhaps GANGUP
Could be wolfish, by the sound of it TONE
Does it all go to make one a parent of late? MUMMIFICATION
For boxing, perhaps, etc. about a questionable way to behave CASKET
Gee, one is even less inclined to work on the see-through! (7) GLAZIER
Gone like this where there's Will AWAY
How Father got rid of the hopes that came to nothing (6) DASHED
How one fears that this may be not so much of a rash, perhaps SAFER
Is this the sound of the tide? On the contrary NOT
It sounds as if there came down a yard on board of this mineral FELSPAR
It's just light enough for business FAIR
Just dark enough to tie the boat up MOOR
Just picture how skinny this is - can you beat that? TATTOO
Never sharp enough for living FLAT
Not having no wing, perhaps UNKNOWN
Not to be retained, perhaps, about an untidy thousand UNKEMPT
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One might fear that over fifty have gone wild FERAL
One reads about the East for the water that's not in the East REDSEA
Perhaps one's Pa rents them MUMMYANDDADDY
Sounds as if it has a core, in short, at Dublin INCH
That sounds as heavy as the end of 34 across LED
That's really and truly it ACTUAL
The beastly thing arrived before the half-century CAMEL
The only one that was just in the wicked cities LOT
The revolver gets brown enough for a gamble in China FANTAN
The sort of innocent fun that may lead to a scrap RAG
There's no saying if it's in the course of play MIME
They may succeed if one gets one of 8 down to dry up, by the sound of it HEIRSAPPARENT
This was done when the divine was the leader after I had come back DIDDLED
Those ladies are not 19 across like 8 down FOSTERMOTHERS
Thus more than once the name of that unpleasant person escapes one SOANDSO
What a blow shortly to become a man of Scotland! MONSOON
With this one might propose a toast in support of the dead, by the sound of it BEER
XX and X are enough to make the North tight TENSION
You'll never get close with them OPENERS