Irish Times (Crosaire) - Feb 22 2003

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A late start for 1 across (4) DEAD
Are they why they're the sound of the rookses, perhaps? (6) CAUSES
Dig this up if it's pleated at last TRUFFLE
Enough room for the XV there DEADMANSCHEST
Get 'er into the ship if it's the last thing you do PERISH
Given, thank you, Father DATA
How a priest was not to be believed because it was all put on APPLIED
How one might be inclined to lean with the DTs SLANTED
How one might get one's feet wet in a canoe PADDLE
Hundreds get drunk down there DALE
Is this why a No could be at least like this? ANYHOW
It comes to the pinch at last, shortly INCH
It takes only a minute bit to make the South smooth SATINY
It's elementary that this could never be non-U URANIUM
Like there's no more double performance DEADASTHEDODO
Lots of minute bits for you and me, by the sound of it HOUR
Might air be in a spa in as one? IBERIAN
Might one be so grand as to have a brush with it? BESOM
Might one hear of seeing 34 across for this SOUND
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Not the way to give half a hundred at last LEND
Of course that's the last of the fowl over 17 across ENTREE
One arrived at first on the desert CAMEL
One pinched some pork and beat it TOMTOM
One who might be soft about the Church PADRE
Press this vessel on board CUP
Sounds as if one might be coming through this with a twist WRY
Sounds like where one might store bottles of drink like this ARRACK
Tee up around the saint on your shoulder EPAULET
That has me running around a jaw MACHINE
That sounds like the mussel that's forearmed, perhaps TRICEPS
The pulse of the poor folk at Santry PEA
The way to find your way to the Day of Judgement? (4, 9) DEADRECKONING
The way to say, ''Fan'' with 16 down? That's all OK SAFEAND
This would sound as if 'e got fifty thousand ELM
To be precise, there's ten in the cast in Ely EXACTLY
To be sure, that's 15 across DEADCERTAINTY
Turn up with the little drinks (4) SPIN
Where there might be over five hundred bottles of drink for Shakespeare BARD