Irish Times (Crosaire) - Feb 25 2003

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8 down OFNOAVAIL
9 across CRIMINALS
A haggard lady SHE
After the fourth bit of play 'e gets moving ACTIVE
Around tea, will the boy be able to be away from work? GETOFF
Be more economical with LY? USELESSLY
Chews this, by the sound of it OPTION
Following five the ram is so changeable VARIES
Having caused so much friction, one got fired, perhaps GRATED
How unpleasant when there isn't any twice ten over us (7) NOXIOUS
If it's nothing but trees, get in there first FORESTALL
Initially one gets ahead with one's speciality ENT
Is counsel at last up to it? ASCENDING
Is it always in the shy aunt, each in turn SEVERALLY
Is that what I have for 4 down? ACT
It did not look good for the twister to turn to the port side for shade LEERED
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Lift what you laud UPRAISE
Most of it's tiny but all of it's a lot NINETY
One has a rank sort of middle, by the sound of it COLONEL
One should never take what lies around the tribe LIBERTIES
Place them with it, one among the spoons POSITIONS
Sounds as if a throat's what the girl may take to the river ANNEXE
That stupid American soldier has come back without a sheep for us IGNORAMUS
The sort of wine that might come to a foul-sounding sort of an end RHENISH
The trouble is that it's so yellow MATTER
The way 9 across may have made one feel the pinch STOLEN
Their fate may be expressed in a sentence (6) FELONS
There could be something taut in that legislative kind of tale STATUTORY
This might be a wet time for a son SEA
Thus may the referee get sick if being just a stand-in REFILL
What 9 across and 14 down may get, in a manner of speaking SENTENCES
You can't blame it for being formerly at a single speed EXONERATE