Irish Times (Crosaire) - Mar 14 2003

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A spirit of iron, perhaps METTLE
Also, 'e's high ANDES
Arrived first on 8 down at first CAMEL
CIX? How beastly! CANINE
Continue to serve the sinew TENDON
Does a drink to start with make one wideawake? ALERT
Flood it in a French fruit INUNDATE
Get in the crop and get a pear if you want to come again REAP
Gilbert and Sullivan has some virtue (8) PATIENCE
How attractive mother can be to a confused gent MAGNET
How Ulster may be caught in the act REDHANDED
I've been cut off and placed over the cut-up end of 33 across AMPUTATED
If you want it on the rocks, hurry off the boat RUNASHORE
If you wish for justice, change your clothes REDRESS
It is loose to be in the nude UNTIED
It will do no harm to think it does good, so put it first (7) PLACEBO
It will spoil this for mating if it has a twisted tail MARITAL
It's left dry and charged DESERTION
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It's not natural to get to 'er before the weekends, perhaps, in short ERSATZ
Mark this part of the puzzle with an X ACROSS
My father, now dead, had good taste PALATE
Not much land in the Middle East ACRE
One might like to bear this URSINE
Poems by the hundred need to be deciphered CODES
That is the top man I have confined CAPTIVE
That's either silly or boyish in various ways ASSORTED
The former, testing morning? EXAM
The tour has got mixed-up. Can you beat that? ROUT
There's a tree in bits here, but that's the whole of it ENTIRE
There's nothing like it for a cardinal HATRED
They happen to give ways of escape for the East EVENTS
To have got back one had to rush around the corner RETURNED
Very little turkey may produce very big results, I see ATOMIC
Was in want, so did this with one's dough, by the sound of it NEEDED
Will do to be huge around on this ENOUGH
Your old man, an upright man, a narrow one (6) PANAMA