Irish Times (Crosaire) - Sep 8 2003

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8 across, for instance, in water ISLANDS
As it's there as a precaution INCASE
At last the charge's for the sucker TOFFEE
At last this is characteristic of not being with it DISTRAIT
Being on fire, really got down to it ALIGHTED
Cover for a seer? EYELID
Cut the French to make it rise on the neck HACKLE
Father gets something decorative and grand PALACE
Fits one out with jokes of the 15 across EQUIPS
For the afterlife, it sounds as if he will keep you up to it LIFEBUOY
Giving a hand with a gamble? ABETTING
In form to be informed ATSCHOOL
Is it able to be a sign of sheepishness? That's for the birds CANARIES
It takes a lot for it to get me up ITEM
It would make you mad to rise about a seaman RABIES
It's a hazard to be about to set a star here ASTERISK
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Just for the present there's no charge FREEGIFT
Little birds have one broken leg in broken 15 across EAGLETS
Met and let the spirit METTLE
On the face of it, one might fail to have about a hundred of this (6) FACIAL
One needs to be offensive to take that bit of mutton RAMPART
Put everything 31 across and stop doing it PACKITUP
Roused with a pot for cooking over one headless fowl AWOKEN
That's his famous hill, I see HISTORIC
That's where the tea's made EAST
The look of existence, perhaps, but it's just for yourself LIFEPEER
There'd be some resistance to putting this on official letters in Ireland OHMS
There's just a nut beside this in the laundry, perhaps WASHER
There's very little here that's feline ATOM
Very SELFSAME
Well, that will cure your end HEALTHY
What you're after is a dugout, perhaps QUARRY