Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 8 2003

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Before half a century he's got quite sound EARL
Being ET and a tiny bit more ENTITY
Contrary, through poetry PERVERSE
Does this, perhaps, amount to a pestiferous artist? ARARAT
Get nothing as a matter of course STARVE
Get the point and spot the message MICRODOT
Having been on strike, perhaps, results in one not being able to see the end of it BLACKEYE
Hesitate, in a manner of speaking STUTTER
How the sot went along with the Creed ESCORTED
If one gets so violent it's inclined to be overtime RAMPAGES
If they approach you like this, that's just the price of you, by the sound of it ACCOST
In the end there's not a few Gypsies ROMANY
It doesn't matter if I throw it away at last TRIFLING
Ma, can I get so confused that you have to shut me up? MANIAC
Not one-eyed as if you've got a 24 across. Do you get the point? NEEDLE
Not the Milky Way in the cup BLACKTEA
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One might be bound to be in such a false set DENTURES
Set crooked in an early, festive fashion, perhaps EASTERLY
So pleased that the editor is just about dead ELATED
So trying for a hundred to be on trial CONTEST
Sounds like the top of a leg in place ATHY
That mixture of soil put on with the tongue leads to pollution OILSLICK
That, behold, is the right place in the street SLOT
The South makes such an outcry over Neptune's spear STRIDENT
The story in this is not such a fresh one STALER
There's nothing like getting at this in a masculine way HATE
Twice as firm on something that may have a beautiful outcome COCOON
Was George Russell reckoned to be great gas? AERATED
What 9 across works for READER
Work at high pressure for the papers may get you down OPPRESS
You may begin to depend on Mrs 15 across COUNTESS
You write with a god around? (6) AUTHOR