Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 6 2004

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23 across might start little by little BYDEGREES
By the sound of it, the badger back there might eat them NOISETTES
Cheap, nasty and not wet at last TAWDRY
Could no ace urge one like this? ENCOURAGE
Giving of one's best to be in debt BESTOWING
How 21 across might be giving one a tug, by the sound of it TOEING
How he succeeded in getting old MANAGED
I see that's a bad short month SEPTIC
If your engine were to die, is this all you would be left with? CARCASE
It's hurrying behind one BUSTLE
Just one in the deck ACE
Might beau do in the rear? ADORER
Might one arm her for the navy? ADA
Not practically the end of the story THEORY
On top of 19 across, might this bottom of you conform? TOE
One comes in pants for food HOTDOG
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One is a raw bird, that is to say ROOKIE
One might go no further than draw it THELINE
One might have a rod 8 down ANGLER
Past confusion, played for Ireland STPATRICK
Perhaps 23 across for sugar CASTER
Sounds as if one did not hit a split in church MYSTICISM
That's for a congregation or a Conservative ORATORY
The complaint of the revolutionary about the Moor? REDGROUSE
The last of 5 down, in short AET
The lettuce will be rooted if you look after it well COSSET
The sort of standing one gets 8 down DOCTORIAL
Then that's it (2, 3, 4) ATTHETIME
They could be the saving of over fifty cats LIFELINES
They have to be armed - ought to be to begin with SHOULDERS
This setback in the West might be for 14 down RECESS
What falls when the rain falls BAROMETER