Irish Times (Crosaire) - Feb 12 2005

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A century old for 12 across CAGE
About five hundred 12 acrosses CROWDS
An article - definitely so THE
Back D-bone BIRD
Bag this to make it red in church SAC
Bet there's money in it if you do this BACKTHEWINNER
Bill for 12 across BEAK
Biting this with your tongue, to wit MORDANT
Can a L begin to drink there with him? Gee, I should think so! BARGEE
Come around, little dear, and try to win COMPETE
Confess that you'll let this in ADMIT
Do turn up around six for the old poet (4) OVID
Don't be so late - not in future GETBACKINTIME
Don't leave so much; you'll suffer for it UNDERGO
I'm inversely before the sea, by the sound of it, I see IAMBIC
Is the editor getting around to passing away? EDDYING
It takes twice a century for it to start to grow ACACIA
Lay hands on what you may put your foot on CLUTCH
Leonard X makes it fast LENTEN
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Looks evil about a teetotaller if one sounds male LETTERS
Makes you sick of what's in opera at last MALARIA
Medicine may start to sound painful, but it's not one of the overheads (6) PILLOW
No so, lid FLUID
Not the 12 across that has the babies MARABOU
One might turn mad and knock it out STUN
So to place your K-cab, perhaps, would offend you PUTONESBACKUP
Such a gale in the air gets to be so wearing REGALIA
That beastly sound is all round 28 down BARK
That stinker is forever needling one, it seems SEWER
That was the time one was about to polish off the loaf WHEATEN
That's working again BACKINHARNESS
The police, per this, might make it like 30 across COP
There was not much money in it PENCE
There's a sign of this all round the people OMEN
There's little of 12 across to get ale from this EAGLET
This king might be making his escape on land LEA
Work on land - there's money in it TILL
You can't make it plainer than that UGLIEST