Irish Times (Crosaire) - Feb 11 2006

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A short cut on board CREW
A thread of water all around it at last LISLE
Able to be a half-century, by way of water CANAL
Ah, to follow the idiot back there for a bath LOOFAH
Big flower, or in 31 across company ORINOCO
Did business with the missile up there at first TRADED
Do ti at the double; it's done for now DODO
Go at this with a groan ANGORA
Half of these people may get twitchy SEMITIC
He is relatively different at last BROTHER
He might follow one that's fly enough for the Church TIT
Hurry along and have it in bits TEARUP
Jack the Robber - the bloody one KNAVEOFHEARTS
Just figure how there could be a medical degree in the choir RHOMBIC
Laughed at for having got off the horse like this DERIDED
Made smooth, and in Desmond back there SANDED
No good for a pain in the neck, but all right for a pain in the head ASPIRIN
Not one of the in-laws OUTCAST
O, the North gets hot gin mixed with it NOTHING
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On the face of it, it's placed upside down LAID
One digs this to lay the foundation DOESSPADEWORK
Re this, one might show a little meat with it VEAL
Slim chance of being able to borrow from the last of it SLENDER
So that's the way a can can have spikes with it (4) THUS
Sounds heavy enough to have been in the van LED
Spurs one of them FOOTBALLCLUBS
The brilliant one may be a winner in 11 across form ACEOFDIAMONDS
The editor will turn and weep if you disparage him DECRY
The end of the beast that's in the soup OXTAIL
The Irish Times is not in such pill form TABLOID
The sort of holiday one might fall for TRIP
They're black enough there to go on their hands and knees, by the sound of it KRAAL
This may get around to make 2 down of it ZERO
Thus it's back by the end of the morning in prophetic form AMOS
Well, it doesn't sound like that SIC
What a fool you'd be to get into the blooming American intelligence! (6) CASSIA
With this you don't have to blow your own trumpet HERALD
Would sound like one has been fired ASH