Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 5 2007

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A century he had with Pa in ACHED
A nine it is, and they're all stupid INANITIES
Back to work that lacks colour in the Middle East (6) ALEPPO
Decrees so to set about the can ENACTS
E following A for the goddess ATHENE
Fired in the air for 16 across UPSHOT
Get around to ask for a seal GASKET
Has to throw it away in a quarrelling way HASSLING
How 29 down may be of some consequence RESULT
How one, or a boy, made a speech ORATED
I shall not see my way to being in the hill in Scotland BRAILLE
If it is Ted's it's no go DESIST
Keeps back what 17 downs are WITHHOLDS
Less well done, less of ten RARER
Mother, too bad, is back to greet this in a respectful sort of way SALAAM
Natural to have had a meal after having got to the hotel INNATE
Not bound to have been the former condition of Ireland FREESTATE
One does one's work as a matter of course CATERER
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One must be fit to make the tale ATHLETE
Pleasant place NICE
Sidney is wrong, wrong to twist it like this DISTORT
Sounds as if he can have had a father who was a dam ABEL
Such letters give one a start, namely INITIALS
Ten in the net, beside NEXT
That's a bright way to make one 28 down REDLIGHT
The composer turns tail so as to come to grips with this HANDLE
There's a pleasant beginning to this creed NICENE
There's nothing that may be so forbidding in Scotland OBAN
This gets 'er to come home RETURN
This may be on top or come at the end RIDER
This the test ate not with a will outside WITHIN
To have met up with a Pole TOTEM
To make light of it, 'e had a gin and it IGNITE
Want to have it like this THEUSUAL
Wenceslas' striking instruction to his page HITHER
Will this car travel on the sea? CARGOSHIP