Irish Times (Simplex) - Mar 27 2008

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Clues Answers
A horse's fastest pace GALLOP
A long arduous journey TREK
A small stream RILL
Additional items surplus to requirements, spares EXTRAS
An habitual drunkard SOT
Ancient city near Naples destroyed by volcano POMPEII
Black-and-white Chinese bears PANDAS
Business notation for the current month INST
Clever humour in speech WIT
Cloaks or headlands CAPES
Decay or nonsense ROT
Desert - it's wild ABANDON
Egypt's capital CAIRO
Emerge from the Land of Nod WAKEUP
Fashions and manners STYLES
Fever disease transmitted by mosquitoes MALARIA
Flare up, being wild FERAL
Grass producing an edible grain CEREAL
I'm gayer due to mental pictures IMAGERY
Length of time, or a full stop PERIOD
Lowers into liquid DIPS
Clues Answers
Lure, bait DECOY
Melancholy, depressed SAD
Of an entire kind or group GENERIC
Of priest, reduce to non-clerical status LAICISE
Parcel I arranged as exact copy REPLICA
Part in a play ROLE
Playing cards given added value in some games TRUMPS
Pronounce words indistinctly SLUR
Prudence in handling money THRIFT
Say it again REPEAT
Sir Walter . . . . . . . early tobacco importer RALEIGH
Small oar to propel canoe PADDLE
Smart in appearance like fir tree SPRUCE
Soft floor covering, red for VIPs CARPET
Spiky desert plant CACTUS
Substance that repels moths CAMPHOR
The main tent in a circus BIGTOP
Three Wise Men of the Bible MAGI
Twist into a confused mass TANGLE
Upset, disturb the surface of AGITATE
What a . . . . - such a commotion TODO