Irish Times (Simplex) - Jun 19 2008

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A fully-grown male deer STAG
A liquid medicine - or poison POTION
Absorb like food DIGEST
Alcoholic drink once called mother's ruin GIN
Be present at ATTEND
Connoisseur of good food and drink GOURMET
Dry and withered ARID
Enter - you're invited COMEIN
Famous tourist tower in Paris EIFFEL
French pantomime clown PIERROT
French vivacity ELAN
Greek wine - nastier sort RETSINA
Hercules had to clean out the . . . . . . stables AUGEAN
Indicate assent with head movement NOD
Injured or damaged HARMED
Japanese art of folding paper into shapes ORIGAMI
King murdered by ambitious Macbeth DUNCAN
Liquefied by heat MELTED
Liquid applied to the skin LOTION
Meat slicers or dining room chairs CARVERS
My acorn may generate a new word from first letters ACRONYM
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Mythical fruit inducing state of luxurious dreaminess LOTUS
Napoleon brandy COGNAC
Occurring immediately, like some fast food INSTANT
Of liquid, luke-warm TEPID
Peas grow in it POD
Person newly risen from the ranks and arrogant UPSTART
Person who discards clothes by choice NUDIST
Prefix meaning before ANTE
Rags and torn pieces TATTERS
Remarkable achievement of fate FEAT
Round metal plate struck to resound GONG
Sham, phoney BOGUS
Sheet for a corpse SHROUD
Spanish opera by Bizet CARMEN
Stitched edge of garment HEM
Strong man of the Bible SAMSON
The widow's small offering MITE
Three Greek goddesses who presided over life and death FATES
Tower from which muezzin calls Muslims to prayer MINARET
Tropical tree or part of hand PALM
Tropical tree seed ground as spice NUTMEG