Irish Times (Simplex) - Dec 9 2008

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Clues Answers
A variety of mandarin orange SATSUMA
Absent without permission, in short AWOL
Analyse to find the properties ASSAY
Artists' stands EASELS
Assert as a right CLAIM
Attack the good name of DEFAME
Beat seeds out of grain THRESH
Board game LUDO
Close to, oddly, the wildcats OCELOTS
Clusters of feathers worn as ornaments PLUMES
Dinge, depression DENT
Eccentric person ODDBALL
Enter a territory and take spoils RAID
Fast gait of a horse GALLOP
Fiddle VIOLIN
Flies without an engine GLIDES
Frankfurter on a bun HOTDOG
Fresh, new UNUSED
Fruit of the blackthorn SLOE
Gained through work EARNED
Inclined or took care of TENDED
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Large African antelope GNU
Large hawk, feeds on fish OSPREY
Lasting forever ETERNAL
Learned person SCHOLAR
Major blood vessel ARTERY
Milky gemstone OPAL
Motor MACHINE
Northern valleys GLENS
Not one or the other NEITHER
Not so bright or harsh DIMMER
Particle of matter ATOM
Raw mineral ORE
Roman god of the sea NEPTUNE
Sheets of paper fastened together PAD
Sloped, one-sided SLANTED
Small extraterrestrial body COMET
Small overnight bag VALISE
Source of our heat SUN
Stalk, shank STEM
Texan city DALLAS
Writers, originators AUTHORS