Irish Times (Simplex) - Aug 25 2009

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A booking for performers GIG
Baked pastry dish PIE
Basic monetary units in many countries DOLLARS
Beethoven's opera FIDELIO
Brief downpour SHOWER
Brisk and lively tempo, musically ALLEGRO
Celestial body STAR
Censures SCOLDS
Centre around which something rotates AXIS
Cubicle, booth KIOSK
Excellent, brilliant SUPERB
Frank, open CANDID
Gave on the basis of merit AWARDED
Greek aniseed liqueur OUZO
Literary or artistic type or style GENRE
Literary compositions ESSAYS
Lowest rank of enlisted person PRIVATE
Makes fit for a new purpose ADAPTS
Mending a hole, in a sock say DARNING
No longer alive DEAD
Of wooded areas, poetically SYLVAN
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Poke fun at the bone RIB
Postal tokens STAMPS
Regular and continuous STEADY
Reverberate ECHO
Ring the clock-face DIAL
Save it for flowers VASE
Sn TIN
Strip of timber BOARD
Synthetic material PLASTIC
Takes hold of firmly GRASPS
The man Jesus raised from the dead LAZARUS
Tristan and . . . . . . (Wager opera) ISOLDE
Tufts of facial hair BEARDS
Twelfth sign of the zodiac PISCES
Tyrannical dictator DESPOT
Upholstered seats for more than one SOFAS
Weapons from North Dublin SWORDS
West African republic NIGERIA
Widely-used internet search engine GOOGLE
Withdrew from an organization SECEDED
Wooden pins PEGS