Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 28 2004

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Afford one of them, by the sound of it MOTORCARS
After 14 down, all you deserve is to be found in this, by the sound of it URN
At this point it's firm enough to stick COHERE
Back there, it's enough to make one see red REARLIGHT
But one might be thinking of this before tea THOUGH
By them, by the sound of it, they sound like 20 acrosses PURCHASES
Copy the dead big bird EMULATE
Counsel on the edge of the piano, save for this SCRIMP
For 19 across PERCHES
Grandfather clocks? OLDTIMERS
Has he got ten hundred, for this cassava? MANIOC
If looks could kill, the boy starts them with a kiss BASILISKS
It's no good to catch up the hill in reverse ROTTEN
No reduction, yet you get X back NET
Not in order to make emessss? MESSINESS
Not still a battle ACTION
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One's tried to be in them COURTS
Perhaps Shelley made toys with 'er OYSTER
Prone to get Patrick shortly in a mess APT
Ride it 2 across, by the sound of it? COCKHORSE
Shows away? DIRECTS
Strove to have rustled about one horse STRUGGLED
That'll get you fired at last CREMATION
That's bold enough to bring hundreds to a mistaken but popular affair DERRINGDO
That's what a weak 19 across may get HENPECKED
The offence is offensive enough for 11 across (9) INDECENCY
The way to put one off, in a manner of speaking HECKLE
We need a bit more not to be at all wee USA
What to do on the face of it for fiction MAKEUP
Where you might get gin with your ale in England EALING
Will crow, not be a crow? (7) ROOSTER
With less feeling? In short, no NUMBER