Irish Times (Simplex) - Dec 20 2005

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A funeral fire PYRE
A puzzle or a sieve RIDDLE
A squirrel's nest DREY
Beliefs forming basis of political philosophy, say Marxism IDEOLOGY
Causes to have a certain shape or character MOULDS
Clumsy or awkward, as nun gaily goes about UNGAINLY
Drew closer to NEARED
Energy, pep VIGOUR
Farm housing for bovines COWSHEDS
Find application or task for UTILISE
Garden ornament for avian ablutions BIRDBATH
Gets information about, discovers FINDSOUT
Gives financial reckoning, or explains cause ACCOUNTS
Gloomy and resentful SULLEN
Hard container for edible kernel - or for brief summary NUTSHELL
He was converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus STPAUL
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In confidence or secrecy, as in Latin SUBROSA
Inherent but not made clear IMPLICIT
Ludicrous, laughable RISIBLE
Narrow strip of land connecting two land masses ISTHMUS
Person with great knowledge or skill, specialist EXPERT
Scottish landowners LAIRDS
Sharp wood fragment, painful in flesh SPLINTER
Sign of the Bull TAURUS
Something strange or peculiar ODDITY
State of deciduous trees in winter LEAFLESS
Straightened out like lucid one UNCOILED
Tailored to worshipper of graven images IDOLATER
The familiar or informal Taoiseach BERTIE
This Piper behaved badly in children's story from Hamelin PIED
Transported in part RAPT
Twist about as in pain WRITHE