Irish Times (Simplex) - May 12 2003

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Clues Answers
A draw for neckwear? TIE
A hired killer ASSASSIN
A Mexican river, may be grande RIO
A wading bird PLOVER
Acting in quiet or secret way STEALTHY
Bewildered on the ocean? ATSEA
Bounce or spring back, recover shape RESILE
Cause to suffer for an offence PUNISH
Claim epee in gradual unsystematic way PIECEMEAL
Devise with great effort - using mallet etc? HAMMEROUT
Don't give way to despair, or carry aloft BEARUP
Equip with weapons ARM
Fear hound being not previously known UNHEARDOF
Got us with great enjoyment GUSTO
It generates electricity DYNAMO
Kind of fireplace - get leg in INGLE
Lift with rope and pulley HOIST
Lives for rock'n'roll king ELVIS
Clues Answers
Lodges in bank DEPOSITS
Looks lengthily at STARES
Make sound as of paper crumpling - or steal cattle RUSTLE
Matter formed in wound PUS
Moving towards what is higher UPWARD
One who deserts a cause or group RENEGADE
Out of tune OFFKEY
Person with compulsive dependence on drugs ADDICT
Prefix denoting water HYRDO
Preposition meaning against VERSUS
Rod for measuring oil in engine DIPSTICK
Rubbish, worthless stuff TRASH
Sister of Lazarus and Mary MARTHA
So long, 'bye for now - in France AUREVOIR
T S . . . . . wrote ''The Waste Land'' ELIOT
The spreading of political propaganda AGITPROP
The witching hour MIDNIGHT
Ways of evading rules, or slits in fort wall LOOPHOLES