Irish Times (Simplex) - Jan 2 1998

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'Parting is such sweet...' SORROW
A literary although ALBEIT
A member of Oxford university OXONIAN
A piece of sudden fancy WHIMSY
A point scored in cricket RUN
A rugby score TRY
American agency concerned with Intelligence CIA
Belonging to former times ARCHAIC
Boys, young fellows LADS
Cater to, pamper INDULGE
Chess piece also called castle ROOK
Cockney rhyming slang for hat TITFER
Created current of air, as to stimulate fire FANNED
Destroyed or bankrupted RUINED
Experienced or knowledgeable VERSED
Expressed indirectly or slanting OBLIQUE
Flare up in wild state FERAL
Fruits of the oak ACORNS
Gravel or colloquial courage GRIT
Harden by cooling TEMPER
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In good physical shape FIT
Introductory musical piece PRELUDE
Irish or Scottish Celts GAELS
Latin water AQUA
Let the buyer beware ...emptor CAVEAT
Loose garment for Boer ROBE
Mythological ferryman of the river Styx CHARON
North American reindeer CARIBOU
Of the future, promising like flower ROSY
On the way, in France ENROUTE
See 23 Across. 23 and 22 Across: Author under Islamic sentence of death for blasphemy RUSHDIE
Shape into stage PHASE
Sibilant sound of disapproval HISS
So smile, being agile and lithe LISSOME
Space for steps PACES
The figure 0 NOUGHT
The weeping tree WILLOW
The whaler's spear HARPOON
Weight used to submerge fishing line SINKER
Withdraw former statement or belief RECANT