Irish Times (Simplex) - Oct 16 2002

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A French woman singer of popular ballads CHANTEUSE
An imposed tax or duty LEVY
Arousing sadness or sympathy in AFFECTING
Berated with roofing materials? SLATED
Canonises, being on the way up ASCENSION
Cause to wake up and come alert ROUSE
Collection of records of organisation ARCHIVES
Composition for voice and orchestra with biblical theme ORATORIO
Discarded clothes CASTOFFS
Drink that cures all ills ELIXIR
Duck with soft feathers EIDER
Dull or impenetrable OBSCURE
Encourage in Teheran HEARTEN
Equal to or occupied with UPTO
Fine silky hair of angora goat MOHAIR
Fisted away to put through perforated container SIFTED
Give unnecessary cause for alarm CRYWOLF
Groups of privileged people ELITES
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Hard cooking fat SUET
Microscopic organisms, can cause disease BACTERIA
Mild, not malignant BENIGN
Mouldy or hackneyed STALE
Name of the English royal family of Elizabeth 1st TUDOR
Name of the Paris Stock Exchange BOURSE
Not reliable, dangerous - perhaps a legal conviction UNSAFE
Person who accompanies or guards another ESCORT
Prizes or tributes AWARDS
Pursue or understand FOLLOW
Put small dent in, or slangily stole NICKED
Receptacle for flowers - save it VASE
Settled in comfortably, snuggled up NESTED
Ski race down zig-zag course SLALOM
Smartened up like skilled workers TRADESMEN
Take from by force or threat EXTORT
Turn aside from accepted way DEVIATE
Unit of money in Israel SHEKEL