Irish Times (Simplex) - Jul 17 1999

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Clues Answers
'If the cap fits, .... ..' WEARIT
'The ... is mightier than the sword' PEN
A bodily opening ORIFICE
A French sea MER
A play on words, not really wit PUN
A sudden political uprising PUTSCH
Abstemious in robes SOBER
An even chance, like flip of coin TOSSUP
Complain like goldfish CARP
Defects in computer programs BUGS
Desert with recklessness ABANDON
Dog with broad flat nose, or short fighter PUG
Donegal's highest mountain ERRIGAL
Dressed like badger GARBED
Eating orifices MOUTHS
Expectorate SPIT
Falls headlong, like Jill after Jack TUMBLES
Gained knowledge of rental LEARNT
Give public show, as of paintings EXHIBIT
Glean as harvest REAP
Goes out like tide EBBS
Clues Answers
Grab hurriedly or violently SNATCH
Greek king who killed his father and married his mother OEDIPUS
Groove or wrinkle FURROW
He was Lady Hamilton's lover NELSON
Horse with coat sprinkled with grey and white ROAN
Japanese mattress used as bed FUTON
Mary ......, Tanaiste HARNEY
Mature, ready to eat RIPE
Old song: 'I'm forever blowing .......' BUBBLES
Pale yellow like linen plant FLAXEN
Peru's capital LIMA
Pinched, perhaps in the bud NIPPED
Ponders like nine goddesses of Roman myth MUSES
Sausage in a roll HOTDOG
Shapeless lump of something soft DOLLOP
Start back, flinch RECOIL
Struck attitude, perhaps for painter POSED
The windpipe TRACHEA
To do with G B Shaw SHAVIAN
To the point, germane APROPOS
US state, capital Topeka KANSAS