Irish Times (Simplex) - Jan 12 2000

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.... Fitzgerald, late great jazz diva ELLA
A 100th anniversary CENTENARY
A set of rising steps STAIRS
Aberrations of mutations FREAKS
Ability to understand what is meant - some are slow on it UPTAKE
Actual, concrete REAL
American state, capital Carson City NEVADA
Bellows like Dr Johnson's biographer BOSWELL
Cold hands, .... ..... WARMHEART
Demands or wants REQUIRES
Device that breaks light into colours of rainbow PRISM
Economical management of money or resources THRIFT
Flow in slow thin stream TRICKLE
German white wine from Rhineland HOCK
God of the Muslims ALLAH
Hackneyed statement that is obviously correct TRUISM
He cuts the fleece from sheep SHEARER
He who hesitates .. .... ISLOST
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Looked lasciviously at LEERED
Manually clumsy, awkward at handling things ALLTHUMBS
Not now, in a while LATER
Old measure of about three miles LEAGUE
Piece of rubber for deleting pencil marks ERASER
Prejudice against the elderly AGEISM
Sedentary baby minder? SITTER
Slack in germinal fashion MALINGER
Spend money freely, be extravagant SPLURGE
The familiar Mr Brando MARLON
The situation as is, existing state of affairs STATUSQUO
The sun rises here EAST
Traditional Japanese female entertainer of men GEISHA
Tumult, noisy ruckus UPROAR
Vex, aggravate IRRITATE
Virtuous and principled MORAL
West Indian music with strong subsidiary beat REGGAE
Without attachment to place or community ROOTLESS