Irish Times (Simplex) - Feb 27 2006

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A characteristic of straitened kind TRAIT
A high-pitched giggle TITTER
A lively jumping dance JIG
A region of southern Germany, capital Munich BAVARIA
A small informal restaurant from France BISTRO
A Spanish river RIO
A terrible Russian ruler IVAN
A thread or strand FIBRE
Adjust camera lenses - concentrate FOCUS
Amen SOBEIT
Animal that does not change its spots LEOPARD
Assuage with tasty meat roll SAUSAGE
Capital of Lebanon BEIRUT
Composer of the 'Messiah' HANDEL
Cure-all in a canape PANACEA
Cured or smoked ham GAMMON
Egged on to action as in edict INCITED
Embankment built to prevent flooding as in Holland DYKE
Emotional energy associated with sexual desire LIBIDO
Famous doomed transatlantic liner TITANIC
Food passage to the stomach GULLET
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Front-runner or head of group LEADER
Great German composer . . . . . . van Beethoven LUDWIG
Investigated as dentist does tooth PROBED
James . . . . 007 BOND
Jane Austen novel for me ma EMMA
Lack of red corpuscles in blood resulting in weakness ANAEMIA
Made sound like as duck QUACKED
Make sound like as stuck pig SQUEAL
Pet menu for a great many UMPTEEN
Plant with leaves or seeds used medicinally HERB
Quite splendid, really excellent SUPERB
Run and skip playfully about SCAMPER
Sacred river to east of Israel JORDAN
Shiny stuff of silent kind TINSEL
Stop the flow of, check STEM
The gift of the . . . is ability to talk fluently GAB
The Paris underground system METRO
Tip into miners' shaft PIT
Trimmed by cutting away roots and branches to promote growth PRUNED
Unable to speak DUMB
Water-filled ditch around a castle MOAT