Irish Times (Simplex) - Jan 3 2006

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A large fierce eel CONGER
Chest bone, may be floating RIB
Clear and definite, can be touched TANGIBLE
Coin as opposed to paper money SPECIE
Deliberately, as intended ONPURPOSE
Describe in more detail - very complicated ELABORATE
Drew closer to NEARED
Edgar Allan . . ., American writer of creepy stories POE
Enclosed area as around a college PRECINCT
Equipment for drilling an oil well RIG
Excess of fluid in the tissue OEDEMA
First note of a scale in music DOH
Formal curse of the Church ANATHEMA
Gives imperative command in acid test DICTATES
Gives in to something overpowering SUCCUMBS
Greek goddess of peace IRENE
He shows people to their seats in theatre USHER
Ice house for an Eskimo IGLOO
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Illicitly distilled liquor, foolish ideas or lunar glow MOONSHINE
Indelible picture made in the skin TATTOO
Jewish word of greeting or leave-taking SHALOM
Major heart artery AORTA
Medicine to make you sick EMETIC
Outer covering of the eyeball CORNEA
Painful muscle seizures CRAMPS
Portable bed for baby CARRYCOT
Preach on about older woman supervisor CHAPERON
Scornful slang term for attractive but unintelligent young woman BIMBO
Scram, take a powder BEATIT
Smart retorts or witty replies REPARTEE
Sound of a tense wire or bowstring being plucked TWANG
Statuette awarded by Hollywood Academy OSCAR
They clean chimneys with brushes SWEEPS
This acid is used for dyeing and leather-making TANNIC
Those of equal age and ability, often influential PEERGROUP
Wipes away with a blow SWIPE