Irish Times (Simplex) - Sep 2 2006

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A lasting abnormal fear PHOBIA
A small lump of blood CLOT
Accuse or find fault with ARRAIGN
Angler's lure for fish BAIT
Bliss, intense delight RAPTURE
Brag about age? - that's rubbish GARBAGE
Chop or cut with axe HEW
Deal with, manage successfully COPE
Device that measures, say, electricity usage METER
Drooped in the middle SAGGED
Famous porcelain from China 14th-17th centuries MING
Firmly supported, stable STEADY
Fooled or deceived HOAXED
Group of words within a sentence PHRASE
He's hard to convince SCEPTIC
Heat and cool slowly to toughen, metal or glass ANNEAL
Hint or gratuity TIP
Illegal alcohol made from potatoes and other mash POTEEN
Involving punishment as by the law PENAL
Is in the habit of drinking alcohol TIPPLES
Japanese art of paper folding ORIGAMI
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Kind of dialect, from French PATOIS
Line that touches curve but does not intersect it TANGENT
Loses colour or freshness FADES
Not high or tall LOW
Of wound, forming pus SEPTIC
Peevish or irritable TETCHY
Poem with 14 lines SONNET
Puzzling question about ropes POSER
Recurrent series of events CYCLES
Sea mammal like large porpoise, friendly towards people DOLPHIN
Semi-liquid flavourings for food SAUCES
Shoves in between other objects, packs tightly WEDGES
Silvery-white metal used in cans TIN
Small measurement unit of distance INCH
Spear for old whaler HARPOON
Talk wildly and incoherently RANT
Tidy way of doing things METHOD
Time of year when day equals night EQUINOX
Travelling bag - hold firmly GRIP
Volcano in Sicily, quite neat ETNA
Wading bird with long slender curved bill CURLEW