Irish Times (Simplex) - Jun 9 2004

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A comedian's stage butt or straight man STOOGE
A Latin mother MATER
A quarter of an acre ROOD
A three-legged stand, as for camera TRIPOD
A very long period of time AEON
Big spoons for serving soup LADLES
Deposit of gravel or sand containing minerals like gold PLACER
Dishonourable dealings - need bath afterwards DIRTYWORK
Gave up job, relaxed on pension RETIRED
General . . . . . . was Spain's last dictator FRANCO
Has great fear of DREADS
He is not professional AMATEUR
He tends flowers and shrubs GARDENER
Improve chances by creating delay GAINTIME
In its original place, in Latin INSITU
Informally, In receipt of unemployment benefit ONTHEDOLE
Looked lasciviously at LEERED
Lumps of metal like gold NUGGETS
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Lunar-driven sea movements TIDES
Lyrics end like objects with straight sides and circular ends CYLINDERS
Mass pardon of political kind AMNESTY
Neuralgia of the hip and thigh SCIATICA
Of child, nurtured from milk to solids WEANED
Of land, fit to be cultivated ARABLE
Partisan may be person with ambition ASPIRANT
Place where public meeting or discussion is held FORUM
Poetic blood GORE
Proclaim the approach of, like old messenger HERALD
Propelling boat with oars ROWING
South Seas island, capital Papeete TAHITI
State firmly, even rave AVER
Step sideways to evade DODGE
Strange or eccentric person WEIRDO
Take back at a canter RECANT
Talked wildly and raved RANTED
These tactics use force, like Armstrong STRONGARM