Irish Times (Simplex) - Mar 11 2000

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A small handgun PISTOL
Clients for copying device STENCIL
Climax, breaking point CRISIS
Distance from equator or room to think LATITUDE
Distressed so it hurts? PAINED
Dwell in desire RESIDE
Elective, as you choose OPTIONAL
Embezzle money PECULATE
English king who ordered waves to retreat CANUTE
Forbidding in appearance DOUR
Go solo to European capital OSLO
Great greed and exploitation of others RAPACITY
Greek god ruler of universe, or a major planet URANUS
Haughty, imperious ARROGANT
Hebridean island close to mainland SKYE
Ideas forming basis of political theory IDEOLOGY
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Improve equipment or promote UPGRADE
Informed, reported to NOTIFIED
Large pot for boiling things CAULDRON
Old hay cutter with long handle SCYTHE
Old usage for formerly, as in days of. . . YORE
Russian vehicle drawn by three horses TROIKA
Scrape leading to frolics CAPERS
Shakespeare's Moor of Venice OTHELLO
Slangily, run away - with ship's bed? DOABUNK
Tiny hero of nursery tale TOMTHUMB
Trumpets for loose woman STRUMPET
Unstable and liable to change VOLATILE
Voracious insect in dreaded swarms LOCUST
Went in different directions from common point DIVERGED
Wild cat or fast car JAGUAR
` `...... waste makes woeful want' ' WILFUL