Irish Times (Simplex) - Mar 29 2005

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A baby's cot in America CRIB
A legal half MOIETY
A song for sailors or a ramshackle house SHANTY
A wise Biblical judge DANIEL
American city that once had a famous Tea Party BOSTON
An unruly or uncontrolled gang MOB
Brown-grey kind of finch LINNET
Carrier as of news BEARER
Central part of a wheel HUB
Central part of thing - ask us, uncle NUCLEUS
Colourful communists REDS
Contagious skin disease causing itching SCABIES
Domestic cattle OXEN
Done to a lump NODE
Draw in, knowledge or food ABSORB
Egg of a louse NIT
Enclosure for horses CORRAL
Expectorated in slight quarrel SPAT
Extra money paid for good performance BONUS
Fixes firmly in surrounding mass EMBEDS
French city with annual film festival - sounds permissive CANNES
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Funny man, may be stand-up COMIC
Having characteristics of both sexes EPICENE
Hitler's autobiography - '. . . . Kampf' MEIN
It is pulled to open parachute RIPCORD
Language used by Jews of central and eastern Europe YIDDISH
Large cask for beer or wine TUN
Leave out, perhaps in error OMIT
Make yourself . . . . . . - help out USEFUL
Mass of ferns as on mountains BRACKEN
Not genuine, like forged painting FAKE
Pattern of stripes containing information for computer processing BARCODE
Perform, say, a crime COMMIT
Roman goddess of love VENUS
Shored up with crowds HORDES
Slightly, more so than not RATHER
Struck attitude as for painter POSED
Test procedure like arid trot DRYRUN
Thin ball of liquid enclosing air or gas BUBBLE
Took possession of, or joined to something larger ANNEXED
Virgin Mary - or American showbiz queen MADONNA
What mega means MILLION