Irish Times (Simplex) - May 25 2006

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A French word for Tom MOT
A loud uninhibited laugh GUFFAW
A plush-like fabric often on furniture VELOUR
A very strict vegetarian VEGAN
Acquired and digested knowledge LEARNED
Act performed in sorrow for sin PENANCE
Ask to be excused - really plead BEGOFF
Biblical river or Middle East country JORDAN
Burn to the ground RAZE
Cartoon sound of a pig OINK
Catch as if in a trap or net ENSNARE
Colourful flower, if such a mix is possible FUCHSIA
Cosmetics for the face MAKEUP
Dry stuff to help start fire TINDER
Evades by movement DODGES
Foam created by waves SURF
Girl's name, and book of the Old Testament RUTH
In slang, an emotional inhibition - suspend it HANGUP
It's certainly not fiction FACT
Just one, or unmarried SINGLE
Keepers of nets - so agile GOALIES
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Lures or attracts TEMPTS
Make small restless or uneasy movements FIDGET
Of mental state veering from depression to excitement MANIC
Of ruddy complexion FLORID
Of the day, not the night DIURNAL
Polite form of address to man SIR
Protest mildly, object DEMUR
Pull along behind, say barge TOW
Raised high, glorified EXALTED
Sacked or terminated - with hatchet? AXED
Sharp smell of gnat TANG
Sits for painter POSES
Small tablet or sweet to be dissolved in the mouth LOZENGE
Social blunders GAFFES
Soon, presently ANON
This action is an automatic response to stimulus REFLEX
This crash is full frontal HEADON
To do with the spring season VERNAL
Took possession of, or joined to larger thing ANNEXED
Very black black or fast plane JET
What mega means MILLION