Irish Times (Simplex) - Aug 21 2001

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''Red Sky .. ....., shepards delight'' ATNIGHT
A large strong box of valuables COFFER
Australian island state TASMANIA
Be caught thus to be caught unprepared ONTHEHOP
Discredit as with reputation SMIRCH
Down-payment for Eritrean RETAINER
Great houses of France CHATEAUX
Having limit, not open-ended FINITE
High-ranking member of clergy, say bishop PRELATE
Horizontal floor in ship DECK
Informally, a lot of talk, maybe a reprimand EARFUL
Initials notation meaning with all possible speed ASAP
Jeers in soldiers' quarters BARRACKS
Largest state of the USA ALASKA
Made representation of like cartographer MAPPED
Manage, make do COPE
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Mend ways, go straight REFORM
Monastery for Tibetan monks LAMASERY
Of wordly affairs, not spiritual TEMPORAL
Oriental tobacco pipe that cools the smoke HOOKAH
Painted curtain at rear of stage BACKDROP
Poems in praise of does ODES
Represent or put up with STANDFOR
Sherlock ......, sleuth HOLMES
Slaughterhouse for animals ABATTOIR
Smelling like stale fat RANCID
Smells, redolences ODOURS
Sounds of a bell CHIMES
The head-in-the-sand bird OSTRICH
Tolerate patiently BEARWITH
Traditional Scottish musical instrument BAGPIPE
Unseemly, indelicate IMPROPER