Irish Times (Simplex) - Jul 13 1999

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Clues Answers
'For want of a nail the .... was lost' SHOE
'Many are called, but ... are chosen' FEW
A baby's biscuit RUSK
A posh tropical pear AVOCADO
A set of players TEAM
A small branch - cop on? TWIG
An outcast of society PARIAH
Boring-piece of drill BIT
Captain Bligh's mutinous ship BOUNTY
Circle of flowers in honour of dead WREATH
Compile for verbal attack POLEMIC
Diverging from the norm or from truth DEVIANT
Duty list for sorter ROSTER
Exact place of something LOCUS
False or assumed name ALIAS
First of the series at 17 Across DOH
First patriarch and ancestor of the Hebrews ABRAHAM
Genial, cordial AFFABLE
Ghost, spectral apparition WRAITH
Greedily eager AVID
It comes between fah and lah SOH
Clues Answers
Its capital is Kathmandu NEPAL
Line of descent, ancestry LINEAGE
Muslim practice of keeping women from sight of men PURDAH
Native or scholar of Oxford OXONIAN
Obstruct, hinder IMPEDE
Of food, sprinkled with alcohol and set alight FLAMBE
Patron saint of Scotland ANDREW
Platform for orchestra conductor ROSTRUM
Poland's capital WARSAW
Portent, harbinger OMEN
Rhine rock famed for siren LORELEI
Ring of fur around neck of bird or animal RUFF
Roll around as in mud WALLOW
Seamus ......, Nobelwinning poet HEANEY
Shored up in Greek island RHODES
The a of a.m. ANTE
The sound of steps - of little feet? PATTER
The white of an egg ALBUMEN
Vast level Arctic region with frozen subsoil TUNDRA
Waist bands BELTS
Washed out with clean water RINSED