Irish Times (Simplex) - Sep 13 2004

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Clues Answers
A good beginning using one's loaf HEADSTART
A hearty goodbye CHEERIO
A high stiff collar or tight-fitting necklace CHOKER
A noisy undisciplined crowd RABBLE
A simple song BALLAD
A Tibetan Buddhist priest LAMA
A time of great prosperity - 24 carats? GOLDENAGE
Animal found in Philippines MANILA
Arrange, put into proper position ADJUST
Be too clever for in vulpine manner OUTFOX
Beginner, or opening course of meal STARTER
Berated with roof tiles? SLATED
Biblical judge who asked, what is truth? PILATE
Buy tiara for this poem of Omar Khayyam RUBAIYAT
CIA bar on this Middle East language ARABIC
Easily achieved but of little value FACILE
Gold-coloured alloy used in decorating furniture ORMOLU
Grapes grow on it VINE
Clues Answers
Grass-like plant growing in marshes SEDGE
Having good manners, socially correct POLITE
In glaring colours, shockingly vivid LURID
In level way or manner EVENLY
Inner layer of skin DERMIS
Lack confidence in honesty or ability DISTRUST
Made public, spread the news - loudly? NOISED
Make superstitious contact to avert bad luck TOUCHWOOD
Of flowers, lost freshness and drooped WILTED
Of solid worth, like British money STERLING
People who don't have extreme views, say about politics MODERATES
Protective glasses as for welders GOGGLES
Shakespeare's Moor of Venice OTHELLO
State firmly in rave AVER
sting, being clever SMART
The women of a Muslim household, or their quarters HAREM
Thugs and criminals HOODLUMS
William . . . . was a legendary Swiss archer TELL