Irish Times (Simplex) - Jan 24 2004

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A facial twitch TIC
A French cake GATEAU
A member of a wandering tribe NOMAD
A poem in praise ODE
A quantity or total of anything AMOUNT
A shipwrecked person like Crusoe CASTAWAY
Accumulate, heap up AMASS
Ask about trauma in Sanskrit sex treatise KAMASUTRA
Be festive, enjoy REVEL
Beat hard and often with cooking mix BATTER
Bizet's Spanish opera CARMEN
Enthusiastic, avid EAGER
Fashions or manners STYLES
Golly, opt to be one who knows several languages POLYGLOT
Grasp it firmly and it will not sting NETTLE
Hail Mary - in Latin AVEMARIA
Having sexual or lustful thoughts PRURIENT
In your eye, it's a toast MUD
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Individually self-contained in discreet way DISCRETE
Initially and formally, a Flying Saucer UFO
Jumped about on one foot HOPPED
Major heart artery AORTA
Not having removed incipient beard UNSHAVEN
Of standard shape or size READYMADE
Old play in emotional and sensational style MELODRAMA
Open ...... is magic phrase for opening door in pantomime SESAME
Open sores on the body ULCERS
Sacred Egyptian beetle SCARAB
Scanner I used to find nooks CRANNIES
Stories or wools YARNS
Sudden attack made into a country INROAD
The icing .. ... .... is the nice part ONTHECAKE
Thick pieces as of pineapple CHUNKS
Up in the air ALOFT
Uses same sort of woman who kneads muscles to lessen stiffness MASSEUSE
Wakeful, observant ALERT