Irish Times (Simplex) - Jul 20 2004

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A barrel as for beer KEG
A female egg-cell OVUM
A harmonious and understanding relationship between people RAPPORT
A loud raucous laugh GUFFAW
A piece of fancy WHIMSY
A representative figure or sacred painting ICON
A self-inflicted injury, from soccer OWNGOAL
Adopts normal posture for prayer KNEELS
Apply oil as sign of consecration ANOINT
Bets or pointed poles STAKES
Breach of the moral law SIN
Cloth for washing face, or just flattery FLANNEL
Come about as consequence ENSUE
Concentrate on as with camera FOCUS
Decay of wood not ventilated DRYROT
Distinctive pattern of a Highlands clan TARTAN
Exclamation on making a mistake OOPS
Frankness, openness CANDOUR
Garden flowers associated with Amsterdam TULIPS
Go faster than as in foot race OUTRUN
Hamlet to Ophelia: 'Get thee to a . . . . . . .' NUNNERY
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Have the courage to do DARE
I soaped up with fatty kind of tissue ADIPOSE
It lies between village and city TOWN
Learned persons SAVANTS
Lies I'm finding in figure of speech SIMILE
Marked by scars or pits POCKED
Monotonous songs, often religious CHANTS
Mother - she's the word for secrecy MUM
Multiple men, in brief - they sound foolish MESSRS
Nice brown induced by sun TAN
Parts of a small fish SPRAT
Prolonged suffering, difficult to endure ORDEAL
Pulps or crushes MASHES
Put an end to, cancel ABOLISH
Puzzles or sieves RIDDLES
Sharpens like pencil PARES
Stain or blemish, perhaps a reputation TARNISH
Structure along the base of a ship KEEL
The possibility of danger - chance it RISK
Three Wise Men of the Gospels MAGI
Work like a . . . . . ., with great energy and endurance - ask Helen TROJAN