Irish Times (Crosaire) - Apr 16 2008

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23 down comes to a half a century all told TOTAL
A tiny start for 31 across TOT
Admits that one may permit it to be all wrong LETSIN
Bow at the back of Japan OBI
Charged to change Number One, in short ION
Do you gets the sound of wails, not barks, from one like this? (5) CORGI
Earlier vintages do not come from grapes ELDERWINE
Expect to be the living spit of this, in a manner of speaking ORATE
Fate might give Des a tiny bit of this LITTLE
Frees this, by the sound of it TURNTOICE
It turns round in a vulgar setting that may be riotous COMMOTION
Less light had been in there SHADE
Let's like them in sound LEASES
Many girls want the authority that such appointments give MANDATES
Not Man Y in such a sparse sort of way ONLYAFEW
O, O! They may get fired ROUNDS
One hundred, one 9, one 16 across CANINE
Perhaps deader than your man the Da PATER
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See it rouse in the river EXCITE
Shell gives a speed to a car CARAPACE
Stop at the crooked side of the little street DESIST
Strain is needed to get the head off and leave the hair STRESS
Such rant gives leave for fighting talk WAR
That's enough to make a ruffian sound as if he may throw up RETCH
That's Theodore, notwithstanding not being practical THEORISES
The fool was sick with an attack of something or other ASSAILED
The saint speaks, but only with difficulty STUTTTERS
There's a cast of them ACTORS
They give C over as one SHELTERS
They may be not ions, but not 27 across, either IDEAS
They're happy to be so long in the ship SMILES
They're still being enacted and still erected around tea STATUTES
This might make us sound soft in a sense of hanging SUSPENSE
To work with 23 down is enough to make one footless ADDER
What's the news of the French international? LATEST
You get a sprinkle from a fly fisherman CASTER