Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 15 2009

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Absolute, in a manner of speaking UTTER
At the cat back there His Majesty is offensive ATTACKING
By the sound of it, out of the river at the end EXTREME
Declare that the fool was always eating ASSEVERATE
Downs one's salts to get a move on EPSOM
Gee! How entertaining and spirited one is GHOST
George encountered Richard, figuratively GEOMETRIC
He was the one that started to get th ship wrecked FOUNDER
Herb, likewise SAGE
Leonard is one that you can see through larger than life LENS
Let the ox be in praise of this EXTOL
Long to cause trouble in the Garden SERPENT
M. is thus so hairy as not to be a wife TRESS
Mail goes to them with clothing in a seed ADDRESSEES
Might sell this by old-fashioned measure ELLS
One is all there OCCUPANT
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One may be positive that this is the first of the insects ADAMANT
Or well-watcher to a relative extent, largely BIGBROTHER
Pen near to the end (7) ENCLOSE
Seems a little tea is enough to spoil this in bad taste TAINT
Sounds as if, being pickled, one did be 11 across ASSAULTED
Starting to be overweight can lead to tiredness FATIGUE
Stick in the back and mad from the back STAB
Tee up about a saint on one's shoulder EPAULET
That'll make the limb legally behind time LEGISLATE
The man for her might be an early one COUNTESS
Though in prison together it sounds as if you'd shop him to the police CELLMATE
Thus kept a part as one SEGREGATED
Very like the start of 8 down ENORMOUS
What is in the girl that makes her so stringy? SISAL
With the Times 'e may rub one out ERASE
Worked up to having left about a hundred EXCITED