Irish Times (Crosaire) - May 8 2009

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A CID could not be so base ALKALI
A leap to the East comes before charity HOPE
A way to trace one of 32 across REACT
Always green always leaves EVER
Ants in the Derby just happen to be there BYSTANDER
Blooming broken plates PETALS
By soft-sounding, silly short cuts BYPASSES
Do not give in what is back among the others RESIST
Does it lower me to have the cleric around? DEMEAN
E's the making of the story of Shelley, perhaps OYSTERS
Give away something like an indication? ASSIGN
Have to have the French if one is one-eyed NEEDLE
His business is to be ruddy crafty up here TRADER
Mount before from behind ETNA
Not enough air with it, I have, while on the run FUGITIVE
Not so, wing does for this REAPS
O, that great gas! OXYGEN
One is fit to make the tale ATHLETE
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One may be positive that that's the father of all the insects ADAMANT
One plays again, perhaps, with the broken crates REACTS
Only plural, in short, has one all on edge NOSING
Perhaps empanelled for damage INJURY
Praised the dead in a dud ADULATED
Providing fast food around the North CANTERING
Rest in the berries, by the sound of it INTERS
Sent South? That's for the birds NESTS
She might have made a first-rate father in opera AIDA
Sounds like the green grease of the one that gave us 13 down (9) VERDIGRIS
Sounds more, 'tis for the dead RIGOR
Such removal takes a certain time ERASURE
The car smash he had put his back up ARCHED
Turns back the southern afflicted as one turns back the foe REPELS
Up with lava, eh? That's most disturbing UPHEAVAL
Was bound to have phoned at last SPRANG
When played, they're tops for bottoms at last TRUMPS
Would one perhaps warm up a measure of drink in southern Africa? HOTTENTOT