Irish Times (Crosaire) - May 17 2010

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'Begin to shoot the ingrate? (4,4)' OPENFIRE
'By perseverance, at last get you on the phone (8)' ENDURING
'First of the month, see? That's bad (6)' SEPTIC
'Hullo, you silly, backward washer! (6)' LOOFAH
'Lacking in sense, lacking in humour (7)' WITLESS
'Not accustomed, perhaps, to find us in the nude (6)' UNUSED
'Not right to have 12 in here to boot (4,4)' LEFTFOOT
'Perhaps stop and do wrong if it's 12 across (2,4)' NOGOOD
'Pets, perhaps, go into reverse (4,4)' STEPBACK
'So surge on to have had patience, by the sound of it, here (8)' OPERATED
'They get assaulted, fin an' all, by the sound of it (8)' HADDOCKS
14 downs have put their little foot in it EFTS
An addition to the wing for cover AWNING
Came across one of them up there with the whole lot of it ITEM
Execute this in a set pan SKILLET
For the most part it's sound LOUDEST
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Get the engaged signal to do this AFFIANCE
Given food about always with a high temperature FEVERED
In the water for fresh tea NEWT
Is not conscious of what is not inside FAINTS
It starts to happen at last EVENTUAL
Just what I am not to the one from offshore ISLANDER
One rides ashore on board SURFER
One's born about it from across the sea BRITON
Pass this go and go on to a certain degree LITTLE
Piqued at having had a piece removed on board HUFFED
So rude as to have made one bitter SOURED
Sounds one set fire to one on the way in in a lawful manner LITIGATE
Swings the lead once more and makes rings around it RESOUNDS
Tried hard to wander to the bottom of the street STROVE
Very one with sprite's morning inside SELFSAME
With equipment 'e might fly this KITE