Irish Times (Simplex) - May 17 2013

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Adherent who helps to spread a doctrine DISCIPLE
Assignations, romantic meetings TRYSTS
Awkwardness, clumsiness INEPTNESS
Ballads originating among the people FOLKSONGS
Controlling straps REINS
Deducts, takes off SUBTRACTS
Disable a horse with drugs NOBBLE
Distance north or south of the equator LATITUDE
Earlier, occasion say PREVIOUS
Edgar Allan ..., American writer POE
Existing in fact ACTUAL
Fantasy genre based in the future SCIFI
Financially ruined BANKRUPT
Flat floats RAFTS
Flexible willow twigs OSIERS
Ghostly apparitions SPECTRES
Group of items of the same kind SET
Having had something precious taken away BEREFT
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Here today and gone tomorrow TRANSIENT
In preference RATHER
Lacking in common sense STUPID
Large fish-eating bird OSPREY
Most recent LATEST
Nazi dictator HITLER
Not at home OUT
One takes pleasure in inflicting pain SADIST
Projection for a rope on a boat CLEAT
Rejected outright and bluntly REBUFFED
Sandy area by water BEACH
Ships of the desert CAMELS
Shrill sounds made through pursed lips WHISTLES
Song of praise PAEAN
The same in quantity, status etc EQUAL
Tool for smoothing wood PLANE
Twenty-first letter of the Greek alphabet PHI
With natural aptitude or skill TALENTED