IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. Hug Leo, hang about, in Antrim lake, the largest at 17 miles by 11 miles,
in Ireland and Britain. (5,5)
6. Find us in small church in important Limerick archaeological site near
Kilfinane. (4)
9. S.E. men travel to beautiful Kerry estuary village near Parknasilla.
(5)
11. "The ---man Cometh" Eugene O'Neill. (3)
13. "A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is -is
a ----- of which you can have no conception." G.B. Shaw (5)
14. Seemingly a young salmon is put on an equal footing. (3)
15. How silly to have a nine handicap! (5)
18. Find one's inner self, in Bunbeg outdoors. (3)
19. It was not Sam rattled by the Viking. (6)
21. "Cast your ---- on other days That we in coming days may be still
the indomitable Irishry." Yeats (4)
22. Piece straight from the horse's mouth? (3)
24. Laugh Rommel. (anag.) Sligo village in Donegal Bay where the Mountbatten
home, Classybawn, is. (11)
26. "The second best's a --- goodnight and quickly turn away."
Yeats (3)
27. Recite theatrically in Bundoran town. (4)
28. " It (Russia) is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an ------"
Winston Churchill (6)
30. The First Lady came the night before. (3)
31. "The Riddle of the -----" Erskine Childers. (5)
34. "I hate what every poet hates in spite of --- the solemn talk of
contemplation." Patrick Kavanagh. (3)
36. Irish version of 30, wife of Lir, who turned her step-children into
swans. (5)
37. "They answered as they took their ---s, there is no cure for this
disease." Belloc (3)
38. " ----- to you my darling, Ten thousand times -----" Ballad
of the Holy Ground. (5)
39. Not up in Ulster where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea.
(4)
40. Perch Frank up in Roscommon village where the first president of Ireland,
Douglas Hyde was born. (10)
DOWN
1. Thpeak tho, in Wallis Park? (4)
2. One who makes application in Fairyhouse racecourse. (4)
3. He takes a thousand to be sewn up at the edge. (3)
4. Ireland is confused when lad leaves Ireland of the Poets. (4)
5. Follow this valley with eagles to famous Killarney hotel. (4)
7. I tuned up for "We're on the one road, all on the one road"!
(6)
8. Half to rail about Meath's Royal Acropolis, the ancient capital of Ireland.
(4,2,4)
10. Return article as written to principal Kildare town once the seat of
the Kings of Leinster. (4)
16. Clare grain I grind up in Cork pottery town near the Owenboy River.
(11)
15. Vocation of what the pipes are doing for Danny from 5 down to 5 down!
(7)
17. Sid's won badly and gives up title. (7)
19. Rare dog hut dismantled in Galway angling village on Lough Corrib near
Inchagoill Island. (10)
20. Piper's son seen in Belfast omnibus. (3)
22. Second rate Attorney General spells out the flexible receptacle. (3)
23. Your ancient way of speaking seen when Kildare's largest town fails
to make a start. (3)
25. "You never had a tame --- from a wild goose." Irish Proverb.
(3)
27. Vi, we're coming over to give notice. (6)
29. "A road, a ---- of kingdom, I am king of the banks and stones and
every blooming thing." Patrick Kavanagh (4)
32. A return of British fliers to a great distance. (4)
33. Clergyman referred to in Glenade anecdote. (4)
34. Help a Verdi opera production. (4)
35. Sulk about leaving Dublin village with a round tower near Rush, with
safe family bathing. (4)
38. The Irish hurl wood. (3)
