IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. Fair fright hurt badly for Dublin journalist who founded the Sinn Féin
party in 1905. (6,8)
7. It may please Sligo to include the rental agreements. (6)
9. Mild rush over to Longford village near Ballinamuck where General Humbert
was defeated in 1798. (8)
10. "At Swim --- Birds." Flann O'Brien (3)
11. Prays about the floral decoration. (5)
13. Protective covering seen in Lusk indubitably. (4)
14. He met about the subject of the speech. (5)
15. Leave out in Macroom itinerary. (4)
16. Cop this yourself and be aware of how bad you are! (4)
17. Help to handle Dan roughly. (4,1,4)
18. "All agog at the plasterer on his ladder Skimming our gable and
writing our ---there." Seamus Heaney (4)
19. "I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong than ----bell and
foil." Yeats. (4)
20. Prices in Beltra testify to good value. (5)
21. "That is no country for old men. The young in one another's ----,
birds in the trees. " Yeats (4)
23. "Some say the ----- is dead and buried in Killarney" Irish
ballad, anon.. (5)
25. It is raining in Stowe today. (3)
27. Note grin when confused, that's gas! (8)
28. Buries in Rosses Point erstwhile. (6)
30. Threats not yet made over Limerick City memorial to a violated agreement.
(3,6,5)
DOWN
2. "Before the Roman came to ---, or out to Severn strode." Chesterton.
(3)
3. "Swift has sailed into his ----: Savage indignation there Cannot
lacerate his breast." Yeats (4)
4. " ---- is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat."
Austin Dobson. (4)
5. Use fraud to win the round of cards? (5)
6. Son shall bend when moved to hear these in Cork City from St. Anne's.
(7,5)
7. Dan, Ron's viola is broken in Clare spa town with a famous festival,
near the Burren. (12)
8. Rattles badly to make one jump with fright. (7)
9. Gael not down, but up in Ulster home of the Four Masters Memorial, on
the River Eske. (7,4)
12. Say, led out for long waits. (6)
14. Rest on confusion of those of note. (6)
16. Mend dot, strangely enough, to produce a piece of bric - a- brac. (7)
22. Strikingly, some people singularly go to festival in 7 down to make
one. (5)
24. "We could have saved sixpence. We have saved fivepence. But at
what ---?" Beckett. (4)
26. Very small description seen in Gortin yesterday. (4)
29. Managed, but was in a hurry to get away? (3)
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