ACROSS
1. Kneading up in quiet Westmeath village near the Meath border. (8)
5. Confusing result in one of the four green fields of Ireland. (6)
10. One of amorous disposition in Cashel over there. (5)
11. "Oft in the stilly night, --- Slumber's chain has bound me"
Thomas Moore. (3)
13. Cap in disarray when there's a mad rush. (5)
14. Eat on the return through Ballaghaderreen ideally. (4)
16. Nothing negative in steep Lusk environment. (4)
18. Rag us about sweetener. (5)
19. Nose I tweaked made a din. (5)
22. Far back to start with on the floater. (4)
24. A valve of a C.O. (anag.) Wicklow beauty spot much praised by Thomas
Moore in song of the bright waters. (4,2,5)
26. " ---- denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence
on rascality." Shaw (4)
27. Coder unravelled the appearance of the room. (5)
29. "I am escaped with the skin of my -----" Job Chap.19 Verse
20. (5)
30. Sudden fancy in Mallow himself included. (4)
33. Building used to store crops in the Swanlinbar neighbourhood. (4)
37. Some of the Kildare Pelagians will not cause attraction. (5)
39. Infuse with colour in Limavady every day. (3)
40. Spanish friend is hidden on the way back from the bog, I'm afraid. (5)
41. Irish hunting dog who creates puzzles? (6)
42. Jumbled loss rare in Wexford resort and gateway to Ireland from Wales.
(8)
DOWN
1. Key link includes north initially over in city on the Nore, once the
capital of the kingdom of Ossory. (8)
2. Jack loses out initially in the main body of the church. (4)
3. "They make truth serve as a stalking horse to -----" Henry
St. John. (5)
4. Cut back and enquired in stage Irish! (4)
6. Once around on your knees? (3)
7. Of sound quality in Midleton alcohol. (5)
8. Sees R.C. mingling in Connemara beauty spot with green marble quarries.
(6)
9. Catch up with decimal base. (3)
12. Ferry grin O.K. (anag.) Tour route around the beautiful Iveragh Peninsula.
(4,2,5)
15. This provides a sound reception in the Clonea region. (3)
16. "The famous Northern reticence, the tight gag of -----". Seamus
Heaney (5)
17. "Every man desires to ---- long, but no man would be old."
Swift. (4)
20. Meal's over for the place where witches were very unsafe once. (5)
21. Spirited ending to 26 across. (3)
22. "He that spareth his --- hateth his son." Proverbs Chap. 13
Verse 24. (3)
23. "Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters
in his morning ----." Goldsmith. (4)
25. Ogre Rene troubled in Louth resort at the entrance to Carlingford Lough.
(8)
28. Weapons on the road out of Dublin towards Belfast, where there is a
pentagonal castle. (5)
29. Open barrel put up conditionally. (3)
31. What goes to start the process in Kilorglin putatively. (5)
32. One hundred and fifty over the donkey show style. (5)
34. A religious doctor can put it together. (3)
35. Latin fiddler in Enniscrone romance. (4)
36. Greedy turn up to see the opera star. (4)
38. Rathkeale estate conceals Cork's flower. (3)
