Number 25
IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©

ACROSS

1. Chain lad's ill. (anag.) In Mayo where the three mountains Slievemore, Croaghaun and Minaun rise. (6,6)
10. Hard water found in Celtic environment? (3)
11. Love I disturbed with oily drupe. (5)
12. U-boat makes a turn all around. (5)
14. Tap up the Irishman! (3)
15. I'm in old pound for an arm and a leg. (4)
16. Faeroes lose safe components of fish eggs. (3)
19. Lead tide out in a fully itemised way. (8)
21. Grand one seen twice in opera with tiny frozen hands. (4)
22. Drawn last on order in Antrim linen bleaching town on the River Main. (11)
24. Has possession of in Draperstown street. (4)
25. See back after to assign whistle-blowers. (8)
27. Regal symbol seen in Corballymore environs. (3)
28. "For nothing can be ---- or whole That has not been rent." Yeats (4)
29. Mine returns to dump. (3)
32. "Too long a sacrifice can make a ----- of the heart." Yeats. (5)
33. Rental agreement in Feakle as effective. (5)
34. By leaving oval-balled game to cover the floor. (3)
35. Gentry that ran. (anag.) Leader of Protestant Patriot Party forming a Dublin parliament in 1782. (5,7)

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2. Do nice revision, having made money. (6)
3. Dice thrown, having finished off the cake. (4)
4. Plea about attractive West Cork village. (4)
5. Post up in this place. (4)
6. Put cat out, do it! (3)
7. Sharing result of how often one number contains another in a number of regiments. (8)
8. Gee, I'd cry babble. (anag.) Kildare home of Dean Jonathan Swift's 'Vanessa', (Esther Vanhomrigh). (9,5)
9. Robin is so sorry about Laois site of a Fitzpatrick Castle 5 miles west of Aghaboe. (6-2-6)
13. Final fill by upheaval in secluded Donegal resort near Pollan Strand. (11)
17. Snakes and these for the game. (7)
18. I do rest in contorted manner seeing the blue pencillers. (7)
20. King of Leinster's daughter, wife of the Earl of Pembroke, seen in Newgrange valediction. (3)
22. Hang Earl up in south Dublin area. (8)
23. "Of the --- six I sing.... and whatever you say, you say nothing." Seamus Heaney (3)
26. Sat on a confusion about composition for instrument. (6)
29. O try to assemble Donegal island 9 miles offshore with many antiquities. (4)
30. Take a glance at an equal. (4)
31. Southern auctioneer's item, that's where the money went. (4)
32. Around this once a year at 64,000 mph. (3)

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