IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. Melon clan's joy. (anag.) Scottish leader of the Irish Citizen
Army during the Easter Rising of 1916. (5,8)
10. "Surely mortal --- is a broomstick!" Swift (3)
12. Ed, she is confused, but pays attention. (5)
13. On edge right before 999. (3)
15. Wear this in the kitchen or pan will tip over. (5)
16. Poetic before being included in Clogher edition. (3)
17. Having had an inclination in a Rathkeale antechamber. (5)
18. By all means sway about. (3)
19. Nice P.R. about the heir to the throne. (6)
21. He gets skill to turn to the Kerry rocky islands 9 miles off Valentia
with an old monastic settlement. (3,8)
24. These boxes would be for Plato's mentor if so prefixed. (6)
25. Golfer's shout in secluded Westmeath village near Castlepollard, with
numerous ancient crosses. (4)
26. Second class stream yields a first rate sea fish! (5)
28. "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover
everybody's face but their ---." Swift. (3)
30. Get a tender back in Thurles running. (5)
31. Large ox-antelope appears when gun is broken. (3)
32. Is pan enough to take to the country? (5)
34. Old hated irregular in Ireland got his out in the sun. (3)
35. Seal led saints over to the offshore Wexford bird sanctuary where Bagenal
Harvey was captured. (6,7)
2. Purple quartz found in mast they dismantled. (8)
3. "We are all born ---. Some remain so." Beckett. (3)
4. "Eschew evil and do good: seek peace and ----- it." Psalm 34
verse 13 (5)
5. See you apparently in the matter of the way to treat bacon. (4)
6. "Yet malice never was his aim; He lashed the vice but spared the
----."
Swift (his own epitaph) (4)
7. Guru seen in Kincora clearly. (6)
8. Run lag out of large Armagh linen town near Lough Neagh where George
Russell, (AE), was born. (6)
9. We've lent Beth's version to Connemara's high dozen. (3,6,4)
11. Lad ride in tune about the Republican aspiration for 32 altogether.
(6,7)
14. Wives torn in bits in Fermanagh agricultural centre where Necarne castle
is. (11)
19. Question: did the ropes get tangled back in Killure so perfectly? (5)
20. "Better build schoolrooms for the boy than ----- and gibbets for
the man." Eliza Cook. (5)
22. Lots dance out east about Ireland's nearest neighbour. (8)
23. I.e. lark about in Derry angling centre in the Bann valley. (6)
24. Customer puts in fifty one to an American penny. (6)
27. Pat's a mess when it comes to foreign food. (5)
28. Fierce man-eating giant, therefore Roman retreats from Mayo green environment.
(4)
29. Apparently, colonels give a clue to what General McAuliffe said in reply
to the Germans who demanded his surrender in 1944. (4)
