IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. Or find chiller. (anag.) Stepchildren of Aoife whom she turned into Swans
on Lough Derravaragh. (8,2,3)
8. Protection found in popular Mourne location. (6)
9. Pout face up until refreshment appears. (3,2,3)
10. Fry air? No, but reduce its pressure. (6)
12. Get up on hind legs about per can order. (6)
13. Impulses scrambled the last of the Carrickfergus letters. (5)
14. Then avoid by cute diversion around engineering work carrying the Dublin
- Belfast rail line over Drogheda. (3,5,7)
19. Tree falls over after a century on Mediterranean island. (5)
20. Threw in at the Gaelic game? (6)
21. Make a quick grab for ants all over the small church. (6)
22. Stretch little Leonard starts, then finishes after note. (8)
23. Salty pool covered up back in Portnoo gallery. (6)
24. Sweet stew clan. (anag.) Limerick market town with a Knights Templars
castle built in 1184. (9,4)
DOWN
2. Oh, lure me in disorder for Bill first proposed and lost by Gladstone
in 1885 and passed in 1912. (4,4)
3. "Hail fellow, well met. All ----- and wet: Find out, if you can,
Who's master, who's man." Swift. (5) 4. Storeys one knocks to the ground.
(6)
5. Recite with a singing voice to nine others in Rosses Point one time.
(6)
6. Hour train call. (anag.) Kerry mountain popularly ascended through the
Hag's Glen and up the Devil's Ladder to the peak at 3,314 feet. (13)
7. Jests shame pen. (anag.) Irish writer and poet (1880-1950) who wrote
'The Crock of Gold' . (5,8)
9. Owners latch up in neat Mayo village on the Sligo border. (11)
11. You must see the faithful dog in Glengarriff, I do insist. (4)
12. Ripe conversion of fairy on Greek roundabout. (4)
15. Squirrel's home back in the American garden in pretty Ardmore. (4)
16. Last word in mean fashion. (4)
17. Greasy sun out over U.C. (8)
18. E.g. rang up Sligo village underneath Ben Bulben on the Bundoran road
opposite Inishmurray Island. (6)
19. "This goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from
the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of ------ antiquity." Baron
Keynes - (describing Lloyd George) (6)
21. Soothe in the meandering vales. (5)
