IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. Loud reference to English city of 'dreaming spires' in Mayo town known
for its woollen industry. (7)
4. Con rang up the ancient Irish lake island fort. (7)
8. After tea apparently, that is to say, secure with cord. (3)
9. Nine at odds with natural consequence. (6)
11. Owned that one was a victim of a trick commonly. (3)
12. Mark took the cars out. (4)
13. Lied about being unemployed. (4)
15. Quantity of land in Clare acreage. (4)
16. Reverberating mountain nymph heard in Ballymote choral production. (4)
17. No chip cooked for the Polish piano man. (6)
19. Get ball Gary, it's over in the small Kilkenny town where Black Thomas
was captured in 1600. (11)
22. There's nothing in the hairdressers' becoming a bar. (6)
23. Ale, we hear, one for the last road? (4)
24. High feature in Glencar church. (4)
27. Put together or back to back to fix firmly in the ground. (4)
29. " ---- bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee."
Yeats. (4)
30. "What charm can soothe her melancholy What --- can wash her guilt
away?" Goldsmith (3)
32. Sound head needed in West Cork village by the River Ilen and Roaring
Water Bay west of Skibbereen. (6)
33. Fun commonly describing a substance that is neither solid nor liquid.
(3)
34. Lamp burner not up much in Leinster county town on slopes of Ballyguile
hill where Captain Halpin of the 'Great Eastern', which layed the transatlantic
cables, was born. (7)
35. Lose way to green in Longford village near Ballymahon where Leo Casey,
the balladeer lived. (7)
1. Fade hair (anag.) Antrim N.E. extremity of Ireland with view of Scotland,
also known as Benmore. (4,4)
2. Open box he smashed led to him hating strangers. (9)
3. Peruse the book we hear, in a rush at the side of the water. (4)
4. American company is initially the third I article indefinitely. (1.1.1.)
5. Revolutionary takes a note from 3 down. (3)
6. Northern Region leaders take in frozen water, that's more agreeable.
(5)
7. Tag ran when laundered in Donegal lake with a modern Celtic Cross where
St. Colmcille was born . (6)
8. Thus force tour around Dublin's centre of justice which was shelled during
the Civil War. (3,4,6)
10. Mine turned over at the extreme end. (3)
14. Six grin about maiden in a Megastore on the quays in Dublin. (6)
17. All can come over to Kilkenny town where O'Carroll and 800 men were
slain in 1408 by the English. (6)
18. Curt rites will suffice as a criticism. (9)
20. Dry liner crumbles in Fermanagh village on the upper Lough Erne near
Trasna Island. (8)
21. Embargo at this time in Wexford old town, the first corporation town
built by the Normans. (6)
25. With a circular base tapering to a point in Kilcormac on ice. (5)
26. Irish third level educational institution seen initially included in
art colleges. (1.1.1.)
28. Nordic city referred to in Portnoo slogan. (4)
30. In time past in Buncrana golfing. (3)
31. " --- towns that we believe and die in; it survives, A way of happening,
a mouth." W.H. Auden - In Memory of W.B. Yeats. (3)
