IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. Mown when tail not straightened out in Armagh village in picturesque
hill country of the Fews. (15)
6. Keep an eye on male for the overnight security worker. (8)
8. Pub disagreement concerning river on which Carlow Town stands. (6)
10. "I will arise and go now, for ------ night and day I hear lake
water ..." W.B. Yeats. (6)
11. Run fast in Southern impression on surface. (6)
12. Holy Vatican look? (3)
13. "If a writer has to --- his mother, he will not hesitate"
William Faulkner. (3)
16. Rearrange later, by wall in Down resort village on the shores of Strangford
Lough. (11)
17 "By a high star our course is set, Our --- is Life. Put out to sea."
Louis MacNeice. (3)
18. "I hear a sudden --- of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare;"
James Stephens. (3)
21. Mop lab up with self confidence. (6)
23. 'Tis up to little Richard to find the old Danish invader of Ireland.
(6)
25. Inclusive legal charge in Rathlin dictation. (6)
26. Di frowns but is out of order in quiet Mayo market town on a tributary
of the River Moy. (8)
27. Lace it, gauge heel. (anag.) Founded by Douglas Hyde in 1893 to restore
the Irish language. (3,6,6)
DOWN
1. Lest we can get excited in famous Down seaside and golf resort at the
foot of Slieve Donard . (9)
2. Powerful unit! (4)
3. W.B. splits atom to discover Australian marsupial. (6)
4. "A man may build himself a ------ of bayonets, but he cannot sit
on it;" Dean Inge. (6)
5. Northern water-jug is not so old. (5)
7. Drawn to news about busy Down linen town on the Belfast to Donaghadee
road. (11)
8. "Where are the ---- of the Old Brigade, Who fought with us side
by side?" Frederick Weatherly. (4)
9. C.I.A. pry into crime, in the main. (6)
12. "The shrill, demented choirs of wailing ------; and bugles calling
for them from sad shires." Wilfred Owen. (6)
13. Crop sounds distorted to one side. (3)
14. "Things that are --- for me do not tempt me." G.B. Shaw. (3)
15. Brag in bed. (anag.) Busy Down linen town on the River Bann. (9)
19. "The ------ of the Sands." Erskine Childers. (6)
20. Irish this whiskey liqueur, seen on a soft day. (4)
21. Accountant returns for a rise on Ireland's largest island, in Mayo.
(6)
22. Did this Irish writer (1667-1745) write Gulliver's Travels quickly?
(5)
24. "The ill-bred son of a livery stable keeper - Luxuriant ----."
W.B. Yeats. (4)
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