Number 42
IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. Lounged about in small Donegal town in the Rosses with a rocky coast
strewn with caves. (7)
4. Crag Len turned over in Kerry centre for angling, shooting, and climbing
in Macgillycuddy's Reeks. (7)
9. Pray in Latin before the hill I ring at last for the sacred musical.
(8)
10. Is nose put out of joint by these discordancies? (6)
11. Good public behaviour as seen in Laracor deregulation. (5)
13. "He walked willingly to his death in a blizzard to try to save
his comrades, ----- by hardships." Epitaph on Antarctic cairn for Captain
Oates of the Inniskilling Dragoons. (5)
14. It's only a lake in Homer epic. (3)
16. Miner a Birr man. (anag.) Clare schoolmaster who wrote the poem "The
Midnight Court". (5, 8)
19. Trees of the sort that James Joyce asked to "tell me night, night!"
in Finnegan's wake. (4)
20. Pleasant pastime in Ballydehob byways. (5)
22. Seemingly, Kay puts her tongue on outer cover of bud. (5)
25. Red ale spilled over the one in front. (6)
26. Nothing after the musical entertainment but a classical composition
in three movements. (8)
27. Not poor out in quiet Donegal village adjacent to Narin in Gweebarra
Bay. (7)
28. Lord can be reformed in small Meath village, once a very famous seat
of learning set up by St. Finian. (7)
DOWN
1. Red room refurbished in Down town on the Lagan, with a High Cross,
and a Norman earthwork. (7)
2. Form a crowd in Lough Derg at her request. (6)
3. Sour disposition belonging to us. (4)
5. Crumpled rose offered to the god of love. (4)
6. Clears tab to rewrite in Mayo where Humbert's forces routed the English
under General Lake in 1798. (9)
7. Or races about in thriving Tipperary town with a monastery founded by
St. Cronan in 650. (7)
8. Rations become redistributed in Louth holy place with two churches and
three famous crosses. (13)
12. Kind of plough that James Connolly used. (5)
13. Ban has lifted in village under the Slievenamuck hills; it's not a long
way to Tipperary! (6)
15. I roam hard around in Leitrim village on the Bonet seat of the O'Rourkes
of Breffni. (9)
17. Pixie'll get unruly in Kildare, in the Liffey valley, with a castle
and a famous salmon leap. (7)
18. Fox drew up in Leinster seaport on the Slaney known to have existed
since the 2nd century. (7)
21. Raven flutters about after a sound tea, but this place is better known
for ale. (6)
23. A new treatment to get off the milk diet. (4)
24. Nail up the chemical dye in Dungarvan illusion. (4)
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