IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. Mount tile, I cry (anag.) Area of Connacht extending 50 miles from
Co. Longford to Donegal Bay. (6,7)
8. Ancient city for example back on impulse. (4)
9. Hi, leave Michael revising and get the hump! (5)
11. AE has second thoughts inside the church recess. (4)
12. "Better a short --- than a long standing." Irish Proverb.
(3)
13. Members of the family are involved in the Letterfrack incident. (3)
15. He makes an application when Queen Elizabeth follows us. (4)
17. Southern League leaders take in gold in Down site of St. Patrick's landing
in 432 at the barn of Dichu. (4)
18. Food, soft that is. (3)
20. Learner with a shout of pain down under. (3)
21. Still, a bang's unsettling in small pleasant Wicklow town where Dermot
Mac Murrough is buried. (11)
22. Appellative title used in today's Ireland. (3)
23. Metal tip of the lace has silver at the very end. (3)
24. It's heavenly in glorious Tarbert. (4)
26. Almost coming back through Meath gingerly. (4)
27. "What would a young cat do but --- mice?" Irish Proverb. (3)
28. What all good things must come to in Ballaghaderreen direction. (3)
30. "History, Stephen ----, is a nightmare from which I am trying to
awake." Joyce. (4)
31. So, it's my turn to give out the cards, that's perfect! (5)
32. "Man wants but little ---- below, Nor wants that little long."
Goldsmith. (4)
33. Patch Ron's nose up in Kerry on the scenic road between Dingle and Tralee.
(3,6,4)
2. Groans about vital bits to make music in church? (6)
3. "And passing rich with forty pounds a ----." Goldsmith. (4)
4. Smooth poetic nightfall. (4)
5. Piles rim up and puts into danger. (7)
6. Oh, uses rock sum. (anag.) Kerry manor near the Lower Lake of Killarney
now a heritage centre. (8,5)
7. Tunnel brow wet. (anag.) Fermanagh village where Jacobite forces suffered
a huge defeat in 1689. (13)
10. Hail nun, mole. (anag.) Tipperary village where poet and Young Irelander
Charles Kickham lived. (11)
14. Throw gin around at the Irish game. (7)
16. Nat set a puzzle for Cuchulain as a boy before he fought the dog. (7)
18. "He that diggeth a --- shall fall into it." Ecclesiastes Chap.
10 verse 8. (3)
19. For example, note the breakfast food. (3)
21. Menacingly wave around the grain husk plate? (8)
25. Dáil holiday spent in hole in the wall?(6)
28. First garden seen in much visited Enniscorthy. (4)
29. Father takes nothing for decorating the wall with a rail. (4)
