IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. Pounce, pray try it. (anag.) Largest inland of the thirty two, with the
Golden Vale through its middle. (6,9)
8. Kitchen sideboard will clothe you. (7)
10. Bring car around, Al, to go to Offaly town, near Boher, where the Shrine
of St. Manchan is preserved. (5)
12. Public relations officer is not amateur, in short. (3)
13. "You have --- too long here. Depart and let us have done with you.
In the name of God, go!" Cromwell. (3)
14. Pitch article on Meath's royal hill. (4)
15. 'Tis P.C. to shake up the ancient north Britons. (5)
16. "No glass of ours was ever raised to toast the -----" -Seamus
Heaney. (5)
18. "Great steamers white and gold, Go rolling down to ---." Rudyard
Kipling. (3)
19. Northern Irish part-time military that was referred in bureau draft.
(1.1.1.)
21. Flag, I'm alone. (anag.) Natural amphitheatre 5 miles by 3 miles in
County Wicklow, where the Slaney winds through. (4,2,5)
22. This time coming back through Lixnaw on Friday. (3)
23. Fling high by leaving lobby. (3)
24. "Praise to the Holiest in the height, and in the ----- be praise."
Cardinal Newman. (5)
26. Scandinavian root? (5)
28. Ancient Irish ring fort seen in Beltra Thursday. (4)
29. Load of money to stuff with? (3)
31. Deer eggs? (3)
32. Wear in hero design. (5)
34. Under mud out east and stirred for pretty Tipperary village near Killenure
Castle. (7)
35. Baby teeth eat her. (anag.) Dublin playhouse opened in 1904 made famous
by the dramas of Synge, O'Casey, and Yeats. (3,5,7)
DOWN
1. No cap quip. (anag.) Quiet Waterford village near Mount Melleray Abbey
under the Knockmealdowns. (9)
2. "A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death
had ----- so many." T.S. Eliot (6)
3. Return to make contact with swarm. (4)
4. Ring patrol not confused with busy Laois town with the first turf-fired
power station in Ireland. (13)
5. And so on in Clontibret castle. (3)
6. A Saul can wander through Kerry village on coast road from Inch, where
Thomas Crean, of South Pole fame, lived . ( 8)
7. Stay around the east to find this Irish poet with strong Sligo connections.
(5)
9. No sharing beds. (anag.) Single street Offaly village north of Banagher.
(13)
11. "Not die here in a rage like a poisoned --- in a hole." Swift.
(3)
15. Do plan up to find where the zloty circulates. (6)
17. Require the French to irritate. (6)
20. Kale heart dismantled in Limerick market town on the River Deel, famous
for brown trout. (9)
21. Wore edge of Donegal resort near Dunlewy. (8)
25. Licence for pet seen around broken rim. (6)
26. "Though honey is ----- do not lick it off a briar." Irish
Proverb. (5)
27. "Your friend the British soldier can stand up to anything, except
the British --- Office." G.B. Shaw (3)
30. "Englishmen never will be slaves; they are ---- to do whatever
the Government and public opinion allows them to." G.B. Shaw (4)
33. Be return, second class to go back out, in the main. (3)
