IRELAND IN CROSSWORDS ©
ACROSS
1. Rib about right to go to Offaly town with a famous observatory where
the existence of other galaxies was first discovered. (4)
3. I call on sad blend in old Tyrone mining town connected by canal with
Newry and Belfast. (9)
9. Cook with fat outside circulated air in monks' abode. (6)
11. "Don't be breaking your --- on a stool that's not in your way."
Irish Proverb. (4)
12. Boat in which German eight follow the penultimate. (5)
14. Take part in competition in Inishowen territory. (5)
15. "But where's the wild --- that has praised its fleas?" Yeats.
(3)
16. Old copper back, how poetically gloomy! (5)
17. "A young ------, golden haired, Stands dreaming on the verge of
strife" Frances Cornford. (6)
18. Daughter of the King of Leinster, and Mrs. Strongbow, returns the greeting.
(3)
20. A gullible fool, and how he drinks! (3)
22. Art nut has gone A.W.O.L. (6)
24. Create this for a row, but only in play? (5)
25. Possesses short laughs? (3)
26. Dryly consolidates the sweet loaves. and gets the sack around the fifth
(5)
27. Tenth month, and French, all eight of them. (5)
29. Standard adhered to in Liscannor mostly. (4)
30. Star in turmoil as a result of stress. (6)
31. Crowd aisle in crush to see Irish writer (1854-1900) who had only his
genius to declare. (5,5)
32. Negative reference to Kilkenny flower! (4)
DOWN
1. Sound of donkey heard in Wicklow seaside resort. (4)
2. Or cares about Tipperary town under the Slieve Bloom mountains noted
for antiquities. (7)
4. Till never up O.K. (anag.) Blessed, and has a shrine at Ballybarrack,
near Dundalk. (6,7)
5. Clinging to this league for Yale and Havard. (3)
6. Go ahead up Kerry hill overlooking Killarney, and having a round tower,
church and castle. (7)
7. Age had done damage to popular Down resort near the entrance to Belfast
Lough. (10)
8. " ----- the first death, there is no other." Dylan Thomas.
(5)
10. This land rails about the offshore spot in Antrim where Robert Bruce
met the spider in the cave. (7,6)
13. One hundred space for Limerick salmon angling village noted for the
Maigue poets. (5)
16. Dan's hob rum is spilled in Leitrim village on the Roscommon border.
(10)
19. "An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a -----"
Yeats. (5)
21. Cats rig up description of stomach. (7)
23. E.g. to tip over in border Donegal gateway to Lough Derg of pilgrimage
fame. (7)
24. "Too long a sacrifice Can make a ----- of the heart" Yeats.
(5)
28. Note about United Irishman, born 1763, and recognised as the first Irish
Republican. (4)
30. "Ireland is the old --- that eats her farrow." James Joyce
(3)
