Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 4 2019

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Aggressor loses rag with monstrous female	OGRESS
American loses the head with a trim swimmer from European capital	ANKARA
Arrives subsequently following summer in Boston when Adam and Eve had left the garden	AFTERTHEFALL
Atheist loses it in Rush	HASTE
Bluffs a fair amount of the organisation? In that case political party does a U-turn!	CLIFFS
Crafty types managing criminal wasters around Dublin	STEWARDS
Creatives don't get visa for Mediterranean island	CRETE
Doped up on wrong amount in part of the Himalayas	HIGHMOUNTAIN
Egyptian flower coming up in the French Loire	NILERIVER
Exit terms produced by one of those radical types	EXTREMIST
Half of what's wrong in The Press is primarily like something out of the dark ages!	MEDIEVAL
Left organisation retiring, for example, in spring	LUNGE
Lift is in the middle of elevated space for The Hearing	RAISE
Lobby writer heading off from state down under perhaps?	ENTRANCE

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Local government spaces with room for the concert in large villages	TOWNHALLS
Loud music by One Direction for a time is celebrated by the faithful	FEASTDAY
Nero is wildly more intrusive than anyone else	NOSIER
One of the elusive types of character you wouldn't find in Labour	DODGER
Order in residence disregards sin	DECREE
Part of movie on old community following rock 'n' roll is returned to the house	REELECTED
Points to problem for the wine tasters getting the taste out of their mouths	SPITTOON
Queen's blood relations could be held responsible for The Famine	POTATOFAMILY
Status of one of those holding the seats for popular legend	STANDING
Take all the pieces away from journalist giving up on what the editor gave her	DECOMMISSION
Takes off around Cos following one motorway after another	MIMICS
Television unit consumed by musician - the one spitting venom at the snake charmer	PITVIPER
Think deeply about news outlets covering Troy Lawrence	MEDITATE
Writer covering first Grand Prix in untidy American place	PIGPEN

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