Irish Times (Simplex) June 24 2002 crossword clues & answers

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Irish Times (Simplex) Jun 24 2002

Clue	Answer
''. . . . . . . . is the mother of invention''	NECESSITY
''Friday's child is loving . . . . . . . . .'' (3, 6)	ANDGIVING
A day nursery for children	CRECHE
A film is projected onto it	SCREEN
A palindromic joke or muzzle	GAG
A rhyming monologue to rock music	RAP
A substitute or stand-in doctor	LOCUM
Bring about, being skilled in machinery	ENGINEER
Disperses water in small drops	SPRAYS
Exhausted - everybody home?	ALLIN
Fat in the rear	AFT
Go out like tide (3)	EBB
Grips for stuffy people	PRIGS
He's engaged to be married	FIANCE
In the form of a diagram or chart	SCHEMATIC
Incompetent and irresponsible	FECKLESS
Invite, bring about	INCUR
Juicy tropical fruit or slang hand grenade	PINEAPPLE
Large snake of tropical S America	ANACONDA
Medicine to induce vomiting	EMETIC
Not accurate or veracious	UNTRUE
Object worshipped by primitive people or fixation (6)	FETISH
Old fashioned - in France	PASSE
Person or thing that precipitates change	CATALYST
Person who sneers at others, a sceptic	CYNIC
Receptacle for scraps or bits-and-pieces	RAGBAG
Related through male descent on father's side	AGNATE
Relied or hung on	DEPENDED
Sacred river of India	GANGES
Sinks ship or wrecks plans deliberately	SCUPPERS
Temporary relief, like stay on death sentence	REPRIEVE
The First World War was fought in these ditches	TRENCHES
Treated with things that add zest, as to food	SPICED
Unkind word for slow learner	DUNCE
Upper surface of foot	INSTEP
Worn out, having laid out money	SPENT

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