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crossword | ACROSS 1 Glaciated mountain range that straddles parts of Counties Tipperary and Waterford (8) 4 Kamala Harris will be the first _____ Vice President of the US (5) 8 Oldest Irish saloon in NYC (2, 7) 11 Joseph ____ Biden (9) 12 See 3 down (5) 13 See 28 down (8) 15 Male neckwear (4) 18 Molly Bloom has the last word in Ulysses (3) 20 See 42 across (8) 21 Beloved Dingle dolphin who’s been missing since October (6) 22 Expression of pain (2) 25 North Mayo town (7) 26 Slender, lightly built seabird (4) 29 See 16 down (6) 30 _____ Girls: Hit TV show created by Lisa McGee (5) 31 (& 36 across) This American ALS activist, who codeveloped the Ice Bucket Challenge, died in November (3) 34 See 23 down (6) 36 See 31 across (5) 37 See 38 across (6) 38 (& 37 across) Iconic Sligo mountain (3)
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40 Popular crustacean food (6) 41 (& 10 down) _____ Mountain ______: New movie by John Patrick Shanley (4) 42 (& 20 across) Belfast lawyer killed by loyalist paramilitaries in 1989 (3)
DOWN 1 (& 5 down) Irish playwright whose Bob Dylan-inspired musical had its run cut short on Broadway due to COVID-19 (5) 2 Ireland’s longest bridge, which opened to traffic this year, was named after the matriarch of the Fitzgerald Kennedy clan (4) 3 (& 12 across) Ron Howard movie based on the gritty memoir by J.D. Vance (9) 4 Mayo river a firm favourite with fishing enthusiasts (3) 5 See 1 down (2, 7) 6 This Irish river runs through Counties Kildare, Meath and Louth (5) 7 This Anne, a Tipperary-born diplomat, was Ireland’s Ambassador to the US from 2013 to 2017 (8)
9 Item of bedding (5) 10 See 41 across (5) 14 New Saoirse Ronan movie (8) 16 (& 29 across) Ireland’s current Taoiseach or prime minister (7) 17 University in Belfast (6) 19 Untidy or messy person (4) 21 See 35 down (6) 23 (& 33 down, & 34 across) Actor Gabriel Byrne’s memoir (7) 24 A dance group from this Bronxbased Irish centre featured on the iconic “Late Late Toy Show” (7)
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27 This National Park is located in Co. Clare (6) 28 (& 13 across) Retired CSA astronaut still very popular in Ireland (5) 30 A pair of people or things (3) 32 Brendan Gleeson played this US
President in a recent TV series (5) 33 See 23 down (4) 35 (& 21 down) Writer of the books that inspired the Dublin Murders TV series (4) 39 Well-known Irish music festival, in short (1, 1)
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