Irish Times (Simplex) – Jan 27 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| American tap |
FAUCET |
| Ceremonial, emblematic staffs |
SCEPTRES |
| Changes |
ALTERS |
| Christmas-time |
YULETIDE |
| Concluding |
ENDING |
| Determined, dead set |
RESOLUTE |
| Fast-running flightless bird |
OSTRICH |
| Formerly Southern Rhodesia |
ZIMBABWE |
| Inexpensive lodging house |
HOSTEL |
| Intense and uncontrolled fire |
INFERNO |
| Jamaican capital |
KINGSTON |
| Longest river in Britain |
SEVERN |
| Middling, just average |
MEDIOCRE |
| Misplace |
LOSE |
| Not shut or secret |
OPEN |
| Official written record of names, etc. |
REGISTRY |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Old coin worth 21 shillings |
GUINEA |
| Pillager, plunderer |
LOOTER |
| Plinth, stand |
PEDESTAL |
| Quietly, without fuss |
CALMLY |
| Round rod |
POLE |
| Severe criticism or disapproval |
CENSURE |
| Small spring flowers |
CROCUSES |
| Smoothly, uniformly |
EVENLY |
| Southwestern English county |
CORNWALL |
| Storage space, for wine perhaps |
CELLAR |
| Sweater, jumper |
PULLOVER |
| Tended to, a growing child say |
NURTURED |
| They may justify the means |
ENDS |
| They’re found on fish |
SCALES |
| Tool for boring holes and a c*cktail |
GIMLET |
| Very light rain, less than a shower |
DRIZZLE |