Irish Times (Simplex) – Feb 22 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ”Beware the … of March” (Julius Caesar) |
IDES |
| Arctic animal |
REINDEER |
| Asian pepper plants |
BETELS |
| Cause continuing annoyance or resentment |
RANKLE |
| Caustic remark |
SARCASM |
| Coarse file |
RASP |
| Craves, longs intensely |
YEARNS |
| Dead bodies of animals |
CARCASES |
| Death by suffocation |
ASPHYXIA |
| Fire at from the air |
STRAFE |
| Former Abyssinia |
ETHIOPIA |
| Go on a journey |
TRAVEL |
| Having a natural aptitude or skill |
TALENTED |
| Iranian capital |
TEHRAN |
| Lever for prising |
CROWBAR |
| Moved backwards |
REVERSED |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Of teeth |
DENTAL |
| Operatic air |
ARIA |
| Part of a church with the altar |
APSE |
| Place, situate |
LOCATE |
| Remove material from a riverbed |
DREDGES |
| Robbery on the high seas |
PIRACY |
| Schooled, trained |
EDUCATED |
| Small Asian cart for one pulled by one |
RICKSHAW |
| Sound of a titter |
TEEHEE |
| South African antelope |
REEBOK |
| Testimony in a court of law |
EVIDENCE |
| They’re said to know the price of everything and the value of nothing |
CYNICS |
| Transitory things, lasting only a short time |
EPHEMERA |
| Tropical birds able to mimic sounds |
PARROTS |
| Unit of atmospheric pressure |
MILLIBAR |
| With no chance of success |
HOPELESS |