Irish Times (Simplex) – Aug 16 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
Adhesive for wallpaper |
PASTE |
Behaved or played a part |
ACTED |
Brief written records |
NOTES |
Colourful body of water |
REDSEA |
Crunchy, brittle |
CRISPY |
Directly across from each other |
OPPOSITE |
Everything or everyone |
ALL |
Fall behind |
LAG |
Flying machine |
AEROPLANE |
Forerunner, predecessor |
PRECURSOR |
Game played in the strange sable lab |
BASEBALL |
Green, black or purple clusters |
GRAPES |
Hangs freely |
SUSPENDS |
Hawaiian greeting |
ALOHA |
Made a proposal |
SUGGESTED |
Made someone take a wrong course of action |
MISLED |
Mature animals |
ADULTS |
Most extreme, greatest |
UTMOST |
Clues |
Answers |
Not embarrassed or disconcerted |
UNABASHED |
Not liable to fluctuation |
STEADY |
Occurrence, occasion |
EVENT |
One of 12 pairs of curved bones |
RIB |
Orthodontists, periodontists etc. |
DENTISTS |
Periods, eras |
EPOCHS |
Point out, show |
INDICATE |
Pomp, formality |
CEREMONY |
Prayer of thanks before/after a meal |
GRACE |
Prefix denotes living things |
BIO |
Quartet |
FOURSOME |
Reddish-brown hair colour |
AUBURN |
Rodents with large cheek-pouches |
HAMSTERS |
Seventh planet from the sun |
URANUS |
Small boats for strange oceans |
CANOES |
Small peninsula in China, a Portuguese territory until 1999 |
MACAU |
St Paul’s conversion happened on the road to its capital |
SYRIA |
Takes without owner’s consent |
STEALS |