Irish Times (Simplex) – Feb 20 2017 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| Carrying out retribution |
AVENGING |
| Casino worker |
CROUPIER |
| Cloudy, lacking definite form |
NEBULOUS |
| Encomium, paean |
EULOGY |
| Exhort, press |
URGE |
| Express approval of |
COMMENDS |
| Flight of steps |
STAIRS |
| Flourish or wave about |
BRANDISH |
| Four-stringed instruments |
UKELELES |
| Full and complete |
ENTIRE |
| Greek god of wine and creativity |
DIONYSUS |
| Lacked, required |
NEEDED |
| Lively party, knees-up |
SHINDIG |
| Miserably paltry |
MEASLY |
| Moroccan stew cooked in a pot with a conical lid |
TAGINE |
| Needing immediate attention |
URGENT |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Never-ending |
INFINITE |
| Oil is nil, strangely, in this state |
ILLINOIS |
| Police informer |
NARK |
| Prepare a drawing or model |
DESIGN |
| Selects by ballot |
ELECTS |
| Silly ape jeans of this nationality |
JAPANESE |
| Small burrowing rodent |
GERBIL |
| Spear used in southern Africa |
ASSEGAI |
| Stern or very plain |
AUSTERE |
| Tear violently |
REND |
| The study of religion |
THEOLOGY |
| The worship of false gods |
IDOLATRY |
| Totalitarian Russian leader |
STALIN |
| Tragic Shakespearian king |
LEAR |
| Various, assorted |
DIVERSE |
| Young salmon |
GRILSE |
