Irish Times (Crosaire) – May 12 2018 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| Centurions get no rest on papal mission |
NUNCIO |
| Chinese neighbour describes 33 down |
RUSSIAN |
| Commuters failing to get Metro from 32 down could be similar |
SCUM |
| Content of constant sarcasm of foreign despot |
TSAR |
| Enjoyed playing idle over the weekend |
LIKED |
| Fair-minded friend missing in the hotel |
MAID |
| Fierce, wild extreme climate without frost |
ICEFREE |
| Harvester comes to this in failure |
CROPPER |
| Has potential to be a smoking gun in The House |
MORTAR |
| Heartless family disturbed peace by hanging around the joint |
KNEECAP |
| Hector found in bar with primate |
BABOON |
| In retrospect, left to give a hand in hospital in Ring, again |
REDIAL |
| It’s handed to someone on a plate for party on Fourth of July and that’s only the half of it |
DOYLY |
| Local crazy guy promotes academic research of river rat |
NUTRIA |
| Lots of enchiladas, for one, with sides in Mexican capital |
MEAL |
| One of those from The Hill involved in vigilantism |
ANT |
| One of those in 18 down is a little guy with short haircut |
PAGEBOY |
| Pressure in keeping back harvest leads to report |
PAPER |
| Rhapsodize producing Mercury retrospective taking in all the states in America |
GUSH |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Risk taker is fashionable, confident and right |
INSURER |
| Row involving storyboard characters |
OAR |
| See Red is unhappy in revolutionary bar |
BLOWUP |
| She isn’t in Flemish picture |
FILM |
| Showroom model discovered in pandemonium |
DEMO |
| Solomon misses son working in the weaving factory |
LOOM |
| Someone on Twitter tweeting on Midsomer Murders perhaps has a lot to say about The Killing |
CRIMEREPORTER |
| Sounds like Hell – where everyone robs Peter to pay Paul perhaps? |
CRIMINALWORLD |
| Strange role – it is what you’d expect a lounge lizard to do |
LOITER |
| Take five from the front off Dart and continue after a break |
RESTART |
| Teacher from old college is firm with dry, windy type from Africa |
SIROCCO |
| Teaches parable about the thief in the night presumably to those synonymous with sharp practice |
CRIMINALCLASS |
| That man covered by outrageous post worked in old philosophy department for no good reason |
SOPHIST |
| The great unwashed could be from 8 down, for instance |
MOB |
| Tiny portrait lying on the chest as a reminder – just in case! |
LOCKET |
| Upstanding type of detective turned over in sleepy place |
BIPED |
| Walter Cook takes in Pole – a good-for-nothing |
WASTREL |
| Watering hole containing rhubarb |
BAR |
| Works out what’s wrong by studying what constitutes a battery, for example |
CRIMINOLOGIST |
