Irish Times Crosaire – Answer List – 23-August-2022

1.The response to the menswear left them half confused ANSWER

2.Sullen doctor given a flower MOROSE

3.Eccentric loner at health resort minding own business? PERSONAL

4.Lemongrass taken from valley around swamp MORASS

5.American lawyer will thank graduate in the southeast for information DATABASE

6.One so excessively dainty, as it were, should abandon airs TWEE

7.Being exasperated, gave brief to exceptional graduate from university AGGRAVATED

8.Irish leaders drunk on Spanish sparkling wine and expensive food CAVIAR

9.Might complicate things, perhaps, for Breton leader on the French coast OBSTACLE

10.Old horse returns, in the end, to marshland pulling sled TOBOGGAN

11.Pulled painfully ill-made curtains in here SPRAINED

12.Peculiar for Miriam not to be on time but it doesn’t matter IMMATERIAL

13.Pair set off into the wild, not being the sharpest SLOWWITTED

14.Uncalled-for to take confounded guitars out GRATUITOUS

15.Has no knowledge of argot used in the north IGNORANT

16.Got flooring in Illinois LINO

17.Face pulled by prisoners having to help out POUT

18.Perhaps switches middle-sized sheets around ZAPPER

19.They are extremely upset work contains error TYPO

20.Rises cut back TIDE

21.Colour might show up worsened dermatitis REDDEN

22.Shows brilliance, perhaps, in Donegal? LUSTRE

23.Arrest reportedly aggressive trader beforehand and demolish them BULLDOZE

24.These had been a hindrance, but, finally, water’s cascading down, after a bad start, through canal gates STUMBLINGBLOCKS

25.Says they smell, for example! SENSE

26.Ascribe it, perhaps, as an omen ASSIGN

27.Immediate reaction to overly keen and annoying American? KNEEJERK

28.Agreed to tell them it was full up PACT