Irish Times Crosaire – Solution List – 15-August-2022 Answers

1.Quite remarkable to go off home with a writer in the middle of the evening PHENOMENA

2.Carelessly typing a few odd letters from Alexandria, perhaps EGYPTIAN

3.Hepcat ignored sympathetic performance of steamy jazz standard MISTY

4.Wake up abruptly and get taxi, returning to outskirts of Athy to make retreat BACKAWAY

5.Has brief shimmy, dancing around to medley MISHMASH

6.Train those emptying machine removed from mine TEACH

7.The German might backtrack and block one using Flemish bond REDBRICK

8.Artist has subversive second americano at the Hermitage ASHRAM

9.Will take editor off newsdesk from the end of Autumn, perhaps due to biases? SKEWS

10.Rebellious businessman is departing from agenda, initially because of a complete lack of enthusiasm NUMBNESS

11.In America, start of 11 down is making departure from colourful jazz standard NUMBNESS

12.With the top off, left one will collapse and shatter! NUMBNESS

13.Victor leaves Glen at musical to go wild in the city, perhaps ALLEYCATS

14.Is getting a round in the pub for the meteorologists ISOBAR

15.Oddly messy, incomplete clue straightened out but somewhat inelegant CLUMSY

16.Brilliant grade set benchmark GOLDSTANDARD

17.Pairs of lines set out across and down to start work COUPLETS

18.Persephone began to rearrange her new home in gradual stages PHASED

19.Preempt or give word of warning? CAVEAT

20.Might goose do egregious damage inside overturning decorative rocks? GEODES

21.One might rile the Simpson boy, making him cranky IRRITABLE

22.Coder at heart is put out and the start of 10 across, maybe DEJECTED

23.Seems it’s instinctive for school head to denounce unorthodox art SECONDNATURE

24.Perhaps warns American mother about whirlpool MAELSTROM

25.Corporate insiders hold forth, pompously ORATE

26.Young relatives from Italian capital involved in ceremonies NIECES

27.Sad colour and tone from jazz singer, expressively flattening third, for instance BLUENOTE