Irish Times (Crosaire) Crossword Answers - Apr 28, 2014

 Irish Times (Crosaire) Crossword Solutions - Apr 28, 2014

Clue	Answer
A reversal for Maurice in hostelry is highly explosive	ABOMB
At Versailles, dialogue produced a meeting between French heads	TETEATETE
Awkwardly sensitive couples heard at plants in American desert	PRICKLYPEARS
Bar half-way down Gaelic field is run by the Government	PUBLICSECTOR
Concealing Ashley caught in fraud	STASHING
Copper soft on closing time for conclusive winners and losers	CUPFINAL
Demands former partner gets on with reading material from old book	EXACTS
Don't leave shorthand - it's bitter	HARSH
Get rid of best place at the end of base	TOPPLE
Kind of torch for beastly types at school sporting event	OLYMPICGAMES
Lie in wait before noon for transport to hotel	AMBUSH
Merriest drunk in old galleys in Rome	TRIREMES
Nut guide covers a journey to Washington	MADCAP
On drugs in street over what the chickens have	THIGHS
Pat behind call for silence in the garden centre	SHRUB
Pawn old city jumper to someone eyeing sales staff	PURCHASER
Plane highlights letters with old working class symbols on top of everything else	FLATCAPS
Putting on an act for one of the charades	PRETENSE
Sailor from Ulster workers in race to bridge support	ABUTMENT
Sounds like fruit bar for getting things straight	PLUMBLINE
Sounds rude to make grating noise to scratch at banana	RASPBERRY
Tense Irish model has a time in Israel	TISHRI
They entertain Middle Easterners with something for dinner, and yes, they have a ball!	BELLYDANCERS
Third-rate spirit is involved - it's self-evident!	TRUISM
To get about banks of Rialto with one looking at one seeing red	TORERO
Turns up, Etna has space for the waiters	ANTEROOM
Undergo a sea change to alert doctor	ALTER
View of kites on the head (4'1,3)	BIRDSEYE