Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword Answer - Oct 31, 2014

Clue	Answer
Awards, tokens of victory	TROPHIES
Casual cotton trousers	CHINOS
Comfort, rest	EASE
Continue in spite of resistance	PERSIST
Delay or cancel punishment	REPRIEVE
Evading work	SHIRKING
Fails to attend to	NEGLECTS
Fish-eating diving bird	LOON
Game in which words are acted out	CHARADES
Grant to help defray costs	SUBSIDY
Hard, crystalline rock	MARBLE
He used to be known as a commercial traveller	SALESMAN
Hello to Shakespeare's Moor	OTHELLO
Implied in addition to the literal meaning of a word	CONNOTED
Liable to sudden unpredictable change	FICKLE
More close at hand	NEARER
Most peculiar	ODDEST
Mythological fire-breathing creature	DRAGON
Not shut or secret	OPEN
Occurring at certain times of the year	SEASONAL
Percussion instrument	TRIANGLE
Playing a part	ACTING
Prickly bushes	BRIARS
Put off till another time	POSTPONE
She danced for the head of John the Baptist	SALOME
Simple plant, plankton or seaweed say	ALGA
Slow and apathetic	TORPID
Soak up	ABSORB
Starts	BEGINS
Stopping	CEASING
Subject to change, variable	UNSTABLE
Unit of a word	SYLLABLE