Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword Answer - Oct 17, 2014

Clue	Answer
Assign to a lower position	RELEGATE
Brisk and lively tempo	ALLEGRO
Commonly practised	HABITUAL
Contaminated with bacteria	SEPTIC
Discharged a weapon	SHOT
Eight pints	GALLON
Excessive fatness	OBESITY
Exhaustive, complete	THOROUGH
Far away in time or place	REMOTE
Floor of a boxing ring	CANVAS
Front of a building	FACADE
Furthest or highest degrees	EXTREMES
Granules, kernels	GRAINS
He succeeded Kruschev as leader of the Soviet Union	BREZHNEV
Head of a missile or rocket	NOSECONE
Inter-office note	MEMO
Irritating	ANNOYING
Justification or motive	REASON
Made a bill into law	ENACTED
Most comical	FUNNIEST
Ovoid-shaped intellectual	EGGHEAD
Pieces of playground apparatus	SWINGS
Pretending, dissembling	FEIGNING
Ran away to get married	ELOPED
Sacred song	HYMN
Seats behind motorbike riders	PILLIONS
Small Asian cart pulled by one person	RICKSHAW
Small extraterrestrial bodies	COMETS
Smoke flues	CHIMNEYS
Tastelessly showy	GARISH
Tropical lizard	IGUANA
Unit or distinct part	ITEM