Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword Puzzle Answer - Dec 31, 2014

 Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword Puzzle Solution- Dec 31, 2014

Clue	Answer
Appeases, mollifies	PLACATES
Basement	CELLAR
Black hats for clergy	BIRETTAS
Commemorative structure	MONUMENT
Copied, simulated	IMITATED
Cricketer and hat	BOWLER
Deeply distressing or disturbing experience	TRAUMA
Dried-up, shrivelled	SERE
Drink to excess	TOPE
Fall in irregular drops	SPLASH
Forgave	PARDONED
Fraudulent instrument?	FIDDLE
Happening at the agreed time	PUNCTUAL
Just about	BARELY
Landing piers on rivers	LEVEES
Long-eared burrowers	RABBITS

Clue	Answer
Musical interval of eight notes	OCTAVE
Nearer or meaner	CLOSER
Norse god of war	ODIN
Object or unit	ITEM
One sent to represent others	DELEGATE
Over-used phrase	CLICHE
Pay no attention to	IGNORE
Put oneself forward, for a job say	APPLIED
Showing people to their seats	USHERING
Stimulating substance in coffee	CAFFEINE
Stop or Yield, say	ROADSIGN
Support for a rider's foot	STIRRUP
Support for the head	PILLOW
Sweet circular cake	DOUGHNUT
The food of the gods	AMBROSIA
Threadlike extension of a plant	TENDRIL