Irish Times (Simplex) - Jan 27 2016 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword Puzzle Solution - Jan 27 2016

Clues	Answers
American tap	FAUCET
Ceremonial, emblematic staffs	SCEPTRES
Changes	ALTERS
Christmas-time	YULETIDE
Concluding	ENDING
Determined, dead set	RESOLUTE
Fast-running flightless bird	OSTRICH
Formerly Southern Rhodesia	ZIMBABWE
Inexpensive lodging house	HOSTEL
Intense and uncontrolled fire	INFERNO
Jamaican capital	KINGSTON
Longest river in Britain	SEVERN
Middling, just average	MEDIOCRE
Misplace	LOSE
Not shut or secret	OPEN
Official written record of names, etc.	REGISTRY

Clues	Answers
Old coin worth 21 shillings	GUINEA
Pillager, plunderer	LOOTER
Plinth, stand	PEDESTAL
Quietly, without fuss	CALMLY
Round rod	POLE
Severe criticism or disapproval	CENSURE
Small spring flowers	CROCUSES
Smoothly, uniformly	EVENLY
Southwestern English county	CORNWALL
Storage space, for wine perhaps	CELLAR
Sweater, jumper	PULLOVER
Tended to, a growing child say	NURTURED
They may justify the means	ENDS
They're found on fish	SCALES
Tool for boring holes and a cocktail	GIMLET
Very light rain, less than a shower	DRIZZLE