Irish Times (Crosaire) - June 3 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Irish Times (Crosaire)  Crossword Puzzle Solutions - June 3 2017 

Clues	Answers
A lover is short with bachelor in charge of one of the exercises	AEROBIC
Agents looking for intelligence of some Da Vinci artefacts	CIA
Ambassador has no love for jealous type	ENVY
Amuse oneself in Government? They're grounds for kicking one's opponents perhaps!	PLAYINGFIELDS
Benefit of remarkable timer	MERIT
Can't make sense of what the actors produced - presumably it's something to do with mating ritual?	PLAYHARDTOGET
Captain Cook scrubs inkpot to use it for making chocolate	CACAO
Cart missing from dead centre is required	NEEDED
Characters of ethnic identity interested in illegal activity	CID
Could be delayed by drama writer coming to agreement at interval	PLAYEDFORTIME
Director used it to film a Cream compilation	CAMERA
Engels' revolutionary doctrine from the start included in captions	LEGENDS
English neighbour capitalises on several cups of tea	SCOT
Finishes early piece that's key to reading 1984	YEAR
Fortune is brave losing the head	LUCKY
Free part of underground organisation	UNDO
Handy position for sailor covering Kipling's novel from books' centre	AKIMBO
I broke china inside with appliance	MACHINE
Is only strange in a curious way	NOSILY

 

Clues	Answers
It's automatic to turn away from contributor	ROBOTIC
It's bad luck for Pole in therapy to take note	CURSED
Looking for more partners having a game of golf	PLAYINGAROUND
Most of 13 across is on all sides today, for starters	PLAY
Of course half of 12 across is at school	YES
Old writer makes use of affirmation from The Little Pigs	OINK
Pick holes in Slate?	DEVALUE
Pleasure is real problem for one who is late	FUNERAL
Point to victory in Euros playing with butterflies in one's stomach	NERVOUS
Produced some nice footwork with ball approaching first defender	DANCED
Shape of one of the builders	BODY
Sudden attacks take this from forsythias?	FORAYS
Support two companies around Point	CONFIRM
Terrible gulag, for example, set up for those taking flight perhaps	LUGGAGE
The pull of The New Yorker	YANK
Vivian in genuine comeback	REVIVAL
Well-informed precious type with footballers in centre of the pitch	AUFAIT
What coward was capable of producing to make music with lead singer	PLAYS
What's the point of covering up torpedo tubes?	DOT