Irish Times (Crosaire) - August 30 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Irish Times (Crosaire) Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Aug 30 2017 

Clues	Answers
Accepts defeat? Fiddlesticks!	BOWS
Admit defeat to soldier embedded underground	GIVEIN
Bank's business concern or brand	BURN
Careless friends returning by Dart	SLAPDASH
Charming old city gets most of 4 down from Spain	URBANE
Contributors dismiss iron bar	OBSTRUCT
Cruise dismissed by Eurythmics - that's a cock-and-bull story	MYTH
Editor hasn't touched the film about the German to keep the price down further	UNDERCUT
French painter starts count in Montana	MONET
Into the breeze, Ulster played to succeed and got draw	UPWIND
Leave most of The Independent copy heading in old language	GOTHIC
Make a deep impression in France and on Switzerland	ETCH
Manages those on the database presumably in The Theatre	OPERATINGSYSTEM
Rewards after a fast time for all those in 23 down losing the head here on small horses	EASTEREGGS

 

Clues	Answers
Sample of chickpea stew from the Orient	EAST
Scratch the surface of rulers given out by teacher	MARKINGS
Set one's heart on biography of what Methuselah enjoyed	LONGLIFE
Short season for first team in Rush	SPRINT
Sounds like wedding announcements for the outlaws?	BANS
Stone sets up club to study what they're eating in the Middle East	PITTABREAD
Stubby, colourful writer of a corny novel	CRAYON
The contents of Fort Knox for example, from a criminal perspective, is difficult to absorb	HARDTOTAKE
The people want middle-man behind bars?	PUBLICAN
Those in The Maze hide note from detective - the note one gets for Christmas	MINCEPIE
Turns up good books to initially read on great place to go for the Christmas presents	GROTTO
Unanimously drops union with immunity	ASYLUM
Why is brute not finished with Tory for the most part? Does he have to draw you a picture!	ANIMATOR
Yells scare criminal in a reckless way	CARELESSLY