Irish Times (Crosaire) - October 9 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Irish Times (Crosaire) Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Oct 9 2017 

Clues	Answers
Barman on train heading off to lighten up	BLEACH
Collect Gareth Cook	GATHER
Concealed impromptu beers and pipe	TUBE
Criminal not hostile to just work	HONESTTOIL
Divert attention from poor dupe welcoming the men without the women	UPSTAGED
Do one's best gin cocktail - it's not easy	TRYING
Extract of Balzac - needlessly could be the scourge of adolescence	ACNE
Gaudy old city in Cork	LURID
Gives out over workers starting trouble with a number of plots	ALLOTMENTS
Half of those in 26 across on holiday put to the test	TRYOUT
Has a job getting half of them in 14 across similarly	EMPLOYEE
Incidental activity in the middle of each month in exhibition	SIDESHOW
Intensely irritate a sea expert at sea	EXASPERATE
Kind of service that limits wine measure	WIRE

 

Clues	Answers
Over-pretentious and elaborate letters from Greece	CHICHI
Passion of victor losing head on box in European country	VITALITY
Put out by piece of spurious technology	OUST
Reach no conclusion going back to little American city famous for its cheese	CAERPHILLY
Release peacekeeper from box found near delta	UNBIND
Set one's sights on full house, for example, for The Script	LONGHAND
Sharp slope initially for the Dubs overlooking river	SHRILL
Some standard I value from opera	DIVA
Sympathises with the party guy taking Rover	FELLOWTRAVELLER
The criminal says the judge gave him one line on paper	SENTENCE
Too nervous to relax on the foreign ship	RESTLESS
Upbeat leaving beauty spot popular with number of children	TOYS
Won over English press organisation with one piece	WEAPON
Write ace novel - one that will chill those on the beach	ICEWATER