Metro Crossword Answers December 9 2017

Clue	Solution
Hires (staff)	EMPLOYS
Threatens	MENACES
Robbers	THIEVES
Cosy corners	NOOKS
Coach (team)	TRAIN
Even-tempered	EQUABLE
Large area	TRACT
Palm fruits	DATES
Grey-faced	ASHEN
Showed the way	LED
Football arbiter	REF
More bashful	SHYER
Honesty	TRUTH
Confronts	FACES
Against the law	ILLEGAL
Atlantic or Indian	OCEAN
Astonish	AMAZE
Staring angrily	GLARING
Persevered, … on	PLODDED
Game stalkers	HUNTERS
Flow out (from)	EMANATE
Eastern temple	PAGODA
Start	OUTSET
Blunders (4-3)	SLIPUPS
Mobile	MOVABLE
Made snug home	NESTED
Deep blue	COBALT
Earliest	SOONEST
Army student	CADET
Major heart vessel	AORTA
Promos	ADS
Dry fodder	HAY
Neither this … that	NOR
Rose to feet (5,2)	STOODUP
Amsterdam is there	HOLLAND
Britain’s language	ENGLISH
Alleges	ASSERTS
Familiar with (4,2)	USEDTO
Pivoted	HINGED
Wine flask	FLAGON
Newborn’s bed	CRADLE