Irish Times (Crosaire) - December 21 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 21 2019 

Clues	Answers
Attic in building is huge	TITANIC
Backing those in 20 down consumed by stout - the imported costly type	TARIFF
Bottle of Bacardi punch for those who like their sauce	DIP
Carol is upset getting a poor grade	SING
Cross mineralogists abandoned as it is	MONGREL
Cross Swords after a fair amount of the demo for protection	DEFENCE
Discovered in Ypres, a reasonable retrospective aiding students to eradicate mistakes	ERASER
Divorcee, for example, loses the head at garden party with the sort who can make sense of texting?	EXEGETE
Doctor/dental healthcare at the foundation and firm - just as the consumers like it	ALDENTE
Does a deal with the man downstairs for state holding prisoners and individuals with spirit (5,3'1,4)	SELLSONESSOUL
Exploit routine at the centre with silly lies	UTILISE
Faints on the pitch, we hear, and in the shop? Window dresser does it when model is no longer needed!	SELLSTHEDUMMY
Fool boss in a cult	LUNATIC
Furlong is taken in by Rocky O'Brien producing The Inferno for an open-air audience	BONFIRE
Groundsman gets rid of guns with scattershot?	RANDOM
Head off briefly to say it's so	AVER
In a timely fashion, is behind both sides of labour dispute	LATE
Irishmen in Trim business	FIR
Is that the spirit? Trump abandons those on the border!	RUM
It's key for one of those dealing with deliveries early on in the field	OPENER
Kind of in good taste	DECENT
Make money in market getting American with faucet to go to unfinished bar to install	SELLATAPROFIT
Nutty type of writer takes in most of Cork	PECAN
Oriental reader gets to decide who goes to the park?	ELECTOR
Pickup illegal bit from Tablet	PILL
Quite a lot of French toast has no starch	OFTEN
Ran away from Ireland and took to fiction	LIED
Refers to Africa backing what's contained in minor facility	AFRO
Renaissance man produces French wine integrating fresh acid	DAVINCI
Revolutionary hiding in Easter Island is an advocate of the class system presumably?	SIR
School magazine references introduction to Merchant of Venice, for example	SELLER
Some characters fool around, backing what's not a written tradition	ORAL
Sounds like somewhere wine is sold when the dealing is at its most expensive (7',6)	SELLERSMARKET
State once again takes rap covering up ecstasy at college	RECAP
Take a part setting up in neighbourhood nursery	UNDO
That's settled - relative is the one to party	PAIDUP
Turns up, research site divides Frenchmen initially eager to use preservatives	EMBALM
Wins over all sides today	SELLS