Irish Times (Simplex) - January 7 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solution

Irish Times (Simplex) - Jan 7 2020 

Clues	Answers
... was I ere I saw Elba (palindrome)	ABLE
Annoying person or thing	NUISANCE
Bellowed	ROARED
Bosom	BREAST
Bow and ...., be servile	SCRAPE
Bring up or stand up on hind legs	REAR
City road	STREET
Couplings and labour organisations	UNIONS
Crucial stage or turning point	CRISIS
Depression in the skin	WRINKLE
Entered or registered	RECORDED
Floor of a boxing ring	CANVAS
Fund for a rainy day	NESTEGG
Green fruit related to cucumbers	GHERKINS
It's for drying dishes	TEATOWEL
Long, loud, emotional utterance	HOWL
Motherly	MATERNAL
Moves upward slowly	CLIMBS
Objectives, aims	PURPOSES
Observing	NOTICING
One instalment in a series	EPISODE
Open with a key	UNLOCK
Passages for water or communication	CHANNELS
Physical training or exertion	EXERCISE
Plan, blueprint	DESIGN
Rebound	BOUNCE
Sell abroad	EXPORT
Septic, tainted	INFECTED
Short-legged hounds	BEAGLES
Swap	EXCHANGE
The breaking of a hard object, a bone perhaps	FRACTURE
Therefore, to the old Romans	ERGO