Irish Times (Crosaire) - May 3 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Irish Times (Crosaire) - May 3 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
A petty formality, perhaps, to fudge the topic until tea is taken.	PUNCTILIO
A small country that is teetotal around the icy East	CITYSTATE
A strong leader and hearty too, perhaps, with many layers.	SHALE
Around the capital of Latvia, what relates to artistic or intellectual endeavour is a growth business.	AGRICULTURAL
As odd a person as you'll ever meet!	STRANGER
Begs for Edam and Gouda, perhaps, around Belgium.	BESEECHES
Certainly not going in the right direction, by the sound of it.	OFCOURSE
Changeable fellow with unusually clean home.	CHAMELEON
Don't do this. Keep your promise and you'll secure a pact from a percentage of them at least.	RENEGE
Have no fear hereafter in that place.	THERE
He fills his estate with beautiful things!	AESTHETE
He postulates about the spout when they just need to get on with laying what's left.	SLATE
In the beginning, what's at the heart of this is what we have always been, really, from start to finish, despite all of this busy work.	INDUSTRY
In the middle of the inspection, the promissory notes were found to be utterly implausible.	SPECIOUS
Is all lost from the Emerald Isle or could this restore our honour?	REDEEM
It was a charmless Christmas for Josephine, in short, but she'll get some support from these.	JOISTS
It's good to own what one consumes with the secret service.	ASSETS
It's spread about that mice took a swim back east.	EPIDEMIC
Might a trout and eel go round and round like this?	ROULETTE
Open your mind and arrange short vacations for flower-children at the start of October.	PHILOSOPHISE
Push for editing the magazine piece	PRESSCUTTING
Right, first attach this, but not before 1 across, for additional support.	RAFTER
So sharp it could rip your ear off.	RAPIER
The reek around the west and south would go through you.	SKEWER
There's no turning back!	ONEWAY
When the moderator leaves the room, arrange to seal the deal.	TRADE
You might 18 across having one of these to celebrate getting a job in Rome.	JEROBOAM
You might need 1, 21 and 25 across to do this with exuberance.	RAISETHEROOF