Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword Answer - Nov 08, 2014

Clue	Answer
''For ... us a child is born'' (Handel's Messiah)	UNTO
A long fixed look	GAZE
Call attention to	ADVERTISE
Casual upper garment	TSHIRT
Chiefly, largely	MAINLY
Curved devices used as cranes on a ships	DAVITS
Deed or legal proceeding	ACTION
Delivered from danger	RESCUED
Dive or fall headlong	PLUNGE
Droll, witty	HUMOROUS
Essential substances found in mini vats	VITAMINS
Flat fish with long tails tipped with spikes	STINGRAYS
Grains from the paddy field	RICE
Grammatical constituents	PHRASES
Grass cultivated for food	CEREAL
Horny animal feet	HOOVES
Intends	MEANS
Of different kinds	VARIED
One buys and sells	TRADER
Peers	EQUALS
Physically or mentally overexerted	STRESSED
Quantity	AMOUNT
Sample the flavour	TASTE
Scandinavian kingdom	SWEDEN
Sea robber	PIRATE
Second-largest continent	AFRICA
Set up or found	ESTABLISH
Sets of interrelated parts	SYSTEMS
Show a response	REACT
Single part of a whole	UNIT
Slope, of a roof say	PITCH
Smoothly arched, like part of a circle	CURVED
System of signalling with the arms	SEMAPHORE
They're defeated	LOSERS
Took along with you	BROUGHT
Wearing down or sharpening up	GRINDING