Irish Times (Simplex) - Sep 01, 2015 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword Puzzle Solution - Sep 01, 2015

Clues	Answers
Based on logic	RATIONAL
Boisterous rowdy recreation	HORSEPLAY
By way of	VIA
Came into possession of	OBTAINED
Canadian national tree	MAPLE
Dragon with wings in medieval heraldry	WYVERN
Enquire too inquisitively	PRY
Equatorial forest	JUNGLE
Fault or flaw	WEAKNESS
Female relative	NIECE
Food cupboard	LARDER
Garden tool with a flat blade	HOE
Hydrogen or methane, say	GAS
Journey by air or water	VOYAGE
Larger than normal	OUTSIZED
Lifting device	HOIST
Loop in a rope	NOOSE
Meriting respect or reward	WORTHY

Clues	Answers
Narrow escape	CLOSECALL
Nova ..., Canadian peninsula	SCOTIA
Path of a celestial body	ORBIT
Pickpocket of olden times	CUTPURSE
Precisely correct	EXACT
Recovering from an injury or illness	ONTHEMEND
Regards with disgust and hatred	ABHORS
Rouse, disturb	ROUST
Sailor's songs and crude sheds	SHANTIES
Self-abasing	ABJECT
Send a vessel into water	LAUNCH
Sewing loops	STITCHES
Sloping chutes in playgrounds	SLIDES
Slow slithery animal	SNAIL
Strongly fears	DREADS
Tables in churches	ALTARS
Walked heavily or roughly	TRAMPLED
Wild and drunken celebration	BACCHANAL