Irish Times (Crosaire) - May 8 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answer

Irish Times (Crosaire) Crossword Puzzle Solution - May 8 2017 

Clues	Answers
Backs out of black spot in parcel of land	PLOT
Battered team players finish with different cuts	MEATS
By the way, leave it in power boat	PARK
Colourful type clinches deal - it's a great reward for working with someone with the Midas touch	GOLDENHANDSHAKE
Gent's cocktail for spy	LOOK
Hearing one that is flawed in film version of The Tunnel in retrospect	MISTRIAL
Her career's damaged by investigator	RESEARCHER
Is nervous about a new tenor with a song sung by those overseas	SHANTY
Is this how one jumps to conclusions perhaps when one is not at school?	ONTHEHOP
Learn about some cr?me de menthe - a refreshment	HEAR
Lets slip the final mysteries post-The Troubles	SPILLS
Lighten up, as small branch isn't finished up North	SLIMDOWN
Man takes new wife to One Direction with Lewis and Harris, among others, in Scotland	HEBRIDES
Old foreign capital gets English lawyer from Unionist Party?	ESCUDO

 

Clues	Answers
Only withdraws from black economy for recovery	COMEBACK
Physical substance provides energy for little singer in American city	ENTITY
Prepare the ground for what one might do before retiring	MAKETHEBED
Puts the knife in perhaps as poets are nasty	OPERATES
Refuse to squander what classroom figure is given for a test	WASTEPAPER
Ridiculous fashion cutbacks at Square	DAFT
Small place over crude lounge	SPRAWL
Smartly dressed priest in study retires	DAPPER
Standing on the outskirts of state apparatus	STATUS
Such a temperamental piece of contempt	HATE
The second Playboy, for example, is covering someone taking part	UNDERSTUDY
Top guard has drugs on the brain?	HEADGEAR
Twisted with a criminal record in action	DEFORMED
Woods alarms the golfers on first two at St Andrews	FOREST