Irish Times (Crosaire) - Mar 23 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
8 across provides work for 25 across on the course to The Enlightenment	HIGHEREDUCATION
A judge from the past takes over the meeting - it's handy when one is sitting	ARMCHAIR
A meal's been laid out for sailors	ABLESEAMEN
Beholden to dine out consuming something outstanding	INDEBTED
Butchers mince the last of the meat to go with a piece of toast	BRUSCHETTA
Compliments Aristophanes' content of The Emperor	TSAR
Cowboy released water from pair of taps for labourer	RANCHMAN
Exchange of revolutionary prisoners	SWOP
Flyover, heading off to range of mountains	RIDGE
Fragment of Thomas Hardy or Pound	MASH
Has a hand in finding characters in Oedipal mystery	PALM
In spite of casing for split screen	SPLEEN
Is a cut above what's comparable to 9 across	HIGHER
Is it better to rise up or fall?	SUPERIOR
It's certainly disgusting getting make-up on her brace	ABHORRENCE
Local companion could start to run well	CHUM
Local late-night newsagent blocks off openings for housing over property	CORNERSHOP
Man from Edinburgh briefly put to work with the English, in a manner of speaking	SCOUSE
Mark Victor settles overseas	COLONIST
Network in fairy tale contains a fair amount of The Coalition	LIAISE
Officer at the manor welcomes a round on the western edge of the Great Plains	COLORADO
Political leader gets pay off accommodating American - a bit of a smoothie perhaps	PAPAYA
Precious type of hammer or a blade	ADORABLE
Replaced the curse of the pager?	BEEPER
The Don's fixing the races	TEACHERS
Unfinished patch to exercise with mate	SPOUSE
Who's out to demonstrate the truth of something?	SHOW
Wild acid in California produced by a noisy, chirpy type	CICADA