Irish Times (Simplex) - Feb 28 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Irish Times (Simplex) - Feb 28 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
''I ... lonely as a cloud'' (Wordsworth)	WANDERED
Affected manners intended to impress others	AIRS
Attack the good name of someone	DEFAME
Bad-mannered, discourteous	RUDE
Bountiful or unselfish	GENEROUS
Closer at hand	NEARER
Comfort, rest	EASE
Concave utensils for serving ice-cream perhaps	SCOOPS
Concern and distress caused by something unexpected	DISMAY
Figure of speech suggesting something really is what it resembles	METAPHOR
Grassy plant of wet areas	REED
Harry ..., famous escape artist	HOUDINI
Have a conflicting opinion	DISAGREE
Having one's home there	RESIDING
Highly-prized possession	TREASURE
In legal possession of	OWNING
It became independent of Ethiopia in 1993	ERITREA
Lifting machines and wading birds	CRANES
More miserly, meaner	STINGIER
Nether garment	TROUSERS
On teeth, it encourages caries	PLAQUE
Open-toed shoe	SANDAL
Orchestral introduction to opera	OVERTURE
Shallow containers for food	DISHES
Source, root	ORIGIN
Take it if you feel offended	UMBRAGE
The coldest and slippiest	ICIEST
The place where something begins	SOURCE
The practice of favouring one's relatives or friends with jobs	NEPOTISM
They're made by selling for more than the original cost	PROFITS
Upper part of the face	FOREHEAD
Young folk	CHILDREN