Irish Times (Crosaire) – Apr 26 2018

Clues	Answers
9 across goes on ahead with one of the Red Hot Chili Peppers?	SCOTCHBONNET
Come together in summer gesture	MERGE
Coming to terms with head barman admitting knocking back local dope and tablet	ADAPTING
Drunk in Edinburgh put a lid on the story: ”Irish spirit lacks elegance from the start”	SCOTCHWHISKY
Fire the imagination playing Euros	ROUSE
Gives threatening looks to beasty type left in ship	SCOWLS
Indians’ retreat harms a settlement	ASHRAM
Iris is a bit of a looker	EYEPIECE
Is not in the episodes to remove from The Office	DEPOSE
It’s a depressing experience locally not starting boat for possessive type	OWNERSHIP
Leading the pack caps nothing? Really!	ISTHATSO
Legend gets nothing from tennis, from fight in the ring or from one of handy types in golf	GLOVEBOX
Model reddens holding violin on a piece of porcelain	DRESDENCHINA
Mystery novel involves maiden providing a sense of balanced proportion to both sides	SYMMETRY

Clues	Answers
One of the classes for the players from Spain	CASTE
One person relieving tension for the body in USA seems wrong	MASSEUSE
Permit is only for foundation and might last a year if you’ve done a deal	WARRANTY
Public health nurse on Madagascar starts to write to hospital in Asian capital	PHNOMPENH
Regular series on Dart is for the tourists?	CYCLERACE
Senses popular legend consumed by wealth	MEANINGS
Shutdown half of 18 across	SCOTCH
Sleuth out of place with what the fraudsters are planning	HUSTLE
Spot the Ball editor confronted	EYEBALLED
Tests out the crystal set for those in 15 down to use	LYCRA
They’d make you laugh in Government making up names	GASMEN
Those running the film studios took the spice out of Gospel music	MOGULS
Traveller has golf on the brain and it’s close to the bone for one who likes to cheat	GLOBETROTTER
Turn a blind eye to foreign region	IGNORE