Irish Times (Crosaire) – May 14 2018

Clues	Answers
Be prepared for madcap Irishman in Ireland	ANTICIPATE
Bill is at the bar before ten – that’s slow for a musician	ADAGIO
Check your lines in advance for catches in lough	REHEARSE
Gallery type gets letters for Christmas – it’s what you’d expect during the holiday season	PICTUREPOSTCARD
Grace O’Malley works presumably on the Crime Wave overseas	PIRATE
Guess who’s leaving Burgesses’ Croatian neighbour?	SERB
Hatchet man brought in to the cut the dead wood out of Nottingham Forest	WOODCUTTER
Holds the beer bottle for Monica Seles	CASE
Holy cow! Head Office goes back on word to open letter	OHDEAR
It includes Mike from Cork retiring from the force	IMPACT
It’s not enough to organise her goats	SHORTAGE
Leaves home to be a mentor briefly to family figure starting off	TEACADDY
Make rice dish and keep it in the freezer	ICEMAKER
Make up one’s mind about old writing in The Examiner	ASSESSOR

Clues	Answers
New cigar filling left a pungent aroma on the breath	GARLIC
Note relates to local fireplace found in the kingdom	DINGLE
On the radio Jim Power spills the beans with motivational speeches	PEPTALKS
One gives up the ghost by emptying the spirits	EXORCISM
One member of overseas Special Forces nearly gets drunk at The Tap – it holds the ship up!	SEAWATER
Put out sample of the langoustines	OUST
Rock-and-roll?	SWAY
Roughing it on holiday looking up at the stars	CAMPINGOUT
Stop payment – without pantos this would be meaningless	EMPTY
Swelter on the outskirts of Basingstoke	BAKE
Take the sting out of the tail with charm	DISARM
The foreign college upsets most of The City – it’s corrosive stuff that leaves a sour taste	LACTICACID
The Verve in Brazilian capital city in South America?	BRIO
Women saw duck with local cuckoo	WHACKO