Irish Times (Simplex) – February 2 2019
Published in Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword. Tags: CANCEL, INNOCENCE, IRRITATE, WHISTLED.
| Clues | Answers |
| ”Songs of … and Experience” (William Blake) | INNOCENCE |
| An old type of wheat | SPELT |
| Angular unit and college award | DEGREE |
| Annoying constantly | PESTERING |
| Associate that provides assistance | ALLY |
| Call off or invalidate | CANCEL |
| Cause annoyance | IRRITATE |
| Dark and gloomy, like the mythological river Styx | STYGIAN |
| Decorates cake with sugar topping | ICES |
| Fabric from flax | LINEN |
| Fictional owner of a magic lamp | ALADDIN |
| Fruit and colour | ORANGE |
| Gloucester or Emmental, say | CHEESE |
| Gold or copper, say | METAL |
| Grows old | AGES |
| High regard, respect | ESTEEM |
| Indefinitely short time | MOMENT |
| Informal or cursory | CASUAL |
| It’s used in jam-making | PECTIN |
| Most advanced in age | ELDEST |
| Most offensively curious | NOSIEST |
| Never ending | UNCEASING |
| On one’s feet | STANDING |
| Periodic ebbs and flows of the sea | TIDES |
| Poking gently with the elbow | NUDGING |
| Powder produced by some plants | POLLEN |
| Produce from nothing | CREATE |
| Produced a sound by forcing air through the lips | WHISTLED |
| Relied | DEPENDED |
| Rodent with sharp black-and-white spikes | PORCUPINE |
| Select | CHOOSE |
| Ship that supplies other ships | TENDER |
| Social or professional standing | STATUS |
| Thin slab of ceramic or slate | TILE |
| Those not already mentioned | OTHERS |
| Took a sharp breath | GASPED |