Irish Times (Simplex) – Mar 15 2018

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Clues	Answers
Academic dissertations	THESES
Aircraft and smoothing tools	PLANES
Alumnae of a college	GRADUATES
Believe to be guilty, but without proof	SUSPECT
Brief written record	NOTE
Careful investigation into a subject	RESEARCH
Centre around which something rotates	AXIS
Charge with an offence	ACCUSE
Collect bit by bit, often with difficulty	GLEAN
Containing nothing	EMPTY
Determining dimensions	MEASURING
Disrobed	UNDRESSED
Easy to see through	CLEAR
Edam or cheddar, say	CHEESE
Extreme fear	TERROR
Going steady	DATING
Graceful and stylish	ELEGANT
In fact	REALLY

Clues	Answers
In or to any place	ANYWHERE
It flows through Germany	ELBE
It grows from the skin	HAIR
Levy of one tenth	TITHE
Liquefied by heating	MELTED
Minute piece of matter	PARTICLE
More adjacent	NEARER
Narrate or associate	RELATE
Opt for	CHOOSE
Organs of photosynthesis	LEAVES
Participant in a game	PLAYER
Pleasure boats	YACHTS
Proved beyond doubt	CERTAIN
Study of the stars and planets	ASTRONOMY
Tall narrow structures, usually circular	TOWERS
Unit of a word	SYLLABLE
Unit of measurement of angles	DEGREE
Yehudi …, great violinist	MENUHIN