Irish Times (Simplex) – Mar 30 2018
Published in Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword. Tags: AMENDED, BEETLE, GROUSE, HURDLERS, KESTRELS, RETRACTS, REVEILLE, Thor Heyerdahl.
| Clues |
Answers |
| Any living thing |
ORGANISM |
| Became well again |
HEALED |
| Blood-sucking insect |
MOSQUITO |
| Broad road or street, often with trees |
AVENUE |
| Deface, harm |
DAMAGE |
| Fork-tailed insect |
EARWIG |
| German physicist in the mad nineties |
EINSTEIN |
| Grieved, sorrowed |
MOURNED |
| Gripe about the game bird |
GROUSE |
| Groups of singers |
CHOIRS |
| Hold dear |
CHERISH |
| Inadequate, scanty |
MEAGRE |
| Journey over water |
VOYAGE |
| Let bee loose about this insect |
BEETLE |
| Low seats or footstools |
OTTOMANS |
| Mel’s strange trees |
ELMS |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Military signal to wake up |
REVEILLE |
| Once in one is a rare event |
BLUEMOON |
| One occupies land or a building illegally |
SQUATTER |
| Raft used by Norwegian explorer, Thor Heyerdahl |
KONTIKI |
| Restrain with a rope |
TETHER |
| Revised or altered |
AMENDED |
| Small falcons |
KESTRELS |
| Smoothed with heat |
IRONED |
| Spar to support a sail |
MAST |
| Strike hard repeatedly |
BATTER |
| Takes back earlier statements |
RETRACTS |
| The hungry …, depression era in US |
THIRTIES |
| They race over barriers |
HURDLERS |
| Top layer of the surface of the earth |
SOIL |
| Unchanged by age |
TIMELESS |
| Units of electrical resistance |
OHMS |