Irish Times (Simplex) - Jul 2 2019 Crossword Answer

Irish Times (Simplex) - Jul 2 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Large vessel, for tea perhaps	URN
Learn a skill etc. through practice	TRAIN
Like one more than another	PREFER
Made known, disclosed	REVEALED
One attacks the reputation of another	BACKBITER
Physically powerful	STRONG
Point equidistant from everywhere	CENTRE
Poisonous substance in tobacco	NICOTINE
Pompous, inflated	TURGID
Repeating series of events or processes	CYCLE
Short thick digits	THUMBS
Sticky substance and mouth tissue	GUM
Strained or emphasised	STRESSED
Strong offensive smell	STENCH
Tall towers that tapers to a point	SPIRES
The action of drawing or pulling over a road or track	TRACTION
The name of a book, say	TITLE
Tool with crossed blades	SCISSORS

Clues	Answers
A narcotic drug	OPIATE
Allowed	PERMITTED
Ambiguous or puzzling	ENIGMATIC
Baby's bed	COT
Communications or errands	MESSAGES
Concepts, notions	IDEAS
Contemplates, considers	REFLECTS
Crucial stage or turning point	CRISIS
Cunning trickery	DECEIT
Defence of being elsewhere at the time of a crime	ALIBI
Disorderly, messy	UNTIDY
Drama set to music	OPERA
Fluid from squid	INK
Foundation of a theory or process	BASIS
Give counsel	ADVISE
Imposing houses	MANSIONS
Intimate, imply	INSINUATE
It is force 10 on the Beaufort scale	STORM