Irish Times (Simplex) - Sep 29 2017 Crossword Answer

Irish Times (Simplex) - Sep 29 2017 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
... upon a time for the storyteller	ONCE
Actor's signals	CUES
Association of sports teams	LEAGUE
At which people are considered competent to manage their own affairs	LEGALAGE
Border, rim	EDGE
Claimant to a throne, usually without just title	PRETENDER
Cooking instructions	RECIPE
Curved devices used as cranes on a ship	DAVITS
Descend from bus or train	ALIGHT
Disposition to see the glass as half-empty	PESSIMISM
Dried grape	RAISIN
Epistle, missive	LETTER
Event that appears to break the law of nature	MIRACLE
Evil, malevolent	MALIGN
Flighty, frivolous	GIDDY
Giving way	YIELDING
Level, degree or magnitude	INTENSITY
Long-haired sheepdog	COLLIE

Clues	Answers
Order forbidding trade	EMBARGO
Parallel rails for wheels	TRACK
Pretend to be ill to avoid work	MALINGER
Prolonged shortage of rainfall	DROUGHT
Protect or conceal	SHIELD
Raced around the tree	CEDAR
Relating to birth	NATAL
Relating to the stars	STELLAR
Small domestic parakeet	BUDGIE
Small Indian cake of meat or vegetables	SAMOSA
Soft white clay, used for making fine porcelain, say	KAOLIN
Solid lump of a precious metal	NUGGET
Strong, powerful	MIGHTY
Study of the stars and planets	ASTRONOMY
Taking to a place	BRINGING
Two of a kind	PAIR
Vocalist	SINGER
Weighing machine	SCALES