Irish Times (Crosaire) - Mar 2 2018 Crossword Answer

Irish Times (Crosaire) - Mar 2 2018 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Let off for Passover?	EXCUSE
Lost hammer, to be fairly frank	BEATEN
Lounge has one soft drink for local sucker	LOLLIPOP
Made a great deal of upside-down desserts	STRESSED
Pirates on a craft in Split	SEPARATION
Polishes off shoe in sink	SLIP
Redhead consumed by drink and more stout	LARGER
Rob the plan to get up someone's nose	BOTHER
Soil next to yard helps the flowers grow out of mucky pond	DIRTYWATER
Steel men recondition aluminium and silicon	ELEMENTS
Thankful it's about piece of fiction by retiring old leader	RELIEVED
Took one's time securing Oxford college place	LOCATE
Treats land contaminated by what the mouthy type did during conversion	TRANSLATED
Trim plants with top of implement that's new from Aruban capital	FLORIN

Clues	Answers
Baker leaves breakfast to go hungry	FAST
Barman is allowed to get something the swingers want	LEGALEAGLE
Decline what's fancied in the last race	FADE
Divorce leads to 22 across and 11 across	LEGALSEPARATION
Failure to act on the outskirts of reality	FACT
Fired characters from Polish Othello	SHOT
Firm plants deadheaded for party around Denver	COLORADO
First person from Leeds playing the lead	ELDEST
For each court action over advertisement for local, soft soap	PERSUADE
Gifts of slippery serpents	PRESENTS
Head barman gets to open early and is the first to discriminate against those who arrived earlier?	AGEIST
Idols doing the rounds at the Golden Globe Awards	GODS
In the department responsible for cover-up, some people take a vow?	MENSWEAR
It's a type of animal hanging around top of pine tree	MAPLE