Irish Times Simplex – Solution List – 21-November-2022
1.Commences
BEGINS
2.The sailors’ song
SHANTY
3.Threaded nails
SCREWS
4.Over-simple, superficial
FACILE
5.Plumage
FEATHERS
6.Bar of gold
INGOT
7.Extinguish, wipe out
ERADICATE
8.Sleep in this land
NOD
9.Children’s chasing game
TAG
10.Principles set down as incontrovertibly true
DOGMAS
11.Noon
MIDDAY
12.Don’t go out, dine at home
EATIN
13.Punctuation mark
COMMA
14.A yearning for the past
NOSTALGIA
15.Donate wok, strangely, to the martial art
TAEKWONDO
16.Made a commitment
PROMISED
17.Distinctive smell
ODOUR
18.Spattered liquid
SPLASHED
19.Crumpets turned all colours
SPECTRUM
20.Exempt or protected, from disease perhaps
IMMUNE
21.Suffers in intense heat
SWELTERS
22.Mars or Mercury, say
GOD
23.Mathematical statement of equivalence
EQUATION
24.Long thin pasta
LINGUINI
25.President of a yacht club
COMMODORE
26.Film maker who pioneered animated cartoons
DISNEY
27.Line spoken to a theatre audience
ASIDE
28.Song of loyalty
ANTHEM
29.Boundaries of low woody plants
HEDGES
30.Give up the mad reigns
RESIGN
31.A food grain
OAT
32.Harbours
PORTS
33.Stalk of dry grass
STRAW
34.Correct in all details
ACCURATE
35.Fastened with a key, or drunk
LOCKED
36.Eight performers
OCTET
