Irish Times Simplex – Solution List – 7-November-2022
1.Contrary, harmful
ADVERSE
2.Unobtrusive, circumspect
DISCREET
3.Expensive unnecessary things
LUXURIES
4.Destroy or damage
BANJAX
5.Highly-decorated glazed earthenware
MAJOLICA
6.Do the birds move from the mouth to the oesophagus?
SWALLOWS
7.Slowly and gracefully, in music
ADAGIO
8.Alp man makes up the highly incendiary liquid
NAPALM
9.Hallowed place associated with the sacred
SHRINE
10.Out of sorts
UNWELL
11.Loops with sliding knots
NOOSES
12.A short, pithy saying
APHORISM
13.Is this the way to this Texan town, musically speaking?
AMARILLO
14.A ski race
DOWNHILL
15.”For peace comes … slow” (W B Yeats)
DROPPING
16.Transmits, knowledge perhaps
IMPARTS
17.Subdivision of a military group
UNIT
18.At what time?
WHEN
19.Austrian composer from Harlem?
MAHLER
20.Animal in its earliest stages
EMBRYO
21.Complain under one’s breath
GRUMBLE
22.Consortium to limit competition
CARTEL
23.Dreamy piece of music for the piano
NOCTURNE
24.Armed ship and stinging jellyfish
MANOFWAR
25.Goading or provoking
NEEDLING
26.Long hanging spike of frozen water
ICICLE
27.Bird sanctuary
AVIARY
28.Court-ordered support to be paid by a spouse
ALIMONY
29.Thinly dotted about
SPARSE
30.Communications or errands
MESSAGES
31.Overdue
LATE
32.Hades, the netherworld
HELL
