The Irish Independent Cryptic – Solution List – 22-November-2022
1.See 9
2.What speakers do is nothing to grumble at
ORATE
3.Fifty in the main uprising – they are drunk
ALES
4.Puts to pasture, as it happens
TURNSOUT
5.Jack often comes after discarded bits and pieces
LUMBER
6.Shape a wooden seat
FORM
7.Go in search of some chance of success
PROSPECT
8.Social status is offensive
RANK
9.Annoying enough to make Kim sore
IRKSOME
10.Seat ten of the most tidy
NEATEST
11.Hold back and tie in a knot
DETAIN
12.Don’t drop this kind of phrase
CATCH
13.Give some instruction to the attendants
TRAIN
14.Some of the quickest aircraft for part of a flight
STAIR
15.Everybody is in favour of a gasbag!
BALLOON
16.Finished part of a love rhapsody
OVER
17.Shakespearean character instrumental in making a bloomer
VIOLA
18.Hack greenstone
JADE
19.Burner in which the front part holds the ash container
FURNACE
20.Lot One is a variety of sharpener
OILSTONE
21.Member of staff at the Naval College?
MASTERMARINER
22.Resorts to protection when these talkers become diffuse
TAKESSHELTER
23.Well, the area isn’t ruined
ARTESIAN
24.No philosophy for the single-minded?
DUALISM
25.What gardeners use for a sprinkler, we hear
HOES
26.They’re largely made up of regulars in the services
CONGREGATIONS
