Irish Times (Simplex) - Dec 13 2018

Clues	Answers
Active, sporty	ATHLETIC
Agreed, acquiesced	ACCEDED
Ben talks about the bedclothes	BLANKETS
Bird, beast, insect etc	CREATURE
Boringly long-winded	VERBOSE
Clarified butter in Indian cooking	GHEE
Colourful Scottish pattern	PAISLEY
Do it to get fit	EXERCISE
Enjoyment, delight	PLEASURE
Extravagant promotion of a person or product	HYPE
Incidents, occurrences	EVENTS
It entitles the bearer to enter	TICKET
Machine with moving parts	ENGINE
Main body of an aircraft	FUSELAGE
Messages informing of danger	WARNINGS
Out of the ordinary	UNUSUAL
Perceive sound	HEAR
Popular tuber	POTATO
Racing bird	PIGEON
Seized and took into custody	ARRESTED
Slightly short of	ALMOST
Some consider it unlucky	THIRTEEN
Source, derivation	ORIGIN
Spoken or written communications	MESSAGES
Spring back	BOUNCE
Subjects, topics	THEMES
Talking very loudly	SHOUTING
The sound of a contented cat	PURR
The space between two points	DISTANCE
Took one's ease	RESTED
Turned into the wind, as sailors do	TACKED
Verse of a poem	STANZA

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