Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 22 2018

Clues	Answers
14 down and 19 across in The Heart of Darkness perhaps	CENTRALAFRICA
A snobby character with title is wrong	ELITIST
Add a touch of sparkle as Judge Russell is up first	AERATE
An ideal state for more work?	UTOPIA
Bit of uplifting Liza Minnelli wonderful for the drive	WILL
Brigadier general dismissed badgering before now	EARLIER
Came to terms with a type of gluttony	AGREED
Confronted by what the barista serves up	FACED
Directing The Office, for instance, is moving	RUNNING
Do a U-turn as man of the cloth could be Irish	REVERSE
Drink consumed in Sierra Leone	ALE
Far out women's organisation in several countries on one landmass	AFRICA
Father in hospital for first biopsy and feedback from echo test perhaps	REVERB
Force in Maine novel provides a type of mystery	ENIGMA
Half change direction at university in Cork and split!	CARVEUP
He is off the throne in Split	TORN
In part, consider a venture that appeals to dancers	RAVE
In the last resort, a person of interest to someone with access to The Capital from the city overseas?	CENTRALBANKER
It's a trial getting out of Australia or America	USA

Clues	Answers
It's most important Claret served around mid-evening	CENTRAL
Leave a recital in part of the musical faculty	EAR
Lightweight type among freethinkers	THIN
Money is right to remove leading power in Alps? In the past, the English, French and Russians campaigned against it!	CENTRALPOWERS
Old dance buddy almost narcissistic on the radio	PAVANE
On foot of the other economic strategic summits	TOES
Part of the problem in trusting one of those making their own dough	MINT
Passage from sample of chain letters	INLET
Penny has a rule changed for the tug-of-war in the middle of the continent	CENTRALEUROPE
Playful swimming type loses head with ceramicist	OTTER
Protects Queen Victoria from Albert, Lenny and Clare	VALENCE
Serious type enters a rave	EARNEST
Some mouth organs an issue for Odin	THOR
Song and dance witnessed in the abbey	SCENE
Suffer from the heat, as there's no Corona in Monte Carlo	MELT
The personal importance of Freud's holiday plans, in a manner of speaking	EGOTRIP
Theresa Cook is a producer of hurley sticks	ASHTREE
To be precise, without the introduction, it's not fiction	ACTUAL
Ushered in, as involved in subtle deception	LED

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