Irish Times (Crosaire) - Feb 1 2019

Clues	Answers
A crafty hamper contains old types of jars	AMPHORAE
A foreign sauce is taking off	Undressing
A French way of acting curtailed by director having no crew	UNMANNED
Bar shady type over sending up father	TAVERN
Caught copper cutting joint - it's a minor setback	HICCUP
Coping with what one is expected to sleep on in absurd order	MAKINGDO
Covers the bun with a slice of Red Leicester	ICES
Direct a course for vain model joining theatre	NAVIGATE
Extract found in Tex-Mex tortellini	EXTORT
Fury internalised by suffragette	RAGE
Important people with enormous wheels perhaps	BIGCHEESES
In retrospect, writer goes around eatery with Sully	DEFACE
Iris is a bit of a looker	EYEPIECE
Jumped-up biker gets out of spring break	SPRANG

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Lethal novel by 2 down in Vogue	ALLTHERAGE
Mental acuity and limits to William Butler Yeats	WITS
Really big Fords removed from bed of roses	OBESE
Roller for wallpaper adhesive on the borders	WAVE
Shakespeare needs no introduction to the writer behind Romeo and Juliet - how incongruous is that?	ILLMATCHED
She clued puzzle to plan	SCHEDULE
Something stuck in trachea can be a pain	ACHE
Store scheme covers reading option for those going on holiday	RESORT
Stroke by some backsliding Tralee family	FEEL
Talked over difficulty of old writer joining English party up north	OPENEDUP
Victor English from Takeaway turns up carrying the fish	VESSEL
Weekend at side of lough with dishy type	KEDGEREE
What do you expect The Joker to do in jest? (4,7'1,3)	PULLSOMEONESLEG
Wild acid in California produced by a noisy, chirpy type	CICADA

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