Irish Times (Simplex) - Jan 10 2019

Clues	Answers
Absence of hardship	EASE
Astonish, amaze	ASTOUND
Australian mammal	KANGAROO
Average, middling	MEDIUM
Beseeches	ENTREATS
Buyer, client	CUSTOMER
Caught someone doing something wrong	NABBED
Cleopatra's cobras	ASPS
Concerning the whole country	NATIONAL
Continue in spite of resistance	PERSIST
Disclose, divulge	REVEAL
Divisions of a boxing match	ROUNDS
Gain, return on investment	PROFIT
Ghostliness, scariness	EERINESS
Imparted skills or knowledge to	TAUGHT
Industrial installation where a substance is purified	REFINERY

Clues	Answers
Measuring heaviness	WEIGHING
More elevated	HIGHER
Panaceas or cure-alls	NOSTRUMS
Performs again	RERUNS
Piece of furniture for displaying small ornaments	ETAGERE
Seldom, not often	RARELY
Slight skin abrasion	SCRAPE
Small silvery fish	HERRING
Spanish general and dictator	FRANCO
State an intention to harm	THREATEN
Tall perennial grass	REED
Thoughts and visions during sleep	DREAMS
Timetable, plan	SCHEDULE
Units of work or energy	ERGS
Unreasonably unwilling to change	STUBBORN
Woods of fruit trees	ORCHARDS

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