Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 12 2019

Clues	Answers
Casual girlfriends tend to go out at night with flighty types	MOTHS
Caution butcher for selling lots	AUCTION
Couple of pirates set off	PAIR
Cut in credit for middleman would make you sick	CHOLERA
Cuts a rough diamond perhaps and is investigated for online fraud	HACKER
Decides to use toads swimming around top of pool	ADOPTS
Derbyshire rejects heresy by Swift	BIRD
Devotedly missing love from cuddly one	TEDDY
Educationalist retires in impoverishment	SIR
Find oneself up the creek, acres from where the stock can be found?	LANDINTHESOUP
First opening scene mixed-up by those defining the parameters around The Gate	FENCES
French occupation of Libya starts with double cross	FOOL
Gem dealer confused over what's on top of moonstone	EMERALD
Grounds for listing airports near decisive summits	LAND
Harbour around Point - God knows where that is!	HEAVEN
Has no home in Sheikdom and that's a record	DISK
Ill at ease at a wake? You won't relax if you do that!	TENSEUP
In a slavish way, Liberia originally provided the song for America?	LANDOFTHEFREE
In spite of piano stool lacking a lot	POISON

Clues	Answers
It holds the line around park to ward off intruders	REPEL
It's going to be tight in new Dart	NARROW
Old newspaper raised the issue of responsibility	ONUS
One of those things from church roof	THATCH
Part of The House reveals everything targeted by those flighty types in the travel industry	LANDINGSTRIPS
Place for raising some of the quintuplets	PUT
Place of honour perhaps for Patrick's equivalent in Wales	DAIS
Points finger at current clubs taking drugs	ACCUSER
Recognise cream is not in date	PICKOUT
Relative welcomes finish by forward	SENDON
Rendezvous with trains coming off main street	MEET
Roots of old revolutionary Rising	ORIGINS
Serving a university that's plainly on the rise	PLATEAU
Sobers up giving a miss to pub for wine lovers	ROSES
Superpower provides key to Crimea suffering	AMERICA
Taoiseach content with the natural border between Ireland and Britain, for example	SEA
Tasteless plot - you'd expect to get better if you were in it?	SICKBED
Throw into bottle or pot?	WIN
Type of network for gangster and those folks with nothing scheduled in Montes Alpes, for instance	LANDONTHEMOON

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