Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 14 2019

Clues	Answers
Band loses the head after 26 across is disappointed with the foreign old standard	HAMMERANDSICKLE
Come across place for right terminal	COMPUTER
Does the boring work and finds the crude material? And that's lucky!	STRIKESOIL
Engineering a bizarre rise is getting less difficult	EASIER
Guarantee offers assurances to leader's husband	OATH
Haughty answer to diatribe about capital's rate of growth	ARROGANT
Hot items from auction returned by workers heading off	STOLEN
Isolated without lost member of staff	AIDE
It's a dour novel for those listening in	AUDITORS
It's about one of the Turners the ophthalmologist has his eye on perhaps	RETINA
It's fairly harmless what's in the First Amendment	TAME
Let go a hammer smoothly	LEGATO
Making a contribution secretively to the salty stew	STEALTHY
Marco Polo's got no morals to pen	COOP

Clues	Answers
Militarily pull a fast one on Trump?	OUTFLANK
No pilau pot dish for all the people	POPULATION
Nora is overwhelmed by parents with one view	PANORAMA
Patriotism without the patois in Meath	TRIM
Pound - one of the symbols of old European country?	HAMMER
Pre-election promise to charge Nick	TAXCUT
Prepares to travel around afterwards with those from The Kitchen, helping the dishy types to dry out	PLATERACKS
Providing a terrible sample at the airport	GATE
Put down unfinished pasta	PENNE
Relaxed, popular class for a student	INFORMAL
Rival to nice little Italian lake outside Roman capital	COMPETITOR
Save hide disposing of something sticky	ADHESIVE
Turns up, soldier caught Lincoln taking cocaine for a muscular condition numbing the pain	ICEBAG
Writers admit it is suitable for publication	EDITED

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