Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 21 2019

Clues	Answers
A sign about 1,000 military forces	ARMIES
A source of wisdom covered up by advisor? A cleaner!	ORACLE
Backing up British politician - the one on his bike!	PUMP
Bird with a type of pad is a common tweeter	TITMOUSE
Blow the whistle on firm arrangement	INFORM
British leader gets nothing wrong in Government? In Ring it's seen as an opportunity to throw a few digs!	BOXING
Church leader is innocent - one of thirteen	POPE
Content in newspapers potentially is a blemish on one's character	SPOT
Count's men leave demands	ADDS
Criminal move on America is toxic	VENOMOUS
Favourite gets short acting part in 24 down and in Garage	PETROLPUMP
Finish play about leading light	COMPLETE
Frenchman in Lebanon working for The Count	NOBLEMAN
Great aunts failed to get gran a garden gnome	STATUE

Clues	Answers
It's uncompromising and dark coming off dirt tracks	STRICT
Keeps an eye on finance, for one, for what carpenter put together in the church	CABINETMINISTER
Ladies losing the head with cider producer brings a lump to one's throat (4'1,5)	ADAMSAPPLE
Local looks for information from 24 down at school	PUMPS
Man of the cloth heard housekeeper is perfectly suited	TAILORMADE
Needles mates to take out of snake pit	PINS
One cadet fishing for something from storyteller	ANECDOTE
Produced denim cap that could be a killer if it goes global	PANDEMIC
Produces large amount of 14 down on holiday	PUMPSOUT
Propensity to remove toys from the little fellow	NIPPER
Research best way to press a suit perhaps - is that how you'd learn to handle yourself in bar room?	STUDYLAW
Steps in tax collection in 1810?	TENPASTSIX
The weakest man on The Board in hock locally	PAWN
Where one may paint a picture of where someone is living	STUDIO

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