Irish Times (Crosaire) - Jan 26 2019

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Backbiter gives moral version	MOLAR
Ballad about a recipe for a foreign wrap	SARONG
Boss resigns with the arrival of The Sun	INGRESS
Charges Irish for getting out of fisheries	FEES
Divorce lawyer concealed in retrospect what the barman is capable of pulling	ALE
Eliot gets out of lifeboat in swell?	FAB
Frame missing from Afro-American musical instrument	OCARINA
Grace in trouble describing someone from Athens	GRECIAN
Hand over key to a car	FIESTA
Have a go at another sketch of retiring prison officer	REDRAW
Hound flighty type after bad start	BEAGLE
In a manner of speaking, describes the US for example as a free state	IRISHREPUBLIC
In times such as this one, a training plan for those leading part of the army	IRISHREGIMENT
Jack Russell's relatives in R?th Chairn produced unholy rites about sin	IRISHTERRIERS
Lamb stew can be soothing on the lips	BALM
Last word from world-beaters drunk in the public house	BEER
Looking for justice in Geneva going crazy meeting resistance	AVENGER
Material for McDormand's first Oscar will grow on you	MOHAIR
Missing graduate from department went to hell in a handcart perhaps	GONEBAD

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Nigella drops in for kosher?	LEGAL
One line from 16 down is banned	ILLEGAL
One of the suckers among the swimmers found in 3 down	REMORA
One of those whose roots is in Homeland left Fair City for Dallas	IRISHAMERICAN
Party pledge to old lady with no husband	DOWAGER
Proven?al farmhouse in part of pass - a mountain retreat	MAS
Report of what outgoing house worker, the loser, might ask for in the station	RECOUNT
Revolutionary conversational piece doesn't end in argument	ROW
Sample of Pinot Grigio was produced in America	IOWA
Selection bias by the banks in the red and in the black	SEAS
Sends up colourful type in charge of drink	CIDER
Showy plant with lasting flourish visible in all borders today	IRISH
So far, one presumably has big shoes to fill	YETI
Some upsetting criticism lamented by charity	ALMS
Take back what's lost in troubled Crimea	RECLAIM
Take no notice of slap in the face	SNUB
The trappings of royalty found in Algeria	REGALIA
Walk unsteadily along Dodder	TOTTER
Wax lyrically about Persia on the rampage	PRAISE

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