Irish Times (Simplex) - Feb 2 2019

Clues	Answers
''Songs of ... and Experience'' (William Blake)	INNOCENCE
An old type of wheat	SPELT
Angular unit and college award	DEGREE
Annoying constantly	PESTERING
Associate that provides assistance	ALLY
Call off or invalidate	CANCEL
Cause annoyance	IRRITATE
Dark and gloomy, like the mythological river Styx	STYGIAN
Decorates cake with sugar topping	ICES
Fabric from flax	LINEN
Fictional owner of a magic lamp	ALADDIN
Fruit and colour	ORANGE
Gloucester or Emmental, say	CHEESE
Gold or copper, say	METAL
Grows old	AGES
High regard, respect	ESTEEM
Indefinitely short time	MOMENT
Informal or cursory	CASUAL

Clues	Answers
It's used in jam-making	PECTIN
Most advanced in age	ELDEST
Most offensively curious	NOSIEST
Never ending	UNCEASING
On one's feet	STANDING
Periodic ebbs and flows of the sea	TIDES
Poking gently with the elbow	NUDGING
Powder produced by some plants	POLLEN
Produce from nothing	CREATE
Produced a sound by forcing air through the lips	WHISTLED
Relied	DEPENDED
Rodent with sharp black-and-white spikes	PORCUPINE
Select	CHOOSE
Ship that supplies other ships	TENDER
Social or professional standing	STATUS
Thin slab of ceramic or slate	TILE
Those not already mentioned	OTHERS
Took a sharp breath	GASPED

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