Irish Times (Simplex) - Feb 9 2019

Clues	Answers
Absolutely necessary	ESSENTIAL
Accepts as true	BELIEVES
Acquire by effort	EARN
Applies colour	PAINTS
Between blue and yellow	GREEN
Brain-teaser	RIDDLE
Breakfast food	PORRIDGE
British peer	EARL
Centre around which something rotates	AXIS
Commend, laud	PRAISE
Containers with cells producing power	BATTERIES
Depressingly dark	GLOOMY
Dictates, commands	ORDERS
Distinctive clothes for particular groups	UNIFORMS
Exhausting or tedious	TIRING
Gesture that encodes a message	SIGNAL
Give advice to	COUNSEL
Graceful and stylish	ELEGANT

Clues	Answers
Grant, confer	AWARD
Huge destructive waves	TSUNAMIS
Is the sea rife with these strange flowers?	FREESIA
Literary composition	ESSAY
Longest river of China	YANGTZE
Military land forces	ARMIES
One plunges head first into water	DIVER
Person blamed for the wrongdoings or mistakes of others	SCAPEGOAT
Really existing	ACTUAL
Refill or make complete again	REPLENISH
Relating to tiny particles	ATOMIC
Resists, stands up to	DEFIES
Separate into portions	DIVIDE
Shut	CLOSED
Silky fabric with thick pile	VELVET
Territory over which rule or control is exercised	DOMAIN
Toughen by heating and cooling	TEMPER
Weapons and limbs	ARMS

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