Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword Answers – Wednesday February 22 2017

Here are the answers to Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword puzzles Wednesday February 22 2017.

Actual, existing – REAL
Areas for study – SUBJECTS

Asiatic wild ass – ONAGER
Bar or banister – RAIL
Belonging to them – THEIRS
Chooses by vote – ELECTS
Christian holy book – BIBLE
Cut out, erase – DELETE
Formed or made thin by hammering – BEATEN
Funeral procession – CORTEGE
Gabby, garrulous – VOLUBLE
Gesture of indifference or ignorance – SHRUG
Goes in – ENTERS
Hairy facial growths – BEARDS
He sponsors a child at baptism – GODFATHER
Hellenic republic – GREECE
In the near future – PRESENTLY
It dispenses liquid in a fine spray – AEROSOL
Lack of courage – COWARDICE
Let bee loose about this insect – BEETLE
Long poem telling of a hero’s deeds – EPIC
Maltreats – ABUSES

Mark an occasion with festivities – CELEBRATE
Mistakes – ERRORS
Most extreme, greatest – UTMOST
Norse god of thunder – THOR
Notice or conform to – OBSERVE
Paralysing fear – TERROR
Path of a celestial body – ORBIT
Performs, surgery perhaps – OPERATES
Right or suitable – PROPER
Saves up for flowers – VASES
Short moral stories, as those by Aesop – FABLES
Type of decorative support for a rail – BALUSTER
Usually the smallest room – BATHROOM
Waver, be indecisive – DITHER