Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword Answers – Wednesday September 27 2017

Here are the answers to Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword puzzles Wednesday September 27 2017.

Avowed openly – DECLARED
Careful investigation into a subject – RESEARCH

Completely conscious – AWAKE
Concerning the whole country – NATIONAL
Country pub – INN
Defence of being elsewhere at the time of a crime – ALIBI
Ensued, led to – RESULTED
Espresso diluted with hot water – AMERICANO
Female deer – DOE
Female relative – NIECE
Food for livestock – FODDER
Good-looking, as a man might be – HANDSOME
Group living under a religious rule – ORDER
Hides or lurks, planning mischief – SKULKS
Jeers, provokes – TAUNTS
Jonathan …, clergyman and satirist – SWIFT
Move on hands and knees – CRAWL
Munster or Leinster, say – PROVINCE
One buys and sells – TRADER
One lends money at excessive rates of interest – LOANSHARK
Placed underground – BURIED

Rates of movement – SPEEDS
Reserve, taciturnity – RETICENCE
Say or do again – REPEAT
Seed of the cacao tree – COCOA
Single – UNMARRIED
Something believed to bring good luck – CHARM
Strikingly strange or unusual – EXOTIC
Threw forcefully – HURLED
Time in years – AGE
Tooth doctors – DENTISTS
Trade names, of designers say – LABELS
Twigs or thin branches of a tree – STICKS
Two-wheelers – SCOOTERS
Wheeled vehicle – CAR
Written musical compositions – SCORES