Irish Times (Simplex) - Aug 22 2018
| Clues | Answers |
| A saying that's widely accepted as true | AXIOM |
| Animal related to the stoat | WEASEL |
| As worn on building sites | HARDHATS |
| Attacked the good name of | SLANDERED |
| Avowed openly | DECLARED |
| Bite, chew and swallow | EAT |
| Boffin, Baffin or Bali, say | ISLAND |
| By way of | VIA |
| Comes to light or rises to the top | SURFACES |
| Confuse, puzzle | BAFFLE |
| Country pub | INN |
| Depart | LEAVE |
| Describes air that contains a great deal of water vapour | HUMID |
| Disclose, uncover | REVEAL |
| Draw back with pain | FLINCH |
| Former Department in charge of the navy in Britain | ADMIRALTY |
| Frightens | SCARES |
| Gold-coloured alloy for decoration | ORMOLU |
| Heard and heeded | LISTENED |
| Honourable, sincere | HONEST |
| In that place | THERE |
| Incorrect or unsuitable name | MISNOMER |
| Moving staircase | ESCALATOR |
| Ninth month in the Roman calendar | NOVEMBER |
| Of them | THEIR |
| Periods of 100 years | CENTURIES |
| Pixie, imp | ELF |
| Places in a grave | INTERS |
| Pre-Christmas season | ADVENT |
| Reflective surface | MIRROR |
| Tend to the sick | NURSE |
| Tenors of the oboe family | BASSOONS |
| Tests, yardsticks | CRITERIA |
| Underwater echo sounder | SONAR |
| Up to the time of | UNTIL |
| Wanders off course | STRAYS |
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