Irish Times (Simplex) - Aug 10 2019
| Clues | Answers |
| A state of fitness and good health | FETTLE |
| Abandon one's country in favour of an opposing one | DEFECT |
| Activities involving skill in making things by hand | CRAFTS |
| Adding something extra to make it better | ENHANCING |
| Aimlessly floating | ADRIFT |
| Buying back from a pawnbroker | REDEEMING |
| Cause alarm | FRIGHTEN |
| Come out into view | EMERGE |
| Dealing with things practically rather than theoretically | PRAGMATIC |
| Descendants, heirs | SCIONS |
| Energy released in nuclear fission | ATOMIC |
| Enough, sufficient | ADEQUATE |
| Female monarch | QUEEN |
| Hold on very tightly | CLING |
| Hold the same view | AGREE |
| Humorist who uses ridicule, irony and sarcasm | SATIRIST |
| It expresses possibility | MIGHT |
| Large and indefinite quantity | NUMEROUS |
| Long dramatic speech by a single actor | MONOLOGUE |
| Low-ranking naval officer | ENSIGN |
| Male feline | TOM |
| Money earned | INCOME |
| Natural, inherited behaviour | INSTINCT |
| Not subject to, taxation perhaps | EXEMPT |
| P?t? from goose livers | FOIEGRAS |
| Piece of floor covering | RUG |
| Sculpted figure | STATUE |
| Showing keen interest | EAGER |
| Small falcons | KESTRELS |
| Small unsweetened or lightly sweetened cakes | SCONES |
| Standard to aim for | IDEAL |
| Standards on which to base judgements | CRITERIA |
| Stiff flour mixture | DOUGH |
| Supply with weapons | ARM |
| Temporarily not on the menu | OFF |
| They lead prayers in mosques | IMAMS |
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