Irish Times (Crosaire) - December 12 2019 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 12 2019  

Clues	Answers
Boss fined over writing to intimate acquaintance	FRIEND
Channel Islands' connections to London and Paris	CITIES
Chill in brand new castle from the start	KEEPFRESH
Confusion in a street over Shinto shift workers	ASTONISHMENT
Decide on bar to steal from	PICKLOCK
Description of Robinson Crusoe by a Bandon journalist	STRANDED
Devout type of teller from the start gets bank job	THEIST
Disrespectful dismissing culprit's supplies	FEEDS
Half of the characters in 1 down contact forger as he knows his way around Yale?	LOCKSMITH
It's a feature of the Mediterranean that this divides the Greeks and the Turks	AEGEANSEA
It's fine, for example, to sell drugs around Ulster	PUNISH
Last drugs deal with partygoer	ATTENDEE
Line managers dishing out greens with chicken	ANIMAL
Loses the head on drink and goes into Alcoholics Anonymous - will the cardiologist be able to handle it?	AORTA
Made an impression on writer briefly with director	MARKED
Make up stories and lies on the greatest lead singer with One Direction	FICTIONALISE
Mascot in play describes being confined to a cell all day	MONASTIC
Moves by spymaster releasing army	STEPS
Novel by Old Bob and Ben in Scotland is written with a nod to Orwell	NEWSPEAK
Odd thing is - this is one for the stars	NIGHT
One of those with bug let siren off	LISTENER
Pay attention to The Last Word - it's the epitome of deep thought	CONCENTRATED
Presumably, the first males in The Bible with greybeards?	OLDMEN
Ream from East German spies	AGENTS
Session in court fabricating extreme falsehoods setting up numerous potential partners	MATCHMAKINGS
Take a draw when not at home - with this approach there's no hiding place	SMOKEOUT
Wild yeast and a fair amount of the pasta flour on view is staring one in the face	EASYTOSEE
Without failing to grasp it, Dan is out of gin and tonic	NOTICING