Irish Times (Crosaire) - Oct 10 2019

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Add a touch of sparkle as Judge Russell is up first AERATE
Blunt with worker taken down by a person of note perhaps SHORTHAND
Cause trouble offering a college place in retrospect ACTUP
Crafty types in American city all make a comeback like the stars ASTRAL
Cut grass around old flood defence near Dublin to reduce costs MARKDOWN
Drunk very sour type on site for good measure perhaps SURVEYOR
Editorials dismiss diet with salt? SAILOR
Has to have grape juice and it's unavoidable NEEDSMUST
Is patient with most of the animals around island STOIC
Julius Caesar got rid of juries - how flippant is that? CASUAL
Lost on Mars? For such a fee, this will get you back! RANSOM
Maid from Middle East is not the youngest ELDEST
Mixed with a society model and writer ASSORTED
Note to police in charge is very bitter ACIDIC
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Opens 18 across at dance for most of 13 across and all the players FOOTBALLTEAM
Put in sets of wild salsify behind head of cabbage CLASSIFY
Sides of butcher's meats TEAMS
Son is involved in corrupt coterie and that's difficult to understand ESOTERIC
Star loses the head, is supported and isn't punished UNSANCTIONED
That woman is on record as initially saying family provides a lot of warmth for member of flock SHEEPSKIN
The local faces at contest of benefit to no one (3'1,4) MUGSGAME
The spear carriers, perhaps around Tarsus, expecting war FOOTSOLDIERS
The staff down to the bare bones presumably working on the archaeological dig SKELETONCREW
Those at the end of 18 across taken on by a major employer SOLDIERS
Tony, for example, for boy off Broadway AWARD
Went back to Rick in grass RETURNED
What the cutting staff did presumably with local drugs? Smoked! BLOWDRIED
Widow's due around noon - for the locals it's a depressing experience DOWNER