Irish Times Simplex - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
PERSECUTION OF AN ETHNIC GROUP POGROM
MIDDAY NOON
TWIGS OF WILLOW OSIERS
STATED POSITIVELY AND ASSERTIVELY INSISTED
Moving hurriedly, perhaps carelessly RUSHING
IMPARTED SKILLS OR KNOWLEDGE TAUGHT
CLASS, KIND OR CATEGORY TYPE
MILITARY PERSONNEL SOLDIERS
TRITE OR OBVIOUS REMARK BANALITY
LIES UNTRUTHS
ROMAN EMPEROR NOTORIOUS FOR VICE AND LUXURY NERO
PRE-CHRISTMAS SEASON ADVENT
BELIEFS, DOGMAS TENETS
SOME CONSIDER IT UNLUCKY THIRTEEN
HANKERINGS, YEARNINGS YENS
NOT CERTAIN UNSURE
SAYINGS WITH MEANINGS NOT OBVIOUS FROM THE WORDS IDIOMS
CHURCH MINISTER CLERIC
FASHIONS OR WAYS OF DOING STYLES
OBLIGATIONS, RESPONSIBILITIES DUTIES
DESPOT, AUTOCRAT TYRANT
FAVOURITISM SHOWN TO RELATIVES BY THOSE IN POWER NEPOTISM
''Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous ...'' (Robert Burns) BEASTIE
Candidly, sincerely HONESTLY
Fist-fighter PUGILIST
Italian almond biscuit BISCOTTI
Levels or ranks ECHELONS
Tunic worn by schoolgirl GYMSLIP
Song or poem that tells a story BALLAD
THEY'RE PUT UP TO BLOCK OR PROTECT BARRIERS
ONE ENSURES TERMS OF A WILL ARE CARRIED OUT EXECUTOR
LEFT OUT OMITTED