Irish Times (Crosaire) - May 8 2017

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Backs out of black spot in parcel of land PLOT
Battered team players finish with different cuts MEATS
By the way, leave it in power boat PARK
Colourful type clinches deal - it's a great reward for working with someone with the Midas touch GOLDENHANDSHAKE
Gent's cocktail for spy LOOK
Hearing one that is flawed in film version of The Tunnel in retrospect MISTRIAL
Her career's damaged by investigator RESEARCHER
Is nervous about a new tenor with a song sung by those overseas SHANTY
Is this how one jumps to conclusions perhaps when one is not at school? ONTHEHOP
Learn about some cr?me de menthe - a refreshment HEAR
Lets slip the final mysteries post-The Troubles SPILLS
Lighten up, as small branch isn't finished up North SLIMDOWN
Man takes new wife to One Direction with Lewis and Harris, among others, in Scotland HEBRIDES
Old foreign capital gets English lawyer from Unionist Party? ESCUDO
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Only withdraws from black economy for recovery COMEBACK
Physical substance provides energy for little singer in American city ENTITY
Prepare the ground for what one might do before retiring MAKETHEBED
Puts the knife in perhaps as poets are nasty OPERATES
Refuse to squander what classroom figure is given for a test WASTEPAPER
Ridiculous fashion cutbacks at Square DAFT
Small place over crude lounge SPRAWL
Smartly dressed priest in study retires DAPPER
Standing on the outskirts of state apparatus STATUS
Such a temperamental piece of contempt HATE
The second Playboy, for example, is covering someone taking part UNDERSTUDY
Top guard has drugs on the brain? HEADGEAR
Twisted with a criminal record in action DEFORMED
Woods alarms the golfers on first two at St Andrews FOREST