Irish Times (Crosaire) - Dec 22 2017

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An evasive quality to one of the keys in providing a fair amount of access SHIFTINESS
Bitter police department consumed by agents retiring ACIDIC
Bookings for the players? GIGS
Choose, in the dictionary sense, type of mini going for a dip perhaps? PICKPOCKET
Cleared out of Red Sea craft ERASED
Detect joker in the pack might be a means of escape CATCHOUT
Duke of Edinburgh perhaps found in San Francisco town SCOT
Everyone from island goes a fair amount of the distance to party up north ALLIANCE
Give a synopsis of what skinhead said to the barber presumably CUTSHORT
Huge gas stove goes out VAST
Is this what the doctor will do looking for signs of life - as for the rest? (5,3'1,6) CATCHONESBREATH
It's becoming popular to open with 11 across with One Direction mostly away CATCHINGON
It's even covered up by hyperinflation FLAT
Look over accommodation - a hole for one of the loafers? EYELET
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Mellifluous type of suite on the radio SWEET
No sense in messenger offering the start of an idea GERM
Not sad, by and large, dropping Barney GLAD
One gets through to one of those with life in them despite The Troubles SURVIVOR
Opening 15 across with a bass to pick something up from The River CATCHAFISH
Party admits lots retiring could be full of energy DYNAMO
Proust drunk to the state of unconsciousness STUPOR
Show nothing of musical composition CONCERTO
Show off the plane - it's a Jumbo ELEPHANT
Sound from stable? BALANCED
Take cab from log cabins giving someone the slip LOSING
Tell the police locally about 100 on the border taking part in a conspiracy SCHEMING
Took care of sister and daughter NURSED
What was Rembrandt, for one, concealing in Somerset cherrywood? ETCHER