Here are the answers to Irish Times (Crosaire) Crossword puzzles Friday August 18 2017.

A place in Italy for the locals – it is around Calabrian capital with a fragrant disposition – AROMATIC
Awkward relation from the East – ORIENTAL

Bitter type sacrificed missing refs – ACIDIC
Boredom is central to French university – ENNUI
Card game in Split – SNAP
Catholic comprehensive? – ECLECTIC
Cites Iliad rewritten for a Utopian audience – IDEALISTIC
Coward found on the outskirts of Wicklow swamp – WIMP
Ends war amidst group activism – PACT
For example, weight training protects that yoke by the sound of it? – EGGWHITE
Gathering coal is messy – SOCIAL
Improve the life of workers arriving on time putting things in the ground – ENRICHMENT
It comes down from above – Garda operation covering North Strand mostly – RAINDROP
It’s open to journalists to squeeze sound pair – PRESSCONFERENCE

Local fight with head is advantageous to a factory worker – MILLWRIGHT
Loose wrap to go with bit of burrito garnish – TOGA
Miserable route is just more of the same around institute – PATHETIC
Moving alternative outing around Switzerland – TOUCHING
Press club can’t be found going around Spain – CLOSET
Raises donations in pub dinner – INDIAN
Reconnect a railway in part – that’s sweet and can be seen over the flowers – NECTAR
Run to ground in Ring? – CORNER
Seed holders lying around potting sheds – PODS
Select group loses head with informer from one bunch of intellectuals – LITERATI
Sounds like something heard in the past at job centre in New York perhaps – LATINO
Straight man with a comic partner is Scotch – FOIL
Top impresario produces huge alternative to Hair – BIGWIG
Tuscan seen travelling for food and drink – SUSTENANCE