Here are the answers to Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword puzzles Saturday August 19 2017.

Anoint sick in a large body of pAccent, stress – EMPHASIS
Allowing movement in a single direction – ONEWAY

Black substance in cigarettes – TAR
Debated, contended – ARGUED
Decay, disintegrate – DECOMPOSE
Device signalling danger – ALARM
Draught of medicine – POTION
Established line of travel – ROUTE
Furry growth of fungi – MOULD
Have being – EXIST
Instrument for recording the number of steps – PEDOMETER
Involving many – MULTIPLE
It’s said to make perfect – PRACTICE
Living things – BEINGS
Mixture of substances – SOLUTION
Morally wrong – UNETHICAL
Near, mean or humid – CLOSE
Norwegian inlets of the sea – FJORDS

Nuptial ceremonies – WEDDINGS
Part of a curve – ARC
Pixie, imp – ELF
Quickly and unexpectedly – SUDDENLY
Seabird with brightly coloured bill – PUFFIN
Similar – ALIKE
Slacks off – ABATES
Sleep-like, half-conscious state – TRANCE
Smoothly or impartially – EVENLY
Stop the motion, of a ball say – CATCH
The force of one body against another – IMPACT
They travel for pleasure – TOURISTS
Treeless plain of Russia – STEPPE
Up to the point that – UNTIL
Upper or outer sides – SURFACES
Voracious marine fish – BARRACUDA
What person? – WHO
Where rivers run fast – RAPIDS