Here are the answers to Irish Times (Simplex) Crossword puzzles Thursday August 17 2017.

Add the small child – TOT
Assignments, chores – DUTIES

Beautiful queen of Egypt – CLEOPATRA
Came to an end – CEASED
Carefully considered and restrained – MEASURED
Cut into thin strips – SHREDDED
During the time that – WHILE
Elephant-driver – MAHOUT
Former, previous – ERSTWHILE
Grey metamorphic rock – SLATE
Imps, rascals – SCAMPS
Incident, occurrence – EVENT
Mark an occasion with festivities – CELEBRATE
Musical instruments – PIANOS
Nearer in space or time – CLOSER
Objective – AIM
Of a female – HER
Of the sun – SOLAR

Official representing a country abroad – DIPLOMAT
Passages between seating areas – AISLE
Postal token – STAMP
Ran away – BOLTED
Recipients of medical care – PATIENTS
Regard with suspicion – MISTRUST
Rigorous, severe – STRICT
Saying again – REPEATED
Second of two – LATTER
Self-assured and positive – ASSERTIVE
Set free, discharged – RELEASED
Stay on – REMAIN
Strained or emphasised – STRESSED
Take food – EAT
Tore roughly – RIPPED
Ways out – EXITS
Woody tropical grass – BAMBOO
World-weary – BORED