Host Post Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. The colour of the royal hotel with a spectacular new convention centre (3)
  2. 4. An English Baroque architect famous for his churches, or is it his steaks? (9)
  3. 9. Stevie and Alain’s Belfast gem (2)
  4. 12. Bambino, Pi and Sano are known for it (5)
  5. 14. Ballydehob’s sweetest nut (8)
  6. 15. A vanilla-scented rapper’s baby or a house in Ballina
  7. 16. Matriarch of a cooking dynasty in East Cork (6)
  8. 17. Monthly magazine on a culinary theme with the Business Post (4,3,4)
  9. 18. It’s the foxy part of Barry Sun’s black beauty (5)
Down
  1. 2. Fortunate Patrick doesn’t do booze, but drinks this beer (5,5)
  2. 3. A metal plate on a hoof that’s been pouring perfect pints since 1957 in a hotel that’s nearly 200 years old (9)
  3. 5. You’re very cloudy Ma, and you’re very sour (6)
  4. 6. It’s a cardboard box (it so isn’t), a house with Lanfranchini ceilings and Le Labo in the loo (6)
  5. 7. Host House number (5,3)
  6. 8. First name of Ireland’s fastest straight to two-star chef (6)
  7. 10. Surname of a Scandinavian chef with Dublin’s only stars north of the Liffey (8)
  8. 11. Our house pour, how many Bs? (5)
  9. 13. Red-headed sommelier who counts to twelve (6)