The Telegraph – Toughie – Jan 7 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Solutions |
| A fly going up bikini |
TANGA |
| Card player put in virtually double for joker |
CLOWN |
| Contents of cellar Neuburger and Claret — luckily all for opening? |
TABLESALT |
| Disappear, somehow like gas masks on worried faces |
GOWALKIES |
| Doffing cap, gallant on frequent occasions |
NIGHTLY |
| Elder beyond old, as native American |
OSAGE |
| Free country holding Nationalist officer back |
UNLOCK |
| Gangster, warmer one |
SCARFACE |
| Getting kiss finally, quickie, one’s off on a long journey |
SPACEMAN |
| I’m astonished! A shed converted into fruit shop! |
HABERDASHERY |
| In US, a Texas capital, possibly? |
AUSTIN |
| Kill fish then tailless rat |
GARROTTE |
| Long-distance runner cut over peak in Nepal |
SEVERN |
| Man secreting a note, as source for copper |
MALACHITE |
| Maybe I am behind first of lapwings, flock of geese going overhead? |
VOWEL |
| Clues |
Solutions |
| One curing heartbreak? Inspiring film song of the Fifties |
LOVEMETENDER |
| Orderly’s contract |
TRIM |
| Possibly sleeping in solitude, baby turning over |
ABED |
| Practical joke on jerk |
LEGPULL |
| Rejected role, cross, having to go up a hole leading to the stage |
TRAPDOOR |
| Roman once dropping in by way of the country |
LATVIA |
| Seen before dawn, very rare bird |
REDSTART |
| Serious mark of a French writer? |
GRAVE |
| Show characters around Asian island, as mystic |
CABALIST |
| Sloth, one I cannot fancy |
INACTION |
| Survive hunger, as fit |
BELONG |
| Thirsty, English drink uncorked? |
EAGER |
| Well-groomed tree |
SPRUCE |
| Who’s on an unmanned spacecraft keeping dry part of the rocket? |
NOSECONE |
| Wingers for Chelsea ineffectual, lacking goals |
CAUSELESS |