The Telegraph – Toughie – Feb 23 2017 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
Advocate of traditional practices did ornate old instrument cases |
LUDDITE |
All alone, missing one after drink |
TOTAL |
Alleviate unsteady gait in time, undergoing treatment |
MITIGATE |
Attempts to get evidence overthrown in courts |
SPOONS |
Blows caught mouth? |
CLIPS |
Double string and cut off end |
TWIN |
Face beaten up, cut by a right, showing bottle |
CARAFE |
Fires consuming hotel and sheds |
SHACKS |
For just an instant, sound of organ |
HEARTBEAT |
Got reminder about antidote |
PROCURED |
Handbag in two parts? Nonsense! |
CLAPTRAP |
Is critical about one and is hurtful |
PAINS |
Likewise, no member of the hoi polloi |
ASWELL |
Main salon’s modified according to time of year |
SEASONAL |
More than one beautiful person breaks down, keeping quiet |
DISHES |
No good cultivating fruit |
RAISIN |
Clues |
Answers |
No good players left, having been pipped |
SEEDLESS |
One is wrong about French word for ‘feelings’ |
EMOTIONS |
Parents wear identification |
PASSPORT |
Plumbing installed to no purpose? |
WASTEPIPE |
Prepares for test in French, dreams one’s got through |
REVISES |
Quickly try to get to end of precis |
RUNDOWN |
Quite dry, sheltering in quarry |
PRETTY |
Riddle of motorway being obliterated in mist and downpour |
STRAIN |
Sends up a lot too high |
OVERBIDS |
Shows animal inside, frolicking about |
INDICATES |
Softens, going to pieces, doesn’t confess |
TONESDOWN |
Steal underwear |
SLIP |
Unwilling to take laziness, head dismissed |
LOTH |
Vulgarity often rejected by editor, to be replaced by literary stars? |
CURSE |
We’re paying for it and it’s a burden |
ONUS |
Witnesses witnessed entering with planks |
SEESAWS |