The Telegraph – Cryptic – Apr 17 2018

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Clues	Answers
A useless editor’s shunned	AVOIDED
Amount for magic elixir about right	PROPORTION
Approving high value of bra	FAVOURABLE
Charlie Brown was this stressed	DRAWN
Concept I adored? Not quite	IDEA
Concerned with a child’s explanations	REASONS
Conservative scoundrel embarrassed after nothing happened	OCCURRED
Contend with wife’s opinion	VIEW
Detectives caught Edward subsequent to six balls being found	DISCOVERED
Diamonds free in Cambridgeshire city? Not by mistake	DELIBERATELY
Exchange broken cast-iron oven	CONVERSATION
Flower girl	VIOLET
Fool is last to get help	ASSIST
Force former lover to leave state	PRESS
Got confused on a bidet	OBTAINED

Clues	Answers
Half-heartedly shout downstairs	BELOW
Hammered nails, say, getting criticism	ANALYSIS
Held in wind — ruder sound	SURROUNDED
King, consumed by immoral acts, collapses	SINKS
Leaders of your little gang unfortunately turning nasty	UGLY
Lieutenant in complete retreat	SHELTER
Passionate, temperamental woman’s upset	AVID
Protection money?	INSURANCE
Resilience after 51 goes and daughter enters home	RESIDENCE
Small fish approaches thus crab moves	SIDEWAYS
Solution from politicians we rejected	ANSWER
Specified a pudding, initially? Tart	APPOINTED
Stand for the Queen, lifting gift	REPRESENT
They possess things boy wanted — rest oddly ignored	OWNERS
Unusual seaside problem	DISEASE