The Telegraph – Cryptic – Mar 23 2018

Clues	Answers
Bird’s bit of fun	LARK
Candid female blasting off in row	RANK
Capture sound of excited actor and daughter hugging French relation	TAPERECORD
Character in front of the bars at the Albert Hall in summer?	TREBLECLEF
Charge hospital department with evidence of neglect?	ENTRUST
Component of alphabet (Hebrew)	BETH
County with no barrier round — no real sign of alien invasion!	CORNCIRCLE
Everyone to be accommodated in empty houses or rooms	HALLS
Excellent group of caring Christians set up in lots of countries	ASIA
Fifty absent (half missing) in places of work	LABS
Firm favoured making bit of money	COIN
Green I spotted between river and lake — spring back	RECOIL
Grumble about the Left taking independent standpoint	BELIEF
Hugo Allen is such a footballer!	GOALKEEPER
Novel final item of furniture that can be blown up	INFLATABLE
Opportunities for celebration if seats can be arranged	FIESTAS

Clues	Answers
Oxford college attendant gives edict: Do good	BULLDOG
Peculiar scoundrel with admissions of debt	CURIOUS
Quiet female leading old chaps on — remarkable thing	PHENOMENON
Rex inclined to be ecstatic	RAPT
Sculptor, merry one? Oh, that’s unusual!	HENRYMOORE
Something on the floor, security device in town	MATLOCK
Stand-in worker joins the French place of worship	TEMPLE
Stories lacking freshness, start to finish	TALES
Swimmer making money one paper’s written about inside	CATFISH
Tennis player of yesteryear in a work of fiction	ASHE
Thrive, making pounds in time of prosperity	BLOOM
Top man, I will be standing by mother	MAXIMUM
Upset male model after party	DISCOMPOSE
Where to eat from tin with adolescent	CANTEEN
Wine and fish Eastern maiden served up	MEDOC
Winter sports feature has a Parisian faced with terrible risk	SKIRUN