The Telegraph – Cryptic – Mar 9 2018

Clues	Answers
Always getting caught in police trap, manoeuvring car?	STEERING
Band of specially trained troops on top of hotel	SASH
Bank inadequate — this person’s experience for a second time	RELIVE
Bill about to enter woodland that’s divine	FORECAST
Bird — that which covers short distance	WHINCHAT
City offering quiet repose? No, upset!	PRESTON
Commanding officer with onset of hunger tucked into cheese roll	BRIOCHE
Conservative is on adventure to achieve victorious outcome	CONQUEST
Country artist starts to enjoy landscape on far side of island	ISRAEL
Despatched from ‘ere in a few words?	SENTENCE
Fellow hugging one companion, soldier going round American state	MICHIGAN
Fragile insect around is getting maiden hiding	FLIMSY
From what we hear, discharges stop abruptly	FREEZE
Funny chap Eric brought to head for indolence	IDLENESS
Give one award for playing for being put at a disadvantage	HANDICAP
Good American, he had demonstrated sentimentality	GUSHED

Clues	Answers
Holy group beginning to voice our relish	SAVOUR
Make sense of marine unit	FATHOM
Money put down — little time to waste for Oriental drink	SAKE
Moving with aim to settle in Herts town	TRENDING
Ms Blyton turns up to have a meal	DINE
Old boys in maul after reunion	ALUMNI
Pipe in underground passage changed at the entrance	FUNNEL
Seductive females full of anger — they want blood!	VAMPIRES
Settle down temporarily in enclosure with a politician	ENCAMP
Sheep falling over trap in border area	MARGIN
Sort of business person no longer given beer	EXPORTER
Traduced mum showing furrowed brow, we hear?	MALIGNED
Trip in vessel ending in Greece with happiness spreading round	JOURNEY
Unnatural pose to employ in embrace	ESPOUSE
Victoria describes one drunkard	SPONGE
What curiously is the opposite of 22?	THAW