The Telegraph – Cryptic – May 16 2018

Clues	Answers
Amazed by nonsense, laughed loudly	GUFFAWED
Approach lacking a place for meeting	VENUE
Couple with no source of income beginning to regret salmon	PARR
Deduction in wages due to industrial action?	STOPPAGE
Entertainer talking about showing no sign of life	INERT
Facts drawn from a bid at auction	DATA
Fellow in military cap must be deprived	BEREFT
Gathering son wears same silly flash jewellery	ASSEMBLING
Go away clutching a member’s shock application	SHAMPOO
Grouse is good mature	GRIPE
Growing tendency in getting up dreadfully tired — not right!	RISINGTIDE
Hearing of part, sacrifice evidence of appeasement	PEACEOFFERING
Increase limit after favouring long prison sentence	PROLIFERATION
Lie born out of necessity?	INVENTION

Clues	Answers
Losing head, ditches new rules of behaviour	ETHICS
New bloggers in planned leisure facilities	BOWLINGGREENS
Opening piece must include quiet contemplation	INTROSPECTION
Plots putting prisoners in tower? Quite the opposite!	CONSPIRES
Postpone visit	STAY
Reporting organisation’s recent information caught in Express	NEWSAGENCY
Requirement for soldiers at breakfast?	TOAST
School’s principal asking about covering last of specific dismissals	SACKINGS
Sort of film you and I back	WESTERN
Still hang around drinking wine, disheartened	HOWEVER
Swear endlessly, adopting charter for courses	CURRENTS
Taking no notice of detective before second official letter	DISMISSIVE
Transport company that’s used by divers	AIRLINE
Turn with regard to product of cuts to body	GORE