The Telegraph – Toughie – Apr 19 2018

Clues	Answers
Accepted view of forerunner of Seventies Music contains the odd loose ends	ORTHODOXY
Arrive to collect missing centrepiece, and something it could go on in snug	COMFORTABLE
Bats circling	LOOPY
Big guns embracing introduction of international regulation	ORDINANCE
Cleo’s killer caught after I clear stuff pork pies may conceal?	ASPIC
Colloquially it’s a drag, losing old sword	SABRE
Corrupted a great society — it’s enough to make you weep	TEARGAS
Country estate perhaps first in bloom	CARNATION
Description exposing fake jewel put up for quite a few pounds	MEGATON
Express indifference towards quiet runner?	SHRUG
In irrational optimism, invest billion in plant	EUPHORBIA
Instrument breaking into jaunty air in Italian course	RAVIOLI
It’s salty and impertinent, in essence, having a comeback	NITRE
Judge you and me et al in process of declining	REFUSAL

Clues	Answers
Knock down property that’s the first in its block in double figures?	FLATTEN
League clubs formed of any creed	CONFEDERACY
Lock, perhaps, that was broken by journalists in DC	WATERGATE
Malignant contents of package?	BALEFUL
New love blossoming — the French story	NOVELLA
One drawing building	TOWER
One fighting for rights — urge staff to revise note	SUFFRAGETTE
Online images perhaps for major stories	EPICS
Perhaps flat round ordinary rods	DOWELLING
Rule westerly part of Tangiers	REIGN
To perform redundant beauty treatment, I’ll dye light bristles	GILDTHELILY
To show respect, head of government cast vote for keeping rejected amusement	GENUFLECT
Upright piano parts stolen, we suspect	NEWELPOST
Voice of loudmouth warning of nebulous threat	FOGHORN