The Telegraph – Toughie – Aug 3 2018

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Clues	Answers
‘Sorry’ uttered without ego	SAD
A response primarily covering all points?	ANSWER
Check for slips, dwelling on interior to residence	PROOFREAD
Climbing nuts endlessly imagine San Francisco’s peaks, days away from explicit source of its instability?	SANANDREASFAULT
Defender’s point, having a jersey on	APOLOGIST
Demand exotic incense	MADDEN
Denial overturned with regular bans: it needs wholly positive input for positive result	AND
Disgraceful ring English degree holder infiltrates	DEGRADING
English title for a woman’s letters	EMS
Falsify rejection of corrupt fake	DOCTOR
From last game, staying in charge for medical treatment	OFFICINAL
Listen to jazz track on vinyl	GROOVE
Most senior set led dancing	ELDEST
No angel, not polite, not without love and not wise	IMPRUDENT
One no longer playing Othello in West Country area?	EXMOOR

Clues	Answers
One offers protection to head straight across wood	HELMET
Painting, frequently run work, is up for art collection	PORTFOLIO
Prophet’s book somehow hazier about church area	ZECHARIAH
Reckless driving enthusiast that’s beginning to block motorway route	MRTOAD
Scary cocktail containing acid	STARTLING
See edict otherwise abandoned by Edward V	VICTOR
Showing envy and gluttony, encompassing mounting lust and ending in pride	GREENEYED
Slow-moving peak and hollow converge to the centre	TORPID
Some Tutsi, e.g., tie Zulus to the West’s periodic ethos	ZEITGEIST
Stage with live backing	ERA
Support over opening line on tactical information	LINTEL
Terrible tedium overwhelming in last month’s host	MULTITUDE
Trying to engage current soldiers, skilled in bonding unit?	Experimentation
What might be interpreted as matter for informal sport	RUGGER
Wife mostly wearing decoration for walk	GOMISSING