The Telegraph – TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,204 – April 3 2019
Published in The Telegraph Toughie Crossword. Tags: Heartless Blue Peter, Marxist Vietnam, PENALISE, Rolling Stones.
| Clues | Answers |
| & 11 Across What many Ecuadorian truckers must do to annoy? | DRIVE |
| ‘Buy any?’ posed by odd characters in Arles and, say, Venice and Whitstable festivals | BIENNIALS |
| A wrong meaning | ASIN |
| Ample fog to stir up total disaster | MEGAFLOP |
| Bill that amuses by getting on court | OLDBAILEY |
| Butt of cigar ekes out smokes | REEKS |
| Cute revolutionary Cubist swapping sides in Cork | CHERUBIC |
| Diplomacy is about key game plan | TACTICS |
| Disadvantage in a sleep being disrupted | PENALISE |
| Fish hook | BARB |
| Flapping about like Rupert’s trousers? The opposite | UNCHECKED |
| Heartless Blue Peter clip playing on YouTube perhaps | PERCEPTIBLE |
| How the French describe their own intellect | NOUS |
| Hypocrisy and spite I’m battling | PIETISM |
| Impractical person’s to-do file | IDEALIST |
| In biryani, mismatched items from nature providing soul food? | ANIMISM |
| Love not left in grimly acted out drama | TRAGICOMEDY |
| Most guarded and, so it’s said, most like literary king | LEERIEST |
| Online chat about ear, nose and throat, but teeth? None | EDENTATE |
| Overturn fork out where yew is called for to replace what’s left of spruce | UPEND |
| See 9 Across | BANANAS |
| Sent back in Marxist Vietnam, second left-of-centre leader | COMMANDER |
| Source of Old Trafford’s talent production line? | MANUFACTORY |
| Spectacular opening to album in ‘Rolling Stones in LA’ | SENSATIONAL |
| They’re on track to win | ATHLETES |
| This may have a bearing on one’s progress | COMPASS |
| Tizzes over fizz | SODA |
| Vegetable knife cut tell-tale rejected outside leaves | LETTUCE |
| With end of Satanism, Lucifer may become forgiving | MERCIFUL |
| Writer leaves legendarily faithful wife to do a moonlight flit | ELOPE |