The Telegraph – TOUGHIE CROSSWORD NO: 2,219 – April 30 2019
Published in The Telegraph Toughie Crossword. Tags: Italy, MEASURE, SEGMENTED, SMELLED.
| Clues | Answers |
| Aides working privately | ASIDE |
| Attractive area, very quiet venue of film studio | APPEALING |
| Barely sufficient society, principally one advancing cash | SLENDER |
| Boxer on day of victory demonstrating chi? | ALIVE |
| Brief union | COMPACT |
| Clumsy homeopaths dropping the prepared cleansing liquid | SHAMPOO |
| Contents of upset muscadet cask produced an effect | ACTED |
| Cunningly nested gem cleaved into sections | SEGMENTED |
| Delegated group to reach around a little bit over time | COMMITTEE |
| Doubtfully ethical, involving separate new chapter requiring special knowledge | TECHNICAL |
| Estimate consequence of ancient Briton consuming Chianti, say | PREDICT |
| First language one recalled going round Italy | INITIAL |
| Fliers love victims on board | OSPREYS |
| Framework we’re filling involving new drudgery | GRIND |
| Fugitive freezes, regularly skirting smoky atmosphere on end of ridge | REFUGEE |
| Grease-monkeys in disastrous mischance | MECHANICS |
| Grunting sound of shattered prophet quitting Hamlet’s castle | SNORE |
| Head of corporation’s serious, undergoing change of heart | MAYOR |
| Indecent fuss in support of former pupil | OBSCENE |
| Jumps up to find what might be after Alice? | SPRINGS |
| Leader fit to stop first son | CAPTAIN |
| Leader of tour intercepting hapless laggers who’d ultimately wandered from group | STRAGGLED |
| Lusted-after teacher caught in act | DESIRED |
| Most important person is turning to face the Queen, becoming louder? | NOISIER |
| Nine tricks of a rabbit mating display? | ABUNDANCE |
| Put out about female getting sack | RIFLE |
| Remedies of powerful Italian family head cut back | MEDICINES |
| Requires massages, it’s said | NEEDS |
| Short drink, certain to be of specified size | MEASURE |
| Suspected pirate died having penned lines | SMELLED |
| Synthetic, mouldable material; it’s making a comeback in building, mostly | PLASTIC |
| When owls fly in a gallant manner, we’re told | NIGHTLY |