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 |