The Telegraph – Toughie – Jul 26 2018

Clues	Answers
Attention given to story initially reported on a previous date	EARLIER
Boss wanting change after power goes around pit	EMINENCE
Cricketer, wretched youngster, missing out on runs	BAT
Curate finally overcome, missing first religious festival	EASTER
Fermented ale and dour roll	ROULADE
Gather film of Broads to be distributed	ADSORB
I had expression of surprise over a Northern US resident	IDAHOAN
Layer-on of hands hath a relief brought about	FAITHHEALER
Location of washers below vents evenly put in recently	LAUNDERETTE
Machine offering some risk exciting to braindead men	ONEARMEDBANDIT
Make up for the grocery scales?	COUNTERBALANCE
Mostly cured, suppressing endless fever, revealing some pain?	BAGUETTE
Moving around on and off, nine a bed, sadly due, we hear, to be homeless	OFNOFIXEDABODE
Note Saturn misrepresented right here?	NEUTRONSTAR

Clues	Answers
Old family abroad, wasting year in Japanese island	OKINAWA
Old soccer star facing girlfriend? Perfectly fine till now!	BESTBEFOREDATE
Past name engraved in clock face across the square	DIAGONAL
Record-player control shifting one end of piece and start of other	STEREO
Ruler overthrowing Congress and King	XERXES
Soak with water to prepare for different function	RETRAIN
Soldier with head cut threatened merchant in drama	ANTONIO
Stuff of transfusion: A&E doctor encountering clot in hospital at first	HAEMOGLOBIN
Treatment of our veins neglecting one of psychiatric symptoms	NERVOUS
Unconscious, having head swiped in fight	OUT
Understand answer before inserting noun, fool	DINGBAT
Unwell? Fine to avoid everything one can eat	ILL
Victorian bounder’s capacity to dodge getting married	ROO
What’ll hold sparrow? Offer tree around river	BIRDLIME