The Telegraph – Toughie – Jun 14 2018

Clues	Answers
A Big Apple affair? It’s not love	ANYTHING
Agent behind rise to go off with money	SOURDOUGH
Award regime conferred on knight, for doing as one’s told	OBEDIENT
Awful ballet with name cast	LAMENTABLE
Bandage hit male	SWATHE
Charge one’s placed on earl	IMPUTE
Diamonds may be expected here	ONTHECARDS
Dog stayed still between two men	ALSATIAN
Duck having bitten top off flower is in a bad way	NAUGHTILY
Face rejection of support by student	DIAL
Foreign ruler has Queen taking note	EMIR
I hear you are an American Olympian	URANUS
Iodine — it cleans round the bend, like starch?	INELASTIC
It’s said this setter admits material can contain such holes	EYELETS
Joint statement	ARTICULATION

Clues	Answers
Lead in ‘Endgame’ I’m acting badly — it’s obscure	ENIGMATIC
Mountain dweller who chews gum and betel with Bill when climbing	PANDA
Office staff stay in?	BATON
Old rustic brought up in unconventional way	BOHO
Pastry, not an entr�e perhaps	DISH
Pointless letter in academic press to Twitter	CHIRRUP
Redemption is a possibility with this takeover happening	COUPON
Retain memory of constant pain	CACHE
Scarlet woman’s item of jewellery creating a diversion	REDHERRING
Seaman in command safeguarding holy books of religious writings	TANTRIC
Streaming passages perhaps where Irish tin is mined	RHINITIS
The bean scale, to put it another way?	BALANCESHEET
Universal film star, after rejection, given a raise	UPPED
Viewing that’s a draw for Barbican	WATCHTOWER
Where dissidents were sent by heads of Soviet intelligence — one in particular	SIBERIA