The Telegraph – Toughie – Jun 28 2018

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Clues	Answers
All you need to know is in this new play, I concede	ENCYCLOPEDIA
Around six, Bill is hungry	AVID
Birds flying from either end of museums	EMUS
Continue to avoid eastern part of Red Sea	REMAIN
Count departs terminus	DEPEND
Cowboy town foreshadows the end of rustler and trickster	DODGER
Doris ate cooked starfish	ASTEROID
Endlessly windy poet’s taking over competition site	DRAUGHTBOARD
Fat jerk discovered where food is kept	LARDER
Got paper after a hundred died	ACQUIRED
Hasty Queen beheaded devil	QUICK
Host put illicit rum with my round	MULTIPLICITY
I have to enter fight or surrender	WAIVER
In abandoned rehearsal sent back crowd	HERD
In light rain, doctor is fine to go out	FIZZLE
In Paris, the writer and journalist will welcome spring to get stoned	JEWELLED

Clues	Answers
Losing head, grieve for heron	EGRET
Occupies and destroys ability to influence others	PEOPLESKILLS
Olympian’s unscrupulous boxing tactic for opening	IMMORTAL
Pivot left in chopper	AXLE
Poet removing king’s watch	VIGIL
Restaurant’s pie containing two mystery ingredients, right one appetising at first	PIZZERIA
Restrain degenerate coming after bishop	BRAKE
Result of engagement in battle?	WARBRIDE
Retreat from former geek’s passion?	EXIT
Run away, holding eleven billion litres in plastic	FLEXIBLE
Run time backwards — that’s unusual	RARE
Strike over hand getting fruit	PAWPAW
Surrender offspring in hearing	CEDE
Trick Jack with copy	JAPE
When Toughies come out, needing 25% extra time, feeble bewilderment may be heard	WEEKDAYS
Yogi’s follower pushing out two ducks to get in the morning grass	BAMBOO