The Telegraph – Toughie – Jun 28 2018
Published in The Telegraph Toughie Crossword. Tags: ASTEROID, AVID, ENCYCLOPEDIA, FIZZLE, JEWELLED, RARE, Red Sea.
| 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 |