The Telegraph – Toughie – Jun 6 2018

Clues	Answers
1 Down given leave to include Mike’s cover for 23	HELMET
Anaesthetic introduced to little man restrained	TETHERED
Border secured in record time — it won’t last	EPHEMERA
Broadcaster first-rate and free	AUNTIE
Coin two Europeans invest in school	EDUCATE
Criminally endorse last thirteen letters?	ABET
Ellington initially inclined to throttle pub trumpeter	ELEPHANT
First note in French newspaper that’s refreshing	LEMONADE
Graduates down in foreign capital upset official	AMBASSADOR
Is tango right in number for ancient instrument?	SISTRUM
Liberal, for instance, needing former partner	AMPLE
Measure of extent of Crusaders’ objective?	ACRE
Men designate good works as embellishment	ORNAMENT
Monkey overturned stuff doctor put in place	MARMOSET
Old authors echo identical means to achieve result	OPENSESAME

Clues	Answers
On track to sell direct	RETAIL
Paper hammered in article editor ran	APPEARED
Point made about learner being an idiot	DOLT
See pressure in rising river’s slipped away	ELOPED
Show less restraint in puzzle	BEWILDER
Summit leader in crisis	HEAD
This blows up general tortured by Resistance	ENLARGER
Tiresome types speak thus in due course	ATLENGTH
Tools and skip used in business	PAWNSHOP
Traders tempt one wickedly in shop	DEPARTMENTSTORE
Trilby’s first in hat box for this?	TITLE
Trout supplier disoriented in butchers?	SCHUBERT
Variant mallard duck assimilates one protected species	ARMADILLO
Went through stoplight rounding car for late trip	REHEARSED