The Telegraph – Toughie – Jun 7 2018

Clues	Answers
Appetisers requiring more cutting on board	STARTERS
Apprehends, reportedly making arrest	SEIZE
Bank raised charge about European state again	REITERATE
Catch holding saw with its centre splitting mitre?	HEADGEAR
Chances secure with odds for the first time	PROSPECT
Circles tortuous unknown roads, not seeing openings	TURNS
Extricated snooker ball, gripping top of ‘snooker stick’	RESCUED
Flash live in the morning	BEAM
Follow on, follow around man endlessly	SEGUE
French river carries current leading to sea	MARINE
Go west in latitude, going west, getting darker	MOODIER
In pain GI’s nicely holding up decoration	INSIGNIA
In time sweetheart’s performed blue jokes for change	TRANSMUTE
Like pig that’s knocked back fruit in ecstasy	PORCINE
Literal race on motorway	MISPRINT
Member of clergy one’s found in their workplace?	MINISTER

Clues	Answers
One owes money due but with order empty	DEBTOR
Poor hovel’s not hot but cold	SCANTY
Prince formerly with his purple stuff? That’s right	RAINIER
Promotion of English knight after elevation	RISE
Quarrel beginning to end in slaps	PATS
Retreat from remains on capsized wreck	ASHRAM
Runs from former wife’s threats, oddly	EXTRAS
Saw house through an optical device	APHORISM
Shooting deer, shot holding end of rifle	MUSKETRY
Small enclosure holds ring before mass brawl	SCRIMMAGE
Stand male up, accepting wedding vow is rejected	PODIUM
Support died for actor	BRAD
They believe in first dividing from the French	DEISTS
Topless partners scream and go too far	OVERSHOOT
Trend to consume edible less filling dish	TUREEN
Vehicle was blue, perhaps	MOPED