The Telegraph – Toughie – Mar 8 2018
Published in The Telegraph Toughie Crossword. Tags: ABSINTHE, GUTTURAL, Paris, SYLPHLIKE.
Clues |
Answers |
Book into space ship and board |
EMBARK |
Cut off paisley pants making old-fashioned sight |
ESPIAL |
Decorative work the creation of lipstick-wearing drinker? |
STAINEDGLASS |
Divert coach back into underpass |
SUBWAY |
Draw fleet out as vessels coming from Holland |
DELFTWARE |
Drink in kitchen, where you may hear a pin drop |
BOWLINGALLEY |
Express frustration about rotten leek, having thrown away last vegetable |
CELERY |
Extremists in Twitter dying to be this? |
TRENDING |
Fellows standing in for you and me in holiday month maybe make more |
AUGMENT |
German joiner’s identity annulled |
UNDID |
Graceful, shy elk with lip trembling |
SYLPHLIKE |
Head of Research taken on by Auntie Eleanor’s drink corporation? |
BEERBELLY |
Is coaching at first to box |
TEACHEST |
It may be more difficult for Londoners to express warmth |
ARDOUR |
Clues |
Answers |
Kids’ coverage influenced broadcast |
SUEDE |
Location of card game vulnerable to robbery |
LOOTABLE |
Looks at Express, say, or issue of Observer |
EYESTRAIN |
One cutting words once on poster for Paris concert by Sonny? |
ETCHER |
One hatching plots against P Pan? |
CHOOK |
One replacing character, perhaps to avoid offending star |
ASTERISK |
Position that applies to across clue after 90-degree rotation? |
BACKSTOP |
Resist Old Pretender’s initial claim |
OPPOSE |
Sends message beforehand, perhaps, to give excuses |
PRETEXTS |
Spin, following Sun’s lead? A body that does |
SATURN |
Stylish artist regularly appearing with a couple of unknowns |
RITZY |
This bean’s distilled into alcohol |
ABSINTHE |
Throaty — sounds like it might be to do with drainage? |
GUTTURAL |
What bowler might use hits target at 16 |
TOPSPIN |