The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 08 11

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Number one in non-fiction? AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Nick's next-door to vulgar working-class BLUECOLLAR
Mysteriously lust over articles showing dried food SULTANA
Worried if able to rescue vehicle LIFEBOAT
Local meeting's suppressing rent in part of Midlands DERBYSHIRE
Nearly make taps get too hot SCORCH
British miss spot where star used to appear BLACKHOLE
Romeo cuts 'babe' -- it's kind of amusing DROLL
Places on board or inside non-stop ferries? directorships
Strip off? That woman would SHED
Fake fur trade's disrupted FRAUDSTER
Retaliation from adder possibly in fix COUNTERATTACK
Near miss in traffic -- loses haversack CLOSESHAVE
? CLUELESS
Some 'dirty rat' in Ukrainian revolutionary collective UNITARY
First light vacation accompanying date DAYBREAK
Taking up rugby added lines to husband -- a tearaway once! HOTSPUR
Drivers keeping learner in second place in Texas ALAMO
More fierce ladies maybe pop off to board British Rail BLOODIER