The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
One beset by fat landowner LAIRD
Head of church needing part in soap opera POPE
Friend supporting set pieces above all ESPECIALLY
Workers employed by editor to improve text EMEND
What stomach may do after chef's first sweet dish CRUMBLE
Weirdly, retail do made-to-measure TAILORED
Spoilt little devil given publicity IMPAIRED
... upsetting odd Italian extra ADDITIONAL
Relative tease, going topless AUNT
Preserve food if angry about bungled raid IRRADIATE
Look! A female showing common sense ... LOAF
Free trade -- empty promise producing complex paperwork REDTAPE
Helpful lag expected to conceal shortfall ULLAGE
Item in office -- Guardian perhaps -- on Conservative effrontery PAPERCLIP
Fail to arrive before a policeman arrests king COMEACROPPER
City pair stay intermittently PISA
Article on strong drink -- a painful condition ANGINA
Artist's record held by criminal courts SCULPTOR