The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2023 10 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Oldest evergreen on street FIRST
One coming in to join one in army SOLDIER
Recovered and exchanged a series of shots RALLIED
Shrink departs -- con hasn't succeeded DWINDLE
Sign on closet for personal assistants SECRETARIES
Special rest day, so wandered off STRAYED
Strain representing church FORCE
Tackle difficulty leader of Democrats ignored HARNESS
Theft? Criminal nearly caught breaking in LARCENY
Unsophisticated, born in humble terrace? LOWBROW
Vegetable, primarily chewy and unpleasant CHARD
Mischievous troublemaker -- girl men reformed GREMLIN
Loewe's partner impressing a pupil LEARNER
Harshly criticise a bank clerk heard getting cigar PANATELLA
German bread taken round end of festival STOLLEN
Comic, pocketing change, beginning to mimic daydreamer WALTERMITTY
Boring campanologists should get doubles DEADRINGERS
Blot out imperfect pieces, about fifty ECLIPSE
Antique found in manor-house in large bag HOLDALL
THREE OF A KIND, TWO OF A KIND, AND A TYPE OF FLUSH PAIRROYAL
Post-Victorian hostilities suppressed by press chief and I, unwisely EDWARDIAN
Part of proposal for developing English city SALFORD