The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 01 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Love, as it happens, oily fruit OLIVE
American aboard a new train, one coming from Vienna? AUSTRIAN
Staunch supporter rightly depressed TRUEBLUE
Hotel guest let team inside RESIDENT
What cover may be doing for novelist FIELDING
Idle type finished around mid-afternoon DRONE
Film amazing Thailand win against Italy WITHNAILANDI
Despicable blokes initially tenanted bottom floor? BASEMENT
Short story about bird's claw TALON
Pick up summary of events? RESUME
Object of worship in orchidology IDOL
Leader's spoken about current, after current seen rising EDITORIAL
Beat female record FLOG
Improvise showing ingenuity bottling blended gin WINGIT
Unaware of plain surrounding lake and island OBLIVIOUS
Some curds, or tofu in a way SORTOF
Holding cracked tureen TENURE
Tread nervously in business TRADE
From bad to worse -- Bertie, perhaps WOOSTER
Important stuff MATERIAL
Pigeon in middle of arboretum HOMER
Aplenty, popular digging tools INSPADES