The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2023 09 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
River near tree bordering a field REALM
Press covering last letter from George Best CREAM
Commotion in dictator's steep ditch BROUHAHA
Bent coppers ousting first team's leader from position APTITUDE
Beat shy opener for bounce, missing wicket THROB
Potato in Indian fine, or a pudding served up cold? ALOOF
Search among adult bodies adrift at sea DISCOMBOBULATED
The same European bird passing over India EQUAL
Established measures nearly all acknowledge ENSCONCED
Wifeless worker at seam finding ancestor? ELDER
African disease is avoided? BERBER
Excellent returns shown by two accounts in plant ACACIA
Fuss after Kipling hero backs emperor MIKADO
In which no axe cut yet if so ordered? STAYOFEXECUTION
Lesbian perhaps seen topless? That's defamation SLANDER
Liberal deserting Midlands region for more remote one? BACKCOUNTRY
A park pitch reconstructed around area -- it's official APPARATCHIK
Planet almost consumed in flood SATURATE