The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2020 08 28

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Had a dream -- was skipping half-heartedly HOPED
They are 5 twisted men, involved in scuffling I see ENEMIES
More than one kind empress or tsarina's captured SORTS
Music, hackneyed stuff that's supposed to enhance a film POPCORN
Considerate but grasping UNDERSTANDING
Veterans formed square OLDFASHIONED
Musical group or artist's carrying case ORCHESTRA
This person, volunteer with upturned collar, kind of European ITALIAN
Makes team tea, possibly? Specific info needed! DETAILS
Amounts of beef and lamb maybe needed with certain chaps in MEASUREMENTS
Bands that bring things to a close with a bow? RIBBONS
In which we learn about young woman going to space CLASSROOM
Well-armed character that squirms when caught OCTOPUS
Place I mentioned in communications INDIA
Transport pilots in waterway linking delta and sierra DRIVERS
Beloved newspaper -- American, from the South SUGAR
Relative sending a postcard? CORRESPONDING
Crying out for reconditioned engine to tour Germany NEEDING
Distance when flying to check carbon disasters ACCIDENTS
Unsettled, since he is from a far country CHINESE
Nothing odd about order book tycoon presented over part of year OCTOBER
Criticised houses neglected at first on a slope SLANTED
Stubborn and industrious types securing first and second ASSISTANT
Undeterred by discharge in river DESPITE
Deterioration rising, no one angry EROSION
View from Llandudno -- I nip out with a backward look OPINION
Crossing East, old spy changes stations DEPLOYS
Stood up to work, then sat OPPOSED