The Telegraph Cryptic - Crossword Answers | 2024 01 08

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