The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2018 11 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
CONTRARIAN ALMOST FINISHED COURSE ANTIPASTI
Frenzied comic in amusing clothes, making comeback MANIC
Person recruited starts to examine food chain in water REEF
Pets barked in long grass PAMPAS
Short-lived recording by male republican during repast EPHEMERAL
Sort of weapons I secure in wagons heading for the West STRATEGIC
Steps character in Marathon describes close to camera LAMBADA
Fool new official? They will be gutted NUMPTY
Novelist, short drinker, welcomes turn over on piano in the Old Vic? JOANNATROLLOPE
Claim by kid is idle talk, in hindsight BAGSI
Messenger regularly ignored old slave ESNE
Maybe tip ale over, amidst expression of disgust FREEBIE
Bet chap's a food writer ELIZABETHDAVID
I could have sworn tourist might say this in Paris? EXCUSEMYFRENCH
Hip fixed using implant INSET
Heartless private lifted small island's torpor INERTIA
After manager's ultimate letter, see bank RELY
Dawn follows quiet sauntering by lake with a cocktail TEQUILASUNRISE
Dry run one's taken in dodgy Nissan to find notorious school STTRINIANS
Write back, attaching form for family member NEPHEW
Sweet enthusiast collars American in charge of flying AERONAUTIC
Child gets stuck into mineral that's brownish-yellow OCHRE
As leftovers are visible to everyone, tidy up UNEATEN
Art school in county, not quite the greatest, seldom unoccupied SURREALISM
Area in Albanian capital that's a hole LEAK
British organisation discussed quarter's produce BRINGFORTH
WOMAN'S GIVEN PRIMARY CABIN ON BOARD? BERTHA
ONE AWFULLY TIPSY HAVING DRAINED LAST OF RED AROUND PUB? OENOPHILE