The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2019 08 28

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Is across the Channel in nothing less than moody reserve MODESTY
Shop hand, one working on attachment thanks to farmer's wife? RETAILER
Butterfly -- also a sign one's turned up in 23 Across COMMA
Confer with writer about proofing DUBBIN
Heading for 50th? Leave it out, that's ancient! OLDEN
Garbed for a change in Eastern fabric GABERDINE
Feller occasionally a parasite FLEA
Fragrant resin laurel emits internally ELEMI
Endlessly vamp chant MANTRA
'Be all ears' at 10 Down ATTEND
A bogus journalist getting red-faced ASHAMED
0-12' space in numerous cases OFTEN
Small core affected everyone present ALLCOMERS
Superficially tinker inside bonnet of American souped-up car HOTROD
With long legs raced extremely gracefully RANGY
Habitual pretender: old-maidish and head of school in addition POSSUM
Kid perhaps destined to be conventional HIDEBOUND
Where a sparrow might take a duck BIRDBATH
What a lifer does as part of keep fit? ALONGSTRETCH
Western Avenue in the news or half of Great North Road with better reason AFORTIORI
Parsons maybe going commando for crying out loud! NICHOLAS
Mob's coup plea concocted POPULACE
Raucous antelopes voiced in trailer? HORSEBOX
Note romantic name for diamonds TENNER
Me self-consciously about to get silk? MOIRE
Minute edited from chirpy daytime broadcast is source of internal discomfort HYPERACIDITY
Maria not one to put on scanty thong in the long run MARATHON
Lumpy, bumpy bus route TUBEROUS
Loss of old husband from depression: remains found in garden receptacle TRUG
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