The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2019 11 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Spirit being overcome by sin -- it extends over a few years LUSTRUM
VARIATION IN GAME NEEDING CUE NIMROD
Sweep of eras looking back, hard to avoid SCOPE
Quiet trick from one who feels no guilt? PRIG
Rugby success -- one's getting on in this sort of play TRAGEDY
Line of planks in slope at end of street STRAKE
Detective starts to learn some snippets MORSELS
Drunks turned up holding up vessels in church STOUPS
French city trip curtailed by unpleasant person TOULOUSE
Military officer, post-war planner seen as inadequate MARSHAL
Rail against educationist that's made a mistake BOOBED
Say in course of story-telling what befalls poor team? RELEGATION
Something sweet, additive mostly included in medicine? DEXTROSE
Special vessel NASA's newly developed in Land of Opportunity ARKANSAS
What's naughty about maiden, maybe being put in reduced circumstances IMPOVERISH
Suitable food, for non-vegetarian, we hear MEET
Country's beginning to mushroom -- so Scotsman introduced population theory MALTHUSIANISM
Characters not flustering when losing one legal document LETTERSPATENT
Embarrassed Dickensian character is keeping quiet? The opposite SHEEPISH
A sneer -- this destroyed enthusiasm HEARTINESS
Tongue as starter for meal in train TAMIL
Bottomless foundation? Gosh, it's very big! ROOMY
Bird's first need having flown north -- possible site for nest? BLACKTHORN
Whale in two locations near Ibiza ORCA
Wild animal -- a particular continent's rhino EURO
DULL THING TO DISCUSS -- NO CONCLUSION REACHED MATTE