The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2020 01 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Conductors head off social climbers? USHERS
Stay frenziedly ingesting drug, getting purple AMETHYST
Shoe uppers a botcher's 'helping' to make SABOT
Believe in cure ultimately following surgery OPINE
Invention about left Wooster short; big bet coming unstuck -- fool! FLIBBERTIGIBBET
Handyman exposes truth over corporation FACTOTUM
Deleting act from Magna Carta involved reordering ... ANAGRAM
Bet from elder, say, bringing in 'barrel' TREBLE
16 predicaments JAMS
Acquire said crock? EARN
Shining land ALIGHT
Acute observation from Kelvin hereunder, regularly associated with you KEENEYE
... secreting file within intricate inner base ENDOCRINE
Include Aussie oaf in one's farce MOCKERY
Cuisine from Ontario failing to engage daughter TANDOORI
Old cart traps mater uncomfortably in conduit WATERMAIN
Customary solids offering flavoursome ingredients STOCKCUBES
Unknown leaves from freezer spiced up joint REEFER
Reshuffle for chief in cabinet CHIFFONIER
Not so many sheep in France FEWER
Throw a Parisian laid by rocky shore UNHORSE
Resigned from Saint Osyth's -- originally in charge STOIC
Prominent feature of Norman hose, not hard to fashion ROMANNOSE
Prize ram generates new business STARTUP
Penny's absorbing book: 'Seasons' PRESERVES
Perhaps spin for a bit, and impress greatly? BOWLOVER
ONE MIDDLE-SIZED CHARACTER'S AFTER LEADS IN 'PICKWICK' AND 'HAMILTON' -- MUG! PHIZ
Figure tea shops empty -- the setter beginning to salivate CHASSIS
Out of control before twelve -- given fine AMOK