The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 01

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Artifice of befuddled magistrate lacking imagination for a start STRATAGEM
Bar making a comeback for merrymaking REVEL
Boss a form of poker STUD
Boundlessly dire dregs, dull, dark and disorderly IRREGULAR
Brutish student supporting warped mania ANIMAL
Cold rice: it is cooking in pan CRITICISE
Cycling itinerary further from centre OUTER
Inn, oddly chilly, back open to all PUBLIC
Insult hospital food DISH
Produce confused teenager GENERATE
Turn for information in two directions? REFER
Timid people nursing essentially stealthy ill-will MALICE
Some bitter alcohol turning up in wine CLARET
Prisoner experienced defeat CONFOUND
Mac accepts it reversed after car operated without intervention AUTOMATIC
Pleasantly sharp bakery product TART
Returned calls from city dwellings miles away ECHOES
Offend good, and confess SING
Military ruler's weapon missing target ultimately SHOGUN
Midshipman's joint REEFER
Mate admitting turn-on now and then in security detachment PATROL
See tweeters, the pits? CAVES
Treacherously bares fencing weapon SABRE
Honour the French ancient city and the Spanish LAUREL
With money casually head for fried cake DOUGHNUT
Upset ransacker to re-equip workshop? RETOOL
Cunning statecraft with no rest curiously producing a moneybags FATCAT
Crikey! A boxing contest for a social butterfly GADABOUT
Began to write in dictionary OPENED
Partly coppiced a redwood tree CEDAR