The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2020 10 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
SEE 4 DOWN MESSAGE
City Bank failing to appoint head of RBC ELY
Crude hire covers University of Little Enlightenment RUDIMENTAL
German river leading, in essence, to Cologne, do we hear? ODER
Monster really will sacrifice wings to be human ERR
No alfresco party to ruin! DOIN
Order of Mammalia yielding religious figure (not lama) IMAM
Returning student doctor not entirely the same IDEM
Scandinavian heptad, now deserted by leader of eight SVEN
& 18 Across Reason for securing airfields? LANDING
& 19 Down Exchange online giants Massenet, Brahms & Liszt? INSTANT
Quirk of taxing Formula One scrap, keeping heat right up FISCALDRAG
Perhaps Idomeneo and Flavio hope to undress before Overture to Swan Lake OPERESERIE
Naked logic exploited failing -- Kirk didn't see adversaries using it CLOAKINGDEVICE
Express delivery part of its service? PAPERROUND
The writer's prudish, having exposed adult book licence IMPRIMATUR
With regular saves on field, no goals NIL
You'll see this man, initially cornered in board meeting, rip off flier ROOK
SEE 17 ACROSS GROUNDS
Between five and 50, this palm would be essential ITA
Some uttered an expression of relief AFEW
Some relief from the rants of Mad John Bull? ENGRAVINGS
See fencing exercise scratching face? It shouldn't EPEE
'Our Father Time/Who art a weather vane/Hallowed be thy ground ...'? THELORDSPRAYER
A lax body -- most common in mums -- during surgery, finally tucked up? ABDOMINOPLASTY
Advice about border wind up southern range THEMENDIPS
Anthropophagic, it's a wild and wicked beast TASMANIANDEVIL
Volume: a pretty tiny novel within a novel VANITYFAIR