The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2021 01 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Like a desperate male incarcerated ADMIRE
Local visitor's smartest togs, as observed by Spooner GUESTBEER
Most revealing sketch featuring 1,000 birds (black and white) SKIMPIEST
Following each Morse novel is awe-inspiring FEARSOME
Special copper put forward point CUSP
Pompous matriarch composed odes when touring India GRANDIOSE
Dear Meryl; resistance is melting away! STEEP
Poet, American, modelled nude AUDEN
Perrins's partner beginning to fold sheet LEAF
Ms Fonteyn shunning Monsieur's vulgar tongue ARGOT
Cautiously trap German lady on vacation GINGERLY
Lucky charm mum's put over bed of little 'un MASCOT
Merry band's leader ignited high explosive BLITHE
Berliner regularly pared cheese BRIE
Just recently, beset by inertia; so flat, enervated ASOFLATE
Foreign Secretary half-heartedly nibbled game RABBIT
Family doctor screening Run Lola Run GALLOP
Crones pinching Joe Burns's grub HAGGIS
Clumsy Soviet writer speaking GAWKY
Character of pen pal: popular, upfront INMATE
Angler brewed tea to be guzzled in Russian port ARCHANGEL
Animal portion to eat around lunchtime? CHIPMUNK
A feature of Uncle Richard's canon? CLERIC