The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2021 02 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
What's emerged from referendum is -- h'm! -- a shambolic mess MISHMASH
The female embraced by a knight is looking pallid ASHEN
Take account of good business involving debts FACTORING
Soho celebrity here is playing harmoniously LUMINARY
Sang and cried about love and died YODELLED
Poetic comment when identifying a recreational tablet in drink? TISANE
Military commander, wasting little time, fired weapon SHOGUN
Island fish -- fuss to get caught BARBADOS
Helpful senior person who could bring pax for British Latinists? FATHERFIGURE
Flower distributor AMAZON
Factory's undercover agent? PLANT
European holding party sent around lackey POODLE
Enlightenment certainly doesn't come easily from one finding subtractions tricky OBSCURANTIST
Encouragement to give good person a bad time? BOOST
Bait chum in trouble? It's somewhat unreasonable ABITMUCH
A learner into an Austen novel -- one displays 'sunny' disposition ANALEMMA
Biological tissue destroyed in a storm STROMA
Fab change to catch upper-class cheat DEFAULTER
Spooner's comic panto figure, no reason to celebrate! NAMEDAY