The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2021 11 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Lust of French ancestor DESIRE
Make aware of article about vigil AWAKEN
Old-fashioned words treated as a smirch ARCHAISMS
Paint box set? COLOURTV
Pierces first of season's fruits SPEARS
Concerning a contest ABOUT
To make progress I instigate circling press release IMPROVE
Watertight floodgate STAUNCH
Overfeeds essentially voracious male sheep CRAMS
Current Conservative step up for polar area ICECAP
Pulls out pages LEAVES
Some studies say I stressed writer ESSAYIST
Knock back drink and linger for piece of cake PUSHOVER
I shout aloud for sweet ICECREAM
Delegates of a vet's enterprise at sixes and sevens REPRESENTATIVES
Ancient kings of Atlantic islands, it's said PHARAOHS
Aircraft industry's mishandled privatisation; exotic trips excluded AVIATION
Celestial events are trickily specialised not requiring potential aid ECLIPSES
Behold moggie journalist found LOCATED
Beatles favourite not long ago YESTERDAY
Wrongly set down what is curiously simplest MISSPELT