The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2021 11 09

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