The Telegraph Toughie - Crossword Answers | 2022 06 02

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Excited first woman carrying fine daughter EVOKED
Falls about and cheers Queen show CATARACT
Prospects of, reportedly, spotted owls finally SCENES
Safe outside in plum job SINECURE
Quality of stock about right for soup? MINESTRONE
Jabs around round's opening for boxers SHORTS
Trunks roughly held by trees' bark? TORSOS
Fracking stones securing capital KINGSTON
Cabinet secretly covering for Tories' leader CLOSET
Stretches out to see birds CRANES
You, previously found in flower shed OUTHOUSE
It precedes Mass for verger SEXTON
Stone sailor found under boat, oddly BASALT
Caught over middle, say, for match COINCIDE
Intellectual scoffed following American measure LITERATE
Live, too much inside information propagated BEGOTTEN
Craft exercise old boy's taken up PEDALO
Sorry absconder firstly imaginative hiding record APOLOGETIC
Fur zealot feeling revolted NUTRIA
Pine, maybe losing heart getting award CONFER
Serious trouble from wind is astern DISASTER
Drink vicar perhaps upset over gas? VERMOUTH
Look, yours truly accepts single's solitary LONESOME